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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/Kconfig b/fs/btrfs/Kconfig index 398cbd517be..aa976eced2d 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. @@ -59,7 +64,8 @@ config BTRFS_FS_RUN_SANITY_TESTS help This will run some basic sanity tests on the free space cache code to make sure it is acting as it should. These are mostly - regression tests and are only really interesting to btrfs devlopers. + regression tests and are only really interesting to btrfs + developers. If unsure, say N. |