alistair23-linux/fs/nilfs2/Kconfig
Ryusuke Konishi 41f4db0f48 fs/Kconfig: move nilfs2 outside misc filesystems
Some people asked me questions like the following:

On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:11:21 +0200, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> just wondering, any reasons why NILFS2 is one of the miscellaneous
> filesystems and, for example, btrfs, is not in Kconfig?

Actually, nilfs is NOT a filesystem came from other operating systems,
but a filesystem created purely for Linux.  Nor is it a flash
filesystem but that for generic block devices.

So, this moves nilfs outside the misc category as I responded in LKML
"Re: Why does NILFS2 hide under Miscellaneous filesystems?"
(Message-Id: <20090716.002526.93465395.ryusuke@osrg.net>).

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2009-09-14 18:27:16 +09:00

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config NILFS2_FS
tristate "NILFS2 file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL
select CRC32
help
NILFS2 is a log-structured file system (LFS) supporting continuous
snapshotting. In addition to versioning capability of the entire
file system, users can even restore files mistakenly overwritten or
destroyed just a few seconds ago. Since this file system can keep
consistency like conventional LFS, it achieves quick recovery after
system crashes.
NILFS2 creates a number of checkpoints every few seconds or per
synchronous write basis (unless there is no change). Users can
select significant versions among continuously created checkpoints,
and can change them into snapshots which will be preserved for long
periods until they are changed back to checkpoints. Each
snapshot is mountable as a read-only file system concurrently with
its writable mount, and this feature is convenient for online backup.
Some features including atime, extended attributes, and POSIX ACLs,
are not supported yet.
To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called nilfs2. If unsure, say N.