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1config EXT4_FS
2 tristate "The Extended 4 (ext4) filesystem"
3 select JBD2
4 select CRC16
5 select CRYPTO
6 select CRYPTO_CRC32C
7 help
8 This is the next generation of the ext3 filesystem.
9
10 Unlike the change from ext2 filesystem to ext3 filesystem,
11 the on-disk format of ext4 is not forwards compatible with
12 ext3; it is based on extent maps and it supports 48-bit
13 physical block numbers. The ext4 filesystem also supports delayed
14 allocation, persistent preallocation, high resolution time stamps,
15 and a number of other features to improve performance and speed
16 up fsck time. For more information, please see the web pages at
17 http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org.
18
19 The ext4 filesystem will support mounting an ext3
20 filesystem; while there will be some performance gains from
21 the delayed allocation and inode table readahead, the best
22 performance gains will require enabling ext4 features in the
23 filesystem, or formatting a new filesystem as an ext4
24 filesystem initially.
25
26 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here. The
27 module will be called ext4.
28
29 If unsure, say N.
30
31config EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT23
32 bool "Use ext4 for ext2/ext3 file systems"
33 depends on EXT4_FS
34 depends on EXT3_FS=n || EXT2_FS=n
35 default y
36 help
37 Allow the ext4 file system driver code to be used for ext2 or
38 ext3 file system mounts. This allows users to reduce their
39 compiled kernel size by using one file system driver for
40 ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems.
41
42config EXT4_FS_XATTR
43 bool "Ext4 extended attributes"
44 depends on EXT4_FS
45 default y
46 help
47 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
48 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
49 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
50
51 If unsure, say N.
52
53 You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext4.
54
55config EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL
56 bool "Ext4 POSIX Access Control Lists"
57 depends on EXT4_FS_XATTR
58 select FS_POSIX_ACL
59 help
60 POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
61 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
62
63 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for
64 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
65
66 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
67
68config EXT4_FS_SECURITY
69 bool "Ext4 Security Labels"
70 depends on EXT4_FS_XATTR
71 help
72 Security labels support alternative access control models
73 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
74 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
75 labels in the ext4 filesystem.
76
77 If you are not using a security module that requires using
78 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
79
80config EXT4_DEBUG
81 bool "EXT4 debugging support"
82 depends on EXT4_FS
83 help
84 Enables run-time debugging support for the ext4 filesystem.
85
86 If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging
87 with a command such as "echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/ext4/mballoc-debug"
1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
2# Ext3 configs are here for backward compatibility with old configs which may
3# have EXT3_FS set but not EXT4_FS set and thus would result in non-bootable
4# kernels after the removal of ext3 driver.
5config EXT3_FS
6 tristate "The Extended 3 (ext3) filesystem"
7 select EXT4_FS
8 help
9 This config option is here only for backward compatibility. ext3
10 filesystem is now handled by the ext4 driver.
11
12config EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL
13 bool "Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists"
14 depends on EXT3_FS
15 select EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL
16 select FS_POSIX_ACL
17 help
18 This config option is here only for backward compatibility. ext3
19 filesystem is now handled by the ext4 driver.
20
21config EXT3_FS_SECURITY
22 bool "Ext3 Security Labels"
23 depends on EXT3_FS
24 select EXT4_FS_SECURITY
25 help
26 This config option is here only for backward compatibility. ext3
27 filesystem is now handled by the ext4 driver.
28
29config EXT4_FS
30 tristate "The Extended 4 (ext4) filesystem"
31 select JBD2
32 select CRC16
33 select CRYPTO
34 select CRYPTO_CRC32C
35 select FS_IOMAP
36 select FS_ENCRYPTION_ALGS if FS_ENCRYPTION
37 help
38 This is the next generation of the ext3 filesystem.
39
40 Unlike the change from ext2 filesystem to ext3 filesystem,
41 the on-disk format of ext4 is not forwards compatible with
42 ext3; it is based on extent maps and it supports 48-bit
43 physical block numbers. The ext4 filesystem also supports delayed
44 allocation, persistent preallocation, high resolution time stamps,
45 and a number of other features to improve performance and speed
46 up fsck time. For more information, please see the web pages at
47 http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org.
48
49 The ext4 filesystem supports mounting an ext3 filesystem; while there
50 are some performance gains from the delayed allocation and inode
51 table readahead, the best performance gains require enabling ext4
52 features in the filesystem using tune2fs, or formatting a new
53 filesystem as an ext4 filesystem initially. Without explicit enabling
54 of ext4 features, the on disk filesystem format stays fully backward
55 compatible.
56
57 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here. The
58 module will be called ext4.
59
60 If unsure, say N.
61
62config EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT2
63 bool "Use ext4 for ext2 file systems"
64 depends on EXT4_FS
65 depends on EXT2_FS=n
66 default y
67 help
68 Allow the ext4 file system driver code to be used for ext2
69 file system mounts. This allows users to reduce their
70 compiled kernel size by using one file system driver for
71 ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems.
72
73config EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL
74 bool "Ext4 POSIX Access Control Lists"
75 depends on EXT4_FS
76 select FS_POSIX_ACL
77 help
78 POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
79 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
80
81 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
82
83config EXT4_FS_SECURITY
84 bool "Ext4 Security Labels"
85 depends on EXT4_FS
86 help
87 Security labels support alternative access control models
88 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
89 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
90 labels in the ext4 filesystem.
91
92 If you are not using a security module that requires using
93 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
94
95config EXT4_DEBUG
96 bool "Ext4 debugging support"
97 depends on EXT4_FS
98 help
99 Enables run-time debugging support for the ext4 filesystem.
100
101 If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging
102 using dynamic debug control for mb_debug() / ext_debug() msgs.
103
104config EXT4_KUNIT_TESTS
105 tristate "KUnit tests for ext4" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
106 select EXT4_FS
107 depends on KUNIT
108 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
109 help
110 This builds the ext4 KUnit tests.
111
112 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log
113 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs
114 running KUnit test harness and are not for inclusion into a production
115 build.
116
117 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer
118 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
119
120 If unsure, say N.