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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.com>2015-07-16 05:20:02 -0400
committerJan Kara <jack@suse.com>2015-07-23 14:59:40 -0400
commitc8962f4be4b47c2ff3b052c76007c6bbcb999c53 (patch)
treefe8321d5cec9c97b076afc946c6455936bda189f
parenta3ad0a9da863fa554fc17fa8345a07adcdd27d3c (diff)
ext4: Improve ext4 Kconfig test
Now that ext4 driver must be used to access ext3 filesystems, improve the Kconfig help text to better explain that using ext4 driver to access the filesystem is fully compatible with the old ext3 driver. Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/Kconfig13
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/Kconfig b/fs/ext4/Kconfig
index 219a190ccae9..47728da7702c 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/ext4/Kconfig
@@ -49,12 +49,13 @@ config EXT4_FS
49 up fsck time. For more information, please see the web pages at 49 up fsck time. For more information, please see the web pages at
50 http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org. 50 http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org.
51 51
52 The ext4 filesystem will support mounting an ext3 52 The ext4 filesystem supports mounting an ext3 filesystem; while there
53 filesystem; while there will be some performance gains from 53 are some performance gains from the delayed allocation and inode
54 the delayed allocation and inode table readahead, the best 54 table readahead, the best performance gains require enabling ext4
55 performance gains will require enabling ext4 features in the 55 features in the filesystem using tune2fs, or formatting a new
56 filesystem, or formatting a new filesystem as an ext4 56 filesystem as an ext4 filesystem initially. Without explicit enabling
57 filesystem initially. 57 of ext4 features, the on disk filesystem format stays fully backward
58 compatible.
58 59
59 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here. The 60 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here. The
60 module will be called ext4. 61 module will be called ext4.