Re: [PATCH] xfs: Improve CONFIG_XFS_RT Kconfig help

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On Thu, Aug 07, 2025 at 02:56:30PM +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> Improve the description of the XFS_RT configuration option to document
> that this option is required for zoned block devices.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/xfs/Kconfig | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/Kconfig b/fs/xfs/Kconfig
> index ae0ca6858496..68724dec3d19 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/Kconfig
> +++ b/fs/xfs/Kconfig
> @@ -118,6 +118,15 @@ config XFS_RT
> 
>  	  See the xfs man page in section 5 for additional information.
> 
> +	  This option is mandatory to support zoned block devices. For these
> +	  devices, the realtime subvolume must be backed by a zoned block
> +	  device and a regular block device used as the main device (for
> +	  metadata). If the zoned block device is a host-managed SMR hard-disk
> +	  containing conventional zones at the beginning of its address space,
> +	  XFS will use the disk conventional zones as the main device and the
> +	  remaining sequential write required zones as the backing storage for
> +	  the realtime subvolume.
> +
>  	  If unsure, say N.

Looks good!

Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@xxxxxxxxxx>

> 
>  config XFS_DRAIN_INTENTS
> --
> 2.50.1
> 
> 




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