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| author | Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org> | 2025-10-13 12:08:29 +0900 |
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| committer | Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org> | 2025-10-21 09:48:31 +0200 |
| commit | 914f377075d646b4695a7868ba090f4c714dfd4b (patch) | |
| tree | ce4edd1621296d727a8af7afb65146c2fc272077 | |
| parent | 211ddde0823f1442e4ad052a2f30f050145ccada (diff) | |
xfs: Improve CONFIG_XFS_RT Kconfig help
Improve the description of the XFS_RT configuration option to document
that this option is required for zoned block devices.
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/xfs/Kconfig | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/Kconfig b/fs/xfs/Kconfig index 8930d5254e1d..d66d517c99a9 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/Kconfig +++ b/fs/xfs/Kconfig @@ -119,6 +119,15 @@ config XFS_RT See the xfs man page in section 5 for additional information. + This option is mandatory to support zoned block devices. For these + devices, the realtime subvolume must be backed by a zoned block + device and a regular block device used as the main device (for + metadata). If the zoned block device is a host-managed SMR hard-disk + containing conventional zones at the beginning of its address space, + XFS will use the disk conventional zones as the main device and the + remaining sequential write required zones as the backing storage for + the realtime subvolume. + If unsure, say N. config XFS_DRAIN_INTENTS |