From: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
To: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] xfs: Improve CONFIG_XFS_RT Kconfig help
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 12:08:29 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251013030829.672060-1-dlemoal@kernel.org> (raw)
Improve the description of the XFS_RT configuration option to document
that this option is required for zoned block devices.
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
---
fs/xfs/Kconfig | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/xfs/Kconfig b/fs/xfs/Kconfig
index 8930d5254e1d..d66d517c99a9 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/xfs/Kconfig
@@ -119,6 +119,15 @@ config XFS_RT
See the xfs man page in section 5 for additional information.
+ This option is mandatory to support zoned block devices. For these
+ devices, the realtime subvolume must be backed by a zoned block
+ device and a regular block device used as the main device (for
+ metadata). If the zoned block device is a host-managed SMR hard-disk
+ containing conventional zones at the beginning of its address space,
+ XFS will use the disk conventional zones as the main device and the
+ remaining sequential write required zones as the backing storage for
+ the realtime subvolume.
+
If unsure, say N.
config XFS_DRAIN_INTENTS
--
2.51.0
next reply other threads:[~2025-10-13 3:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-13 3:08 Damien Le Moal [this message]
2025-10-21 9:37 ` [PATCH] xfs: Improve CONFIG_XFS_RT Kconfig help Carlos Maiolino
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2025-08-07 5:56 ` Damien Le Moal
2025-08-11 10:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-08-11 12:07 ` Carlos Maiolino
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