From 4204617d142c0887e45fda2562cb5c58097b918e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Sterba Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 14:32:34 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] btrfs: update kconfig help text Reflect the current status. Portions of the text taken from the wiki pages. Signed-off-by: David Sterba Signed-off-by: Chris Mason --- fs/btrfs/Kconfig | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/btrfs/Kconfig b/fs/btrfs/Kconfig index 398cbd517be2..f62389348662 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/Kconfig +++ b/fs/btrfs/Kconfig @@ -9,12 +9,17 @@ config BTRFS_FS select XOR_BLOCKS help - Btrfs is a new filesystem with extents, writable snapshotting, - support for multiple devices and many more features. + Btrfs is a general purpose copy-on-write filesystem with extents, + writable snapshotting, support for multiple devices and many more + features focused on fault tolerance, repair and easy administration. - Btrfs is highly experimental, and THE DISK FORMAT IS NOT YET - FINALIZED. You should say N here unless you are interested in - testing Btrfs with non-critical data. + The filesystem disk format is no longer unstable, and it's not + expected to change unless there are strong reasons to do so. If there + is a format change, file systems with a unchanged format will + continue to be mountable and usable by newer kernels. + + For more information, please see the web pages at + http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here. The module will be called btrfs. -- 2.39.2