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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-01-08 17:14:59 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-01-08 17:14:59 -0800
commit2150edc6c5cf00f7adb54538b9ea2a3e9cedca3f (patch)
treef72a0d85e66f500b4cead348a231e3d3b9f357bc /block
parentcd764695b67386a81964f68e9c66efd9f13f4d29 (diff)
parent4b905671d2ea09fd48fed72c581df17e40823f39 (diff)
downloadlinux-2150edc6c5cf00f7adb54538b9ea2a3e9cedca3f.tar.gz
Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (57 commits)
  jbd2: Fix oops in jbd2_journal_init_inode() on corrupted fs
  ext4: Remove "extents" mount option
  block: Add Kconfig help which notes that ext4 needs CONFIG_LBD
  ext4: Make printk's consistently prefixed with "EXT4-fs: "
  ext4: Add sanity checks for the superblock before mounting the filesystem
  ext4: Add mount option to set kjournald's I/O priority
  jbd2: Submit writes to the journal using WRITE_SYNC
  jbd2: Add pid and journal device name to the "kjournald2 starting" message
  ext4: Add markers for better debuggability
  ext4: Remove code to create the journal inode
  ext4: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure
  ext3: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure
  add releasepage hooks to block devices which can be used by file systems
  ext4: Fix s_dirty_blocks_counter if block allocation failed with nodelalloc
  ext4: Init the complete page while building buddy cache
  ext4: Don't allow new groups to be added during block allocation
  ext4: mark the blocks/inode bitmap beyond end of group as used
  ext4: Use new buffer_head flag to check uninit group bitmaps initialization
  ext4: Fix the race between read_inode_bitmap() and ext4_new_inode()
  ext4: code cleanup
  ...
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diff --git a/block/Kconfig b/block/Kconfig
index ac0956f77785..0cbb3b88b59a 100644
--- a/block/Kconfig
+++ b/block/Kconfig
@@ -36,6 +36,12 @@ config LBD
 	  This option also enables support for single files larger than
 	  2TB.
 
+	  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.
 
 config BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE