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In June 2015, commit c290ea01ab ("fs: Remove ext3 filesystem driver")
removed the historic ext3 filesystem support as ext3 partitions are fully
supported with the ext4 filesystem support. To simplify updating the kernel
build configuration, which had only EXT3 support but not EXT4 support
enabled, the three config options EXT3_{FS,FS_POSIX_ACL,FS_SECURITY} were
kept, instead of immediately removing them. The three options just enable
the corresponding EXT4 counterparts when configs from older kernel versions
are used to build on later kernel versions. This ensures that the kernels
from those kernel build configurations would then continue to have EXT4
enabled for supporting booting from ext3 and ext4 file systems, to avoid
potential unexpected surprises.
Given that the kernel build configuration has no backwards-compatibility
guarantee and this transition phase for such build configurations has been
in place for a decade, we can reasonably expect all such users to have
transitioned to use the EXT4 config options in their config files at this
point in time. With that in mind, the three EXT3 config options are
obsolete by now.
Remove the obsolete EXT3 config options.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
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config EXT4_FS
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tristate "The Extended 4 (ext4) filesystem"
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select BUFFER_HEAD
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select JBD2
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select CRC16
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select CRC32
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select FS_IOMAP
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select FS_ENCRYPTION_ALGS if FS_ENCRYPTION
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help
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This is the next generation of the ext3 filesystem.
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Unlike the change from ext2 filesystem to ext3 filesystem,
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the on-disk format of ext4 is not forwards compatible with
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ext3; it is based on extent maps and it supports 48-bit
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physical block numbers. The ext4 filesystem also supports delayed
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allocation, persistent preallocation, high resolution time stamps,
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and a number of other features to improve performance and speed
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up fsck time. For more information, please see the web pages at
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http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org.
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The ext4 filesystem supports mounting an ext3 filesystem; while there
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are some performance gains from the delayed allocation and inode
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table readahead, the best performance gains require enabling ext4
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features in the filesystem using tune2fs, or formatting a new
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filesystem as an ext4 filesystem initially. Without explicit enabling
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of ext4 features, the on disk filesystem format stays fully backward
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compatible.
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To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here. The
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module will be called ext4.
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If unsure, say N.
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config EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT2
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bool "Use ext4 for ext2 file systems"
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depends on EXT4_FS
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depends on EXT2_FS=n
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default y
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help
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Allow the ext4 file system driver code to be used for ext2
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file system mounts. This allows users to reduce their
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compiled kernel size by using one file system driver for
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ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems.
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config EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL
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bool "Ext4 POSIX Access Control Lists"
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depends on EXT4_FS
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select FS_POSIX_ACL
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help
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POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
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groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
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If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
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config EXT4_FS_SECURITY
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bool "Ext4 Security Labels"
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depends on EXT4_FS
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help
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Security labels support alternative access control models
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implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
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enables an extended attribute handler for file security
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labels in the ext4 filesystem.
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If you are not using a security module that requires using
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extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
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config EXT4_DEBUG
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bool "Ext4 debugging support"
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depends on EXT4_FS
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help
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Enables run-time debugging support for the ext4 filesystem.
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If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging
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using dynamic debug control for mb_debug() / ext_debug() msgs.
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config EXT4_KUNIT_TESTS
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tristate "KUnit tests for ext4" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
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depends on EXT4_FS && KUNIT
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default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
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help
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This builds the ext4 KUnit tests.
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KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log
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in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs
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running KUnit test harness and are not for inclusion into a production
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build.
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For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer
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to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
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If unsure, say N.
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