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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext2/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext2/Kconfig | 35 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext2/Kconfig b/fs/ext2/Kconfig index 14a6780fd034..d5bce83ad905 100644 --- a/fs/ext2/Kconfig +++ b/fs/ext2/Kconfig @@ -1,20 +1,29 @@ +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only config EXT2_FS - tristate "Second extended fs support" + tristate "Second extended fs support (DEPRECATED)" + select BUFFER_HEAD + select FS_IOMAP help Ext2 is a standard Linux file system for hard disks. - To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the - module will be called ext2. + This filesystem driver is deprecated because it does not properly + support inode time stamps beyond 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038. - If unsure, say Y. + Ext2 users are advised to use ext4 driver to access their filesystem. + The driver is fully compatible, supports filesystems without journal + or extents, and also supports larger time stamps if the filesystem + is created with at least 256 byte inodes. + + This code is kept as a simple reference for filesystem developers. + + If unsure, say N. config EXT2_FS_XATTR bool "Ext2 extended attributes" depends on EXT2_FS help Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by - the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit - <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). + the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page for details). If unsure, say N. @@ -26,9 +35,6 @@ config EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. - To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for - Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. - If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N config EXT2_FS_SECURITY @@ -42,14 +48,3 @@ config EXT2_FS_SECURITY If you are not using a security module that requires using extended attributes for file security labels, say N. - -config EXT2_FS_XIP - bool "Ext2 execute in place support" - depends on EXT2_FS && MMU - help - Execute in place can be used on memory-backed block devices. If you - enable this option, you can select to mount block devices which are - capable of this feature without using the page cache. - - If you do not use a block device that is capable of using this, - or if unsure, say N. |