2 # File system configuration
10 tristate "Second extended fs support"
12 Ext2 is a standard Linux file system for hard disks.
14 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
15 module will be called ext2.
20 bool "Ext2 extended attributes"
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).
29 config EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL
30 bool "Ext2 POSIX Access Control Lists"
31 depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR
34 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
35 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
37 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
38 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
40 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
42 config EXT2_FS_SECURITY
43 bool "Ext2 Security Labels"
44 depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR
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.
51 If you are not using a security module that requires using
52 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
55 bool "Ext2 execute in place support"
56 depends on EXT2_FS && MMU
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.
62 If you do not use a block device that is capable of using this,
68 depends on EXT2_FS_XIP
72 tristate "Ext3 journalling file system support"
75 This is the journalling version of the Second extended file system
76 (often called ext3), the de facto standard Linux file system
77 (method to organize files on a storage device) for hard disks.
79 The journalling code included in this driver means you do not have
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.
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
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/>).
98 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
99 module will be called ext3.
102 bool "Ext3 extended attributes"
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).
112 You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext3.
114 config EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL
115 bool "Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists"
116 depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR
119 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
120 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
122 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
123 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
125 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
127 config EXT3_FS_SECURITY
128 bool "Ext3 Security Labels"
129 depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR
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.
136 If you are not using a security module that requires using
137 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
140 tristate "Ext4dev/ext4 extended fs support development (EXPERIMENTAL)"
141 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
144 Ext4dev is a predecessor filesystem of the next generation
145 extended fs ext4, based on ext3 filesystem code. It will be
146 renamed ext4 fs later, once ext4dev is mature and stabilized.
148 Unlike the change from ext2 filesystem to ext3 filesystem,
149 the on-disk format of ext4dev is not the same as ext3 any more:
150 it is based on extent maps and it supports 48-bit physical block
151 numbers. These combined on-disk format changes will allow
152 ext4dev/ext4 to handle more than 16 TB filesystem volumes --
153 a hard limit that ext3 cannot overcome without changing the
156 Other than extent maps and 48-bit block numbers, ext4dev also is
157 likely to have other new features such as persistent preallocation,
158 high resolution time stamps, and larger file support etc. These
159 features will be added to ext4dev gradually.
161 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here. The
162 module will be called ext4dev.
166 config EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
167 bool "Ext4dev extended attributes"
168 depends on EXT4DEV_FS
171 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
172 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
173 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
177 You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext4dev/ext4.
179 config EXT4DEV_FS_POSIX_ACL
180 bool "Ext4dev POSIX Access Control Lists"
181 depends on EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
184 POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
185 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
187 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for
188 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
190 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
192 config EXT4DEV_FS_SECURITY
193 bool "Ext4dev Security Labels"
194 depends on EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
196 Security labels support alternative access control models
197 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
198 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
199 labels in the ext4dev/ext4 filesystem.
201 If you are not using a security module that requires using
202 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
207 This is a generic journalling layer for block devices. It is
208 currently used by the ext3 and OCFS2 file systems, but it could
209 also be used to add journal support to other file systems or block
210 devices such as RAID or LVM.
212 If you are using the ext3 or OCFS2 file systems, you need to
213 say Y here. If you are not using ext3 OCFS2 then you will probably
216 To compile this device as a module, choose M here: the module will be
217 called jbd. If you are compiling ext3 or OCFS2 into the kernel,
218 you cannot compile this code as a module.
221 bool "JBD (ext3) debugging support"
224 If you are using the ext3 journaled file system (or potentially any
225 other file system/device using JBD), this option allows you to
226 enable debugging output while the system is running, in order to
227 help track down any problems you are having. By default the
228 debugging output will be turned off.
230 If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging
231 with "echo N > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug", where N is a number between
232 1 and 5, the higher the number, the more debugging output is
233 generated. To turn debugging off again, do
234 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug".
239 This is a generic journaling layer for block devices that support
240 both 32-bit and 64-bit block numbers. It is currently used by
241 the ext4dev/ext4 filesystem, but it could also be used to add
242 journal support to other file systems or block devices such
245 If you are using ext4dev/ext4, you need to say Y here. If you are not
246 using ext4dev/ext4 then you will probably want to say N.
248 To compile this device as a module, choose M here. The module will be
249 called jbd2. If you are compiling ext4dev/ext4 into the kernel,
250 you cannot compile this code as a module.
253 bool "JBD2 (ext4dev/ext4) debugging support"
256 If you are using the ext4dev/ext4 journaled file system (or
257 potentially any other filesystem/device using JBD2), this option
258 allows you to enable debugging output while the system is running,
259 in order to help track down any problems you are having.
260 By default, the debugging output will be turned off.
262 If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging
263 with "echo N > /proc/sys/fs/jbd2-debug", where N is a number between
264 1 and 5. The higher the number, the more debugging output is
265 generated. To turn debugging off again, do
266 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/jbd2-debug".
269 # Meta block cache for Extended Attributes (ext2/ext3/ext4)
271 depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR || EXT3_FS_XATTR || EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
272 default y if EXT2_FS=y || EXT3_FS=y || EXT4DEV_FS=y
273 default m if EXT2_FS=m || EXT3_FS=m || EXT4DEV_FS=m
276 tristate "Reiserfs support"
278 Stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a balanced
279 tree. Uses journalling.
281 Balanced trees are more efficient than traditional file system
282 architectural foundations.
284 In general, ReiserFS is as fast as ext2, but is very efficient with
285 large directories and small files. Additional patches are needed
286 for NFS and quotas, please see <http://www.namesys.com/> for links.
288 It is more easily extended to have features currently found in
289 database and keyword search systems than block allocation based file
290 systems are. The next version will be so extended, and will support
291 plugins consistent with our motto ``It takes more than a license to
292 make source code open.''
294 Read <http://www.namesys.com/> to learn more about reiserfs.
296 Sponsored by Threshold Networks, Emusic.com, and Bigstorage.com.
298 If you like it, you can pay us to add new features to it that you
299 need, buy a support contract, or pay us to port it to another OS.
301 config REISERFS_CHECK
302 bool "Enable reiserfs debug mode"
303 depends on REISERFS_FS
305 If you set this to Y, then ReiserFS will perform every check it can
306 possibly imagine of its internal consistency throughout its
307 operation. It will also go substantially slower. More than once we
308 have forgotten that this was on, and then gone despondent over the
309 latest benchmarks.:-) Use of this option allows our team to go all
310 out in checking for consistency when debugging without fear of its
311 effect on end users. If you are on the verge of sending in a bug
312 report, say Y and you might get a useful error message. Almost
313 everyone should say N.
315 config REISERFS_PROC_INFO
316 bool "Stats in /proc/fs/reiserfs"
317 depends on REISERFS_FS
319 Create under /proc/fs/reiserfs a hierarchy of files, displaying
320 various ReiserFS statistics and internal data at the expense of
321 making your kernel or module slightly larger (+8 KB). This also
322 increases the amount of kernel memory required for each mount.
323 Almost everyone but ReiserFS developers and people fine-tuning
324 reiserfs or tracing problems should say N.
326 config REISERFS_FS_XATTR
327 bool "ReiserFS extended attributes"
328 depends on REISERFS_FS
330 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
331 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
332 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
336 config REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL
337 bool "ReiserFS POSIX Access Control Lists"
338 depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR
341 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
342 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
344 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
345 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
347 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
349 config REISERFS_FS_SECURITY
350 bool "ReiserFS Security Labels"
351 depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR
353 Security labels support alternative access control models
354 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
355 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
356 labels in the ReiserFS filesystem.
358 If you are not using a security module that requires using
359 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
362 tristate "JFS filesystem support"
365 This is a port of IBM's Journaled Filesystem . More information is
366 available in the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt>.
368 If you do not intend to use the JFS filesystem, say N.
371 bool "JFS POSIX Access Control Lists"
375 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
376 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
378 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
379 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
381 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
384 bool "JFS Security Labels"
387 Security labels support alternative access control models
388 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
389 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
390 labels in the jfs filesystem.
392 If you are not using a security module that requires using
393 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
399 If you are experiencing any problems with the JFS filesystem, say
400 Y here. This will result in additional debugging messages to be
401 written to the system log. Under normal circumstances, this
402 results in very little overhead.
404 config JFS_STATISTICS
405 bool "JFS statistics"
408 Enabling this option will cause statistics from the JFS file system
409 to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jfs/ directory.
412 # Posix ACL utility routines (for now, only ext2/ext3/jfs/reiserfs)
414 # NOTE: you can implement Posix ACLs without these helpers (XFS does).
415 # Never use this symbol for ifdefs.
420 source "fs/xfs/Kconfig"
421 source "fs/gfs2/Kconfig"
424 tristate "OCFS2 file system support"
425 depends on NET && SYSFS
430 OCFS2 is a general purpose extent based shared disk cluster file
431 system with many similarities to ext3. It supports 64 bit inode
432 numbers, and has automatically extending metadata groups which may
433 also make it attractive for non-clustered use.
435 You'll want to install the ocfs2-tools package in order to at least
438 Project web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2
439 Tools web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools
440 OCFS2 mailing lists: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/mailman/
442 Note: Features which OCFS2 does not support yet:
443 - extended attributes
444 - shared writeable mmap
445 - loopback is supported, but data written will not
448 - cluster aware flock
449 - Directory change notification (F_NOTIFY)
450 - Distributed Caching (F_SETLEASE/F_GETLEASE/break_lease)
452 - readpages / writepages (not user visible)
454 config OCFS2_DEBUG_MASKLOG
455 bool "OCFS2 logging support"
459 The ocfs2 filesystem has an extensive logging system. The system
460 allows selection of events to log via files in /sys/o2cb/logmask/.
461 This option will enlarge your kernel, but it allows debugging of
462 ocfs2 filesystem issues.
465 tristate "Minix fs support"
467 Minix is a simple operating system used in many classes about OS's.
468 The minix file system (method to organize files on a hard disk
469 partition or a floppy disk) was the original file system for Linux,
470 but has been superseded by the second extended file system ext2fs.
471 You don't want to use the minix file system on your hard disk
472 because of certain built-in restrictions, but it is sometimes found
473 on older Linux floppy disks. This option will enlarge your kernel
474 by about 28 KB. If unsure, say N.
476 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
477 module will be called minix. Note that the file system of your root
478 partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as
482 tristate "ROM file system support"
484 This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for
485 initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for
486 other read-only media as well. Read
487 <file:Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt> for details.
489 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
490 module will be called romfs. Note that the file system of your
491 root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a
494 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
500 bool "Inotify file change notification support"
503 Say Y here to enable inotify support. Inotify is a file change
504 notification system and a replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes
505 numerous shortcomings in dnotify and introduces several new features
506 including multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount
509 For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt
514 bool "Inotify support for userspace"
518 Say Y here to enable inotify support for userspace, including the
519 associated system calls. Inotify allows monitoring of both files and
520 directories via a single open fd. Events are read from the file
521 descriptor, which is also select()- and poll()-able.
523 For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt
530 If you say Y here, you will be able to set per user limits for disk
531 usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works for the
532 ext2, ext3, and reiserfs file system. ext3 also supports journalled
533 quotas for which you don't need to run quotacheck(8) after an unclean
535 For further details, read the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from
536 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or the documentation provided
537 with the quota tools. Probably the quota support is only useful for
538 multi user systems. If unsure, say N.
541 tristate "Old quota format support"
544 This quota format was (is) used by kernels earlier than 2.4.22. If
545 you have quota working and you don't want to convert to new quota
549 tristate "Quota format v2 support"
552 This quota format allows using quotas with 32-bit UIDs/GIDs. If you
553 need this functionality say Y here.
557 depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA
561 bool "Dnotify support" if EMBEDDED
564 Dnotify is a directory-based per-fd file change notification system
565 that uses signals to communicate events to user-space. There exist
566 superior alternatives, but some applications may still rely on
569 Because of this, if unsure, say Y.
572 tristate "Kernel automounter support"
574 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
575 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
576 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
577 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
579 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs
580 package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>.
581 You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
583 If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more
584 features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support",
587 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
590 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you
591 probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here.
594 tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)"
596 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
597 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
598 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
599 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
601 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from
602 <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/>; you also
603 want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
605 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
606 called autofs4. You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your
607 modules configuration file.
609 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or
610 don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the
611 local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say
615 tristate "Filesystem in Userspace support"
617 With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem
618 in a userspace program.
620 There's also companion library: libfuse. This library along with
621 utilities is available from the FUSE homepage:
622 <http://fuse.sourceforge.net/>
624 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt> for more information.
625 See <file:Documentation/Changes> for needed library/utility version.
627 If you want to develop a userspace FS, or if you want to use
628 a filesystem based on FUSE, answer Y or M.
635 menu "CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems"
638 tristate "ISO 9660 CDROM file system support"
640 This is the standard file system used on CD-ROMs. It was previously
641 known as "High Sierra File System" and is called "hsfs" on other
642 Unix systems. The so-called Rock-Ridge extensions which allow for
643 long Unix filenames and symbolic links are also supported by this
644 driver. If you have a CD-ROM drive and want to do more with it than
645 just listen to audio CDs and watch its LEDs, say Y (and read
646 <file:Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt> and the CD-ROM-HOWTO,
647 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), thereby
648 enlarging your kernel by about 27 KB; otherwise say N.
650 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
651 module will be called isofs.
654 bool "Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions"
655 depends on ISO9660_FS
658 Joliet is a Microsoft extension for the ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system
659 which allows for long filenames in unicode format (unicode is the
660 new 16 bit character code, successor to ASCII, which encodes the
661 characters of almost all languages of the world; see
662 <http://www.unicode.org/> for more information). Say Y here if you
663 want to be able to read Joliet CD-ROMs under Linux.
666 bool "Transparent decompression extension"
667 depends on ISO9660_FS
670 This is a Linux-specific extension to RockRidge which lets you store
671 data in compressed form on a CD-ROM and have it transparently
672 decompressed when the CD-ROM is accessed. See
673 <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/zisofs/> for the tools
674 necessary to create such a filesystem. Say Y here if you want to be
675 able to read such compressed CD-ROMs.
678 tristate "UDF file system support"
680 This is the new file system used on some CD-ROMs and DVDs. Say Y if
681 you intend to mount DVD discs or CDRW's written in packet mode, or
682 if written to by other UDF utilities, such as DirectCD.
683 Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt>.
685 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
686 module will be called udf.
693 depends on (UDF_FS=m && NLS) || (UDF_FS=y && NLS=y)
699 menu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems"
705 If you want to use one of the FAT-based file systems (the MS-DOS and
706 VFAT (Windows 95) file systems), then you must say Y or M here
707 to include FAT support. You will then be able to mount partitions or
708 diskettes with FAT-based file systems and transparently access the
709 files on them, i.e. MSDOS files will look and behave just like all
712 This FAT support is not a file system in itself, it only provides
713 the foundation for the other file systems. You will have to say Y or
714 M to at least one of "MSDOS fs support" or "VFAT fs support" in
715 order to make use of it.
717 Another way to read and write MSDOS floppies and hard drive
718 partitions from within Linux (but not transparently) is with the
719 mtools ("man mtools") program suite. You don't need to say Y here in
722 If you need to move large files on floppies between a DOS and a
723 Linux box, say Y here, mount the floppy under Linux with an MSDOS
724 file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program
725 available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar").
727 It is now also becoming possible to read and write compressed FAT
728 file systems; read <file:Documentation/filesystems/fat_cvf.txt> for
731 The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure,
734 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
735 fat. Note that if you compile the FAT support as a module, you
736 cannot compile any of the FAT-based file systems into the kernel
737 -- they will have to be modules as well.
740 tristate "MSDOS fs support"
743 This allows you to mount MSDOS partitions of your hard drive (unless
744 they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under
745 Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the
746 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from
747 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in
748 <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you
749 intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y
750 here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes
751 transparent, i.e. the MSDOS files look and behave just like all
754 If you have Windows 95 or Windows NT installed on your MSDOS
755 partitions, you should use the VFAT file system (say Y to "VFAT fs
756 support" below), or you will not be able to see the long filenames
757 generated by Windows 95 / Windows NT.
759 This option will enlarge your kernel by about 7 KB. If unsure,
760 answer Y. This will only work if you said Y to "DOS FAT fs support"
761 as well. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will
765 tristate "VFAT (Windows-95) fs support"
768 This option provides support for normal Windows file systems with
769 long filenames. That includes non-compressed FAT-based file systems
770 used by Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and the Unix
771 programs from the mtools package.
773 The VFAT support enlarges your kernel by about 10 KB and it only
774 works if you said Y to the "DOS FAT fs support" above. Please read
775 the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for details. If
778 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
781 config FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE
782 int "Default codepage for FAT"
783 depends on MSDOS_FS || VFAT_FS
786 This option should be set to the codepage of your FAT filesystems.
787 It can be overridden with the "codepage" mount option.
788 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
790 config FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET
791 string "Default iocharset for FAT"
795 Set this to the default input/output character set you'd
796 like FAT to use. It should probably match the character set
797 that most of your FAT filesystems use, and can be overridden
798 with the "iocharset" mount option for FAT filesystems.
799 Note that "utf8" is not recommended for FAT filesystems.
800 If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here.
801 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
804 tristate "NTFS file system support"
807 NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003.
809 Saying Y or M here enables read support. There is partial, but
810 safe, write support available. For write support you must also
811 say Y to "NTFS write support" below.
813 There are also a number of user-space tools available, called
814 ntfsprogs. These include ntfsundelete and ntfsresize, that work
815 without NTFS support enabled in the kernel.
817 This is a rewrite from scratch of Linux NTFS support and replaced
818 the old NTFS code starting with Linux 2.5.11. A backport to
819 the Linux 2.4 kernel series is separately available as a patch
820 from the project web site.
822 For more information see <file:Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt>
823 and <http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/>.
825 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
826 module will be called ntfs.
828 If you are not using Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 in addition to
829 Linux on your computer it is safe to say N.
832 bool "NTFS debugging support"
835 If you are experiencing any problems with the NTFS file system, say
836 Y here. This will result in additional consistency checks to be
837 performed by the driver as well as additional debugging messages to
838 be written to the system log. Note that debugging messages are
839 disabled by default. To enable them, supply the option debug_msgs=1
840 at the kernel command line when booting the kernel or as an option
841 to insmod when loading the ntfs module. Once the driver is active,
842 you can enable debugging messages by doing (as root):
843 echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug
844 Replacing the "1" with "0" would disable debug messages.
846 If you leave debugging messages disabled, this results in little
847 overhead, but enabling debug messages results in very significant
848 slowdown of the system.
850 When reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of
851 debugging messages while the misbehaviour was occurring.
854 bool "NTFS write support"
857 This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver.
859 The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without
860 changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or
861 renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to
862 so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot
865 While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have
866 so far not received a single report where the driver would have
867 damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use.
869 Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from
870 scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS
871 write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997),
874 This is currently useful with TopologiLinux. TopologiLinux is run
875 on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your
876 hard disk. Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not
877 need its own partition. For more information see
878 <http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/>
880 It is perfectly safe to say N here.
885 menu "Pseudo filesystems"
888 bool "/proc file system support" if EMBEDDED
891 This is a virtual file system providing information about the status
892 of the system. "Virtual" means that it doesn't take up any space on
893 your hard disk: the files are created on the fly by the kernel when
894 you try to access them. Also, you cannot read the files with older
895 version of the program less: you need to use more or cat.
897 It's totally cool; for example, "cat /proc/interrupts" gives
898 information about what the different IRQs are used for at the moment
899 (there is a small number of Interrupt ReQuest lines in your computer
900 that are used by the attached devices to gain the CPU's attention --
901 often a source of trouble if two devices are mistakenly configured
902 to use the same IRQ). The program procinfo to display some
903 information about your system gathered from the /proc file system.
905 Before you can use the /proc file system, it has to be mounted,
906 meaning it has to be given a location in the directory hierarchy.
907 That location should be /proc. A command such as "mount -t proc proc
908 /proc" or the equivalent line in /etc/fstab does the job.
910 The /proc file system is explained in the file
911 <file:Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt> and on the proc(5) manpage
914 This option will enlarge your kernel by about 67 KB. Several
915 programs depend on this, so everyone should say Y here.
918 bool "/proc/kcore support" if !ARM
919 depends on PROC_FS && MMU
922 bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
923 depends on PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP
926 Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format.
929 bool "Sysctl support (/proc/sys)" if EMBEDDED
934 The sysctl interface provides a means of dynamically changing
935 certain kernel parameters and variables on the fly without requiring
936 a recompile of the kernel or reboot of the system. The primary
937 interface is through /proc/sys. If you say Y here a tree of
938 modifiable sysctl entries will be generated beneath the
939 /proc/sys directory. They are explained in the files
940 in <file:Documentation/sysctl/>. Note that enabling this
941 option will enlarge the kernel by at least 8 KB.
943 As it is generally a good thing, you should say Y here unless
944 building a kernel for install/rescue disks or your system is very
948 bool "sysfs file system support" if EMBEDDED
951 The sysfs filesystem is a virtual filesystem that the kernel uses to
952 export internal kernel objects, their attributes, and their
953 relationships to one another.
955 Users can use sysfs to ascertain useful information about the running
956 kernel, such as the devices the kernel has discovered on each bus and
957 which driver each is bound to. sysfs can also be used to tune devices
958 and other kernel subsystems.
960 Some system agents rely on the information in sysfs to operate.
961 /sbin/hotplug uses device and object attributes in sysfs to assist in
962 delegating policy decisions, like persistently naming devices.
964 sysfs is currently used by the block subsystem to mount the root
965 partition. If sysfs is disabled you must specify the boot device on
966 the kernel boot command line via its major and minor numbers. For
967 example, "root=03:01" for /dev/hda1.
969 Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space.
972 bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)"
974 Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory.
976 Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be
977 created on your hard drive. The files live in memory and swap
978 space. If you unmount a tmpfs instance, everything stored therein is
981 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> for details.
983 config TMPFS_POSIX_ACL
984 bool "Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists"
988 POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
989 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
991 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for
992 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
994 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N.
997 bool "HugeTLB file system support"
998 depends on X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || BROKEN
1000 hugetlbfs is a filesystem backing for HugeTLB pages, based on
1001 ramfs. For architectures that support it, say Y here and read
1002 <file:Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt> for details.
1013 Ramfs is a file system which keeps all files in RAM. It allows
1014 read and write access.
1016 It is more of an programming example than a useable file system. If
1017 you need a file system which lives in RAM with limit checking use
1020 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1024 tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1025 depends on SYSFS && EXPERIMENTAL
1027 configfs is a ram-based filesystem that provides the converse
1028 of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based
1029 view of kernel objects, configfs is a filesystem-based manager
1030 of kernel objects, or config_items.
1032 Both sysfs and configfs can and should exist together on the
1033 same system. One is not a replacement for the other.
1037 menu "Miscellaneous filesystems"
1040 tristate "ADFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1041 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1043 The Acorn Disc Filing System is the standard file system of the
1044 RiscOS operating system which runs on Acorn's ARM-based Risc PC
1045 systems and the Acorn Archimedes range of machines. If you say Y
1046 here, Linux will be able to read from ADFS partitions on hard drives
1047 and from ADFS-formatted floppy discs. If you also want to be able to
1048 write to those devices, say Y to "ADFS write support" below.
1050 The ADFS partition should be the first partition (i.e.,
1051 /dev/[hs]d?1) on each of your drives. Please read the file
1052 <file:Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt> for further details.
1054 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be
1060 bool "ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)"
1063 If you say Y here, you will be able to write to ADFS partitions on
1064 hard drives and ADFS-formatted floppy disks. This is experimental
1065 codes, so if you're unsure, say N.
1068 tristate "Amiga FFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1069 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1071 The Fast File System (FFS) is the common file system used on hard
1072 disks by Amiga(tm) systems since AmigaOS Version 1.3 (34.20). Say Y
1073 if you want to be able to read and write files from and to an Amiga
1074 FFS partition on your hard drive. Amiga floppies however cannot be
1075 read with this driver due to an incompatibility of the floppy
1076 controller used in an Amiga and the standard floppy controller in
1077 PCs and workstations. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt>
1078 and <file:fs/affs/Changes>.
1080 With this driver you can also mount disk files used by Bernd
1081 Schmidt's Un*X Amiga Emulator
1082 (<http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/>).
1083 If you want to do this, you will also need to say Y or M to "Loop
1084 device support", above.
1086 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1087 module will be called affs. If unsure, say N.
1090 tristate "eCrypt filesystem layer support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1091 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && KEYS && CRYPTO
1093 Encrypted filesystem that operates on the VFS layer. See
1094 <file:Documentation/ecryptfs.txt> to learn more about
1095 eCryptfs. Userspace components are required and can be
1096 obtained from <http://ecryptfs.sf.net>.
1098 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1099 module will be called ecryptfs.
1102 tristate "Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1103 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1106 If you say Y here, you will be able to mount Macintosh-formatted
1107 floppy disks and hard drive partitions with full read-write access.
1108 Please read <file:fs/hfs/HFS.txt> to learn about the available mount
1111 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1112 module will be called hfs.
1115 tristate "Apple Extended HFS file system support"
1120 If you say Y here, you will be able to mount extended format
1121 Macintosh-formatted hard drive partitions with full read-write access.
1123 This file system is often called HFS+ and was introduced with
1124 MacOS 8. It includes all Mac specific filesystem data such as
1125 data forks and creator codes, but it also has several UNIX
1126 style features such as file ownership and permissions.
1129 tristate "BeOS file system (BeFS) support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1130 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1133 The BeOS File System (BeFS) is the native file system of Be, Inc's
1134 BeOS. Notable features include support for arbitrary attributes
1135 on files and directories, and database-like indices on selected
1136 attributes. (Also note that this driver doesn't make those features
1137 available at this time). It is a 64 bit filesystem, so it supports
1138 extremely large volumes and files.
1140 If you use this filesystem, you should also say Y to at least one
1141 of the NLS (native language support) options below.
1143 If you don't know what this is about, say N.
1145 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
1152 If you say Y here, you can use the 'debug' mount option to enable
1153 debugging output from the driver.
1156 tristate "BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1157 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1159 Boot File System (BFS) is a file system used under SCO UnixWare to
1160 allow the bootloader access to the kernel image and other important
1161 files during the boot process. It is usually mounted under /stand
1162 and corresponds to the slice marked as "STAND" in the UnixWare
1163 partition. You should say Y if you want to read or write the files
1164 on your /stand slice from within Linux. You then also need to say Y
1165 to "UnixWare slices support", below. More information about the BFS
1166 file system is contained in the file
1167 <file:Documentation/filesystems/bfs.txt>.
1169 If you don't know what this is about, say N.
1171 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1172 bfs. Note that the file system of your root partition (the one
1173 containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
1178 tristate "EFS file system support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1179 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1181 EFS is an older file system used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and hard
1182 disk partitions by SGI's IRIX operating system (IRIX 6.0 and newer
1183 uses the XFS file system for hard disk partitions however).
1185 This implementation only offers read-only access. If you don't know
1186 what all this is about, it's safe to say N. For more information
1187 about EFS see its home page at <http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/>.
1189 To compile the EFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1190 module will be called efs.
1193 tristate "Journalling Flash File System (JFFS) support"
1194 depends on MTD && BLOCK && BROKEN
1196 JFFS is the Journalling Flash File System developed by Axis
1197 Communications in Sweden, aimed at providing a crash/powerdown-safe
1198 file system for disk-less embedded devices. Further information is
1199 available at (<http://developer.axis.com/software/jffs/>).
1201 NOTE: This filesystem is deprecated and is scheduled for removal in
1202 2.6.21. See Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
1204 config JFFS_FS_VERBOSE
1205 int "JFFS debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 3 = noisy)"
1209 Determines the verbosity level of the JFFS debugging messages.
1212 bool "JFFS stats available in /proc filesystem"
1213 depends on JFFS_FS && PROC_FS
1215 Enabling this option will cause statistics from mounted JFFS file systems
1216 to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jffs/ directory.
1219 tristate "Journalling Flash File System v2 (JFFS2) support"
1223 JFFS2 is the second generation of the Journalling Flash File System
1224 for use on diskless embedded devices. It provides improved wear
1225 levelling, compression and support for hard links. You cannot use
1226 this on normal block devices, only on 'MTD' devices.
1228 Further information on the design and implementation of JFFS2 is
1229 available at <http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2/>.
1231 config JFFS2_FS_DEBUG
1232 int "JFFS2 debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 2 = noisy)"
1236 This controls the amount of debugging messages produced by the JFFS2
1237 code. Set it to zero for use in production systems. For evaluation,
1238 testing and debugging, it's advisable to set it to one. This will
1239 enable a few assertions and will print debugging messages at the
1240 KERN_DEBUG loglevel, where they won't normally be visible. Level 2
1241 is unlikely to be useful - it enables extra debugging in certain
1242 areas which at one point needed debugging, but when the bugs were
1243 located and fixed, the detailed messages were relegated to level 2.
1245 If reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of the
1246 messages at debug level 1 while the misbehaviour was occurring.
1248 config JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER
1249 bool "JFFS2 write-buffering support"
1253 This enables the write-buffering support in JFFS2.
1255 This functionality is required to support JFFS2 on the following
1256 types of flash devices:
1258 - NOR flash with transparent ECC
1261 config JFFS2_SUMMARY
1262 bool "JFFS2 summary support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1263 depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1266 This feature makes it possible to use summary information
1267 for faster filesystem mount.
1269 The summary information can be inserted into a filesystem image
1270 by the utility 'sumtool'.
1274 config JFFS2_FS_XATTR
1275 bool "JFFS2 XATTR support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1276 depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1279 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
1280 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
1281 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
1285 config JFFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL
1286 bool "JFFS2 POSIX Access Control Lists"
1287 depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR
1291 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
1292 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
1294 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
1295 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
1297 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
1299 config JFFS2_FS_SECURITY
1300 bool "JFFS2 Security Labels"
1301 depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR
1304 Security labels support alternative access control models
1305 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
1306 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
1307 labels in the jffs2 filesystem.
1309 If you are not using a security module that requires using
1310 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
1312 config JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1313 bool "Advanced compression options for JFFS2"
1317 Enabling this option allows you to explicitly choose which
1318 compression modules, if any, are enabled in JFFS2. Removing
1319 compressors and mean you cannot read existing file systems,
1320 and enabling experimental compressors can mean that you
1321 write a file system which cannot be read by a standard kernel.
1323 If unsure, you should _definitely_ say 'N'.
1326 bool "JFFS2 ZLIB compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1332 Zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered,
1333 lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer
1334 hardware and operating system. See <http://www.gzip.org/zlib/> for
1335 further information.
1340 bool "JFFS2 RTIME compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1344 Rtime does manage to recompress already-compressed data. Say 'Y' if unsure.
1347 bool "JFFS2 RUBIN compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1351 RUBINMIPS and DYNRUBIN compressors. Say 'N' if unsure.
1354 prompt "JFFS2 default compression mode" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1355 default JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY
1358 You can set here the default compression mode of JFFS2 from
1359 the available compression modes. Don't touch if unsure.
1361 config JFFS2_CMODE_NONE
1362 bool "no compression"
1364 Uses no compression.
1366 config JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY
1369 Tries the compressors in a predefined order and chooses the first
1372 config JFFS2_CMODE_SIZE
1373 bool "size (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1375 Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest
1381 tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)"
1385 Saying Y here includes support for CramFs (Compressed ROM File
1386 System). CramFs is designed to be a simple, small, and compressed
1387 file system for ROM based embedded systems. CramFs is read-only,
1388 limited to 256MB file systems (with 16MB files), and doesn't support
1389 16/32 bits uid/gid, hard links and timestamps.
1391 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt> and
1392 <file:fs/cramfs/README> for further information.
1394 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1395 cramfs. Note that the root file system (the one containing the
1396 directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
1401 tristate "FreeVxFS file system support (VERITAS VxFS(TM) compatible)"
1404 FreeVxFS is a file system driver that support the VERITAS VxFS(TM)
1405 file system format. VERITAS VxFS(TM) is the standard file system
1406 of SCO UnixWare (and possibly others) and optionally available
1407 for Sunsoft Solaris, HP-UX and many other operating systems.
1408 Currently only readonly access is supported.
1410 NOTE: the file system type as used by mount(1), mount(2) and
1411 fstab(5) is 'vxfs' as it describes the file system format, not
1414 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
1415 called freevxfs. If unsure, say N.
1419 tristate "OS/2 HPFS file system support"
1422 OS/2 is IBM's operating system for PC's, the same as Warp, and HPFS
1423 is the file system used for organizing files on OS/2 hard disk
1424 partitions. Say Y if you want to be able to read files from and
1425 write files to an OS/2 HPFS partition on your hard drive. OS/2
1426 floppies however are in regular MSDOS format, so you don't need this
1427 option in order to be able to read them. Read
1428 <file:Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt>.
1430 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1431 module will be called hpfs. If unsure, say N.
1436 tristate "QNX4 file system support (read only)"
1439 This is the file system used by the real-time operating systems
1440 QNX 4 and QNX 6 (the latter is also called QNX RTP).
1441 Further information is available at <http://www.qnx.com/>.
1442 Say Y if you intend to mount QNX hard disks or floppies.
1443 Unless you say Y to "QNX4FS read-write support" below, you will
1444 only be able to read these file systems.
1446 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1447 module will be called qnx4.
1449 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
1453 bool "QNX4FS write support (DANGEROUS)"
1454 depends on QNX4FS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN
1456 Say Y if you want to test write support for QNX4 file systems.
1458 It's currently broken, so for now:
1464 tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support"
1467 SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel
1468 machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y
1469 here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk
1472 If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely
1473 that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order
1474 to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is
1475 a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse,
1476 UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux. It is
1477 available via FTP (user: ftp) from
1478 <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>).
1479 NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems;
1480 PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-)
1482 If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the
1483 network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support
1484 (but you need NFS file system support obviously).
1486 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
1487 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
1488 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
1489 tar" or preferably "info tar"). Note also that this option has
1490 nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about
1491 the System V file system in
1492 <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>.
1493 Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB.
1495 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1498 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
1503 tristate "UFS file system support (read only)"
1506 BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
1507 OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a file system called UFS. Some System V
1508 Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using
1509 this file system as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from
1510 these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the
1511 experimental "UFS file system write support", below. Please read the
1512 file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt> for more information.
1514 The recently released UFS2 variant (used in FreeBSD 5.x) is
1515 READ-ONLY supported.
1517 If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the
1518 network using NFS, you don't need the UFS file system support (but
1519 you need NFS file system support obviously).
1521 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
1522 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
1523 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
1524 tar" or preferably "info tar").
1526 When accessing NeXTstep files, you may need to convert them from the
1527 NeXT character set to the Latin1 character set; use the program
1528 recode ("info recode") for this purpose.
1530 To compile the UFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1531 module will be called ufs.
1533 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
1536 bool "UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS)"
1537 depends on UFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1539 Say Y here if you want to try writing to UFS partitions. This is
1540 experimental, so you should back up your UFS partitions beforehand.
1543 bool "UFS debugging"
1546 If you are experiencing any problems with the UFS filesystem, say
1547 Y here. This will result in _many_ additional debugging messages to be
1548 written to the system log.
1552 menu "Network File Systems"
1556 tristate "NFS file system support"
1560 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFS_V3_ACL
1562 If you are connected to some other (usually local) Unix computer
1563 (using SLIP, PLIP, PPP or Ethernet) and want to mount files residing
1564 on that computer (the NFS server) using the Network File Sharing
1565 protocol, say Y. "Mounting files" means that the client can access
1566 the files with usual UNIX commands as if they were sitting on the
1567 client's hard disk. For this to work, the server must run the
1568 programs nfsd and mountd (but does not need to have NFS file system
1569 support enabled in its kernel). NFS is explained in the Network
1570 Administrator's Guide, available from
1571 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>, on its man page: "man
1572 nfs", and in the NFS-HOWTO.
1574 A superior but less widely used alternative to NFS is provided by
1575 the Coda file system; see "Coda file system support" below.
1577 If you say Y here, you should have said Y to TCP/IP networking also.
1578 This option would enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB.
1580 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1581 module will be called nfs.
1583 If you are configuring a diskless machine which will mount its root
1584 file system over NFS at boot time, say Y here and to "Kernel
1585 level IP autoconfiguration" above and to "Root file system on NFS"
1586 below. You cannot compile this driver as a module in this case.
1587 There are two packages designed for booting diskless machines over
1588 the net: netboot, available from
1589 <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/netboot/>, and Etherboot,
1590 available from <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/etherboot/>.
1592 If you don't know what all this is about, say N.
1595 bool "Provide NFSv3 client support"
1598 Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak version
1599 3 of the NFS protocol.
1604 bool "Provide client support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension"
1607 Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX
1608 Access Control Lists. The server should also be compiled with
1609 the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL option.
1614 bool "Provide NFSv4 client support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1615 depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1616 select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
1618 Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak the newer
1619 version 4 of the NFS protocol.
1621 Note: Requires auxiliary userspace daemons which may be found on
1622 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
1627 bool "Allow direct I/O on NFS files"
1630 This option enables applications to perform uncached I/O on files
1631 in NFS file systems using the O_DIRECT open() flag. When O_DIRECT
1632 is set for a file, its data is not cached in the system's page
1633 cache. Data is moved to and from user-level application buffers
1634 directly. Unlike local disk-based file systems, NFS O_DIRECT has
1635 no alignment restrictions.
1637 Unless your program is designed to use O_DIRECT properly, you are
1638 much better off allowing the NFS client to manage data caching for
1639 you. Misusing O_DIRECT can cause poor server performance or network
1640 storms. This kernel build option defaults OFF to avoid exposing
1641 system administrators unwittingly to a potentially hazardous
1644 For more details on NFS O_DIRECT, see fs/nfs/direct.c.
1646 If unsure, say N. This reduces the size of the NFS client, and
1647 causes open() to return EINVAL if a file residing in NFS is
1648 opened with the O_DIRECT flag.
1651 tristate "NFS server support"
1656 select NFSD_V2_ACL if NFSD_V3_ACL
1657 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFSD_V2_ACL
1658 select NFSD_TCP if NFSD_V4
1659 select CRYPTO_MD5 if NFSD_V4
1660 select CRYPTO if NFSD_V4
1661 select FS_POSIX_ACL if NFSD_V4
1663 If you want your Linux box to act as an NFS *server*, so that other
1664 computers on your local network which support NFS can access certain
1665 directories on your box transparently, you have two options: you can
1666 use the self-contained user space program nfsd, in which case you
1667 should say N here, or you can say Y and use the kernel based NFS
1668 server. The advantage of the kernel based solution is that it is
1671 In either case, you will need support software; the respective
1672 locations are given in the file <file:Documentation/Changes> in the
1675 If you say Y here, you will get support for version 2 of the NFS
1676 protocol (NFSv2). If you also want NFSv3, say Y to the next question
1679 Please read the NFS-HOWTO, available from
1680 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
1682 To compile the NFS server support as a module, choose M here: the
1683 module will be called nfsd. If unsure, say N.
1690 bool "Provide NFSv3 server support"
1693 If you would like to include the NFSv3 server as well as the NFSv2
1694 server, say Y here. If unsure, say Y.
1697 bool "Provide server support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension"
1700 Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX
1701 Access Control Lists on exported file systems. NFS clients should
1702 be compiled with the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the
1703 CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL option. If unsure, say N.
1706 bool "Provide NFSv4 server support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1707 depends on NFSD_V3 && EXPERIMENTAL
1709 If you would like to include the NFSv4 server as well as the NFSv2
1710 and NFSv3 servers, say Y here. This feature is experimental, and
1711 should only be used if you are interested in helping to test NFSv4.
1715 bool "Provide NFS server over TCP support"
1719 If you want your NFS server to support TCP connections, say Y here.
1720 TCP connections usually perform better than the default UDP when
1721 the network is lossy or congested. If unsure, say Y.
1724 bool "Root file system on NFS"
1725 depends on NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP
1727 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
1728 one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
1729 net via NFS (presumably because your box doesn't have a hard disk),
1730 say Y. Read <file:Documentation/nfsroot.txt> for details. It is
1731 likely that in this case, you also want to say Y to "Kernel level IP
1732 autoconfiguration" so that your box can discover its network address
1735 Most people say N here.
1742 depends on NFSD_V3 || NFS_V3
1748 config NFS_ACL_SUPPORT
1754 depends on NFSD || NFS_FS
1763 config RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
1764 tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1765 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
1772 Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api
1773 mechanism based on Kerberos V5. This is required for
1776 Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on
1777 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
1781 config RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3
1782 tristate "Secure RPC: SPKM3 mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1783 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
1791 Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api
1792 mechanism based on the SPKM3 public-key mechanism.
1794 Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on
1795 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
1800 tristate "SMB file system support (to mount Windows shares etc.)"
1804 SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Windows for Workgroups
1805 (WfW), Windows 95/98, Windows NT and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share
1806 files and printers over local networks. Saying Y here allows you to
1807 mount their file systems (often called "shares" in this context) and
1808 access them just like any other Unix directory. Currently, this
1809 works only if the Windows machines use TCP/IP as the underlying
1810 transport protocol, and not NetBEUI. For details, read
1811 <file:Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt> and the SMB-HOWTO,
1812 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
1814 Note: if you just want your box to act as an SMB *server* and make
1815 files and printing services available to Windows clients (which need
1816 to have a TCP/IP stack), you don't need to say Y here; you can use
1817 the program SAMBA (available from <ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/>)
1820 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
1821 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
1823 To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here: the module will
1824 be called smbfs. Most people say N, however.
1826 config SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
1827 bool "Use a default NLS"
1830 Enabling this will make smbfs use nls translations by default. You
1831 need to specify the local charset (CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT) in the nls
1832 settings and you need to give the default nls for the SMB server as
1833 CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE.
1835 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount
1836 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters.
1838 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
1840 config SMB_NLS_REMOTE
1841 string "Default Remote NLS Option"
1842 depends on SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
1845 This setting allows you to specify a default value for which
1846 codepage the server uses. If this field is left blank no
1847 translations will be done by default. The local codepage/charset
1848 default to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT.
1850 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount
1851 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters.
1853 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
1856 tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem for Samba, Window and other CIFS compliant servers)"
1860 This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System
1861 (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block
1862 (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early
1863 PC operating systems. The CIFS protocol is fully supported by
1864 file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4
1865 and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS
1866 server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited
1867 support for Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well.
1868 You must use the smbfs client filesystem to access older SMB servers
1869 such as OS/2 and DOS.
1871 The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced
1872 network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers,
1873 including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user
1874 session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional
1875 packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements,
1876 and optional Winbind (nsswitch) integration. You do not need to enable
1877 cifs if running only a (Samba) server. It is possible to enable both
1878 smbfs and cifs (e.g. if you are using CIFS for accessing Windows 2003
1879 and Samba 3 servers, and smbfs for accessing old servers). If you need
1880 to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y.
1883 bool "CIFS statistics"
1886 Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share
1887 mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats
1890 bool "Extended statistics"
1891 depends on CIFS_STATS
1893 Enabling this option will allow more detailed statistics on SMB
1894 request timing to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData and also
1895 allow optional logging of slow responses to dmesg (depending on the
1896 value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI, see fs/cifs/README for more details).
1897 These additional statistics may have a minor effect on performance
1898 and memory utilization.
1900 Unless you are a developer or are doing network performance analysis
1903 config CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH
1904 bool "Support legacy servers which use weaker LANMAN security"
1907 Modern CIFS servers including Samba and most Windows versions
1908 (since 1997) support stronger NTLM (and even NTLMv2 and Kerberos)
1909 security mechanisms. These hash the password more securely
1910 than the mechanisms used in the older LANMAN version of the
1911 SMB protocol needed to establish sessions with old SMB servers.
1913 Enabling this option allows the cifs module to mount to older
1914 LANMAN based servers such as OS/2 and Windows 95, but such
1915 mounts may be less secure than mounts using NTLM or more recent
1916 security mechanisms if you are on a public network. Unless you
1917 have a need to access old SMB servers (and are on a private
1918 network) you probably want to say N. Even if this support
1919 is enabled in the kernel build, they will not be used
1920 automatically. At runtime LANMAN mounts are disabled but
1921 can be set to required (or optional) either in
1922 /proc/fs/cifs (see fs/cifs/README for more detail) or via an
1923 option on the mount command. This support is disabled by
1924 default in order to reduce the possibility of a downgrade
1930 bool "CIFS extended attributes"
1933 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
1934 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
1935 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). CIFS maps the name of
1936 extended attributes beginning with the user namespace prefix
1937 to SMB/CIFS EAs. EAs are stored on Windows servers without the
1938 user namespace prefix, but their names are seen by Linux cifs clients
1939 prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace
1940 (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at
1946 bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions"
1947 depends on CIFS_XATTR
1949 Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to
1950 negotiate a newer dialect with servers, such as Samba 3.0.5
1951 or later, that optionally can handle more POSIX like (rather
1952 than Windows like) file behavior. It also enables
1953 support for POSIX ACLs (getfacl and setfacl) to servers
1954 (such as Samba 3.10 and later) which can negotiate
1955 CIFS POSIX ACL support. If unsure, say N.
1958 bool "Enable additional CIFS debugging routines"
1961 Enabling this option adds a few more debugging routines
1962 to the cifs code which slightly increases the size of
1963 the cifs module and can cause additional logging of debug
1964 messages in some error paths, slowing performance. This
1965 option can be turned off unless you are debugging
1966 cifs problems. If unsure, say N.
1968 config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
1969 bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1970 depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL
1972 Enables cifs features under testing. These features are
1973 experimental and currently include support for writepages
1974 (multipage writebehind performance improvements) and directory
1975 change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY) as well as some security
1976 improvements. Some also depend on setting at runtime the
1977 pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental (which is disabled by
1978 default). See the file fs/cifs/README for more details.
1983 bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1984 depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
1985 depends on CONNECTOR
1987 Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which will be used to contact
1988 userspace helper utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged Kerberos
1989 tickets which are needed to mount to certain secure servers
1990 (for which more secure Kerberos authentication is required). If
1994 tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)"
1995 depends on IPX!=n || INET
1997 NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) is a protocol that runs over IPX and is
1998 used by Novell NetWare clients to talk to file servers. It is to
1999 IPX what NFS is to TCP/IP, if that helps. Saying Y here allows you
2000 to mount NetWare file server volumes and to access them just like
2001 any other Unix directory. For details, please read the file
2002 <file:Documentation/filesystems/ncpfs.txt> in the kernel source and
2003 the IPX-HOWTO from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
2005 You do not have to say Y here if you want your Linux box to act as a
2006 file *server* for Novell NetWare clients.
2008 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
2009 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
2011 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
2012 ncpfs. Say N unless you are connected to a Novell network.
2014 source "fs/ncpfs/Kconfig"
2017 tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)"
2020 Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it
2021 enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them
2022 with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard
2023 disk. Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for
2024 disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server
2025 replication, security model for authentication and encryption,
2026 persistent client caches and write back caching.
2028 If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda
2029 *client*. You will need user level code as well, both for the
2030 client and server. Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need
2031 no kernel support. Please read
2032 <file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.txt> and check out the Coda
2033 home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>.
2035 To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the
2036 module will be called coda.
2038 config CODA_FS_OLD_API
2039 bool "Use 96-bit Coda file identifiers"
2042 A new kernel-userspace API had to be introduced for Coda v6.0
2043 to support larger 128-bit file identifiers as needed by the
2044 new realms implementation.
2046 However this new API is not backward compatible with older
2047 clients. If you really need to run the old Coda userspace
2048 cache manager then say Y.
2050 For most cases you probably want to say N.
2053 tristate "Andrew File System support (AFS) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
2054 depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL
2057 If you say Y here, you will get an experimental Andrew File System
2058 driver. It currently only supports unsecured read-only AFS access.
2060 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information.
2068 tristate "Plan 9 Resource Sharing Support (9P2000) (Experimental)"
2069 depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL
2071 If you say Y here, you will get experimental support for
2072 Plan 9 resource sharing via the 9P2000 protocol.
2074 See <http://v9fs.sf.net> for more information.
2081 menu "Partition Types"
2083 source "fs/partitions/Kconfig"
2088 source "fs/nls/Kconfig"
2089 source "fs/dlm/Kconfig"