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| author | David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> | 2025-05-06 14:04:26 +0300 |
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| committer | David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> | 2025-05-15 15:30:56 +0300 |
| commit | c16b984cdbaf3a96c671bc2952c1064af983683d (patch) | |
| tree | 6758a22be08d3ef64d59442e4c1987996228fca5 | |
| parent | 5f9b394e3295ed82af8da81d3326e5577a140cc8 (diff) | |
| download | linux-c16b984cdbaf3a96c671bc2952c1064af983683d.tar.xz | |
btrfs: update Kconfig option descriptions
Expand what the options do and if they are OK to be enabled.
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/btrfs/Kconfig | 23 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/Kconfig b/fs/btrfs/Kconfig index 8d51a76bc451..c352f3ae0385 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/Kconfig +++ b/fs/btrfs/Kconfig @@ -52,10 +52,10 @@ config BTRFS_FS_RUN_SANITY_TESTS bool "Btrfs will run sanity tests upon loading" depends on BTRFS_FS 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 - developers. + This will run sanity tests for core functionality like free space, + extent maps, extent io, extent buffers, inodes, qgroups and others, + at module load time. These are mostly regression tests and are only + interesting to developers. If unsure, say N. @@ -63,9 +63,12 @@ config BTRFS_DEBUG bool "Btrfs debugging support" depends on BTRFS_FS help - Enable run-time debugging support for the btrfs filesystem. This may - enable additional and expensive checks with negative impact on - performance, or export extra information via sysfs. + Enable run-time debugging support for the btrfs filesystem. + + Additional potentially expensive checks, debugging functionality or + sysfs exported information is enabled, like leak checks of internal + objects, optional forced space fragmentation and /sys/fs/btrfs/debug . + This has negative impact on performance. If unsure, say N. @@ -73,8 +76,10 @@ config BTRFS_ASSERT bool "Btrfs assert support" depends on BTRFS_FS help - Enable run-time assertion checking. This will result in panics if - any of the assertions trip. This is meant for btrfs developers only. + Enable run-time assertion checking. Additional safety checks are + done, simple enough not to affect performance but verify invariants + and assumptions of code to run properly. This may result in panics, + and is meant for developers but can be enabled in general. If unsure, say N. |