From d7ede1aa5dfff53e76dbabac5b8087341686f662 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nathan Scott Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 16:28:11 +1000 Subject: [XFS] Minor XFS documentation updates. Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott --- MAINTAINERS | 2 +- 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 P: Silicon Graphics Inc M: xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com M: nathans@sgi.com -L: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com +L: xfs@oss.sgi.com W: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs S: Supported 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 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N. config XFS_RT - bool "XFS Realtime support (EXPERIMENTAL)" - depends on XFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL + bool "XFS Realtime subvolume support" + depends on XFS_FS help If you say Y here you will be able to mount and use XFS filesystems - which contain a realtime subvolume. The realtime subvolume is a - separate area of disk space where only file data is stored. The - realtime subvolume is designed to provide very deterministic - data rates suitable for media streaming applications. - - See the xfs man page in section 5 for a bit more information. + which contain a realtime subvolume. The realtime subvolume is a + separate area of disk space where only file data is stored. It was + originally designed to provide deterministic data rates suitable + for media streaming applications, but is also useful as a generic + mechanism for ensuring data and metadata/log I/Os are completely + separated. Regular file I/Os are isolated to a separate device + from all other requests, and this can be done quite transparently + to applications via the inherit-realtime directory inode flag. - This feature is unsupported at this time, is not yet fully - functional, and may cause serious problems. + See the xfs man page in section 5 for additional information. If unsure, say N. -- cgit v1.2.3