| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | # | 
|  | 2 | # File system configuration | 
|  | 3 | # | 
|  | 4 |  | 
|  | 5 | menu "File systems" | 
|  | 6 |  | 
| David Howells | 9361401 | 2006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | if BLOCK | 
|  | 8 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | config EXT2_FS | 
|  | 10 | tristate "Second extended fs support" | 
|  | 11 | help | 
|  | 12 | Ext2 is a standard Linux file system for hard disks. | 
|  | 13 |  | 
|  | 14 | To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the | 
| Jan Engelhardt | d23edbd | 2006-12-12 19:07:45 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | module will be called ext2. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 16 |  | 
|  | 17 | If unsure, say Y. | 
|  | 18 |  | 
|  | 19 | config EXT2_FS_XATTR | 
|  | 20 | bool "Ext2 extended attributes" | 
|  | 21 | depends on EXT2_FS | 
|  | 22 | help | 
|  | 23 | Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by | 
|  | 24 | the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit | 
|  | 25 | <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). | 
|  | 26 |  | 
|  | 27 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 28 |  | 
|  | 29 | config EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL | 
|  | 30 | bool "Ext2 POSIX Access Control Lists" | 
|  | 31 | depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR | 
| Andreas Gruenbacher | b84c215 | 2005-07-07 17:56:57 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 32 | select FS_POSIX_ACL | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 33 | help | 
|  | 34 | Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and | 
|  | 35 | groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. | 
|  | 36 |  | 
|  | 37 | To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for | 
|  | 38 | Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. | 
|  | 39 |  | 
|  | 40 | If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N | 
|  | 41 |  | 
|  | 42 | config EXT2_FS_SECURITY | 
|  | 43 | bool "Ext2 Security Labels" | 
|  | 44 | depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR | 
|  | 45 | help | 
|  | 46 | Security labels support alternative access control models | 
|  | 47 | implemented by security modules like SELinux.  This option | 
|  | 48 | enables an extended attribute handler for file security | 
|  | 49 | labels in the ext2 filesystem. | 
|  | 50 |  | 
|  | 51 | If you are not using a security module that requires using | 
|  | 52 | extended attributes for file security labels, say N. | 
|  | 53 |  | 
| Carsten Otte | 6d79125 | 2005-06-23 22:05:26 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 54 | config EXT2_FS_XIP | 
|  | 55 | bool "Ext2 execute in place support" | 
| Al Viro | 0c426f2 | 2006-06-23 02:04:08 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 56 | depends on EXT2_FS && MMU | 
| Carsten Otte | 6d79125 | 2005-06-23 22:05:26 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 57 | help | 
|  | 58 | Execute in place can be used on memory-backed block devices. If you | 
|  | 59 | enable this option, you can select to mount block devices which are | 
|  | 60 | capable of this feature without using the page cache. | 
|  | 61 |  | 
|  | 62 | If you do not use a block device that is capable of using this, | 
|  | 63 | or if unsure, say N. | 
|  | 64 |  | 
|  | 65 | config FS_XIP | 
|  | 66 | # execute in place | 
|  | 67 | bool | 
|  | 68 | depends on EXT2_FS_XIP | 
|  | 69 | default y | 
|  | 70 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 71 | config EXT3_FS | 
|  | 72 | tristate "Ext3 journalling file system support" | 
| Mark Fasheh | b4e40a5 | 2005-12-15 14:31:24 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 73 | select JBD | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 74 | help | 
| Matt LaPlante | cc2e276 | 2006-10-03 22:22:29 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 75 | This is the journalling version of the Second extended file system | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 76 | (often called ext3), the de facto standard Linux file system | 
|  | 77 | (method to organize files on a storage device) for hard disks. | 
|  | 78 |  | 
| Matt LaPlante | cc2e276 | 2006-10-03 22:22:29 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 79 | The journalling code included in this driver means you do not have | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 80 | to run e2fsck (file system checker) on your file systems after a | 
|  | 81 | crash.  The journal keeps track of any changes that were being made | 
|  | 82 | at the time the system crashed, and can ensure that your file system | 
|  | 83 | is consistent without the need for a lengthy check. | 
|  | 84 |  | 
|  | 85 | Other than adding the journal to the file system, the on-disk format | 
|  | 86 | of ext3 is identical to ext2.  It is possible to freely switch | 
|  | 87 | between using the ext3 driver and the ext2 driver, as long as the | 
|  | 88 | file system has been cleanly unmounted, or e2fsck is run on the file | 
|  | 89 | system. | 
|  | 90 |  | 
|  | 91 | To add a journal on an existing ext2 file system or change the | 
|  | 92 | behavior of ext3 file systems, you can use the tune2fs utility ("man | 
|  | 93 | tune2fs").  To modify attributes of files and directories on ext3 | 
|  | 94 | file systems, use chattr ("man chattr").  You need to be using | 
|  | 95 | e2fsprogs version 1.20 or later in order to create ext3 journals | 
|  | 96 | (available at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/e2fsprogs/>). | 
|  | 97 |  | 
|  | 98 | To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the | 
| Jan Engelhardt | d23edbd | 2006-12-12 19:07:45 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 99 | module will be called ext3. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 100 |  | 
|  | 101 | config EXT3_FS_XATTR | 
|  | 102 | bool "Ext3 extended attributes" | 
|  | 103 | depends on EXT3_FS | 
|  | 104 | default y | 
|  | 105 | help | 
|  | 106 | Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by | 
|  | 107 | the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit | 
|  | 108 | <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). | 
|  | 109 |  | 
|  | 110 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 111 |  | 
|  | 112 | You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext3. | 
|  | 113 |  | 
|  | 114 | config EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL | 
|  | 115 | bool "Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists" | 
|  | 116 | depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR | 
| Andreas Gruenbacher | b84c215 | 2005-07-07 17:56:57 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 117 | select FS_POSIX_ACL | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 118 | help | 
|  | 119 | Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and | 
|  | 120 | groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. | 
|  | 121 |  | 
|  | 122 | To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for | 
|  | 123 | Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. | 
|  | 124 |  | 
|  | 125 | If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N | 
|  | 126 |  | 
|  | 127 | config EXT3_FS_SECURITY | 
|  | 128 | bool "Ext3 Security Labels" | 
|  | 129 | depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR | 
|  | 130 | help | 
|  | 131 | Security labels support alternative access control models | 
|  | 132 | implemented by security modules like SELinux.  This option | 
|  | 133 | enables an extended attribute handler for file security | 
|  | 134 | labels in the ext3 filesystem. | 
|  | 135 |  | 
|  | 136 | If you are not using a security module that requires using | 
|  | 137 | extended attributes for file security labels, say N. | 
|  | 138 |  | 
| Mingming Cao | 02ea210 | 2006-10-11 01:20:56 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 139 | config EXT4DEV_FS | 
|  | 140 | tristate "Ext4dev/ext4 extended fs support development (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 
|  | 141 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL | 
| Mingming Cao | dab291a | 2006-10-11 01:21:01 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 142 | select JBD2 | 
| Andreas Dilger | 717d50e | 2007-10-16 18:38:25 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 143 | select CRC16 | 
| Mingming Cao | dab291a | 2006-10-11 01:21:01 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 144 | help | 
| Mingming Cao | 02ea210 | 2006-10-11 01:20:56 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 145 | Ext4dev is a predecessor filesystem of the next generation | 
|  | 146 | extended fs ext4, based on ext3 filesystem code. It will be | 
|  | 147 | renamed ext4 fs later, once ext4dev is mature and stabilized. | 
|  | 148 |  | 
| Mingming Cao | dab291a | 2006-10-11 01:21:01 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 149 | Unlike the change from ext2 filesystem to ext3 filesystem, | 
|  | 150 | the on-disk format of ext4dev is not the same as ext3 any more: | 
| Mingming Cao | 02ea210 | 2006-10-11 01:20:56 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 151 | it is based on extent maps and it supports 48-bit physical block | 
| Mingming Cao | dab291a | 2006-10-11 01:21:01 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 152 | numbers. These combined on-disk format changes will allow | 
| Mingming Cao | 02ea210 | 2006-10-11 01:20:56 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 153 | ext4dev/ext4 to handle more than 16 TB filesystem volumes -- | 
|  | 154 | a hard limit that ext3 cannot overcome without changing the | 
| Mingming Cao | dab291a | 2006-10-11 01:21:01 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 155 | on-disk format. | 
| Mingming Cao | 02ea210 | 2006-10-11 01:20:56 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 156 |  | 
|  | 157 | Other than extent maps and 48-bit block numbers, ext4dev also is | 
| Mingming Cao | dab291a | 2006-10-11 01:21:01 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 158 | likely to have other new features such as persistent preallocation, | 
| Mingming Cao | 02ea210 | 2006-10-11 01:20:56 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 159 | high resolution time stamps, and larger file support etc.  These | 
| Mingming Cao | dab291a | 2006-10-11 01:21:01 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 160 | features will be added to ext4dev gradually. | 
| Mingming Cao | 02ea210 | 2006-10-11 01:20:56 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 161 |  | 
|  | 162 | To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here. The | 
| Jan Engelhardt | d23edbd | 2006-12-12 19:07:45 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 163 | module will be called ext4dev. | 
| Mingming Cao | 02ea210 | 2006-10-11 01:20:56 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 164 |  | 
|  | 165 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 166 |  | 
|  | 167 | config EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR | 
|  | 168 | bool "Ext4dev extended attributes" | 
|  | 169 | depends on EXT4DEV_FS | 
|  | 170 | default y | 
|  | 171 | help | 
|  | 172 | Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by | 
|  | 173 | the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit | 
|  | 174 | <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). | 
|  | 175 |  | 
|  | 176 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 177 |  | 
|  | 178 | You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext4dev/ext4. | 
|  | 179 |  | 
|  | 180 | config EXT4DEV_FS_POSIX_ACL | 
|  | 181 | bool "Ext4dev POSIX Access Control Lists" | 
|  | 182 | depends on EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR | 
|  | 183 | select FS_POSIX_ACL | 
|  | 184 | help | 
|  | 185 | POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and | 
|  | 186 | groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. | 
|  | 187 |  | 
|  | 188 | To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for | 
|  | 189 | Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. | 
|  | 190 |  | 
|  | 191 | If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N | 
|  | 192 |  | 
|  | 193 | config EXT4DEV_FS_SECURITY | 
|  | 194 | bool "Ext4dev Security Labels" | 
|  | 195 | depends on EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR | 
|  | 196 | help | 
|  | 197 | Security labels support alternative access control models | 
|  | 198 | implemented by security modules like SELinux.  This option | 
|  | 199 | enables an extended attribute handler for file security | 
|  | 200 | labels in the ext4dev/ext4 filesystem. | 
|  | 201 |  | 
|  | 202 | If you are not using a security module that requires using | 
|  | 203 | extended attributes for file security labels, say N. | 
|  | 204 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 205 | config JBD | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 206 | tristate | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 207 | help | 
| Matt LaPlante | cc2e276 | 2006-10-03 22:22:29 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 208 | This is a generic journalling layer for block devices.  It is | 
| Mark Fasheh | b4e40a5 | 2005-12-15 14:31:24 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 209 | currently used by the ext3 and OCFS2 file systems, but it could | 
|  | 210 | also be used to add journal support to other file systems or block | 
|  | 211 | devices such as RAID or LVM. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 212 |  | 
| Mark Fasheh | b4e40a5 | 2005-12-15 14:31:24 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 213 | If you are using the ext3 or OCFS2 file systems, you need to | 
|  | 214 | say Y here. If you are not using ext3 OCFS2 then you will probably | 
|  | 215 | want to say N. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 216 |  | 
|  | 217 | To compile this device as a module, choose M here: the module will be | 
| Mark Fasheh | b4e40a5 | 2005-12-15 14:31:24 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 218 | called jbd.  If you are compiling ext3 or OCFS2 into the kernel, | 
|  | 219 | you cannot compile this code as a module. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 220 |  | 
|  | 221 | config JBD_DEBUG | 
|  | 222 | bool "JBD (ext3) debugging support" | 
| Jose R. Santos | c2a9159 | 2007-10-18 23:39:22 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 223 | depends on JBD && DEBUG_FS | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 224 | help | 
|  | 225 | If you are using the ext3 journaled file system (or potentially any | 
|  | 226 | other file system/device using JBD), this option allows you to | 
|  | 227 | enable debugging output while the system is running, in order to | 
|  | 228 | help track down any problems you are having.  By default the | 
|  | 229 | debugging output will be turned off. | 
|  | 230 |  | 
|  | 231 | If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging | 
| Jose R. Santos | c2a9159 | 2007-10-18 23:39:22 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 232 | with "echo N > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd/jbd-debug", where N is a | 
|  | 233 | number between 1 and 5, the higher the number, the more debugging | 
|  | 234 | output is generated.  To turn debugging off again, do | 
|  | 235 | "echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd/jbd-debug". | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 236 |  | 
| Mingming Cao | dab291a | 2006-10-11 01:21:01 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 237 | config JBD2 | 
|  | 238 | tristate | 
| Girish Shilamkar | 818d276 | 2008-01-28 23:58:27 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 239 | select CRC32 | 
| Mingming Cao | dab291a | 2006-10-11 01:21:01 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 240 | help | 
|  | 241 | This is a generic journaling layer for block devices that support | 
|  | 242 | both 32-bit and 64-bit block numbers.  It is currently used by | 
|  | 243 | the ext4dev/ext4 filesystem, but it could also be used to add | 
|  | 244 | journal support to other file systems or block devices such | 
|  | 245 | as RAID or LVM. | 
|  | 246 |  | 
|  | 247 | If you are using ext4dev/ext4, you need to say Y here. If you are not | 
|  | 248 | using ext4dev/ext4 then you will probably want to say N. | 
|  | 249 |  | 
|  | 250 | To compile this device as a module, choose M here. The module will be | 
|  | 251 | called jbd2.  If you are compiling ext4dev/ext4 into the kernel, | 
|  | 252 | you cannot compile this code as a module. | 
|  | 253 |  | 
|  | 254 | config JBD2_DEBUG | 
|  | 255 | bool "JBD2 (ext4dev/ext4) debugging support" | 
| Jose R. Santos | 0f49d5d | 2007-07-18 08:50:18 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 256 | depends on JBD2 && DEBUG_FS | 
| Mingming Cao | dab291a | 2006-10-11 01:21:01 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 257 | help | 
|  | 258 | If you are using the ext4dev/ext4 journaled file system (or | 
|  | 259 | potentially any other filesystem/device using JBD2), this option | 
|  | 260 | allows you to enable debugging output while the system is running, | 
|  | 261 | in order to help track down any problems you are having. | 
|  | 262 | By default, the debugging output will be turned off. | 
|  | 263 |  | 
|  | 264 | If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging | 
| Jose R. Santos | 0f49d5d | 2007-07-18 08:50:18 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 265 | with "echo N > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd2/jbd2-debug", where N is a | 
|  | 266 | number between 1 and 5. The higher the number, the more debugging | 
|  | 267 | output is generated.  To turn debugging off again, do | 
|  | 268 | "echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd2/jbd2-debug". | 
| Mingming Cao | dab291a | 2006-10-11 01:21:01 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 269 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 270 | config FS_MBCACHE | 
| Mingming Cao | 02ea210 | 2006-10-11 01:20:56 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 271 | # Meta block cache for Extended Attributes (ext2/ext3/ext4) | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 272 | tristate | 
| Mingming Cao | 02ea210 | 2006-10-11 01:20:56 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 273 | depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR || EXT3_FS_XATTR || EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR | 
|  | 274 | default y if EXT2_FS=y || EXT3_FS=y || EXT4DEV_FS=y | 
|  | 275 | default m if EXT2_FS=m || EXT3_FS=m || EXT4DEV_FS=m | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 276 |  | 
|  | 277 | config REISERFS_FS | 
|  | 278 | tristate "Reiserfs support" | 
|  | 279 | help | 
|  | 280 | Stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a balanced | 
| Matt LaPlante | cc2e276 | 2006-10-03 22:22:29 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 281 | tree.  Uses journalling. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 282 |  | 
|  | 283 | Balanced trees are more efficient than traditional file system | 
|  | 284 | architectural foundations. | 
|  | 285 |  | 
|  | 286 | In general, ReiserFS is as fast as ext2, but is very efficient with | 
|  | 287 | large directories and small files.  Additional patches are needed | 
|  | 288 | for NFS and quotas, please see <http://www.namesys.com/> for links. | 
|  | 289 |  | 
|  | 290 | It is more easily extended to have features currently found in | 
|  | 291 | database and keyword search systems than block allocation based file | 
|  | 292 | systems are.  The next version will be so extended, and will support | 
|  | 293 | plugins consistent with our motto ``It takes more than a license to | 
|  | 294 | make source code open.'' | 
|  | 295 |  | 
|  | 296 | Read <http://www.namesys.com/> to learn more about reiserfs. | 
|  | 297 |  | 
|  | 298 | Sponsored by Threshold Networks, Emusic.com, and Bigstorage.com. | 
|  | 299 |  | 
|  | 300 | If you like it, you can pay us to add new features to it that you | 
|  | 301 | need, buy a support contract, or pay us to port it to another OS. | 
|  | 302 |  | 
|  | 303 | config REISERFS_CHECK | 
|  | 304 | bool "Enable reiserfs debug mode" | 
|  | 305 | depends on REISERFS_FS | 
|  | 306 | help | 
|  | 307 | If you set this to Y, then ReiserFS will perform every check it can | 
|  | 308 | possibly imagine of its internal consistency throughout its | 
|  | 309 | operation.  It will also go substantially slower.  More than once we | 
|  | 310 | have forgotten that this was on, and then gone despondent over the | 
|  | 311 | latest benchmarks.:-) Use of this option allows our team to go all | 
|  | 312 | out in checking for consistency when debugging without fear of its | 
|  | 313 | effect on end users.  If you are on the verge of sending in a bug | 
|  | 314 | report, say Y and you might get a useful error message.  Almost | 
|  | 315 | everyone should say N. | 
|  | 316 |  | 
|  | 317 | config REISERFS_PROC_INFO | 
|  | 318 | bool "Stats in /proc/fs/reiserfs" | 
| Randy Dunlap | 880ebdc | 2007-05-08 00:26:59 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 319 | depends on REISERFS_FS && PROC_FS | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 320 | help | 
|  | 321 | Create under /proc/fs/reiserfs a hierarchy of files, displaying | 
|  | 322 | various ReiserFS statistics and internal data at the expense of | 
|  | 323 | making your kernel or module slightly larger (+8 KB). This also | 
|  | 324 | increases the amount of kernel memory required for each mount. | 
|  | 325 | Almost everyone but ReiserFS developers and people fine-tuning | 
|  | 326 | reiserfs or tracing problems should say N. | 
|  | 327 |  | 
|  | 328 | config REISERFS_FS_XATTR | 
|  | 329 | bool "ReiserFS extended attributes" | 
|  | 330 | depends on REISERFS_FS | 
|  | 331 | help | 
|  | 332 | Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by | 
|  | 333 | the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit | 
|  | 334 | <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). | 
|  | 335 |  | 
|  | 336 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 337 |  | 
|  | 338 | config REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL | 
|  | 339 | bool "ReiserFS POSIX Access Control Lists" | 
|  | 340 | depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR | 
| Andreas Gruenbacher | b84c215 | 2005-07-07 17:56:57 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 341 | select FS_POSIX_ACL | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 342 | help | 
|  | 343 | Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and | 
|  | 344 | groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. | 
|  | 345 |  | 
|  | 346 | To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for | 
|  | 347 | Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. | 
|  | 348 |  | 
|  | 349 | If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N | 
|  | 350 |  | 
|  | 351 | config REISERFS_FS_SECURITY | 
|  | 352 | bool "ReiserFS Security Labels" | 
|  | 353 | depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR | 
|  | 354 | help | 
|  | 355 | Security labels support alternative access control models | 
|  | 356 | implemented by security modules like SELinux.  This option | 
|  | 357 | enables an extended attribute handler for file security | 
|  | 358 | labels in the ReiserFS filesystem. | 
|  | 359 |  | 
|  | 360 | If you are not using a security module that requires using | 
|  | 361 | extended attributes for file security labels, say N. | 
|  | 362 |  | 
|  | 363 | config JFS_FS | 
|  | 364 | tristate "JFS filesystem support" | 
|  | 365 | select NLS | 
|  | 366 | help | 
|  | 367 | This is a port of IBM's Journaled Filesystem .  More information is | 
|  | 368 | available in the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt>. | 
|  | 369 |  | 
|  | 370 | If you do not intend to use the JFS filesystem, say N. | 
|  | 371 |  | 
|  | 372 | config JFS_POSIX_ACL | 
|  | 373 | bool "JFS POSIX Access Control Lists" | 
|  | 374 | depends on JFS_FS | 
| Andreas Gruenbacher | b84c215 | 2005-07-07 17:56:57 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 375 | select FS_POSIX_ACL | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 376 | help | 
|  | 377 | Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and | 
|  | 378 | groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. | 
|  | 379 |  | 
|  | 380 | To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for | 
|  | 381 | Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. | 
|  | 382 |  | 
|  | 383 | If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N | 
|  | 384 |  | 
|  | 385 | config JFS_SECURITY | 
|  | 386 | bool "JFS Security Labels" | 
|  | 387 | depends on JFS_FS | 
|  | 388 | help | 
|  | 389 | Security labels support alternative access control models | 
|  | 390 | implemented by security modules like SELinux.  This option | 
|  | 391 | enables an extended attribute handler for file security | 
|  | 392 | labels in the jfs filesystem. | 
|  | 393 |  | 
|  | 394 | If you are not using a security module that requires using | 
|  | 395 | extended attributes for file security labels, say N. | 
|  | 396 |  | 
|  | 397 | config JFS_DEBUG | 
|  | 398 | bool "JFS debugging" | 
|  | 399 | depends on JFS_FS | 
|  | 400 | help | 
|  | 401 | If you are experiencing any problems with the JFS filesystem, say | 
|  | 402 | Y here.  This will result in additional debugging messages to be | 
|  | 403 | written to the system log.  Under normal circumstances, this | 
|  | 404 | results in very little overhead. | 
|  | 405 |  | 
|  | 406 | config JFS_STATISTICS | 
|  | 407 | bool "JFS statistics" | 
|  | 408 | depends on JFS_FS | 
|  | 409 | help | 
|  | 410 | Enabling this option will cause statistics from the JFS file system | 
|  | 411 | to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jfs/ directory. | 
|  | 412 |  | 
|  | 413 | config FS_POSIX_ACL | 
| Chuck Lever | 8920695 | 2008-02-11 17:12:24 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 414 | # Posix ACL utility routines (for now, only ext2/ext3/jfs/reiserfs/nfs4) | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 415 | # | 
|  | 416 | # NOTE: you can implement Posix ACLs without these helpers (XFS does). | 
|  | 417 | # 	Never use this symbol for ifdefs. | 
|  | 418 | # | 
|  | 419 | bool | 
| Andreas Gruenbacher | b84c215 | 2005-07-07 17:56:57 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 420 | default n | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 421 |  | 
|  | 422 | source "fs/xfs/Kconfig" | 
| David Teigland | f7825dc | 2006-01-16 16:43:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 423 | source "fs/gfs2/Kconfig" | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 424 |  | 
| Mark Fasheh | b4e40a5 | 2005-12-15 14:31:24 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 425 | config OCFS2_FS | 
| Mark Fasheh | 02ed841 | 2006-09-14 10:28:06 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 426 | tristate "OCFS2 file system support" | 
|  | 427 | depends on NET && SYSFS | 
| Mark Fasheh | b4e40a5 | 2005-12-15 14:31:24 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 428 | select CONFIGFS_FS | 
|  | 429 | select JBD | 
|  | 430 | select CRC32 | 
| Mark Fasheh | b4e40a5 | 2005-12-15 14:31:24 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 431 | help | 
|  | 432 | OCFS2 is a general purpose extent based shared disk cluster file | 
|  | 433 | system with many similarities to ext3. It supports 64 bit inode | 
|  | 434 | numbers, and has automatically extending metadata groups which may | 
|  | 435 | also make it attractive for non-clustered use. | 
|  | 436 |  | 
|  | 437 | You'll want to install the ocfs2-tools package in order to at least | 
|  | 438 | get "mount.ocfs2". | 
|  | 439 |  | 
|  | 440 | Project web page:    http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2 | 
|  | 441 | Tools web page:      http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools | 
|  | 442 | OCFS2 mailing lists: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/mailman/ | 
|  | 443 |  | 
| Mark Fasheh | 1252c43 | 2007-10-30 12:09:03 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 444 | For more information on OCFS2, see the file | 
|  | 445 | <file:Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt>. | 
| Mark Fasheh | b4e40a5 | 2005-12-15 14:31:24 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 446 |  | 
| Joel Becker | 9341d22 | 2008-03-04 17:58:56 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 447 | config OCFS2_FS_O2CB | 
|  | 448 | tristate "O2CB Kernelspace Clustering" | 
|  | 449 | depends on OCFS2_FS | 
|  | 450 | default y | 
|  | 451 | help | 
|  | 452 | OCFS2 includes a simple kernelspace clustering package, the OCFS2 | 
|  | 453 | Cluster Base.  It only requires a very small userspace component | 
|  | 454 | to configure it. This comes with the standard ocfs2-tools package. | 
|  | 455 | O2CB is limited to maintaining a cluster for OCFS2 file systems. | 
|  | 456 | It cannot manage any other cluster applications. | 
|  | 457 |  | 
|  | 458 | It is always safe to say Y here, as the clustering method is | 
|  | 459 | run-time selectable. | 
|  | 460 |  | 
|  | 461 | config OCFS2_FS_USERSPACE_CLUSTER | 
|  | 462 | tristate "OCFS2 Userspace Clustering" | 
|  | 463 | depends on OCFS2_FS && DLM | 
|  | 464 | default y | 
|  | 465 | help | 
|  | 466 | This option will allow OCFS2 to use userspace clustering services | 
|  | 467 | in conjunction with the DLM in fs/dlm.  If you are using a | 
|  | 468 | userspace cluster manager, say Y here. | 
|  | 469 |  | 
|  | 470 | It is safe to say Y, as the clustering method is run-time | 
|  | 471 | selectable. | 
|  | 472 |  | 
| Sunil Mushran | ce7231e | 2008-05-13 13:45:14 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 473 | config OCFS2_FS_STATS | 
|  | 474 | bool "OCFS2 statistics" | 
|  | 475 | depends on OCFS2_FS | 
|  | 476 | default y | 
|  | 477 | help | 
|  | 478 | This option allows some fs statistics to be captured. Enabling | 
|  | 479 | this option may increase the memory consumption. | 
|  | 480 |  | 
| Joel Becker | 2b388c6 | 2006-05-10 18:28:59 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 481 | config OCFS2_DEBUG_MASKLOG | 
|  | 482 | bool "OCFS2 logging support" | 
|  | 483 | depends on OCFS2_FS | 
|  | 484 | default y | 
|  | 485 | help | 
|  | 486 | The ocfs2 filesystem has an extensive logging system.  The system | 
|  | 487 | allows selection of events to log via files in /sys/o2cb/logmask/. | 
|  | 488 | This option will enlarge your kernel, but it allows debugging of | 
|  | 489 | ocfs2 filesystem issues. | 
|  | 490 |  | 
| Jan Kara | 5a58c3e | 2007-11-13 19:59:33 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 491 | config OCFS2_DEBUG_FS | 
|  | 492 | bool "OCFS2 expensive checks" | 
|  | 493 | depends on OCFS2_FS | 
|  | 494 | default n | 
|  | 495 | help | 
|  | 496 | This option will enable expensive consistency checks. Enable | 
|  | 497 | this option for debugging only as it is likely to decrease | 
|  | 498 | performance of the filesystem. | 
|  | 499 |  | 
| Randy Dunlap | 25fad94 | 2008-02-07 00:15:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 500 | endif # BLOCK | 
|  | 501 |  | 
|  | 502 | config DNOTIFY | 
|  | 503 | bool "Dnotify support" | 
|  | 504 | default y | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 505 | help | 
| Randy Dunlap | 25fad94 | 2008-02-07 00:15:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 506 | Dnotify is a directory-based per-fd file change notification system | 
|  | 507 | that uses signals to communicate events to user-space.  There exist | 
|  | 508 | superior alternatives, but some applications may still rely on | 
|  | 509 | dnotify. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 510 |  | 
| Randy Dunlap | 25fad94 | 2008-02-07 00:15:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 511 | If unsure, say Y. | 
| David Howells | 9361401 | 2006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 512 |  | 
| Robert Love | 0eeca28 | 2005-07-12 17:06:03 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 513 | config INOTIFY | 
|  | 514 | bool "Inotify file change notification support" | 
|  | 515 | default y | 
|  | 516 | ---help--- | 
| Amy Griffis | 2d9048e | 2006-06-01 13:10:59 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 517 | Say Y here to enable inotify support.  Inotify is a file change | 
|  | 518 | notification system and a replacement for dnotify.  Inotify fixes | 
|  | 519 | numerous shortcomings in dnotify and introduces several new features | 
|  | 520 | including multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount | 
| Robert Love | 3de1174 | 2005-08-04 13:07:08 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 521 | notification. | 
|  | 522 |  | 
| Dirk Hohndel | e403149 | 2007-10-30 13:37:19 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 523 | For more information, see <file:Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt> | 
| Robert Love | 0eeca28 | 2005-07-12 17:06:03 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 524 |  | 
|  | 525 | If unsure, say Y. | 
|  | 526 |  | 
| Amy Griffis | 2d9048e | 2006-06-01 13:10:59 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 527 | config INOTIFY_USER | 
|  | 528 | bool "Inotify support for userspace" | 
|  | 529 | depends on INOTIFY | 
|  | 530 | default y | 
|  | 531 | ---help--- | 
|  | 532 | Say Y here to enable inotify support for userspace, including the | 
|  | 533 | associated system calls.  Inotify allows monitoring of both files and | 
|  | 534 | directories via a single open fd.  Events are read from the file | 
|  | 535 | descriptor, which is also select()- and poll()-able. | 
|  | 536 |  | 
| Dirk Hohndel | e403149 | 2007-10-30 13:37:19 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 537 | For more information, see <file:Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt> | 
| Amy Griffis | 2d9048e | 2006-06-01 13:10:59 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 538 |  | 
|  | 539 | If unsure, say Y. | 
|  | 540 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 541 | config QUOTA | 
|  | 542 | bool "Quota support" | 
|  | 543 | help | 
|  | 544 | If you say Y here, you will be able to set per user limits for disk | 
|  | 545 | usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works for the | 
|  | 546 | ext2, ext3, and reiserfs file system. ext3 also supports journalled | 
|  | 547 | quotas for which you don't need to run quotacheck(8) after an unclean | 
| Adrian Bunk | 919532a | 2005-09-06 15:17:22 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 548 | shutdown. | 
|  | 549 | For further details, read the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 550 | <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or the documentation provided | 
|  | 551 | with the quota tools. Probably the quota support is only useful for | 
|  | 552 | multi user systems. If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 553 |  | 
| Jan Kara | 8e89346 | 2007-10-16 23:29:31 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 554 | config QUOTA_NETLINK_INTERFACE | 
|  | 555 | bool "Report quota messages through netlink interface" | 
|  | 556 | depends on QUOTA && NET | 
|  | 557 | help | 
|  | 558 | If you say Y here, quota warnings (about exceeding softlimit, reaching | 
|  | 559 | hardlimit, etc.) will be reported through netlink interface. If unsure, | 
|  | 560 | say Y. | 
|  | 561 |  | 
|  | 562 | config PRINT_QUOTA_WARNING | 
|  | 563 | bool "Print quota warnings to console (OBSOLETE)" | 
|  | 564 | depends on QUOTA | 
|  | 565 | default y | 
|  | 566 | help | 
|  | 567 | If you say Y here, quota warnings (about exceeding softlimit, reaching | 
|  | 568 | hardlimit, etc.) will be printed to the process' controlling terminal. | 
|  | 569 | Note that this behavior is currently deprecated and may go away in | 
|  | 570 | future. Please use notification via netlink socket instead. | 
|  | 571 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 572 | config QFMT_V1 | 
|  | 573 | tristate "Old quota format support" | 
|  | 574 | depends on QUOTA | 
|  | 575 | help | 
|  | 576 | This quota format was (is) used by kernels earlier than 2.4.22. If | 
|  | 577 | you have quota working and you don't want to convert to new quota | 
|  | 578 | format say Y here. | 
|  | 579 |  | 
|  | 580 | config QFMT_V2 | 
|  | 581 | tristate "Quota format v2 support" | 
|  | 582 | depends on QUOTA | 
|  | 583 | help | 
|  | 584 | This quota format allows using quotas with 32-bit UIDs/GIDs. If you | 
| Adrian Bunk | 919532a | 2005-09-06 15:17:22 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 585 | need this functionality say Y here. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 586 |  | 
|  | 587 | config QUOTACTL | 
|  | 588 | bool | 
|  | 589 | depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA | 
|  | 590 | default y | 
|  | 591 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 592 | config AUTOFS_FS | 
|  | 593 | tristate "Kernel automounter support" | 
|  | 594 | help | 
|  | 595 | The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems | 
|  | 596 | on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce | 
|  | 597 | overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD | 
|  | 598 | automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. | 
|  | 599 |  | 
|  | 600 | To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs | 
|  | 601 | package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>. | 
|  | 602 | You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. | 
|  | 603 |  | 
|  | 604 | If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more | 
|  | 605 | features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support", | 
|  | 606 | below. | 
|  | 607 |  | 
|  | 608 | To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be | 
|  | 609 | called autofs. | 
|  | 610 |  | 
|  | 611 | If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you | 
|  | 612 | probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here. | 
|  | 613 |  | 
|  | 614 | config AUTOFS4_FS | 
|  | 615 | tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)" | 
|  | 616 | help | 
|  | 617 | The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems | 
|  | 618 | on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce | 
|  | 619 | overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD | 
|  | 620 | automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. | 
|  | 621 |  | 
|  | 622 | To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from | 
|  | 623 | <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/>; you also | 
|  | 624 | want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. | 
|  | 625 |  | 
|  | 626 | To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be | 
|  | 627 | called autofs4.  You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your | 
|  | 628 | modules configuration file. | 
|  | 629 |  | 
|  | 630 | If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or | 
|  | 631 | don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the | 
|  | 632 | local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say | 
|  | 633 | N here. | 
|  | 634 |  | 
| Miklos Szeredi | 04578f1 | 2005-09-09 13:10:22 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 635 | config FUSE_FS | 
|  | 636 | tristate "Filesystem in Userspace support" | 
|  | 637 | help | 
|  | 638 | With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem | 
|  | 639 | in a userspace program. | 
|  | 640 |  | 
|  | 641 | There's also companion library: libfuse.  This library along with | 
|  | 642 | utilities is available from the FUSE homepage: | 
|  | 643 | <http://fuse.sourceforge.net/> | 
|  | 644 |  | 
| Miklos Szeredi | 909021e | 2005-09-27 21:45:20 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 645 | See <file:Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt> for more information. | 
|  | 646 | See <file:Documentation/Changes> for needed library/utility version. | 
|  | 647 |  | 
| Miklos Szeredi | 04578f1 | 2005-09-09 13:10:22 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 648 | If you want to develop a userspace FS, or if you want to use | 
|  | 649 | a filesystem based on FUSE, answer Y or M. | 
|  | 650 |  | 
| Randy Dunlap | f2fbc6c | 2006-10-19 23:28:35 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 651 | config GENERIC_ACL | 
|  | 652 | bool | 
|  | 653 | select FS_POSIX_ACL | 
|  | 654 |  | 
| David Howells | 9361401 | 2006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 655 | if BLOCK | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 656 | menu "CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems" | 
|  | 657 |  | 
|  | 658 | config ISO9660_FS | 
|  | 659 | tristate "ISO 9660 CDROM file system support" | 
|  | 660 | help | 
|  | 661 | This is the standard file system used on CD-ROMs.  It was previously | 
|  | 662 | known as "High Sierra File System" and is called "hsfs" on other | 
|  | 663 | Unix systems.  The so-called Rock-Ridge extensions which allow for | 
|  | 664 | long Unix filenames and symbolic links are also supported by this | 
|  | 665 | driver.  If you have a CD-ROM drive and want to do more with it than | 
|  | 666 | just listen to audio CDs and watch its LEDs, say Y (and read | 
|  | 667 | <file:Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt> and the CD-ROM-HOWTO, | 
|  | 668 | available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), thereby | 
|  | 669 | enlarging your kernel by about 27 KB; otherwise say N. | 
|  | 670 |  | 
|  | 671 | To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the | 
|  | 672 | module will be called isofs. | 
|  | 673 |  | 
|  | 674 | config JOLIET | 
|  | 675 | bool "Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions" | 
|  | 676 | depends on ISO9660_FS | 
|  | 677 | select NLS | 
|  | 678 | help | 
|  | 679 | Joliet is a Microsoft extension for the ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system | 
|  | 680 | which allows for long filenames in unicode format (unicode is the | 
|  | 681 | new 16 bit character code, successor to ASCII, which encodes the | 
|  | 682 | characters of almost all languages of the world; see | 
|  | 683 | <http://www.unicode.org/> for more information).  Say Y here if you | 
|  | 684 | want to be able to read Joliet CD-ROMs under Linux. | 
|  | 685 |  | 
|  | 686 | config ZISOFS | 
|  | 687 | bool "Transparent decompression extension" | 
|  | 688 | depends on ISO9660_FS | 
|  | 689 | select ZLIB_INFLATE | 
|  | 690 | help | 
|  | 691 | This is a Linux-specific extension to RockRidge which lets you store | 
|  | 692 | data in compressed form on a CD-ROM and have it transparently | 
|  | 693 | decompressed when the CD-ROM is accessed.  See | 
|  | 694 | <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/zisofs/> for the tools | 
|  | 695 | necessary to create such a filesystem.  Say Y here if you want to be | 
|  | 696 | able to read such compressed CD-ROMs. | 
|  | 697 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 698 | config UDF_FS | 
|  | 699 | tristate "UDF file system support" | 
| Bob Copeland | f845fce | 2008-04-17 09:47:48 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 700 | select CRC_ITU_T | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 701 | help | 
|  | 702 | This is the new file system used on some CD-ROMs and DVDs. Say Y if | 
|  | 703 | you intend to mount DVD discs or CDRW's written in packet mode, or | 
|  | 704 | if written to by other UDF utilities, such as DirectCD. | 
|  | 705 | Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt>. | 
|  | 706 |  | 
|  | 707 | To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the | 
|  | 708 | module will be called udf. | 
|  | 709 |  | 
|  | 710 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 711 |  | 
|  | 712 | config UDF_NLS | 
|  | 713 | bool | 
|  | 714 | default y | 
|  | 715 | depends on (UDF_FS=m && NLS) || (UDF_FS=y && NLS=y) | 
|  | 716 |  | 
|  | 717 | endmenu | 
| Randy Dunlap | 25fad94 | 2008-02-07 00:15:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 718 | endif # BLOCK | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 719 |  | 
| David Howells | 9361401 | 2006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 720 | if BLOCK | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 721 | menu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems" | 
|  | 722 |  | 
|  | 723 | config FAT_FS | 
|  | 724 | tristate | 
|  | 725 | select NLS | 
|  | 726 | help | 
|  | 727 | If you want to use one of the FAT-based file systems (the MS-DOS and | 
|  | 728 | VFAT (Windows 95) file systems), then you must say Y or M here | 
|  | 729 | to include FAT support. You will then be able to mount partitions or | 
|  | 730 | diskettes with FAT-based file systems and transparently access the | 
|  | 731 | files on them, i.e. MSDOS files will look and behave just like all | 
|  | 732 | other Unix files. | 
|  | 733 |  | 
|  | 734 | This FAT support is not a file system in itself, it only provides | 
|  | 735 | the foundation for the other file systems. You will have to say Y or | 
|  | 736 | M to at least one of "MSDOS fs support" or "VFAT fs support" in | 
|  | 737 | order to make use of it. | 
|  | 738 |  | 
|  | 739 | Another way to read and write MSDOS floppies and hard drive | 
|  | 740 | partitions from within Linux (but not transparently) is with the | 
|  | 741 | mtools ("man mtools") program suite. You don't need to say Y here in | 
|  | 742 | order to do that. | 
|  | 743 |  | 
|  | 744 | If you need to move large files on floppies between a DOS and a | 
|  | 745 | Linux box, say Y here, mount the floppy under Linux with an MSDOS | 
|  | 746 | file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program | 
|  | 747 | available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar"). | 
|  | 748 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 749 | The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure, | 
|  | 750 | say Y. | 
|  | 751 |  | 
|  | 752 | To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called | 
|  | 753 | fat.  Note that if you compile the FAT support as a module, you | 
|  | 754 | cannot compile any of the FAT-based file systems into the kernel | 
|  | 755 | -- they will have to be modules as well. | 
|  | 756 |  | 
|  | 757 | config MSDOS_FS | 
|  | 758 | tristate "MSDOS fs support" | 
|  | 759 | select FAT_FS | 
|  | 760 | help | 
|  | 761 | This allows you to mount MSDOS partitions of your hard drive (unless | 
|  | 762 | they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under | 
|  | 763 | Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the | 
|  | 764 | DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from | 
|  | 765 | <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in | 
|  | 766 | <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you | 
|  | 767 | intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y | 
|  | 768 | here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes | 
|  | 769 | transparent, i.e. the MSDOS files look and behave just like all | 
|  | 770 | other Unix files. | 
|  | 771 |  | 
|  | 772 | If you have Windows 95 or Windows NT installed on your MSDOS | 
|  | 773 | partitions, you should use the VFAT file system (say Y to "VFAT fs | 
|  | 774 | support" below), or you will not be able to see the long filenames | 
|  | 775 | generated by Windows 95 / Windows NT. | 
|  | 776 |  | 
|  | 777 | This option will enlarge your kernel by about 7 KB. If unsure, | 
|  | 778 | answer Y. This will only work if you said Y to "DOS FAT fs support" | 
|  | 779 | as well. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will | 
|  | 780 | be called msdos. | 
|  | 781 |  | 
|  | 782 | config VFAT_FS | 
|  | 783 | tristate "VFAT (Windows-95) fs support" | 
|  | 784 | select FAT_FS | 
|  | 785 | help | 
|  | 786 | This option provides support for normal Windows file systems with | 
|  | 787 | long filenames.  That includes non-compressed FAT-based file systems | 
|  | 788 | used by Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and the Unix | 
|  | 789 | programs from the mtools package. | 
|  | 790 |  | 
|  | 791 | The VFAT support enlarges your kernel by about 10 KB and it only | 
|  | 792 | works if you said Y to the "DOS FAT fs support" above.  Please read | 
|  | 793 | the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for details.  If | 
|  | 794 | unsure, say Y. | 
|  | 795 |  | 
|  | 796 | To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called | 
|  | 797 | vfat. | 
|  | 798 |  | 
|  | 799 | config FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE | 
|  | 800 | int "Default codepage for FAT" | 
|  | 801 | depends on MSDOS_FS || VFAT_FS | 
|  | 802 | default 437 | 
|  | 803 | help | 
|  | 804 | This option should be set to the codepage of your FAT filesystems. | 
|  | 805 | It can be overridden with the "codepage" mount option. | 
|  | 806 | See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information. | 
|  | 807 |  | 
|  | 808 | config FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET | 
|  | 809 | string "Default iocharset for FAT" | 
|  | 810 | depends on VFAT_FS | 
|  | 811 | default "iso8859-1" | 
|  | 812 | help | 
|  | 813 | Set this to the default input/output character set you'd | 
|  | 814 | like FAT to use. It should probably match the character set | 
|  | 815 | that most of your FAT filesystems use, and can be overridden | 
|  | 816 | with the "iocharset" mount option for FAT filesystems. | 
|  | 817 | Note that "utf8" is not recommended for FAT filesystems. | 
|  | 818 | If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here. | 
|  | 819 | See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information. | 
|  | 820 |  | 
|  | 821 | config NTFS_FS | 
|  | 822 | tristate "NTFS file system support" | 
|  | 823 | select NLS | 
|  | 824 | help | 
|  | 825 | NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003. | 
|  | 826 |  | 
|  | 827 | Saying Y or M here enables read support.  There is partial, but | 
|  | 828 | safe, write support available.  For write support you must also | 
|  | 829 | say Y to "NTFS write support" below. | 
|  | 830 |  | 
|  | 831 | There are also a number of user-space tools available, called | 
|  | 832 | ntfsprogs.  These include ntfsundelete and ntfsresize, that work | 
|  | 833 | without NTFS support enabled in the kernel. | 
|  | 834 |  | 
|  | 835 | This is a rewrite from scratch of Linux NTFS support and replaced | 
|  | 836 | the old NTFS code starting with Linux 2.5.11.  A backport to | 
|  | 837 | the Linux 2.4 kernel series is separately available as a patch | 
|  | 838 | from the project web site. | 
|  | 839 |  | 
|  | 840 | For more information see <file:Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt> | 
| Jess Guerrero | 337e2ab | 2008-07-04 09:59:50 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 841 | and <http://www.linux-ntfs.org/>. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 842 |  | 
|  | 843 | To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the | 
|  | 844 | module will be called ntfs. | 
|  | 845 |  | 
|  | 846 | If you are not using Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 in addition to | 
|  | 847 | Linux on your computer it is safe to say N. | 
|  | 848 |  | 
|  | 849 | config NTFS_DEBUG | 
|  | 850 | bool "NTFS debugging support" | 
|  | 851 | depends on NTFS_FS | 
|  | 852 | help | 
|  | 853 | If you are experiencing any problems with the NTFS file system, say | 
|  | 854 | Y here.  This will result in additional consistency checks to be | 
|  | 855 | performed by the driver as well as additional debugging messages to | 
|  | 856 | be written to the system log.  Note that debugging messages are | 
|  | 857 | disabled by default.  To enable them, supply the option debug_msgs=1 | 
|  | 858 | at the kernel command line when booting the kernel or as an option | 
|  | 859 | to insmod when loading the ntfs module.  Once the driver is active, | 
|  | 860 | you can enable debugging messages by doing (as root): | 
|  | 861 | echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug | 
|  | 862 | Replacing the "1" with "0" would disable debug messages. | 
|  | 863 |  | 
|  | 864 | If you leave debugging messages disabled, this results in little | 
|  | 865 | overhead, but enabling debug messages results in very significant | 
|  | 866 | slowdown of the system. | 
|  | 867 |  | 
|  | 868 | When reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of | 
|  | 869 | debugging messages while the misbehaviour was occurring. | 
|  | 870 |  | 
|  | 871 | config NTFS_RW | 
|  | 872 | bool "NTFS write support" | 
|  | 873 | depends on NTFS_FS | 
|  | 874 | help | 
|  | 875 | This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver. | 
|  | 876 |  | 
|  | 877 | The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without | 
|  | 878 | changing the file length.  No file or directory creation, deletion or | 
|  | 879 | renaming is possible.  Note only non-resident files can be written to | 
|  | 880 | so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot | 
|  | 881 | be written to. | 
|  | 882 |  | 
|  | 883 | While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have | 
|  | 884 | so far not received a single report where the driver would have | 
|  | 885 | damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use. | 
|  | 886 |  | 
|  | 887 | Note:  While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from | 
|  | 888 | scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS | 
|  | 889 | write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997), | 
|  | 890 | is not safe. | 
|  | 891 |  | 
|  | 892 | This is currently useful with TopologiLinux.  TopologiLinux is run | 
|  | 893 | on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your | 
|  | 894 | hard disk.  Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not | 
|  | 895 | need its own partition.  For more information see | 
|  | 896 | <http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/> | 
|  | 897 |  | 
|  | 898 | It is perfectly safe to say N here. | 
|  | 899 |  | 
|  | 900 | endmenu | 
| Randy Dunlap | 25fad94 | 2008-02-07 00:15:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 901 | endif # BLOCK | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 902 |  | 
|  | 903 | menu "Pseudo filesystems" | 
|  | 904 |  | 
| Alexey Dobriyan | 6eedf8d | 2008-07-25 01:48:30 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 905 | source "fs/proc/Kconfig" | 
| Eric W. Biederman | b89a817 | 2006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 906 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 907 | config SYSFS | 
|  | 908 | bool "sysfs file system support" if EMBEDDED | 
|  | 909 | default y | 
|  | 910 | help | 
|  | 911 | The sysfs filesystem is a virtual filesystem that the kernel uses to | 
|  | 912 | export internal kernel objects, their attributes, and their | 
|  | 913 | relationships to one another. | 
|  | 914 |  | 
|  | 915 | Users can use sysfs to ascertain useful information about the running | 
|  | 916 | kernel, such as the devices the kernel has discovered on each bus and | 
|  | 917 | which driver each is bound to. sysfs can also be used to tune devices | 
|  | 918 | and other kernel subsystems. | 
|  | 919 |  | 
|  | 920 | Some system agents rely on the information in sysfs to operate. | 
|  | 921 | /sbin/hotplug uses device and object attributes in sysfs to assist in | 
| Jan Engelhardt | 03a67a4 | 2006-11-30 05:32:19 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 922 | delegating policy decisions, like persistently naming devices. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 923 |  | 
|  | 924 | sysfs is currently used by the block subsystem to mount the root | 
|  | 925 | partition.  If sysfs is disabled you must specify the boot device on | 
|  | 926 | the kernel boot command line via its major and minor numbers.  For | 
|  | 927 | example, "root=03:01" for /dev/hda1. | 
|  | 928 |  | 
|  | 929 | Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space. | 
|  | 930 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 931 | config TMPFS | 
|  | 932 | bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)" | 
|  | 933 | help | 
|  | 934 | Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory. | 
|  | 935 |  | 
|  | 936 | Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be | 
|  | 937 | created on your hard drive. The files live in memory and swap | 
|  | 938 | space. If you unmount a tmpfs instance, everything stored therein is | 
|  | 939 | lost. | 
|  | 940 |  | 
|  | 941 | See <file:Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> for details. | 
|  | 942 |  | 
| Andreas Gruenbacher | 39f0247 | 2006-09-29 02:01:35 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 943 | config TMPFS_POSIX_ACL | 
|  | 944 | bool "Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists" | 
|  | 945 | depends on TMPFS | 
|  | 946 | select GENERIC_ACL | 
|  | 947 | help | 
|  | 948 | POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and | 
|  | 949 | groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. | 
|  | 950 |  | 
|  | 951 | To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for | 
|  | 952 | Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. | 
|  | 953 |  | 
|  | 954 | If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N. | 
|  | 955 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 956 | config HUGETLBFS | 
|  | 957 | bool "HugeTLB file system support" | 
| Gerald Schaefer | 53492b1 | 2008-04-30 13:38:46 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 958 | depends on X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || (SUPERH && MMU) || \ | 
|  | 959 | (S390 && 64BIT) || BROKEN | 
| Arthur Othieno | dda27d1 | 2006-04-18 22:20:57 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 960 | help | 
|  | 961 | hugetlbfs is a filesystem backing for HugeTLB pages, based on | 
|  | 962 | ramfs. For architectures that support it, say Y here and read | 
|  | 963 | <file:Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt> for details. | 
|  | 964 |  | 
|  | 965 | If unsure, say N. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 966 |  | 
|  | 967 | config HUGETLB_PAGE | 
|  | 968 | def_bool HUGETLBFS | 
|  | 969 |  | 
| Joel Becker | 7063fbf | 2005-12-15 14:29:43 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 970 | config CONFIGFS_FS | 
| Joel Becker | 02ac049 | 2007-12-31 13:56:47 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 971 | tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem" | 
|  | 972 | depends on SYSFS | 
| Joel Becker | 7063fbf | 2005-12-15 14:29:43 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 973 | help | 
|  | 974 | configfs is a ram-based filesystem that provides the converse | 
|  | 975 | of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based | 
|  | 976 | view of kernel objects, configfs is a filesystem-based manager | 
|  | 977 | of kernel objects, or config_items. | 
|  | 978 |  | 
|  | 979 | Both sysfs and configfs can and should exist together on the | 
|  | 980 | same system. One is not a replacement for the other. | 
|  | 981 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 982 | endmenu | 
|  | 983 |  | 
|  | 984 | menu "Miscellaneous filesystems" | 
|  | 985 |  | 
|  | 986 | config ADFS_FS | 
|  | 987 | tristate "ADFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 
| David Howells | 9361401 | 2006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 988 | depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 989 | help | 
|  | 990 | The Acorn Disc Filing System is the standard file system of the | 
|  | 991 | RiscOS operating system which runs on Acorn's ARM-based Risc PC | 
|  | 992 | systems and the Acorn Archimedes range of machines. If you say Y | 
|  | 993 | here, Linux will be able to read from ADFS partitions on hard drives | 
|  | 994 | and from ADFS-formatted floppy discs. If you also want to be able to | 
|  | 995 | write to those devices, say Y to "ADFS write support" below. | 
|  | 996 |  | 
|  | 997 | The ADFS partition should be the first partition (i.e., | 
|  | 998 | /dev/[hs]d?1) on each of your drives. Please read the file | 
|  | 999 | <file:Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt> for further details. | 
|  | 1000 |  | 
|  | 1001 | To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be | 
|  | 1002 | called adfs. | 
|  | 1003 |  | 
|  | 1004 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 1005 |  | 
|  | 1006 | config ADFS_FS_RW | 
|  | 1007 | bool "ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)" | 
|  | 1008 | depends on ADFS_FS | 
|  | 1009 | help | 
|  | 1010 | If you say Y here, you will be able to write to ADFS partitions on | 
|  | 1011 | hard drives and ADFS-formatted floppy disks. This is experimental | 
|  | 1012 | codes, so if you're unsure, say N. | 
|  | 1013 |  | 
|  | 1014 | config AFFS_FS | 
|  | 1015 | tristate "Amiga FFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 
| David Howells | 9361401 | 2006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1016 | depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1017 | help | 
|  | 1018 | The Fast File System (FFS) is the common file system used on hard | 
|  | 1019 | disks by Amiga(tm) systems since AmigaOS Version 1.3 (34.20).  Say Y | 
|  | 1020 | if you want to be able to read and write files from and to an Amiga | 
|  | 1021 | FFS partition on your hard drive.  Amiga floppies however cannot be | 
|  | 1022 | read with this driver due to an incompatibility of the floppy | 
|  | 1023 | controller used in an Amiga and the standard floppy controller in | 
|  | 1024 | PCs and workstations. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt> | 
|  | 1025 | and <file:fs/affs/Changes>. | 
|  | 1026 |  | 
|  | 1027 | With this driver you can also mount disk files used by Bernd | 
|  | 1028 | Schmidt's Un*X Amiga Emulator | 
|  | 1029 | (<http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/>). | 
|  | 1030 | If you want to do this, you will also need to say Y or M to "Loop | 
|  | 1031 | device support", above. | 
|  | 1032 |  | 
|  | 1033 | To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the | 
|  | 1034 | module will be called affs.  If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 1035 |  | 
| Michael Halcrow | 237fead | 2006-10-04 02:16:22 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1036 | config ECRYPT_FS | 
|  | 1037 | tristate "eCrypt filesystem layer support (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 
| Michael Halcrow | 88b4a07 | 2007-02-12 00:53:43 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1038 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL && KEYS && CRYPTO && NET | 
| Michael Halcrow | 237fead | 2006-10-04 02:16:22 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1039 | help | 
|  | 1040 | Encrypted filesystem that operates on the VFS layer.  See | 
| Dirk Hohndel | e403149 | 2007-10-30 13:37:19 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1041 | <file:Documentation/filesystems/ecryptfs.txt> to learn more about | 
| Michael Halcrow | 237fead | 2006-10-04 02:16:22 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1042 | eCryptfs.  Userspace components are required and can be | 
|  | 1043 | obtained from <http://ecryptfs.sf.net>. | 
|  | 1044 |  | 
|  | 1045 | To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the | 
|  | 1046 | module will be called ecryptfs. | 
|  | 1047 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1048 | config HFS_FS | 
|  | 1049 | tristate "Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 
| David Howells | 9361401 | 2006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1050 | depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL | 
| Lennert Buytenhek | 878129a | 2005-11-07 00:59:18 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1051 | select NLS | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1052 | help | 
|  | 1053 | If you say Y here, you will be able to mount Macintosh-formatted | 
|  | 1054 | floppy disks and hard drive partitions with full read-write access. | 
| Johann Felix Soden | 889c94a | 2008-01-20 14:41:18 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1055 | Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/hfs.txt> to learn about | 
|  | 1056 | the available mount options. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1057 |  | 
|  | 1058 | To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the | 
|  | 1059 | module will be called hfs. | 
|  | 1060 |  | 
|  | 1061 | config HFSPLUS_FS | 
|  | 1062 | tristate "Apple Extended HFS file system support" | 
| David Howells | 9361401 | 2006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1063 | depends on BLOCK | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1064 | select NLS | 
|  | 1065 | select NLS_UTF8 | 
|  | 1066 | help | 
|  | 1067 | If you say Y here, you will be able to mount extended format | 
|  | 1068 | Macintosh-formatted hard drive partitions with full read-write access. | 
|  | 1069 |  | 
|  | 1070 | This file system is often called HFS+ and was introduced with | 
|  | 1071 | MacOS 8. It includes all Mac specific filesystem data such as | 
|  | 1072 | data forks and creator codes, but it also has several UNIX | 
|  | 1073 | style features such as file ownership and permissions. | 
|  | 1074 |  | 
|  | 1075 | config BEFS_FS | 
|  | 1076 | tristate "BeOS file system (BeFS) support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 
| David Howells | 9361401 | 2006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1077 | depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1078 | select NLS | 
|  | 1079 | help | 
|  | 1080 | The BeOS File System (BeFS) is the native file system of Be, Inc's | 
|  | 1081 | BeOS. Notable features include support for arbitrary attributes | 
| Matt LaPlante | 3cb2fcc | 2006-11-30 05:22:59 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1082 | on files and directories, and database-like indices on selected | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1083 | attributes. (Also note that this driver doesn't make those features | 
|  | 1084 | available at this time). It is a 64 bit filesystem, so it supports | 
| Matt LaPlante | 44c0920 | 2006-10-03 22:34:14 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1085 | extremely large volumes and files. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1086 |  | 
|  | 1087 | If you use this filesystem, you should also say Y to at least one | 
|  | 1088 | of the NLS (native language support) options below. | 
|  | 1089 |  | 
|  | 1090 | If you don't know what this is about, say N. | 
|  | 1091 |  | 
|  | 1092 | To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be | 
|  | 1093 | called befs. | 
|  | 1094 |  | 
|  | 1095 | config BEFS_DEBUG | 
|  | 1096 | bool "Debug BeFS" | 
|  | 1097 | depends on BEFS_FS | 
|  | 1098 | help | 
|  | 1099 | If you say Y here, you can use the 'debug' mount option to enable | 
| Andrew Morton | c773633 | 2008-02-05 14:22:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1100 | debugging output from the driver. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1101 |  | 
|  | 1102 | config BFS_FS | 
|  | 1103 | tristate "BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 
| David Howells | 9361401 | 2006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1104 | depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1105 | help | 
|  | 1106 | Boot File System (BFS) is a file system used under SCO UnixWare to | 
|  | 1107 | allow the bootloader access to the kernel image and other important | 
|  | 1108 | files during the boot process.  It is usually mounted under /stand | 
|  | 1109 | and corresponds to the slice marked as "STAND" in the UnixWare | 
|  | 1110 | partition.  You should say Y if you want to read or write the files | 
|  | 1111 | on your /stand slice from within Linux.  You then also need to say Y | 
|  | 1112 | to "UnixWare slices support", below.  More information about the BFS | 
|  | 1113 | file system is contained in the file | 
|  | 1114 | <file:Documentation/filesystems/bfs.txt>. | 
|  | 1115 |  | 
|  | 1116 | If you don't know what this is about, say N. | 
|  | 1117 |  | 
|  | 1118 | To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called | 
|  | 1119 | bfs.  Note that the file system of your root partition (the one | 
|  | 1120 | containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module. | 
|  | 1121 |  | 
|  | 1122 |  | 
|  | 1123 |  | 
|  | 1124 | config EFS_FS | 
|  | 1125 | tristate "EFS file system support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 
| David Howells | 9361401 | 2006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1126 | depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1127 | help | 
|  | 1128 | EFS is an older file system used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and hard | 
|  | 1129 | disk partitions by SGI's IRIX operating system (IRIX 6.0 and newer | 
|  | 1130 | uses the XFS file system for hard disk partitions however). | 
|  | 1131 |  | 
|  | 1132 | This implementation only offers read-only access. If you don't know | 
|  | 1133 | what all this is about, it's safe to say N. For more information | 
|  | 1134 | about EFS see its home page at <http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/>. | 
|  | 1135 |  | 
|  | 1136 | To compile the EFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the | 
|  | 1137 | module will be called efs. | 
|  | 1138 |  | 
| Alexey Dobriyan | 31db6e9 | 2008-08-29 07:19:50 +0400 | [diff] [blame^] | 1139 | source "fs/jffs2/Kconfig" | 
| Artem Bityutskiy | 0d7eff8 | 2008-07-14 19:08:38 +0300 | [diff] [blame] | 1140 | # UBIFS File system configuration | 
|  | 1141 | source "fs/ubifs/Kconfig" | 
|  | 1142 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1143 | config CRAMFS | 
|  | 1144 | tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)" | 
| David Howells | 9361401 | 2006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1145 | depends on BLOCK | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1146 | select ZLIB_INFLATE | 
|  | 1147 | help | 
|  | 1148 | Saying Y here includes support for CramFs (Compressed ROM File | 
|  | 1149 | System).  CramFs is designed to be a simple, small, and compressed | 
|  | 1150 | file system for ROM based embedded systems.  CramFs is read-only, | 
|  | 1151 | limited to 256MB file systems (with 16MB files), and doesn't support | 
|  | 1152 | 16/32 bits uid/gid, hard links and timestamps. | 
|  | 1153 |  | 
|  | 1154 | See <file:Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt> and | 
|  | 1155 | <file:fs/cramfs/README> for further information. | 
|  | 1156 |  | 
|  | 1157 | To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called | 
|  | 1158 | cramfs.  Note that the root file system (the one containing the | 
|  | 1159 | directory /) cannot be compiled as a module. | 
|  | 1160 |  | 
|  | 1161 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 1162 |  | 
|  | 1163 | config VXFS_FS | 
|  | 1164 | tristate "FreeVxFS file system support (VERITAS VxFS(TM) compatible)" | 
| David Howells | 9361401 | 2006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1165 | depends on BLOCK | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1166 | help | 
|  | 1167 | FreeVxFS is a file system driver that support the VERITAS VxFS(TM) | 
|  | 1168 | file system format.  VERITAS VxFS(TM) is the standard file system | 
|  | 1169 | of SCO UnixWare (and possibly others) and optionally available | 
|  | 1170 | for Sunsoft Solaris, HP-UX and many other operating systems. | 
|  | 1171 | Currently only readonly access is supported. | 
|  | 1172 |  | 
|  | 1173 | NOTE: the file system type as used by mount(1), mount(2) and | 
|  | 1174 | fstab(5) is 'vxfs' as it describes the file system format, not | 
|  | 1175 | the actual driver. | 
|  | 1176 |  | 
|  | 1177 | To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be | 
|  | 1178 | called freevxfs.  If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 1179 |  | 
| Randy Dunlap | 25fad94 | 2008-02-07 00:15:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1180 | config MINIX_FS | 
|  | 1181 | tristate "Minix file system support" | 
|  | 1182 | depends on BLOCK | 
|  | 1183 | help | 
|  | 1184 | Minix is a simple operating system used in many classes about OS's. | 
|  | 1185 | The minix file system (method to organize files on a hard disk | 
|  | 1186 | partition or a floppy disk) was the original file system for Linux, | 
|  | 1187 | but has been superseded by the second extended file system ext2fs. | 
|  | 1188 | You don't want to use the minix file system on your hard disk | 
|  | 1189 | because of certain built-in restrictions, but it is sometimes found | 
|  | 1190 | on older Linux floppy disks.  This option will enlarge your kernel | 
|  | 1191 | by about 28 KB. If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 1192 |  | 
|  | 1193 | To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the | 
|  | 1194 | module will be called minix.  Note that the file system of your root | 
|  | 1195 | partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as | 
|  | 1196 | a module. | 
|  | 1197 |  | 
| Bob Copeland | 63ca8ce | 2008-07-25 19:45:17 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1198 | config OMFS_FS | 
|  | 1199 | tristate "SonicBlue Optimized MPEG File System support" | 
|  | 1200 | depends on BLOCK | 
|  | 1201 | select CRC_ITU_T | 
|  | 1202 | help | 
|  | 1203 | This is the proprietary file system used by the Rio Karma music | 
|  | 1204 | player and ReplayTV DVR.  Despite the name, this filesystem is not | 
|  | 1205 | more efficient than a standard FS for MPEG files, in fact likely | 
|  | 1206 | the opposite is true.  Say Y if you have either of these devices | 
|  | 1207 | and wish to mount its disk. | 
|  | 1208 |  | 
|  | 1209 | To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the | 
|  | 1210 | module will be called omfs.  If unsure, say N. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1211 |  | 
|  | 1212 | config HPFS_FS | 
|  | 1213 | tristate "OS/2 HPFS file system support" | 
| David Howells | 9361401 | 2006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1214 | depends on BLOCK | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1215 | help | 
|  | 1216 | OS/2 is IBM's operating system for PC's, the same as Warp, and HPFS | 
|  | 1217 | is the file system used for organizing files on OS/2 hard disk | 
|  | 1218 | partitions. Say Y if you want to be able to read files from and | 
|  | 1219 | write files to an OS/2 HPFS partition on your hard drive. OS/2 | 
|  | 1220 | floppies however are in regular MSDOS format, so you don't need this | 
|  | 1221 | option in order to be able to read them. Read | 
|  | 1222 | <file:Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt>. | 
|  | 1223 |  | 
|  | 1224 | To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the | 
|  | 1225 | module will be called hpfs.  If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 1226 |  | 
|  | 1227 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1228 | config QNX4FS_FS | 
|  | 1229 | tristate "QNX4 file system support (read only)" | 
| David Howells | 9361401 | 2006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1230 | depends on BLOCK | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1231 | help | 
|  | 1232 | This is the file system used by the real-time operating systems | 
|  | 1233 | QNX 4 and QNX 6 (the latter is also called QNX RTP). | 
|  | 1234 | Further information is available at <http://www.qnx.com/>. | 
|  | 1235 | Say Y if you intend to mount QNX hard disks or floppies. | 
|  | 1236 | Unless you say Y to "QNX4FS read-write support" below, you will | 
|  | 1237 | only be able to read these file systems. | 
|  | 1238 |  | 
|  | 1239 | To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the | 
|  | 1240 | module will be called qnx4. | 
|  | 1241 |  | 
|  | 1242 | If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it: | 
|  | 1243 | answer N. | 
|  | 1244 |  | 
|  | 1245 | config QNX4FS_RW | 
|  | 1246 | bool "QNX4FS write support (DANGEROUS)" | 
|  | 1247 | depends on QNX4FS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN | 
|  | 1248 | help | 
|  | 1249 | Say Y if you want to test write support for QNX4 file systems. | 
|  | 1250 |  | 
|  | 1251 | It's currently broken, so for now: | 
|  | 1252 | answer N. | 
|  | 1253 |  | 
| Randy Dunlap | 25fad94 | 2008-02-07 00:15:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1254 | config ROMFS_FS | 
|  | 1255 | tristate "ROM file system support" | 
|  | 1256 | depends on BLOCK | 
|  | 1257 | ---help--- | 
|  | 1258 | This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for | 
|  | 1259 | initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for | 
|  | 1260 | other read-only media as well.  Read | 
|  | 1261 | <file:Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt> for details. | 
|  | 1262 |  | 
|  | 1263 | To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the | 
|  | 1264 | module will be called romfs.  Note that the file system of your | 
|  | 1265 | root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a | 
|  | 1266 | module. | 
|  | 1267 |  | 
|  | 1268 | If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it: | 
|  | 1269 | answer N. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1270 |  | 
|  | 1271 |  | 
|  | 1272 | config SYSV_FS | 
|  | 1273 | tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support" | 
| David Howells | 9361401 | 2006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1274 | depends on BLOCK | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1275 | help | 
|  | 1276 | SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel | 
|  | 1277 | machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y | 
|  | 1278 | here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk | 
|  | 1279 | partitions. | 
|  | 1280 |  | 
|  | 1281 | If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely | 
|  | 1282 | that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order | 
| Matt LaPlante | cab0089 | 2006-10-03 22:36:44 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1283 | to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1284 | a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse, | 
|  | 1285 | UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux.  It is | 
|  | 1286 | available via FTP (user: ftp) from | 
|  | 1287 | <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>). | 
|  | 1288 | NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems; | 
|  | 1289 | PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-) | 
|  | 1290 |  | 
|  | 1291 | If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the | 
|  | 1292 | network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support | 
|  | 1293 | (but you need NFS file system support obviously). | 
|  | 1294 |  | 
|  | 1295 | Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a | 
|  | 1296 | good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes | 
|  | 1297 | (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man | 
|  | 1298 | tar" or preferably "info tar").  Note also that this option has | 
|  | 1299 | nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about | 
|  | 1300 | the System V file system in | 
|  | 1301 | <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>. | 
|  | 1302 | Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB. | 
|  | 1303 |  | 
|  | 1304 | To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called | 
|  | 1305 | sysv. | 
|  | 1306 |  | 
|  | 1307 | If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. | 
|  | 1308 |  | 
|  | 1309 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1310 | config UFS_FS | 
|  | 1311 | tristate "UFS file system support (read only)" | 
| David Howells | 9361401 | 2006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1312 | depends on BLOCK | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1313 | help | 
|  | 1314 | BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, | 
|  | 1315 | OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a file system called UFS. Some System V | 
|  | 1316 | Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using | 
|  | 1317 | this file system as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from | 
|  | 1318 | these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the | 
|  | 1319 | experimental "UFS file system write support", below. Please read the | 
|  | 1320 | file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt> for more information. | 
|  | 1321 |  | 
|  | 1322 | The recently released UFS2 variant (used in FreeBSD 5.x) is | 
|  | 1323 | READ-ONLY supported. | 
|  | 1324 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1325 | Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a | 
|  | 1326 | good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes | 
|  | 1327 | (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man | 
|  | 1328 | tar" or preferably "info tar"). | 
|  | 1329 |  | 
|  | 1330 | When accessing NeXTstep files, you may need to convert them from the | 
|  | 1331 | NeXT character set to the Latin1 character set; use the program | 
|  | 1332 | recode ("info recode") for this purpose. | 
|  | 1333 |  | 
|  | 1334 | To compile the UFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the | 
|  | 1335 | module will be called ufs. | 
|  | 1336 |  | 
|  | 1337 | If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. | 
|  | 1338 |  | 
|  | 1339 | config UFS_FS_WRITE | 
|  | 1340 | bool "UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS)" | 
| Evgeniy Dushistov | 5afb314 | 2006-06-25 05:47:24 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1341 | depends on UFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1342 | help | 
|  | 1343 | Say Y here if you want to try writing to UFS partitions. This is | 
|  | 1344 | experimental, so you should back up your UFS partitions beforehand. | 
|  | 1345 |  | 
| Evgeniy Dushistov | abf5d15 | 2006-06-25 05:47:24 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1346 | config UFS_DEBUG | 
|  | 1347 | bool "UFS debugging" | 
|  | 1348 | depends on UFS_FS | 
|  | 1349 | help | 
|  | 1350 | If you are experiencing any problems with the UFS filesystem, say | 
|  | 1351 | Y here.  This will result in _many_ additional debugging messages to be | 
|  | 1352 | written to the system log. | 
|  | 1353 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1354 | endmenu | 
|  | 1355 |  | 
| Jan Engelhardt | ea0985a | 2007-10-16 23:30:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1356 | menuconfig NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS | 
|  | 1357 | bool "Network File Systems" | 
|  | 1358 | default y | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1359 | depends on NET | 
| Jan Engelhardt | ea0985a | 2007-10-16 23:30:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1360 | ---help--- | 
|  | 1361 | Say Y here to get to see options for network filesystems and | 
|  | 1362 | filesystem-related networking code, such as NFS daemon and | 
|  | 1363 | RPCSEC security modules. | 
| Chuck Lever | 6fb1bc1 | 2008-05-21 17:09:04 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1364 |  | 
| Jan Engelhardt | ea0985a | 2007-10-16 23:30:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1365 | This option alone does not add any kernel code. | 
|  | 1366 |  | 
|  | 1367 | If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and | 
|  | 1368 | disabled; if unsure, say Y here. | 
|  | 1369 |  | 
|  | 1370 | if NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1371 |  | 
|  | 1372 | config NFS_FS | 
| Chuck Lever | 6fb1bc1 | 2008-05-21 17:09:04 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1373 | tristate "NFS client support" | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1374 | depends on INET | 
|  | 1375 | select LOCKD | 
|  | 1376 | select SUNRPC | 
| Andreas Gruenbacher | b7fa055 | 2005-06-22 17:16:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1377 | select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFS_V3_ACL | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1378 | help | 
| Chuck Lever | 6fb1bc1 | 2008-05-21 17:09:04 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1379 | Choose Y here if you want to access files residing on other | 
|  | 1380 | computers using Sun's Network File System protocol.  To compile | 
|  | 1381 | this file system support as a module, choose M here: the module | 
|  | 1382 | will be called nfs. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1383 |  | 
| Chuck Lever | 6fb1bc1 | 2008-05-21 17:09:04 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1384 | To mount file systems exported by NFS servers, you also need to | 
|  | 1385 | install the user space mount.nfs command which can be found in | 
|  | 1386 | the Linux nfs-utils package, available from http://linux-nfs.org/. | 
|  | 1387 | Information about using the mount command is available in the | 
|  | 1388 | mount(8) man page.  More detail about the Linux NFS client | 
|  | 1389 | implementation is available via the nfs(5) man page. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1390 |  | 
| Chuck Lever | 6fb1bc1 | 2008-05-21 17:09:04 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1391 | Below you can choose which versions of the NFS protocol are | 
|  | 1392 | available in the kernel to mount NFS servers.  Support for NFS | 
|  | 1393 | version 2 (RFC 1094) is always available when NFS_FS is selected. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1394 |  | 
| Chuck Lever | 6fb1bc1 | 2008-05-21 17:09:04 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1395 | To configure a system which mounts its root file system via NFS | 
|  | 1396 | at boot time, say Y here, select "Kernel level IP | 
|  | 1397 | autoconfiguration" in the NETWORK menu, and select "Root file | 
|  | 1398 | system on NFS" below.  You cannot compile this file system as a | 
|  | 1399 | module in this case. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1400 |  | 
| Chuck Lever | 6fb1bc1 | 2008-05-21 17:09:04 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1401 | If unsure, say N. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1402 |  | 
|  | 1403 | config NFS_V3 | 
| Chuck Lever | 6fb1bc1 | 2008-05-21 17:09:04 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1404 | bool "NFS client support for NFS version 3" | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1405 | depends on NFS_FS | 
|  | 1406 | help | 
| Chuck Lever | 6fb1bc1 | 2008-05-21 17:09:04 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1407 | This option enables support for version 3 of the NFS protocol | 
|  | 1408 | (RFC 1813) in the kernel's NFS client. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1409 |  | 
|  | 1410 | If unsure, say Y. | 
|  | 1411 |  | 
| Andreas Gruenbacher | b7fa055 | 2005-06-22 17:16:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1412 | config NFS_V3_ACL | 
| Chuck Lever | 6fb1bc1 | 2008-05-21 17:09:04 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1413 | bool "NFS client support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension" | 
| Andreas Gruenbacher | b7fa055 | 2005-06-22 17:16:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1414 | depends on NFS_V3 | 
|  | 1415 | help | 
| Chuck Lever | 6fb1bc1 | 2008-05-21 17:09:04 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1416 | Some NFS servers support an auxiliary NFSv3 ACL protocol that | 
|  | 1417 | Sun added to Solaris but never became an official part of the | 
|  | 1418 | NFS version 3 protocol.  This protocol extension allows | 
|  | 1419 | applications on NFS clients to manipulate POSIX Access Control | 
|  | 1420 | Lists on files residing on NFS servers.  NFS servers enforce | 
|  | 1421 | ACLs on local files whether this protocol is available or not. | 
|  | 1422 |  | 
|  | 1423 | Choose Y here if your NFS server supports the Solaris NFSv3 ACL | 
|  | 1424 | protocol extension and you want your NFS client to allow | 
|  | 1425 | applications to access and modify ACLs on files on the server. | 
|  | 1426 |  | 
|  | 1427 | Most NFS servers don't support the Solaris NFSv3 ACL protocol | 
|  | 1428 | extension.  You can choose N here or specify the "noacl" mount | 
|  | 1429 | option to prevent your NFS client from trying to use the NFSv3 | 
|  | 1430 | ACL protocol. | 
| Andreas Gruenbacher | b7fa055 | 2005-06-22 17:16:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1431 |  | 
|  | 1432 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 1433 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1434 | config NFS_V4 | 
| Chuck Lever | 6fb1bc1 | 2008-05-21 17:09:04 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1435 | bool "NFS client support for NFS version 4 (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1436 | depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL | 
|  | 1437 | select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 | 
|  | 1438 | help | 
| Chuck Lever | 6fb1bc1 | 2008-05-21 17:09:04 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1439 | This option enables support for version 4 of the NFS protocol | 
|  | 1440 | (RFC 3530) in the kernel's NFS client. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1441 |  | 
| Chuck Lever | 6fb1bc1 | 2008-05-21 17:09:04 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1442 | To mount NFS servers using NFSv4, you also need to install user | 
|  | 1443 | space programs which can be found in the Linux nfs-utils package, | 
|  | 1444 | available from http://linux-nfs.org/. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1445 |  | 
|  | 1446 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 1447 |  | 
| Chuck Lever | 6fb1bc1 | 2008-05-21 17:09:04 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1448 | config ROOT_NFS | 
|  | 1449 | bool "Root file system on NFS" | 
|  | 1450 | depends on NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP | 
|  | 1451 | help | 
|  | 1452 | If you want your system to mount its root file system via NFS, | 
|  | 1453 | choose Y here.  This is common practice for managing systems | 
|  | 1454 | without local permanent storage.  For details, read | 
|  | 1455 | <file:Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt>. | 
|  | 1456 |  | 
|  | 1457 | Most people say N here. | 
|  | 1458 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1459 | config NFSD | 
|  | 1460 | tristate "NFS server support" | 
|  | 1461 | depends on INET | 
|  | 1462 | select LOCKD | 
|  | 1463 | select SUNRPC | 
|  | 1464 | select EXPORTFS | 
| Herbert Xu | f05e15b | 2006-06-26 00:25:39 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1465 | select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFSD_V2_ACL | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1466 | help | 
| Chuck Lever | d24455b | 2008-02-11 17:11:54 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1467 | Choose Y here if you want to allow other computers to access | 
|  | 1468 | files residing on this system using Sun's Network File System | 
|  | 1469 | protocol.  To compile the NFS server support as a module, | 
|  | 1470 | choose M here: the module will be called nfsd. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1471 |  | 
| Chuck Lever | d24455b | 2008-02-11 17:11:54 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1472 | You may choose to use a user-space NFS server instead, in which | 
|  | 1473 | case you can choose N here. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1474 |  | 
| Chuck Lever | d24455b | 2008-02-11 17:11:54 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1475 | To export local file systems using NFS, you also need to install | 
|  | 1476 | user space programs which can be found in the Linux nfs-utils | 
|  | 1477 | package, available from http://linux-nfs.org/.  More detail about | 
|  | 1478 | the Linux NFS server implementation is available via the | 
|  | 1479 | exports(5) man page. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1480 |  | 
| Chuck Lever | d24455b | 2008-02-11 17:11:54 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1481 | Below you can choose which versions of the NFS protocol are | 
|  | 1482 | available to clients mounting the NFS server on this system. | 
|  | 1483 | Support for NFS version 2 (RFC 1094) is always available when | 
|  | 1484 | CONFIG_NFSD is selected. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1485 |  | 
| Chuck Lever | d24455b | 2008-02-11 17:11:54 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1486 | If unsure, say N. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1487 |  | 
| Andreas Gruenbacher | a257cdd | 2005-06-22 17:16:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1488 | config NFSD_V2_ACL | 
|  | 1489 | bool | 
|  | 1490 | depends on NFSD | 
|  | 1491 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1492 | config NFSD_V3 | 
| Chuck Lever | d24455b | 2008-02-11 17:11:54 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1493 | bool "NFS server support for NFS version 3" | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1494 | depends on NFSD | 
|  | 1495 | help | 
| Chuck Lever | d24455b | 2008-02-11 17:11:54 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1496 | This option enables support in your system's NFS server for | 
|  | 1497 | version 3 of the NFS protocol (RFC 1813). | 
|  | 1498 |  | 
|  | 1499 | If unsure, say Y. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1500 |  | 
| Andreas Gruenbacher | a257cdd | 2005-06-22 17:16:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1501 | config NFSD_V3_ACL | 
| Chuck Lever | d24455b | 2008-02-11 17:11:54 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1502 | bool "NFS server support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension" | 
| Andreas Gruenbacher | a257cdd | 2005-06-22 17:16:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1503 | depends on NFSD_V3 | 
| Chuck Lever | 78dd099 | 2008-02-11 17:12:31 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1504 | select NFSD_V2_ACL | 
| Andreas Gruenbacher | a257cdd | 2005-06-22 17:16:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1505 | help | 
| Chuck Lever | d24455b | 2008-02-11 17:11:54 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1506 | Solaris NFS servers support an auxiliary NFSv3 ACL protocol that | 
|  | 1507 | never became an official part of the NFS version 3 protocol. | 
|  | 1508 | This protocol extension allows applications on NFS clients to | 
|  | 1509 | manipulate POSIX Access Control Lists on files residing on NFS | 
|  | 1510 | servers.  NFS servers enforce POSIX ACLs on local files whether | 
|  | 1511 | this protocol is available or not. | 
|  | 1512 |  | 
|  | 1513 | This option enables support in your system's NFS server for the | 
|  | 1514 | NFSv3 ACL protocol extension allowing NFS clients to manipulate | 
|  | 1515 | POSIX ACLs on files exported by your system's NFS server.  NFS | 
|  | 1516 | clients which support the Solaris NFSv3 ACL protocol can then | 
|  | 1517 | access and modify ACLs on your NFS server. | 
|  | 1518 |  | 
|  | 1519 | To store ACLs on your NFS server, you also need to enable ACL- | 
|  | 1520 | related CONFIG options for your local file systems of choice. | 
|  | 1521 |  | 
|  | 1522 | If unsure, say N. | 
| Andreas Gruenbacher | a257cdd | 2005-06-22 17:16:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1523 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1524 | config NFSD_V4 | 
| Chuck Lever | d24455b | 2008-02-11 17:11:54 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1525 | bool "NFS server support for NFS version 4 (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 
| Chuck Lever | 1a448fd | 2008-03-27 16:34:54 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1526 | depends on NFSD && PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL | 
|  | 1527 | select NFSD_V3 | 
| Chuck Lever | 8920695 | 2008-02-11 17:12:24 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1528 | select FS_POSIX_ACL | 
| J. Bruce Fields | 42ed95c | 2007-07-17 04:04:41 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1529 | select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1530 | help | 
| Chuck Lever | d24455b | 2008-02-11 17:11:54 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1531 | This option enables support in your system's NFS server for | 
|  | 1532 | version 4 of the NFS protocol (RFC 3530). | 
|  | 1533 |  | 
|  | 1534 | To export files using NFSv4, you need to install additional user | 
|  | 1535 | space programs which can be found in the Linux nfs-utils package, | 
|  | 1536 | available from http://linux-nfs.org/. | 
|  | 1537 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1538 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 1539 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1540 | config LOCKD | 
|  | 1541 | tristate | 
|  | 1542 |  | 
|  | 1543 | config LOCKD_V4 | 
|  | 1544 | bool | 
|  | 1545 | depends on NFSD_V3 || NFS_V3 | 
|  | 1546 | default y | 
|  | 1547 |  | 
|  | 1548 | config EXPORTFS | 
|  | 1549 | tristate | 
|  | 1550 |  | 
| Andreas Gruenbacher | a257cdd | 2005-06-22 17:16:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1551 | config NFS_ACL_SUPPORT | 
|  | 1552 | tristate | 
|  | 1553 | select FS_POSIX_ACL | 
|  | 1554 |  | 
|  | 1555 | config NFS_COMMON | 
|  | 1556 | bool | 
|  | 1557 | depends on NFSD || NFS_FS | 
|  | 1558 | default y | 
|  | 1559 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1560 | config SUNRPC | 
|  | 1561 | tristate | 
|  | 1562 |  | 
|  | 1563 | config SUNRPC_GSS | 
|  | 1564 | tristate | 
|  | 1565 |  | 
| \"Talpey, Thomas\ | c3a57ed | 2007-09-10 13:49:15 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1566 | config SUNRPC_XPRT_RDMA | 
| James Lentini | 3211e4e | 2008-01-28 12:09:28 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1567 | tristate | 
| \"Talpey, Thomas\ | 113632d | 2007-09-20 17:37:58 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1568 | depends on SUNRPC && INFINIBAND && EXPERIMENTAL | 
| James Lentini | 3211e4e | 2008-01-28 12:09:28 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1569 | default SUNRPC && INFINIBAND | 
| Chuck Lever | 327a299 | 2008-03-14 14:15:11 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1570 | help | 
|  | 1571 | This option enables an RPC client transport capability that | 
|  | 1572 | allows the NFS client to mount servers via an RDMA-enabled | 
|  | 1573 | transport. | 
|  | 1574 |  | 
|  | 1575 | To compile RPC client RDMA transport support as a module, | 
|  | 1576 | choose M here: the module will be called xprtrdma. | 
|  | 1577 |  | 
|  | 1578 | If unsure, say N. | 
| \"Talpey, Thomas\ | c3a57ed | 2007-09-10 13:49:15 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1579 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1580 | config RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 | 
|  | 1581 | tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 
|  | 1582 | depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL | 
|  | 1583 | select SUNRPC_GSS | 
|  | 1584 | select CRYPTO | 
|  | 1585 | select CRYPTO_MD5 | 
|  | 1586 | select CRYPTO_DES | 
| Patrick McHardy | bcbaecb | 2006-10-25 16:49:36 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 1587 | select CRYPTO_CBC | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1588 | help | 
| Chuck Lever | 327a299 | 2008-03-14 14:15:11 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1589 | Choose Y here to enable Secure RPC using the Kerberos version 5 | 
|  | 1590 | GSS-API mechanism (RFC 1964). | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1591 |  | 
| Chuck Lever | 327a299 | 2008-03-14 14:15:11 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1592 | Secure RPC calls with Kerberos require an auxiliary user-space | 
|  | 1593 | daemon which may be found in the Linux nfs-utils package | 
|  | 1594 | available from http://linux-nfs.org/.  In addition, user-space | 
|  | 1595 | Kerberos support should be installed. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1596 |  | 
|  | 1597 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 1598 |  | 
|  | 1599 | config RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3 | 
|  | 1600 | tristate "Secure RPC: SPKM3 mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 
|  | 1601 | depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL | 
|  | 1602 | select SUNRPC_GSS | 
|  | 1603 | select CRYPTO | 
|  | 1604 | select CRYPTO_MD5 | 
|  | 1605 | select CRYPTO_DES | 
| J. Bruce Fields | df6db30 | 2006-03-20 23:25:10 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1606 | select CRYPTO_CAST5 | 
| Patrick McHardy | bcbaecb | 2006-10-25 16:49:36 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 1607 | select CRYPTO_CBC | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1608 | help | 
| Chuck Lever | 327a299 | 2008-03-14 14:15:11 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1609 | Choose Y here to enable Secure RPC using the SPKM3 public key | 
|  | 1610 | GSS-API mechansim (RFC 2025). | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1611 |  | 
| Chuck Lever | 327a299 | 2008-03-14 14:15:11 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1612 | Secure RPC calls with SPKM3 require an auxiliary userspace | 
|  | 1613 | daemon which may be found in the Linux nfs-utils package | 
|  | 1614 | available from http://linux-nfs.org/. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1615 |  | 
|  | 1616 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 1617 |  | 
|  | 1618 | config SMB_FS | 
| Andrew Morton | c773633 | 2008-02-05 14:22:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1619 | tristate "SMB file system support (OBSOLETE, please use CIFS)" | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1620 | depends on INET | 
|  | 1621 | select NLS | 
|  | 1622 | help | 
|  | 1623 | SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Windows for Workgroups | 
|  | 1624 | (WfW), Windows 95/98, Windows NT and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share | 
|  | 1625 | files and printers over local networks.  Saying Y here allows you to | 
|  | 1626 | mount their file systems (often called "shares" in this context) and | 
|  | 1627 | access them just like any other Unix directory.  Currently, this | 
|  | 1628 | works only if the Windows machines use TCP/IP as the underlying | 
|  | 1629 | transport protocol, and not NetBEUI.  For details, read | 
|  | 1630 | <file:Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt> and the SMB-HOWTO, | 
|  | 1631 | available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. | 
|  | 1632 |  | 
|  | 1633 | Note: if you just want your box to act as an SMB *server* and make | 
|  | 1634 | files and printing services available to Windows clients (which need | 
|  | 1635 | to have a TCP/IP stack), you don't need to say Y here; you can use | 
|  | 1636 | the program SAMBA (available from <ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/>) | 
|  | 1637 | for that. | 
|  | 1638 |  | 
|  | 1639 | General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and | 
|  | 1640 | Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>. | 
|  | 1641 |  | 
| Andrew Morton | c773633 | 2008-02-05 14:22:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1642 | To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here: | 
|  | 1643 | the module will be called smbfs.  Most people say N, however. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1644 |  | 
|  | 1645 | config SMB_NLS_DEFAULT | 
|  | 1646 | bool "Use a default NLS" | 
|  | 1647 | depends on SMB_FS | 
|  | 1648 | help | 
|  | 1649 | Enabling this will make smbfs use nls translations by default. You | 
|  | 1650 | need to specify the local charset (CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT) in the nls | 
|  | 1651 | settings and you need to give the default nls for the SMB server as | 
|  | 1652 | CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE. | 
|  | 1653 |  | 
|  | 1654 | The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount | 
|  | 1655 | supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters. | 
|  | 1656 |  | 
|  | 1657 | smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this. | 
|  | 1658 |  | 
|  | 1659 | config SMB_NLS_REMOTE | 
|  | 1660 | string "Default Remote NLS Option" | 
|  | 1661 | depends on SMB_NLS_DEFAULT | 
|  | 1662 | default "cp437" | 
|  | 1663 | help | 
|  | 1664 | This setting allows you to specify a default value for which | 
|  | 1665 | codepage the server uses. If this field is left blank no | 
|  | 1666 | translations will be done by default. The local codepage/charset | 
|  | 1667 | default to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT. | 
|  | 1668 |  | 
|  | 1669 | The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount | 
|  | 1670 | supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters. | 
|  | 1671 |  | 
|  | 1672 | smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this. | 
|  | 1673 |  | 
|  | 1674 | config CIFS | 
| Andrew Morton | c773633 | 2008-02-05 14:22:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1675 | tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem, SMBFS successor)" | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1676 | depends on INET | 
|  | 1677 | select NLS | 
|  | 1678 | help | 
|  | 1679 | This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System | 
|  | 1680 | (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block | 
|  | 1681 | (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early | 
|  | 1682 | PC operating systems.  The CIFS protocol is fully supported by | 
|  | 1683 | file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4 | 
|  | 1684 | and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS | 
| Steve French | ec58ef0 | 2005-11-04 09:44:33 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1685 | server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited | 
| Steve French | 6103335 | 2008-01-09 16:21:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1686 | support for OS/2 and Windows ME and similar servers is provided as | 
|  | 1687 | well. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1688 |  | 
| Steve French | 6103335 | 2008-01-09 16:21:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1689 | The cifs module provides an advanced network file system | 
|  | 1690 | client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers.  It includes | 
|  | 1691 | support for DFS (hierarchical name space), secure per-user | 
|  | 1692 | session establishment via Kerberos or NTLM or NTLMv2, | 
|  | 1693 | safe distributed caching (oplock), optional packet | 
|  | 1694 | signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements. | 
| Steve French | 8af1897 | 2007-02-14 04:42:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1695 | If you need to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1696 |  | 
|  | 1697 | config CIFS_STATS | 
|  | 1698 | bool "CIFS statistics" | 
|  | 1699 | depends on CIFS | 
|  | 1700 | help | 
|  | 1701 | Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share | 
|  | 1702 | mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats | 
|  | 1703 |  | 
| Steve French | ec58ef0 | 2005-11-04 09:44:33 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1704 | config CIFS_STATS2 | 
| Steve French | 3979877 | 2006-05-31 22:40:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1705 | bool "Extended statistics" | 
| Steve French | ec58ef0 | 2005-11-04 09:44:33 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1706 | depends on CIFS_STATS | 
|  | 1707 | help | 
|  | 1708 | Enabling this option will allow more detailed statistics on SMB | 
|  | 1709 | request timing to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData and also | 
|  | 1710 | allow optional logging of slow responses to dmesg (depending on the | 
|  | 1711 | value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI, see fs/cifs/README for more details). | 
|  | 1712 | These additional statistics may have a minor effect on performance | 
|  | 1713 | and memory utilization. | 
|  | 1714 |  | 
|  | 1715 | Unless you are a developer or are doing network performance analysis | 
|  | 1716 | or tuning, say N. | 
|  | 1717 |  | 
| Steve French | 3979877 | 2006-05-31 22:40:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1718 | config CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH | 
|  | 1719 | bool "Support legacy servers which use weaker LANMAN security" | 
|  | 1720 | depends on CIFS | 
|  | 1721 | help | 
|  | 1722 | Modern CIFS servers including Samba and most Windows versions | 
|  | 1723 | (since 1997) support stronger NTLM (and even NTLMv2 and Kerberos) | 
|  | 1724 | security mechanisms. These hash the password more securely | 
|  | 1725 | than the mechanisms used in the older LANMAN version of the | 
| Steve French | 6103335 | 2008-01-09 16:21:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1726 | SMB protocol but LANMAN based authentication is needed to | 
|  | 1727 | establish sessions with some old SMB servers. | 
| Steve French | 3979877 | 2006-05-31 22:40:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1728 |  | 
|  | 1729 | Enabling this option allows the cifs module to mount to older | 
|  | 1730 | LANMAN based servers such as OS/2 and Windows 95, but such | 
|  | 1731 | mounts may be less secure than mounts using NTLM or more recent | 
|  | 1732 | security mechanisms if you are on a public network.  Unless you | 
| Andrew Morton | c773633 | 2008-02-05 14:22:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1733 | have a need to access old SMB servers (and are on a private | 
| Steve French | 3979877 | 2006-05-31 22:40:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1734 | network) you probably want to say N.  Even if this support | 
| Steve French | 6103335 | 2008-01-09 16:21:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1735 | is enabled in the kernel build, LANMAN authentication will not be | 
|  | 1736 | used automatically. At runtime LANMAN mounts are disabled but | 
| Steve French | 3979877 | 2006-05-31 22:40:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1737 | can be set to required (or optional) either in | 
|  | 1738 | /proc/fs/cifs (see fs/cifs/README for more detail) or via an | 
| Andrew Morton | c773633 | 2008-02-05 14:22:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1739 | option on the mount command. This support is disabled by | 
| Steve French | 3979877 | 2006-05-31 22:40:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1740 | default in order to reduce the possibility of a downgrade | 
|  | 1741 | attack. | 
| Andrew Morton | c773633 | 2008-02-05 14:22:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1742 |  | 
| Steve French | 3979877 | 2006-05-31 22:40:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1743 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 1744 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1745 | config CIFS_XATTR | 
| Steve French | ec58ef0 | 2005-11-04 09:44:33 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1746 | bool "CIFS extended attributes" | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1747 | depends on CIFS | 
|  | 1748 | help | 
|  | 1749 | Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by | 
|  | 1750 | the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit | 
|  | 1751 | <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).  CIFS maps the name of | 
|  | 1752 | extended attributes beginning with the user namespace prefix | 
|  | 1753 | to SMB/CIFS EAs. EAs are stored on Windows servers without the | 
|  | 1754 | user namespace prefix, but their names are seen by Linux cifs clients | 
|  | 1755 | prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace | 
|  | 1756 | (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at | 
|  | 1757 | this time. | 
| Steve French | ec58ef0 | 2005-11-04 09:44:33 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1758 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1759 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 1760 |  | 
|  | 1761 | config CIFS_POSIX | 
| Steve French | ec58ef0 | 2005-11-04 09:44:33 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1762 | bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions" | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1763 | depends on CIFS_XATTR | 
|  | 1764 | help | 
|  | 1765 | Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to | 
|  | 1766 | negotiate a newer dialect with servers, such as Samba 3.0.5 | 
|  | 1767 | or later, that optionally can handle more POSIX like (rather | 
|  | 1768 | than Windows like) file behavior.  It also enables | 
|  | 1769 | support for POSIX ACLs (getfacl and setfacl) to servers | 
|  | 1770 | (such as Samba 3.10 and later) which can negotiate | 
|  | 1771 | CIFS POSIX ACL support.  If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 1772 |  | 
| Steve French | 3979877 | 2006-05-31 22:40:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1773 | config CIFS_DEBUG2 | 
| Steve French | 3856a9d | 2006-06-01 19:38:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1774 | bool "Enable additional CIFS debugging routines" | 
| Steve French | 8ba10ab | 2006-07-08 02:17:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1775 | depends on CIFS | 
| Steve French | 3979877 | 2006-05-31 22:40:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1776 | help | 
|  | 1777 | Enabling this option adds a few more debugging routines | 
|  | 1778 | to the cifs code which slightly increases the size of | 
|  | 1779 | the cifs module and can cause additional logging of debug | 
|  | 1780 | messages in some error paths, slowing performance. This | 
|  | 1781 | option can be turned off unless you are debugging | 
|  | 1782 | cifs problems.  If unsure, say N. | 
| Andrew Morton | c773633 | 2008-02-05 14:22:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1783 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1784 | config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL | 
|  | 1785 | bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 
| Steve French | cb9dbff | 2005-11-02 11:37:15 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1786 | depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1787 | help | 
| Steve French | ec58ef0 | 2005-11-04 09:44:33 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1788 | Enables cifs features under testing. These features are | 
| Steve French | 8af1897 | 2007-02-14 04:42:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1789 | experimental and currently include DFS support and directory | 
|  | 1790 | change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY), as well as the upcall | 
|  | 1791 | mechanism which will be used for Kerberos session negotiation | 
|  | 1792 | and uid remapping.  Some of these features also may depend on | 
|  | 1793 | setting a value of 1 to the pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental | 
|  | 1794 | (which is disabled by default). See the file fs/cifs/README | 
|  | 1795 | for more details.  If unsure, say N. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1796 |  | 
| Steve French | a2653eb | 2005-11-10 15:33:38 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1797 | config CIFS_UPCALL | 
| Steve French | 3979877 | 2006-05-31 22:40:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1798 | bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 
| Steve French | a2653eb | 2005-11-10 15:33:38 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1799 | depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL | 
| Jeff Layton | 09fe7ba | 2007-11-03 04:48:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1800 | depends on KEYS | 
| Steve French | a2653eb | 2005-11-10 15:33:38 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1801 | help | 
| Steve French | 6103335 | 2008-01-09 16:21:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1802 | Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which accesses | 
|  | 1803 | userspace helper utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged (RFC 4178) | 
|  | 1804 | Kerberos tickets which are needed to mount to certain secure servers | 
| Steve French | 1b397f4 | 2005-11-10 19:36:39 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1805 | (for which more secure Kerberos authentication is required). If | 
|  | 1806 | unsure, say N. | 
| Steve French | a2653eb | 2005-11-10 15:33:38 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1807 |  | 
| Steve French | 6103335 | 2008-01-09 16:21:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1808 | config CIFS_DFS_UPCALL | 
|  | 1809 | bool "DFS feature support (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 
|  | 1810 | depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL | 
|  | 1811 | depends on KEYS | 
|  | 1812 | help | 
|  | 1813 | Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which contacts userspace | 
|  | 1814 | helper utilities to provide server name resolution (host names to | 
|  | 1815 | IP addresses) which is needed for implicit mounts of DFS junction | 
|  | 1816 | points. If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 1817 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1818 | config NCP_FS | 
|  | 1819 | tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)" | 
|  | 1820 | depends on IPX!=n || INET | 
|  | 1821 | help | 
|  | 1822 | NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) is a protocol that runs over IPX and is | 
|  | 1823 | used by Novell NetWare clients to talk to file servers.  It is to | 
|  | 1824 | IPX what NFS is to TCP/IP, if that helps.  Saying Y here allows you | 
|  | 1825 | to mount NetWare file server volumes and to access them just like | 
|  | 1826 | any other Unix directory.  For details, please read the file | 
|  | 1827 | <file:Documentation/filesystems/ncpfs.txt> in the kernel source and | 
|  | 1828 | the IPX-HOWTO from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. | 
|  | 1829 |  | 
|  | 1830 | You do not have to say Y here if you want your Linux box to act as a | 
|  | 1831 | file *server* for Novell NetWare clients. | 
|  | 1832 |  | 
|  | 1833 | General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and | 
|  | 1834 | Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>. | 
|  | 1835 |  | 
|  | 1836 | To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called | 
|  | 1837 | ncpfs.  Say N unless you are connected to a Novell network. | 
|  | 1838 |  | 
|  | 1839 | source "fs/ncpfs/Kconfig" | 
|  | 1840 |  | 
|  | 1841 | config CODA_FS | 
|  | 1842 | tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)" | 
|  | 1843 | depends on INET | 
|  | 1844 | help | 
|  | 1845 | Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it | 
|  | 1846 | enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them | 
|  | 1847 | with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard | 
|  | 1848 | disk.  Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for | 
|  | 1849 | disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server | 
|  | 1850 | replication, security model for authentication and encryption, | 
|  | 1851 | persistent client caches and write back caching. | 
|  | 1852 |  | 
|  | 1853 | If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda | 
|  | 1854 | *client*.  You will need user level code as well, both for the | 
|  | 1855 | client and server.  Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need | 
|  | 1856 | no kernel support.  Please read | 
|  | 1857 | <file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.txt> and check out the Coda | 
|  | 1858 | home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>. | 
|  | 1859 |  | 
|  | 1860 | To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the | 
|  | 1861 | module will be called coda. | 
|  | 1862 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1863 | config AFS_FS | 
| David Howells | 64aaa4f | 2006-11-16 01:19:27 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1864 | tristate "Andrew File System support (AFS) (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1865 | depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL | 
| David Howells | 08e0e7c | 2007-04-26 15:55:03 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1866 | select AF_RXRPC | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1867 | help | 
|  | 1868 | If you say Y here, you will get an experimental Andrew File System | 
|  | 1869 | driver. It currently only supports unsecured read-only AFS access. | 
|  | 1870 |  | 
| Matt LaPlante | cc2e276 | 2006-10-03 22:22:29 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1871 | See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1872 |  | 
|  | 1873 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 1874 |  | 
| David Howells | 08e0e7c | 2007-04-26 15:55:03 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1875 | config AFS_DEBUG | 
|  | 1876 | bool "AFS dynamic debugging" | 
|  | 1877 | depends on AFS_FS | 
|  | 1878 | help | 
|  | 1879 | Say Y here to make runtime controllable debugging messages appear. | 
|  | 1880 |  | 
|  | 1881 | See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information. | 
|  | 1882 |  | 
|  | 1883 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 1884 |  | 
| Eric Van Hensbergen | 93fa58c | 2005-09-09 13:04:18 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1885 | config 9P_FS | 
|  | 1886 | tristate "Plan 9 Resource Sharing Support (9P2000) (Experimental)" | 
| Latchesar Ionkov | bd238fb | 2007-07-10 17:57:28 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1887 | depends on INET && NET_9P && EXPERIMENTAL | 
| Eric Van Hensbergen | 93fa58c | 2005-09-09 13:04:18 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1888 | help | 
|  | 1889 | If you say Y here, you will get experimental support for | 
|  | 1890 | Plan 9 resource sharing via the 9P2000 protocol. | 
|  | 1891 |  | 
|  | 1892 | See <http://v9fs.sf.net> for more information. | 
|  | 1893 |  | 
|  | 1894 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 1895 |  | 
| Jan Engelhardt | ea0985a | 2007-10-16 23:30:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1896 | endif # NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1897 |  | 
| David Howells | 9361401 | 2006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1898 | if BLOCK | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1899 | menu "Partition Types" | 
|  | 1900 |  | 
|  | 1901 | source "fs/partitions/Kconfig" | 
|  | 1902 |  | 
|  | 1903 | endmenu | 
| David Howells | 9361401 | 2006-09-30 20:45:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1904 | endif | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1905 |  | 
|  | 1906 | source "fs/nls/Kconfig" | 
| David Teigland | e7fd417 | 2006-01-18 09:30:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1907 | source "fs/dlm/Kconfig" | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1908 |  | 
|  | 1909 | endmenu |