1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
4 tristate "EROFS filesystem support"
9 EROFS (Enhanced Read-Only File System) is a lightweight read-only
10 file system with modern designs (e.g. no buffer heads, inline
11 xattrs/data, chunk-based deduplication, multiple devices, etc.) for
12 scenarios which need high-performance read-only solutions, e.g.
13 smartphones with Android OS, LiveCDs and high-density hosts with
16 It also provides fixed-sized output compression support in order to
17 improve storage density as well as keep relatively higher compression
18 ratios and implements in-place decompression to reuse the file page
19 for compressed data temporarily with proper strategies, which is
20 quite useful to ensure guaranteed end-to-end runtime decompression
21 performance under extremely memory pressure without extra cost.
23 See the documentation at <file:Documentation/filesystems/erofs.rst>
24 and the web pages at <https://erofs.docs.kernel.org> for more details.
29 bool "EROFS debugging feature"
32 Print debugging messages and enable more BUG_ONs which check
33 filesystem consistency and find potential issues aggressively,
34 which can be used for Android eng build, for example.
39 bool "EROFS extended attributes"
44 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
45 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
46 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
50 config EROFS_FS_POSIX_ACL
51 bool "EROFS Access Control Lists"
52 depends on EROFS_FS_XATTR
56 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
57 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
59 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for
60 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
62 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N.
64 config EROFS_FS_SECURITY
65 bool "EROFS Security Labels"
66 depends on EROFS_FS_XATTR
69 Security labels provide an access control facility to support Linux
70 Security Models (LSMs) accepted by AppArmor, SELinux, Smack and TOMOYO
71 Linux. This option enables an extended attribute handler for file
72 security labels in the erofs filesystem, so that it requires enabling
73 the extended attribute support in advance.
75 If you are not using a security module, say N.
77 config EROFS_FS_BACKED_BY_FILE
78 bool "File-backed EROFS filesystem support"
82 This allows EROFS to use filesystem image files directly, without
83 the intercession of loopback block devices or likewise. It is
84 particularly useful for container images with numerous blobs and
85 other sandboxes, where loop devices behave intricately. It can also
86 be used to simplify error-prone lifetime management of unnecessary
87 virtual block devices.
89 Note that this feature, along with ongoing fanotify pre-content
90 hooks, will eventually replace "EROFS over fscache."
92 If you don't want to enable this feature, say N.
95 bool "EROFS Data Compression Support"
100 Enable fixed-sized output compression for EROFS.
102 If you don't want to enable compression feature, say N.
104 config EROFS_FS_ZIP_LZMA
105 bool "EROFS LZMA compressed data support"
106 depends on EROFS_FS_ZIP
108 select XZ_DEC_MICROLZMA
110 Saying Y here includes support for reading EROFS file systems
111 containing LZMA compressed data, specifically called microLZMA. It
112 gives better compression ratios than the default LZ4 format, at the
113 expense of more CPU overhead.
117 config EROFS_FS_ZIP_DEFLATE
118 bool "EROFS DEFLATE compressed data support"
119 depends on EROFS_FS_ZIP
122 Saying Y here includes support for reading EROFS file systems
123 containing DEFLATE compressed data. It gives better compression
124 ratios than the default LZ4 format, while it costs more CPU
127 DEFLATE support is an experimental feature for now and so most
128 file systems will be readable without selecting this option.
132 config EROFS_FS_ZIP_ZSTD
133 bool "EROFS Zstandard compressed data support"
134 depends on EROFS_FS_ZIP
135 select ZSTD_DECOMPRESS
137 Saying Y here includes support for reading EROFS file systems
138 containing Zstandard compressed data. It gives better compression
139 ratios than the default LZ4 format, while it costs more CPU
142 Zstandard support is an experimental feature for now and so most
143 file systems will be readable without selecting this option.
147 config EROFS_FS_ONDEMAND
148 bool "EROFS fscache-based on-demand read support (deprecated)"
153 select CACHEFILES_ONDEMAND
155 This permits EROFS to use fscache-backed data blobs with on-demand
158 It is now deprecated and scheduled to be removed from the kernel
159 after fanotify pre-content hooks are landed.
163 config EROFS_FS_PCPU_KTHREAD
164 bool "EROFS per-cpu decompression kthread workers"
165 depends on EROFS_FS_ZIP
167 Saying Y here enables per-CPU kthread workers pool to carry out
168 async decompression for low latencies on some architectures.
172 config EROFS_FS_PCPU_KTHREAD_HIPRI
173 bool "EROFS high priority per-CPU kthread workers"
174 depends on EROFS_FS_ZIP && EROFS_FS_PCPU_KTHREAD
177 This permits EROFS to configure per-CPU kthread workers to run