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-rw-r--r-- | MAINTAINERS | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | fs/xfs/Kconfig | 21 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index c3c5842402df..60972f8a5c6b 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS | |||
@@ -3179,7 +3179,7 @@ XFS FILESYSTEM | |||
3179 | P: Silicon Graphics Inc | 3179 | P: Silicon Graphics Inc |
3180 | M: xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com | 3180 | M: xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com |
3181 | M: nathans@sgi.com | 3181 | M: nathans@sgi.com |
3182 | L: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com | 3182 | L: xfs@oss.sgi.com |
3183 | W: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs | 3183 | W: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs |
3184 | S: Supported | 3184 | S: Supported |
3185 | 3185 | ||
diff --git a/fs/xfs/Kconfig b/fs/xfs/Kconfig index bac27d66151d..236f9cf3714f 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/Kconfig +++ b/fs/xfs/Kconfig | |||
@@ -65,18 +65,19 @@ config XFS_POSIX_ACL | |||
65 | If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N. | 65 | If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N. |
66 | 66 | ||
67 | config XFS_RT | 67 | config XFS_RT |
68 | bool "XFS Realtime support (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 68 | bool "XFS Realtime subvolume support" |
69 | depends on XFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL | 69 | depends on XFS_FS |
70 | help | 70 | help |
71 | If you say Y here you will be able to mount and use XFS filesystems | 71 | If you say Y here you will be able to mount and use XFS filesystems |
72 | which contain a realtime subvolume. The realtime subvolume is a | 72 | which contain a realtime subvolume. The realtime subvolume is a |
73 | separate area of disk space where only file data is stored. The | 73 | separate area of disk space where only file data is stored. It was |
74 | realtime subvolume is designed to provide very deterministic | 74 | originally designed to provide deterministic data rates suitable |
75 | data rates suitable for media streaming applications. | 75 | for media streaming applications, but is also useful as a generic |
76 | 76 | mechanism for ensuring data and metadata/log I/Os are completely | |
77 | See the xfs man page in section 5 for a bit more information. | 77 | separated. Regular file I/Os are isolated to a separate device |
78 | from all other requests, and this can be done quite transparently | ||
79 | to applications via the inherit-realtime directory inode flag. | ||
78 | 80 | ||
79 | This feature is unsupported at this time, is not yet fully | 81 | See the xfs man page in section 5 for additional information. |
80 | functional, and may cause serious problems. | ||
81 | 82 | ||
82 | If unsure, say N. | 83 | If unsure, say N. |