lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 11:53:06 +0200 From: Jan Kara <jack@...e.com> To: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Ted Tso <tytso@....edu>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.com> Subject: [PATCH 4/4] ext4: Improve ext4 Kconfig test Now that ext4 driver must be used to access ext3 filesystems, improve the Kconfig help text to better explain that using ext4 driver to access the filesystem is fully compatible with the old ext3 driver. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.com> --- fs/ext4/Kconfig | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/Kconfig b/fs/ext4/Kconfig index 219a190ccae9..47728da7702c 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/Kconfig +++ b/fs/ext4/Kconfig @@ -49,12 +49,13 @@ config EXT4_FS up fsck time. For more information, please see the web pages at http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org. - The ext4 filesystem will support mounting an ext3 - filesystem; while there will be some performance gains from - the delayed allocation and inode table readahead, the best - performance gains will require enabling ext4 features in the - filesystem, or formatting a new filesystem as an ext4 - filesystem initially. + The ext4 filesystem supports mounting an ext3 filesystem; while there + are some performance gains from the delayed allocation and inode + table readahead, the best performance gains require enabling ext4 + features in the filesystem using tune2fs, or formatting a new + filesystem as an ext4 filesystem initially. Without explicit enabling + of ext4 features, the on disk filesystem format stays fully backward + compatible. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here. The module will be called ext4. -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Powered by blists - more mailing lists