| Alexey Dobriyan | 90ffd46 | 2009-01-22 10:31:56 +0300 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | config AUTOFS_FS |
| 2 | tristate "Kernel automounter support" |
| 3 | help |
| 4 | The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems |
| 5 | on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce |
| 6 | overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD |
| 7 | automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs |
| 10 | package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>. |
| 11 | You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more |
| 14 | features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support", |
| 15 | below. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be |
| 18 | called autofs. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you |
| 21 | probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here. |