1*ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2c290ea01SJan Kara# Ext3 configs are here for backward compatibility with old configs which may 3c290ea01SJan Kara# have EXT3_FS set but not EXT4_FS set and thus would result in non-bootable 4c290ea01SJan Kara# kernels after the removal of ext3 driver. 5c290ea01SJan Karaconfig EXT3_FS 6c290ea01SJan Kara tristate "The Extended 3 (ext3) filesystem" 7c290ea01SJan Kara # These must match EXT4_FS selects... 8c290ea01SJan Kara select EXT4_FS 9c290ea01SJan Kara select JBD2 10c290ea01SJan Kara select CRC16 11c290ea01SJan Kara select CRYPTO 12c290ea01SJan Kara select CRYPTO_CRC32C 13c290ea01SJan Kara help 14c290ea01SJan Kara This config option is here only for backward compatibility. ext3 15c290ea01SJan Kara filesystem is now handled by the ext4 driver. 16c290ea01SJan Kara 17c290ea01SJan Karaconfig EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL 18c290ea01SJan Kara bool "Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists" 19c290ea01SJan Kara depends on EXT3_FS 20c290ea01SJan Kara select EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL 21c290ea01SJan Kara select FS_POSIX_ACL 22c290ea01SJan Kara help 23c290ea01SJan Kara This config option is here only for backward compatibility. ext3 24c290ea01SJan Kara filesystem is now handled by the ext4 driver. 25c290ea01SJan Kara 26c290ea01SJan Karaconfig EXT3_FS_SECURITY 27c290ea01SJan Kara bool "Ext3 Security Labels" 28c290ea01SJan Kara depends on EXT3_FS 29c290ea01SJan Kara select EXT4_FS_SECURITY 30c290ea01SJan Kara help 31c290ea01SJan Kara This config option is here only for backward compatibility. ext3 32c290ea01SJan Kara filesystem is now handled by the ext4 driver. 33c290ea01SJan Kara 346da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyanconfig EXT4_FS 356da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan tristate "The Extended 4 (ext4) filesystem" 36c290ea01SJan Kara # Please update EXT3_FS selects when changing these 376da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan select JBD2 386da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan select CRC16 390441984aSDarrick J. Wong select CRYPTO 400441984aSDarrick J. Wong select CRYPTO_CRC32C 41545052e9SChristoph Hellwig select FS_IOMAP 426da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan help 436da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan This is the next generation of the ext3 filesystem. 446da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan 456da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan Unlike the change from ext2 filesystem to ext3 filesystem, 466da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan the on-disk format of ext4 is not forwards compatible with 476da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan ext3; it is based on extent maps and it supports 48-bit 486da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan physical block numbers. The ext4 filesystem also supports delayed 496da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan allocation, persistent preallocation, high resolution time stamps, 506da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan and a number of other features to improve performance and speed 516da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan up fsck time. For more information, please see the web pages at 526da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org. 536da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan 54c8962f4bSJan Kara The ext4 filesystem supports mounting an ext3 filesystem; while there 55c8962f4bSJan Kara are some performance gains from the delayed allocation and inode 56c8962f4bSJan Kara table readahead, the best performance gains require enabling ext4 57c8962f4bSJan Kara features in the filesystem using tune2fs, or formatting a new 58c8962f4bSJan Kara filesystem as an ext4 filesystem initially. Without explicit enabling 59c8962f4bSJan Kara of ext4 features, the on disk filesystem format stays fully backward 60c8962f4bSJan Kara compatible. 616da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan 626da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here. The 636da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan module will be called ext4. 646da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan 656da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan If unsure, say N. 666da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan 67c290ea01SJan Karaconfig EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT2 68d4eb6deeSJean Delvare bool "Use ext4 for ext2 file systems" 6984c66473SDavid Howells depends on EXT4_FS 70c290ea01SJan Kara depends on EXT2_FS=n 7124b58424STheodore Ts'o default y 7224b58424STheodore Ts'o help 73c290ea01SJan Kara Allow the ext4 file system driver code to be used for ext2 74c290ea01SJan Kara file system mounts. This allows users to reduce their 7524b58424STheodore Ts'o compiled kernel size by using one file system driver for 7624b58424STheodore Ts'o ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems. 7724b58424STheodore Ts'o 786da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyanconfig EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL 796da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan bool "Ext4 POSIX Access Control Lists" 8096465efeSValerie Aurora depends on EXT4_FS 816da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan select FS_POSIX_ACL 826da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan help 836da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 846da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 856da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan 866da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 876da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan 886da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyanconfig EXT4_FS_SECURITY 896da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan bool "Ext4 Security Labels" 9096465efeSValerie Aurora depends on EXT4_FS 916da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan help 926da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan Security labels support alternative access control models 936da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 946da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan enables an extended attribute handler for file security 956da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan labels in the ext4 filesystem. 966da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan 976da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan If you are not using a security module that requires using 986da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyan extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 996ba495e9STheodore Ts'o 1006ba495e9STheodore Ts'oconfig EXT4_DEBUG 101231fe82bSGeert Uytterhoeven bool "Ext4 debugging support" 1026ba495e9STheodore Ts'o depends on EXT4_FS 1036ba495e9STheodore Ts'o help 1046ba495e9STheodore Ts'o Enables run-time debugging support for the ext4 filesystem. 1056ba495e9STheodore Ts'o 1066ba495e9STheodore Ts'o If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging 1077f3e3c7cSTheodore Ts'o with a command such as: 1087f3e3c7cSTheodore Ts'o echo 1 > /sys/module/ext4/parameters/mballoc_debug 109