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| author | David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> | 2013-11-20 14:32:34 +0100 |
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| committer | Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com> | 2013-11-20 20:49:09 -0500 |
| commit | 4204617d142c0887e45fda2562cb5c58097b918e (patch) | |
| tree | 67624f01d872dbdecf4f555c04cacee9149f5673 | |
| parent | 475bf36ffba2ad18631865a2429468dc6c7ea919 (diff) | |
btrfs: update kconfig help text
Reflect the current status. Portions of the text taken from the
wiki pages.
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/btrfs/Kconfig | 15 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/Kconfig b/fs/btrfs/Kconfig index 398cbd517be..f6238934866 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/Kconfig +++ b/fs/btrfs/Kconfig @@ -9,12 +9,17 @@ config BTRFS_FS select XOR_BLOCKS help - Btrfs is a new filesystem with extents, writable snapshotting, - support for multiple devices and many more features. + Btrfs is a general purpose copy-on-write filesystem with extents, + writable snapshotting, support for multiple devices and many more + features focused on fault tolerance, repair and easy administration. - Btrfs is highly experimental, and THE DISK FORMAT IS NOT YET - FINALIZED. You should say N here unless you are interested in - testing Btrfs with non-critical data. + The filesystem disk format is no longer unstable, and it's not + expected to change unless there are strong reasons to do so. If there + is a format change, file systems with a unchanged format will + continue to be mountable and usable by newer kernels. + + For more information, please see the web pages at + http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here. The module will be called btrfs. |