| Alexey Dobriyan | 33a1a6f | 2009-01-22 11:15:06 +0300 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | config CODA_FS |
| 2 | tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)" |
| 3 | depends on INET |
| 4 | help |
| 5 | Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it |
| 6 | enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them |
| 7 | with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard |
| 8 | disk. Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for |
| 9 | disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server |
| 10 | replication, security model for authentication and encryption, |
| 11 | persistent client caches and write back caching. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda |
| 14 | *client*. You will need user level code as well, both for the |
| 15 | client and server. Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need |
| 16 | no kernel support. Please read |
| 17 | <file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.txt> and check out the Coda |
| 18 | home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the |
| 21 | module will be called coda. |