diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/Kconfig | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/Kconfig b/fs/ext4/Kconfig index 219a190ccae9..47728da7702c 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/Kconfig +++ b/fs/ext4/Kconfig @@ -49,12 +49,13 @@ config EXT4_FS up fsck time. For more information, please see the web pages at http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org. - The ext4 filesystem will support mounting an ext3 - filesystem; while there will be some performance gains from - the delayed allocation and inode table readahead, the best - performance gains will require enabling ext4 features in the - filesystem, or formatting a new filesystem as an ext4 - filesystem initially. + The ext4 filesystem supports mounting an ext3 filesystem; while there + are some performance gains from the delayed allocation and inode + table readahead, the best performance gains require enabling ext4 + features in the filesystem using tune2fs, or formatting a new + filesystem as an ext4 filesystem initially. Without explicit enabling + of ext4 features, the on disk filesystem format stays fully backward + compatible. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here. The module will be called ext4. |
