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Diffstat (limited to 'block/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | block/Kconfig | 28 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/block/Kconfig b/block/Kconfig index 1ab7c15c8d7..0cbb3b88b59 100644 --- a/block/Kconfig +++ b/block/Kconfig @@ -24,21 +24,23 @@ menuconfig BLOCK if BLOCK config LBD - bool "Support for Large Block Devices" + bool "Support for large block devices and files" depends on !64BIT help - Enable block devices of size 2TB and larger. + Enable block devices or files of size 2TB and larger. This option is required to support the full capacity of large (2TB+) block devices, including RAID, disk, Network Block Device, Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and loopback. + + This option also enables support for single files larger than + 2TB. - For example, RAID devices are frequently bigger than the capacity - of the largest individual hard drive. - - This option is not required if you have individual disk drives - which total 2TB+ and you are not aggregating the capacity into - a large block device (e.g. using RAID or LVM). + The ext4 filesystem requires that this feature be enabled in + order to support filesystems that have the huge_file feature + enabled. Otherwise, it will refuse to mount any filesystems + that use the huge_file feature, which is enabled by default + by mke2fs.ext4. The GFS2 filesystem also requires this feature. If unsure, say N. @@ -47,6 +49,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE depends on SYSFS select RELAY select DEBUG_FS + select TRACEPOINTS help Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening @@ -57,15 +60,6 @@ config BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE If unsure, say N. -config LSF - bool "Support for Large Single Files" - depends on !64BIT - help - Say Y here if you want to be able to handle very large files (2TB - and larger), otherwise say N. - - If unsure, say Y. - config BLK_DEV_BSG bool "Block layer SG support v4 (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on EXPERIMENTAL |