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| author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2023-06-15 08:48:39 +0200 |
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| committer | Song Liu <song@kernel.org> | 2023-07-27 00:13:29 -0700 |
| commit | a34d4ef82c3c4bd8bda817e9fb53ef37c5595ddd (patch) | |
| tree | 19f0e7a3a90aadd603d603382a0a6fdb8a5cadd7 /drivers/md/Kconfig | |
| parent | d7038f951828da19fa9aafddfa087b69032c9687 (diff) | |
md: make bitmap file support optional
The support for write intent bitmaps in files on an external files in md
is a hot mess that abuses ->bmap to map file offsets into physical device
objects, and also abuses buffer_heads in a creative way.
Make this code optional so that MD can be built into future kernels
without buffer_head support, and so that we can eventually deprecate it.
Note this does not affect the internal bitmap support, which has none of
the problems.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230615064840.629492-11-hch@lst.de
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/md/Kconfig | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/Kconfig b/drivers/md/Kconfig index b0a22e99bade..9712ab9bcba5 100644 --- a/drivers/md/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/md/Kconfig @@ -50,6 +50,16 @@ config MD_AUTODETECT If unsure, say Y. +config MD_BITMAP_FILE + bool "MD bitmap file support" + default y + help + If you say Y here, support for write intent bitmaps in files on an + external file system is enabled. This is an alternative to the internal + bitmaps near the MD superblock, and very problematic code that abuses + various kernel APIs and can only work with files on a file system not + actually sitting on the MD device. + config MD_LINEAR tristate "Linear (append) mode (deprecated)" depends on BLK_DEV_MD |