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 "The Extended 4 (ext4) filesystem"
144 This is the next generation of the ext3 filesystem.
146 Unlike the change from ext2 filesystem to ext3 filesystem,
147 the on-disk format of ext4 is not forwards compatible with
148 ext3; it is based on extent maps and it supports 48-bit
149 physical block numbers. The ext4 filesystem also supports delayed
150 allocation, persistent preallocation, high resolution time stamps,
151 and a number of other features to improve performance and speed
152 up fsck time. For more information, please see the web pages at
153 http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org.
155 The ext4 filesystem will support mounting an ext3
156 filesystem; while there will be some performance gains from
157 the delayed allocation and inode table readahead, the best
158 performance gains will require enabling ext4 features in the
159 filesystem, or formating a new filesystem as an ext4
160 filesystem initially.
162 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here. The
163 module will be called ext4dev.
167 config EXT4DEV_COMPAT
168 bool "Enable ext4dev compatibility"
171 Starting with 2.6.28, the name of the ext4 filesystem was
172 renamed from ext4dev to ext4. Unfortunately there are some
173 legacy userspace programs (such as klibc's fstype) have
176 To enable backwards compatibility so that systems that are
177 still expecting to mount ext4 filesystems using ext4dev,
178 chose Y here. This feature will go away by 2.6.31, so
179 please arrange to get your userspace programs fixed!
182 bool "Ext4 extended attributes"
186 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
187 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
188 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
192 You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext4.
194 config EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL
195 bool "Ext4 POSIX Access Control Lists"
196 depends on EXT4_FS_XATTR
199 POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
200 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
202 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for
203 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
205 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
207 config EXT4_FS_SECURITY
208 bool "Ext4 Security Labels"
209 depends on EXT4_FS_XATTR
211 Security labels support alternative access control models
212 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
213 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
214 labels in the ext4 filesystem.
216 If you are not using a security module that requires using
217 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
222 This is a generic journalling layer for block devices. It is
223 currently used by the ext3 file system, but it could also be
224 used to add journal support to other file systems or block
225 devices such as RAID or LVM.
227 If you are using the ext3 file system, you need to say Y here.
228 If you are not using ext3 then you will probably want to say N.
230 To compile this device as a module, choose M here: the module will be
231 called jbd. If you are compiling ext3 into the kernel, you
232 cannot compile this code as a module.
235 bool "JBD (ext3) debugging support"
236 depends on JBD && DEBUG_FS
238 If you are using the ext3 journaled file system (or potentially any
239 other file system/device using JBD), this option allows you to
240 enable debugging output while the system is running, in order to
241 help track down any problems you are having. By default the
242 debugging output will be turned off.
244 If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging
245 with "echo N > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd/jbd-debug", where N is a
246 number between 1 and 5, the higher the number, the more debugging
247 output is generated. To turn debugging off again, do
248 "echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd/jbd-debug".
254 This is a generic journaling layer for block devices that support
255 both 32-bit and 64-bit block numbers. It is currently used by
256 the ext4 and OCFS2 filesystems, but it could also be used to add
257 journal support to other file systems or block devices such
260 If you are using ext4 or OCFS2, you need to say Y here.
261 If you are not using ext4 or OCFS2 then you will
262 probably want to say N.
264 To compile this device as a module, choose M here. The module will be
265 called jbd2. If you are compiling ext4 or OCFS2 into the kernel,
266 you cannot compile this code as a module.
269 bool "JBD2 (ext4) debugging support"
270 depends on JBD2 && DEBUG_FS
272 If you are using the ext4 journaled file system (or
273 potentially any other filesystem/device using JBD2), this option
274 allows you to enable debugging output while the system is running,
275 in order to help track down any problems you are having.
276 By default, the debugging output will be turned off.
278 If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging
279 with "echo N > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd2/jbd2-debug", where N is a
280 number between 1 and 5. The higher the number, the more debugging
281 output is generated. To turn debugging off again, do
282 "echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd2/jbd2-debug".
285 # Meta block cache for Extended Attributes (ext2/ext3/ext4)
287 depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR || EXT3_FS_XATTR || EXT4_FS_XATTR
288 default y if EXT2_FS=y || EXT3_FS=y || EXT4_FS=y
289 default m if EXT2_FS=m || EXT3_FS=m || EXT4_FS=m
292 tristate "Reiserfs support"
294 Stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a balanced
295 tree. Uses journalling.
297 Balanced trees are more efficient than traditional file system
298 architectural foundations.
300 In general, ReiserFS is as fast as ext2, but is very efficient with
301 large directories and small files. Additional patches are needed
302 for NFS and quotas, please see <http://www.namesys.com/> for links.
304 It is more easily extended to have features currently found in
305 database and keyword search systems than block allocation based file
306 systems are. The next version will be so extended, and will support
307 plugins consistent with our motto ``It takes more than a license to
308 make source code open.''
310 Read <http://www.namesys.com/> to learn more about reiserfs.
312 Sponsored by Threshold Networks, Emusic.com, and Bigstorage.com.
314 If you like it, you can pay us to add new features to it that you
315 need, buy a support contract, or pay us to port it to another OS.
317 config REISERFS_CHECK
318 bool "Enable reiserfs debug mode"
319 depends on REISERFS_FS
321 If you set this to Y, then ReiserFS will perform every check it can
322 possibly imagine of its internal consistency throughout its
323 operation. It will also go substantially slower. More than once we
324 have forgotten that this was on, and then gone despondent over the
325 latest benchmarks.:-) Use of this option allows our team to go all
326 out in checking for consistency when debugging without fear of its
327 effect on end users. If you are on the verge of sending in a bug
328 report, say Y and you might get a useful error message. Almost
329 everyone should say N.
331 config REISERFS_PROC_INFO
332 bool "Stats in /proc/fs/reiserfs"
333 depends on REISERFS_FS && PROC_FS
335 Create under /proc/fs/reiserfs a hierarchy of files, displaying
336 various ReiserFS statistics and internal data at the expense of
337 making your kernel or module slightly larger (+8 KB). This also
338 increases the amount of kernel memory required for each mount.
339 Almost everyone but ReiserFS developers and people fine-tuning
340 reiserfs or tracing problems should say N.
342 config REISERFS_FS_XATTR
343 bool "ReiserFS extended attributes"
344 depends on REISERFS_FS
346 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
347 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
348 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
352 config REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL
353 bool "ReiserFS POSIX Access Control Lists"
354 depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR
357 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
358 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
360 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
361 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
363 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
365 config REISERFS_FS_SECURITY
366 bool "ReiserFS Security Labels"
367 depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR
369 Security labels support alternative access control models
370 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
371 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
372 labels in the ReiserFS filesystem.
374 If you are not using a security module that requires using
375 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
378 tristate "JFS filesystem support"
381 This is a port of IBM's Journaled Filesystem . More information is
382 available in the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt>.
384 If you do not intend to use the JFS filesystem, say N.
387 bool "JFS POSIX Access Control Lists"
391 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
392 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
394 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
395 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
397 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
400 bool "JFS Security Labels"
403 Security labels support alternative access control models
404 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
405 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
406 labels in the jfs filesystem.
408 If you are not using a security module that requires using
409 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
415 If you are experiencing any problems with the JFS filesystem, say
416 Y here. This will result in additional debugging messages to be
417 written to the system log. Under normal circumstances, this
418 results in very little overhead.
420 config JFS_STATISTICS
421 bool "JFS statistics"
424 Enabling this option will cause statistics from the JFS file system
425 to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jfs/ directory.
428 # Posix ACL utility routines (for now, only ext2/ext3/jfs/reiserfs/nfs4)
430 # NOTE: you can implement Posix ACLs without these helpers (XFS does).
431 # Never use this symbol for ifdefs.
437 bool "Enable POSIX file locking API" if EMBEDDED
440 This option enables standard file locking support, required
441 for filesystems like NFS and for the flock() system
442 call. Disabling this option saves about 11k.
444 source "fs/xfs/Kconfig"
445 source "fs/gfs2/Kconfig"
448 tristate "OCFS2 file system support"
449 depends on NET && SYSFS
454 OCFS2 is a general purpose extent based shared disk cluster file
455 system with many similarities to ext3. It supports 64 bit inode
456 numbers, and has automatically extending metadata groups which may
457 also make it attractive for non-clustered use.
459 You'll want to install the ocfs2-tools package in order to at least
462 Project web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2
463 Tools web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools
464 OCFS2 mailing lists: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/mailman/
466 For more information on OCFS2, see the file
467 <file:Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt>.
470 tristate "O2CB Kernelspace Clustering"
474 OCFS2 includes a simple kernelspace clustering package, the OCFS2
475 Cluster Base. It only requires a very small userspace component
476 to configure it. This comes with the standard ocfs2-tools package.
477 O2CB is limited to maintaining a cluster for OCFS2 file systems.
478 It cannot manage any other cluster applications.
480 It is always safe to say Y here, as the clustering method is
483 config OCFS2_FS_USERSPACE_CLUSTER
484 tristate "OCFS2 Userspace Clustering"
485 depends on OCFS2_FS && DLM
488 This option will allow OCFS2 to use userspace clustering services
489 in conjunction with the DLM in fs/dlm. If you are using a
490 userspace cluster manager, say Y here.
492 It is safe to say Y, as the clustering method is run-time
495 config OCFS2_FS_STATS
496 bool "OCFS2 statistics"
500 This option allows some fs statistics to be captured. Enabling
501 this option may increase the memory consumption.
503 config OCFS2_DEBUG_MASKLOG
504 bool "OCFS2 logging support"
508 The ocfs2 filesystem has an extensive logging system. The system
509 allows selection of events to log via files in /sys/o2cb/logmask/.
510 This option will enlarge your kernel, but it allows debugging of
511 ocfs2 filesystem issues.
513 config OCFS2_DEBUG_FS
514 bool "OCFS2 expensive checks"
518 This option will enable expensive consistency checks. Enable
519 this option for debugging only as it is likely to decrease
520 performance of the filesystem.
522 config OCFS2_COMPAT_JBD
523 bool "Use JBD for compatibility"
528 The ocfs2 filesystem now uses JBD2 for its journalling. JBD2
529 is backwards compatible with JBD. It is safe to say N here.
530 However, if you really want to use the original JBD, say Y here.
535 bool "Dnotify support"
538 Dnotify is a directory-based per-fd file change notification system
539 that uses signals to communicate events to user-space. There exist
540 superior alternatives, but some applications may still rely on
546 bool "Inotify file change notification support"
549 Say Y here to enable inotify support. Inotify is a file change
550 notification system and a replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes
551 numerous shortcomings in dnotify and introduces several new features
552 including multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount
555 For more information, see <file:Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt>
560 bool "Inotify support for userspace"
564 Say Y here to enable inotify support for userspace, including the
565 associated system calls. Inotify allows monitoring of both files and
566 directories via a single open fd. Events are read from the file
567 descriptor, which is also select()- and poll()-able.
569 For more information, see <file:Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt>
576 If you say Y here, you will be able to set per user limits for disk
577 usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works for the
578 ext2, ext3, and reiserfs file system. ext3 also supports journalled
579 quotas for which you don't need to run quotacheck(8) after an unclean
581 For further details, read the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from
582 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or the documentation provided
583 with the quota tools. Probably the quota support is only useful for
584 multi user systems. If unsure, say N.
586 config QUOTA_NETLINK_INTERFACE
587 bool "Report quota messages through netlink interface"
588 depends on QUOTA && NET
590 If you say Y here, quota warnings (about exceeding softlimit, reaching
591 hardlimit, etc.) will be reported through netlink interface. If unsure,
594 config PRINT_QUOTA_WARNING
595 bool "Print quota warnings to console (OBSOLETE)"
599 If you say Y here, quota warnings (about exceeding softlimit, reaching
600 hardlimit, etc.) will be printed to the process' controlling terminal.
601 Note that this behavior is currently deprecated and may go away in
602 future. Please use notification via netlink socket instead.
605 tristate "Old quota format support"
608 This quota format was (is) used by kernels earlier than 2.4.22. If
609 you have quota working and you don't want to convert to new quota
613 tristate "Quota format v2 support"
616 This quota format allows using quotas with 32-bit UIDs/GIDs. If you
617 need this functionality say Y here.
621 depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA
625 tristate "Kernel automounter support"
627 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
628 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
629 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
630 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
632 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs
633 package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>.
634 You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
636 If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more
637 features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support",
640 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
643 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you
644 probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here.
647 tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)"
649 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
650 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
651 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
652 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
654 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from
655 <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/>; you also
656 want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
658 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
659 called autofs4. You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your
660 modules configuration file.
662 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or
663 don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the
664 local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say
668 tristate "Filesystem in Userspace support"
670 With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem
671 in a userspace program.
673 There's also companion library: libfuse. This library along with
674 utilities is available from the FUSE homepage:
675 <http://fuse.sourceforge.net/>
677 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt> for more information.
678 See <file:Documentation/Changes> for needed library/utility version.
680 If you want to develop a userspace FS, or if you want to use
681 a filesystem based on FUSE, answer Y or M.
688 menu "CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems"
691 tristate "ISO 9660 CDROM file system support"
693 This is the standard file system used on CD-ROMs. It was previously
694 known as "High Sierra File System" and is called "hsfs" on other
695 Unix systems. The so-called Rock-Ridge extensions which allow for
696 long Unix filenames and symbolic links are also supported by this
697 driver. If you have a CD-ROM drive and want to do more with it than
698 just listen to audio CDs and watch its LEDs, say Y (and read
699 <file:Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt> and the CD-ROM-HOWTO,
700 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), thereby
701 enlarging your kernel by about 27 KB; otherwise say N.
703 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
704 module will be called isofs.
707 bool "Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions"
708 depends on ISO9660_FS
711 Joliet is a Microsoft extension for the ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system
712 which allows for long filenames in unicode format (unicode is the
713 new 16 bit character code, successor to ASCII, which encodes the
714 characters of almost all languages of the world; see
715 <http://www.unicode.org/> for more information). Say Y here if you
716 want to be able to read Joliet CD-ROMs under Linux.
719 bool "Transparent decompression extension"
720 depends on ISO9660_FS
723 This is a Linux-specific extension to RockRidge which lets you store
724 data in compressed form on a CD-ROM and have it transparently
725 decompressed when the CD-ROM is accessed. See
726 <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/zisofs/> for the tools
727 necessary to create such a filesystem. Say Y here if you want to be
728 able to read such compressed CD-ROMs.
731 tristate "UDF file system support"
734 This is the new file system used on some CD-ROMs and DVDs. Say Y if
735 you intend to mount DVD discs or CDRW's written in packet mode, or
736 if written to by other UDF utilities, such as DirectCD.
737 Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt>.
739 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
740 module will be called udf.
747 depends on (UDF_FS=m && NLS) || (UDF_FS=y && NLS=y)
753 menu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems"
759 If you want to use one of the FAT-based file systems (the MS-DOS and
760 VFAT (Windows 95) file systems), then you must say Y or M here
761 to include FAT support. You will then be able to mount partitions or
762 diskettes with FAT-based file systems and transparently access the
763 files on them, i.e. MSDOS files will look and behave just like all
766 This FAT support is not a file system in itself, it only provides
767 the foundation for the other file systems. You will have to say Y or
768 M to at least one of "MSDOS fs support" or "VFAT fs support" in
769 order to make use of it.
771 Another way to read and write MSDOS floppies and hard drive
772 partitions from within Linux (but not transparently) is with the
773 mtools ("man mtools") program suite. You don't need to say Y here in
776 If you need to move large files on floppies between a DOS and a
777 Linux box, say Y here, mount the floppy under Linux with an MSDOS
778 file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program
779 available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar").
781 The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure,
784 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
785 fat. Note that if you compile the FAT support as a module, you
786 cannot compile any of the FAT-based file systems into the kernel
787 -- they will have to be modules as well.
790 tristate "MSDOS fs support"
793 This allows you to mount MSDOS partitions of your hard drive (unless
794 they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under
795 Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the
796 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from
797 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in
798 <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you
799 intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y
800 here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes
801 transparent, i.e. the MSDOS files look and behave just like all
804 If you have Windows 95 or Windows NT installed on your MSDOS
805 partitions, you should use the VFAT file system (say Y to "VFAT fs
806 support" below), or you will not be able to see the long filenames
807 generated by Windows 95 / Windows NT.
809 This option will enlarge your kernel by about 7 KB. If unsure,
810 answer Y. This will only work if you said Y to "DOS FAT fs support"
811 as well. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will
815 tristate "VFAT (Windows-95) fs support"
818 This option provides support for normal Windows file systems with
819 long filenames. That includes non-compressed FAT-based file systems
820 used by Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and the Unix
821 programs from the mtools package.
823 The VFAT support enlarges your kernel by about 10 KB and it only
824 works if you said Y to the "DOS FAT fs support" above. Please read
825 the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for details. If
828 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
831 config FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE
832 int "Default codepage for FAT"
833 depends on MSDOS_FS || VFAT_FS
836 This option should be set to the codepage of your FAT filesystems.
837 It can be overridden with the "codepage" mount option.
838 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
840 config FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET
841 string "Default iocharset for FAT"
845 Set this to the default input/output character set you'd
846 like FAT to use. It should probably match the character set
847 that most of your FAT filesystems use, and can be overridden
848 with the "iocharset" mount option for FAT filesystems.
849 Note that "utf8" is not recommended for FAT filesystems.
850 If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here.
851 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
854 tristate "NTFS file system support"
857 NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003.
859 Saying Y or M here enables read support. There is partial, but
860 safe, write support available. For write support you must also
861 say Y to "NTFS write support" below.
863 There are also a number of user-space tools available, called
864 ntfsprogs. These include ntfsundelete and ntfsresize, that work
865 without NTFS support enabled in the kernel.
867 This is a rewrite from scratch of Linux NTFS support and replaced
868 the old NTFS code starting with Linux 2.5.11. A backport to
869 the Linux 2.4 kernel series is separately available as a patch
870 from the project web site.
872 For more information see <file:Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt>
873 and <http://www.linux-ntfs.org/>.
875 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
876 module will be called ntfs.
878 If you are not using Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 in addition to
879 Linux on your computer it is safe to say N.
882 bool "NTFS debugging support"
885 If you are experiencing any problems with the NTFS file system, say
886 Y here. This will result in additional consistency checks to be
887 performed by the driver as well as additional debugging messages to
888 be written to the system log. Note that debugging messages are
889 disabled by default. To enable them, supply the option debug_msgs=1
890 at the kernel command line when booting the kernel or as an option
891 to insmod when loading the ntfs module. Once the driver is active,
892 you can enable debugging messages by doing (as root):
893 echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug
894 Replacing the "1" with "0" would disable debug messages.
896 If you leave debugging messages disabled, this results in little
897 overhead, but enabling debug messages results in very significant
898 slowdown of the system.
900 When reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of
901 debugging messages while the misbehaviour was occurring.
904 bool "NTFS write support"
907 This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver.
909 The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without
910 changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or
911 renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to
912 so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot
915 While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have
916 so far not received a single report where the driver would have
917 damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use.
919 Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from
920 scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS
921 write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997),
924 This is currently useful with TopologiLinux. TopologiLinux is run
925 on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your
926 hard disk. Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not
927 need its own partition. For more information see
928 <http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/>
930 It is perfectly safe to say N here.
935 menu "Pseudo filesystems"
937 source "fs/proc/Kconfig"
940 bool "sysfs file system support" if EMBEDDED
943 The sysfs filesystem is a virtual filesystem that the kernel uses to
944 export internal kernel objects, their attributes, and their
945 relationships to one another.
947 Users can use sysfs to ascertain useful information about the running
948 kernel, such as the devices the kernel has discovered on each bus and
949 which driver each is bound to. sysfs can also be used to tune devices
950 and other kernel subsystems.
952 Some system agents rely on the information in sysfs to operate.
953 /sbin/hotplug uses device and object attributes in sysfs to assist in
954 delegating policy decisions, like persistently naming devices.
956 sysfs is currently used by the block subsystem to mount the root
957 partition. If sysfs is disabled you must specify the boot device on
958 the kernel boot command line via its major and minor numbers. For
959 example, "root=03:01" for /dev/hda1.
961 Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space.
964 bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)"
966 Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory.
968 Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be
969 created on your hard drive. The files live in memory and swap
970 space. If you unmount a tmpfs instance, everything stored therein is
973 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> for details.
975 config TMPFS_POSIX_ACL
976 bool "Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists"
980 POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
981 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
983 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for
984 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
986 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N.
989 bool "HugeTLB file system support"
990 depends on X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || (SUPERH && MMU) || \
991 (S390 && 64BIT) || BROKEN
993 hugetlbfs is a filesystem backing for HugeTLB pages, based on
994 ramfs. For architectures that support it, say Y here and read
995 <file:Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt> for details.
1003 tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem"
1006 configfs is a ram-based filesystem that provides the converse
1007 of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based
1008 view of kernel objects, configfs is a filesystem-based manager
1009 of kernel objects, or config_items.
1011 Both sysfs and configfs can and should exist together on the
1012 same system. One is not a replacement for the other.
1016 menu "Miscellaneous filesystems"
1019 tristate "ADFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1020 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1022 The Acorn Disc Filing System is the standard file system of the
1023 RiscOS operating system which runs on Acorn's ARM-based Risc PC
1024 systems and the Acorn Archimedes range of machines. If you say Y
1025 here, Linux will be able to read from ADFS partitions on hard drives
1026 and from ADFS-formatted floppy discs. If you also want to be able to
1027 write to those devices, say Y to "ADFS write support" below.
1029 The ADFS partition should be the first partition (i.e.,
1030 /dev/[hs]d?1) on each of your drives. Please read the file
1031 <file:Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt> for further details.
1033 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be
1039 bool "ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)"
1042 If you say Y here, you will be able to write to ADFS partitions on
1043 hard drives and ADFS-formatted floppy disks. This is experimental
1044 codes, so if you're unsure, say N.
1047 tristate "Amiga FFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1048 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1050 The Fast File System (FFS) is the common file system used on hard
1051 disks by Amiga(tm) systems since AmigaOS Version 1.3 (34.20). Say Y
1052 if you want to be able to read and write files from and to an Amiga
1053 FFS partition on your hard drive. Amiga floppies however cannot be
1054 read with this driver due to an incompatibility of the floppy
1055 controller used in an Amiga and the standard floppy controller in
1056 PCs and workstations. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt>
1057 and <file:fs/affs/Changes>.
1059 With this driver you can also mount disk files used by Bernd
1060 Schmidt's Un*X Amiga Emulator
1061 (<http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/>).
1062 If you want to do this, you will also need to say Y or M to "Loop
1063 device support", above.
1065 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1066 module will be called affs. If unsure, say N.
1069 tristate "eCrypt filesystem layer support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1070 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && KEYS && CRYPTO && NET
1072 Encrypted filesystem that operates on the VFS layer. See
1073 <file:Documentation/filesystems/ecryptfs.txt> to learn more about
1074 eCryptfs. Userspace components are required and can be
1075 obtained from <http://ecryptfs.sf.net>.
1077 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1078 module will be called ecryptfs.
1081 tristate "Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1082 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1085 If you say Y here, you will be able to mount Macintosh-formatted
1086 floppy disks and hard drive partitions with full read-write access.
1087 Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/hfs.txt> to learn about
1088 the available mount options.
1090 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1091 module will be called hfs.
1094 tristate "Apple Extended HFS file system support"
1099 If you say Y here, you will be able to mount extended format
1100 Macintosh-formatted hard drive partitions with full read-write access.
1102 This file system is often called HFS+ and was introduced with
1103 MacOS 8. It includes all Mac specific filesystem data such as
1104 data forks and creator codes, but it also has several UNIX
1105 style features such as file ownership and permissions.
1108 tristate "BeOS file system (BeFS) support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1109 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1112 The BeOS File System (BeFS) is the native file system of Be, Inc's
1113 BeOS. Notable features include support for arbitrary attributes
1114 on files and directories, and database-like indices on selected
1115 attributes. (Also note that this driver doesn't make those features
1116 available at this time). It is a 64 bit filesystem, so it supports
1117 extremely large volumes and files.
1119 If you use this filesystem, you should also say Y to at least one
1120 of the NLS (native language support) options below.
1122 If you don't know what this is about, say N.
1124 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
1131 If you say Y here, you can use the 'debug' mount option to enable
1132 debugging output from the driver.
1135 tristate "BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1136 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1138 Boot File System (BFS) is a file system used under SCO UnixWare to
1139 allow the bootloader access to the kernel image and other important
1140 files during the boot process. It is usually mounted under /stand
1141 and corresponds to the slice marked as "STAND" in the UnixWare
1142 partition. You should say Y if you want to read or write the files
1143 on your /stand slice from within Linux. You then also need to say Y
1144 to "UnixWare slices support", below. More information about the BFS
1145 file system is contained in the file
1146 <file:Documentation/filesystems/bfs.txt>.
1148 If you don't know what this is about, say N.
1150 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1151 bfs. Note that the file system of your root partition (the one
1152 containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
1157 tristate "EFS file system support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1158 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1160 EFS is an older file system used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and hard
1161 disk partitions by SGI's IRIX operating system (IRIX 6.0 and newer
1162 uses the XFS file system for hard disk partitions however).
1164 This implementation only offers read-only access. If you don't know
1165 what all this is about, it's safe to say N. For more information
1166 about EFS see its home page at <http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/>.
1168 To compile the EFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1169 module will be called efs.
1172 tristate "Journalling Flash File System v2 (JFFS2) support"
1176 JFFS2 is the second generation of the Journalling Flash File System
1177 for use on diskless embedded devices. It provides improved wear
1178 levelling, compression and support for hard links. You cannot use
1179 this on normal block devices, only on 'MTD' devices.
1181 Further information on the design and implementation of JFFS2 is
1182 available at <http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2/>.
1184 config JFFS2_FS_DEBUG
1185 int "JFFS2 debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 2 = noisy)"
1189 This controls the amount of debugging messages produced by the JFFS2
1190 code. Set it to zero for use in production systems. For evaluation,
1191 testing and debugging, it's advisable to set it to one. This will
1192 enable a few assertions and will print debugging messages at the
1193 KERN_DEBUG loglevel, where they won't normally be visible. Level 2
1194 is unlikely to be useful - it enables extra debugging in certain
1195 areas which at one point needed debugging, but when the bugs were
1196 located and fixed, the detailed messages were relegated to level 2.
1198 If reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of the
1199 messages at debug level 1 while the misbehaviour was occurring.
1201 config JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER
1202 bool "JFFS2 write-buffering support"
1206 This enables the write-buffering support in JFFS2.
1208 This functionality is required to support JFFS2 on the following
1209 types of flash devices:
1211 - NOR flash with transparent ECC
1214 config JFFS2_FS_WBUF_VERIFY
1215 bool "Verify JFFS2 write-buffer reads"
1216 depends on JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER
1219 This causes JFFS2 to read back every page written through the
1220 write-buffer, and check for errors.
1222 config JFFS2_SUMMARY
1223 bool "JFFS2 summary support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1224 depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1227 This feature makes it possible to use summary information
1228 for faster filesystem mount.
1230 The summary information can be inserted into a filesystem image
1231 by the utility 'sumtool'.
1235 config JFFS2_FS_XATTR
1236 bool "JFFS2 XATTR support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1237 depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1240 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
1241 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
1242 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
1246 config JFFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL
1247 bool "JFFS2 POSIX Access Control Lists"
1248 depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR
1252 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
1253 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
1255 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
1256 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
1258 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
1260 config JFFS2_FS_SECURITY
1261 bool "JFFS2 Security Labels"
1262 depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR
1265 Security labels support alternative access control models
1266 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
1267 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
1268 labels in the jffs2 filesystem.
1270 If you are not using a security module that requires using
1271 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
1273 config JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1274 bool "Advanced compression options for JFFS2"
1278 Enabling this option allows you to explicitly choose which
1279 compression modules, if any, are enabled in JFFS2. Removing
1280 compressors can mean you cannot read existing file systems,
1281 and enabling experimental compressors can mean that you
1282 write a file system which cannot be read by a standard kernel.
1284 If unsure, you should _definitely_ say 'N'.
1287 bool "JFFS2 ZLIB compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1293 Zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered,
1294 lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer
1295 hardware and operating system. See <http://www.gzip.org/zlib/> for
1296 further information.
1301 bool "JFFS2 LZO compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1303 select LZO_DECOMPRESS
1307 minilzo-based compression. Generally works better than Zlib.
1309 This feature was added in July, 2007. Say 'N' if you need
1310 compatibility with older bootloaders or kernels.
1313 bool "JFFS2 RTIME compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1317 Rtime does manage to recompress already-compressed data. Say 'Y' if unsure.
1320 bool "JFFS2 RUBIN compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1324 RUBINMIPS and DYNRUBIN compressors. Say 'N' if unsure.
1327 prompt "JFFS2 default compression mode" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1328 default JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY
1331 You can set here the default compression mode of JFFS2 from
1332 the available compression modes. Don't touch if unsure.
1334 config JFFS2_CMODE_NONE
1335 bool "no compression"
1337 Uses no compression.
1339 config JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY
1342 Tries the compressors in a predefined order and chooses the first
1345 config JFFS2_CMODE_SIZE
1346 bool "size (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1348 Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest
1351 config JFFS2_CMODE_FAVOURLZO
1354 Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest
1355 result but gives some preference to LZO (which has faster
1356 decompression) at the expense of size.
1360 # UBIFS File system configuration
1361 source "fs/ubifs/Kconfig"
1364 tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)"
1368 Saying Y here includes support for CramFs (Compressed ROM File
1369 System). CramFs is designed to be a simple, small, and compressed
1370 file system for ROM based embedded systems. CramFs is read-only,
1371 limited to 256MB file systems (with 16MB files), and doesn't support
1372 16/32 bits uid/gid, hard links and timestamps.
1374 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt> and
1375 <file:fs/cramfs/README> for further information.
1377 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1378 cramfs. Note that the root file system (the one containing the
1379 directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
1384 tristate "FreeVxFS file system support (VERITAS VxFS(TM) compatible)"
1387 FreeVxFS is a file system driver that support the VERITAS VxFS(TM)
1388 file system format. VERITAS VxFS(TM) is the standard file system
1389 of SCO UnixWare (and possibly others) and optionally available
1390 for Sunsoft Solaris, HP-UX and many other operating systems.
1391 Currently only readonly access is supported.
1393 NOTE: the file system type as used by mount(1), mount(2) and
1394 fstab(5) is 'vxfs' as it describes the file system format, not
1397 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
1398 called freevxfs. If unsure, say N.
1401 tristate "Minix file system support"
1404 Minix is a simple operating system used in many classes about OS's.
1405 The minix file system (method to organize files on a hard disk
1406 partition or a floppy disk) was the original file system for Linux,
1407 but has been superseded by the second extended file system ext2fs.
1408 You don't want to use the minix file system on your hard disk
1409 because of certain built-in restrictions, but it is sometimes found
1410 on older Linux floppy disks. This option will enlarge your kernel
1411 by about 28 KB. If unsure, say N.
1413 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1414 module will be called minix. Note that the file system of your root
1415 partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as
1419 tristate "SonicBlue Optimized MPEG File System support"
1423 This is the proprietary file system used by the Rio Karma music
1424 player and ReplayTV DVR. Despite the name, this filesystem is not
1425 more efficient than a standard FS for MPEG files, in fact likely
1426 the opposite is true. Say Y if you have either of these devices
1427 and wish to mount its disk.
1429 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1430 module will be called omfs. If unsure, say N.
1433 tristate "OS/2 HPFS file system support"
1436 OS/2 is IBM's operating system for PC's, the same as Warp, and HPFS
1437 is the file system used for organizing files on OS/2 hard disk
1438 partitions. Say Y if you want to be able to read files from and
1439 write files to an OS/2 HPFS partition on your hard drive. OS/2
1440 floppies however are in regular MSDOS format, so you don't need this
1441 option in order to be able to read them. Read
1442 <file:Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt>.
1444 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1445 module will be called hpfs. If unsure, say N.
1449 tristate "QNX4 file system support (read only)"
1452 This is the file system used by the real-time operating systems
1453 QNX 4 and QNX 6 (the latter is also called QNX RTP).
1454 Further information is available at <http://www.qnx.com/>.
1455 Say Y if you intend to mount QNX hard disks or floppies.
1456 Unless you say Y to "QNX4FS read-write support" below, you will
1457 only be able to read these file systems.
1459 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1460 module will be called qnx4.
1462 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
1466 bool "QNX4FS write support (DANGEROUS)"
1467 depends on QNX4FS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN
1469 Say Y if you want to test write support for QNX4 file systems.
1471 It's currently broken, so for now:
1475 tristate "ROM file system support"
1478 This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for
1479 initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for
1480 other read-only media as well. Read
1481 <file:Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt> for details.
1483 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1484 module will be called romfs. Note that the file system of your
1485 root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a
1488 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
1493 tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support"
1496 SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel
1497 machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y
1498 here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk
1501 If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely
1502 that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order
1503 to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is
1504 a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse,
1505 UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux. It is
1506 available via FTP (user: ftp) from
1507 <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>).
1508 NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems;
1509 PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-)
1511 If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the
1512 network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support
1513 (but you need NFS file system support obviously).
1515 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
1516 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
1517 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
1518 tar" or preferably "info tar"). Note also that this option has
1519 nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about
1520 the System V file system in
1521 <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>.
1522 Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB.
1524 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1527 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
1531 tristate "UFS file system support (read only)"
1534 BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
1535 OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a file system called UFS. Some System V
1536 Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using
1537 this file system as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from
1538 these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the
1539 experimental "UFS file system write support", below. Please read the
1540 file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt> for more information.
1542 The recently released UFS2 variant (used in FreeBSD 5.x) is
1543 READ-ONLY supported.
1545 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
1546 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
1547 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
1548 tar" or preferably "info tar").
1550 When accessing NeXTstep files, you may need to convert them from the
1551 NeXT character set to the Latin1 character set; use the program
1552 recode ("info recode") for this purpose.
1554 To compile the UFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1555 module will be called ufs.
1557 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
1560 bool "UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS)"
1561 depends on UFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1563 Say Y here if you want to try writing to UFS partitions. This is
1564 experimental, so you should back up your UFS partitions beforehand.
1567 bool "UFS debugging"
1570 If you are experiencing any problems with the UFS filesystem, say
1571 Y here. This will result in _many_ additional debugging messages to be
1572 written to the system log.
1576 menuconfig NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS
1577 bool "Network File Systems"
1581 Say Y here to get to see options for network filesystems and
1582 filesystem-related networking code, such as NFS daemon and
1583 RPCSEC security modules.
1585 This option alone does not add any kernel code.
1587 If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and
1588 disabled; if unsure, say Y here.
1590 if NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS
1593 tristate "NFS client support"
1597 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFS_V3_ACL
1599 Choose Y here if you want to access files residing on other
1600 computers using Sun's Network File System protocol. To compile
1601 this file system support as a module, choose M here: the module
1604 To mount file systems exported by NFS servers, you also need to
1605 install the user space mount.nfs command which can be found in
1606 the Linux nfs-utils package, available from http://linux-nfs.org/.
1607 Information about using the mount command is available in the
1608 mount(8) man page. More detail about the Linux NFS client
1609 implementation is available via the nfs(5) man page.
1611 Below you can choose which versions of the NFS protocol are
1612 available in the kernel to mount NFS servers. Support for NFS
1613 version 2 (RFC 1094) is always available when NFS_FS is selected.
1615 To configure a system which mounts its root file system via NFS
1616 at boot time, say Y here, select "Kernel level IP
1617 autoconfiguration" in the NETWORK menu, and select "Root file
1618 system on NFS" below. You cannot compile this file system as a
1619 module in this case.
1624 bool "NFS client support for NFS version 3"
1627 This option enables support for version 3 of the NFS protocol
1628 (RFC 1813) in the kernel's NFS client.
1633 bool "NFS client support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension"
1636 Some NFS servers support an auxiliary NFSv3 ACL protocol that
1637 Sun added to Solaris but never became an official part of the
1638 NFS version 3 protocol. This protocol extension allows
1639 applications on NFS clients to manipulate POSIX Access Control
1640 Lists on files residing on NFS servers. NFS servers enforce
1641 ACLs on local files whether this protocol is available or not.
1643 Choose Y here if your NFS server supports the Solaris NFSv3 ACL
1644 protocol extension and you want your NFS client to allow
1645 applications to access and modify ACLs on files on the server.
1647 Most NFS servers don't support the Solaris NFSv3 ACL protocol
1648 extension. You can choose N here or specify the "noacl" mount
1649 option to prevent your NFS client from trying to use the NFSv3
1655 bool "NFS client support for NFS version 4 (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1656 depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1657 select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
1659 This option enables support for version 4 of the NFS protocol
1660 (RFC 3530) in the kernel's NFS client.
1662 To mount NFS servers using NFSv4, you also need to install user
1663 space programs which can be found in the Linux nfs-utils package,
1664 available from http://linux-nfs.org/.
1669 bool "Root file system on NFS"
1670 depends on NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP
1672 If you want your system to mount its root file system via NFS,
1673 choose Y here. This is common practice for managing systems
1674 without local permanent storage. For details, read
1675 <file:Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt>.
1677 Most people say N here.
1680 tristate "NFS server support"
1685 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFSD_V2_ACL
1687 Choose Y here if you want to allow other computers to access
1688 files residing on this system using Sun's Network File System
1689 protocol. To compile the NFS server support as a module,
1690 choose M here: the module will be called nfsd.
1692 You may choose to use a user-space NFS server instead, in which
1693 case you can choose N here.
1695 To export local file systems using NFS, you also need to install
1696 user space programs which can be found in the Linux nfs-utils
1697 package, available from http://linux-nfs.org/. More detail about
1698 the Linux NFS server implementation is available via the
1699 exports(5) man page.
1701 Below you can choose which versions of the NFS protocol are
1702 available to clients mounting the NFS server on this system.
1703 Support for NFS version 2 (RFC 1094) is always available when
1704 CONFIG_NFSD is selected.
1713 bool "NFS server support for NFS version 3"
1716 This option enables support in your system's NFS server for
1717 version 3 of the NFS protocol (RFC 1813).
1722 bool "NFS server support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension"
1726 Solaris NFS servers support an auxiliary NFSv3 ACL protocol that
1727 never became an official part of the NFS version 3 protocol.
1728 This protocol extension allows applications on NFS clients to
1729 manipulate POSIX Access Control Lists on files residing on NFS
1730 servers. NFS servers enforce POSIX ACLs on local files whether
1731 this protocol is available or not.
1733 This option enables support in your system's NFS server for the
1734 NFSv3 ACL protocol extension allowing NFS clients to manipulate
1735 POSIX ACLs on files exported by your system's NFS server. NFS
1736 clients which support the Solaris NFSv3 ACL protocol can then
1737 access and modify ACLs on your NFS server.
1739 To store ACLs on your NFS server, you also need to enable ACL-
1740 related CONFIG options for your local file systems of choice.
1745 bool "NFS server support for NFS version 4 (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1746 depends on NFSD && PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1749 select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
1751 This option enables support in your system's NFS server for
1752 version 4 of the NFS protocol (RFC 3530).
1754 To export files using NFSv4, you need to install additional user
1755 space programs which can be found in the Linux nfs-utils package,
1756 available from http://linux-nfs.org/.
1765 depends on NFSD_V3 || NFS_V3
1771 config NFS_ACL_SUPPORT
1777 depends on NFSD || NFS_FS
1786 config SUNRPC_XPRT_RDMA
1788 depends on SUNRPC && INFINIBAND && EXPERIMENTAL
1789 default SUNRPC && INFINIBAND
1791 This option enables an RPC client transport capability that
1792 allows the NFS client to mount servers via an RDMA-enabled
1795 To compile RPC client RDMA transport support as a module,
1796 choose M here: the module will be called xprtrdma.
1800 config SUNRPC_REGISTER_V4
1801 bool "Register local RPC services via rpcbind v4 (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1802 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
1805 Sun added support for registering RPC services at an IPv6
1806 address by creating two new versions of the rpcbind protocol
1809 This option enables support in the kernel RPC server for
1810 registering kernel RPC services via version 4 of the rpcbind
1811 protocol. If you enable this option, you must run a portmapper
1812 daemon that supports rpcbind protocol version 4.
1814 Serving NFS over IPv6 from knfsd (the kernel's NFS server)
1815 requires that you enable this option and use a portmapper that
1816 supports rpcbind version 4.
1818 If unsure, say N to get traditional behavior (register kernel
1819 RPC services using only rpcbind version 2). Distributions
1820 using the legacy Linux portmapper daemon must say N here.
1822 config RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
1823 tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1824 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
1831 Choose Y here to enable Secure RPC using the Kerberos version 5
1832 GSS-API mechanism (RFC 1964).
1834 Secure RPC calls with Kerberos require an auxiliary user-space
1835 daemon which may be found in the Linux nfs-utils package
1836 available from http://linux-nfs.org/. In addition, user-space
1837 Kerberos support should be installed.
1841 config RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3
1842 tristate "Secure RPC: SPKM3 mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1843 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
1851 Choose Y here to enable Secure RPC using the SPKM3 public key
1852 GSS-API mechansim (RFC 2025).
1854 Secure RPC calls with SPKM3 require an auxiliary userspace
1855 daemon which may be found in the Linux nfs-utils package
1856 available from http://linux-nfs.org/.
1861 tristate "SMB file system support (OBSOLETE, please use CIFS)"
1865 SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Windows for Workgroups
1866 (WfW), Windows 95/98, Windows NT and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share
1867 files and printers over local networks. Saying Y here allows you to
1868 mount their file systems (often called "shares" in this context) and
1869 access them just like any other Unix directory. Currently, this
1870 works only if the Windows machines use TCP/IP as the underlying
1871 transport protocol, and not NetBEUI. For details, read
1872 <file:Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt> and the SMB-HOWTO,
1873 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
1875 Note: if you just want your box to act as an SMB *server* and make
1876 files and printing services available to Windows clients (which need
1877 to have a TCP/IP stack), you don't need to say Y here; you can use
1878 the program SAMBA (available from <ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/>)
1881 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
1882 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
1884 To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here:
1885 the module will be called smbfs. Most people say N, however.
1887 config SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
1888 bool "Use a default NLS"
1891 Enabling this will make smbfs use nls translations by default. You
1892 need to specify the local charset (CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT) in the nls
1893 settings and you need to give the default nls for the SMB server as
1894 CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE.
1896 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount
1897 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters.
1899 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
1901 config SMB_NLS_REMOTE
1902 string "Default Remote NLS Option"
1903 depends on SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
1906 This setting allows you to specify a default value for which
1907 codepage the server uses. If this field is left blank no
1908 translations will be done by default. The local codepage/charset
1909 default to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT.
1911 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount
1912 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters.
1914 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
1917 tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem, SMBFS successor)"
1921 This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System
1922 (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block
1923 (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early
1924 PC operating systems. The CIFS protocol is fully supported by
1925 file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4
1926 and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS
1927 server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited
1928 support for OS/2 and Windows ME and similar servers is provided as
1931 The cifs module provides an advanced network file system
1932 client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers. It includes
1933 support for DFS (hierarchical name space), secure per-user
1934 session establishment via Kerberos or NTLM or NTLMv2,
1935 safe distributed caching (oplock), optional packet
1936 signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements.
1937 If you need to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y.
1940 bool "CIFS statistics"
1943 Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share
1944 mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats
1947 bool "Extended statistics"
1948 depends on CIFS_STATS
1950 Enabling this option will allow more detailed statistics on SMB
1951 request timing to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData and also
1952 allow optional logging of slow responses to dmesg (depending on the
1953 value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI, see fs/cifs/README for more details).
1954 These additional statistics may have a minor effect on performance
1955 and memory utilization.
1957 Unless you are a developer or are doing network performance analysis
1960 config CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH
1961 bool "Support legacy servers which use weaker LANMAN security"
1964 Modern CIFS servers including Samba and most Windows versions
1965 (since 1997) support stronger NTLM (and even NTLMv2 and Kerberos)
1966 security mechanisms. These hash the password more securely
1967 than the mechanisms used in the older LANMAN version of the
1968 SMB protocol but LANMAN based authentication is needed to
1969 establish sessions with some old SMB servers.
1971 Enabling this option allows the cifs module to mount to older
1972 LANMAN based servers such as OS/2 and Windows 95, but such
1973 mounts may be less secure than mounts using NTLM or more recent
1974 security mechanisms if you are on a public network. Unless you
1975 have a need to access old SMB servers (and are on a private
1976 network) you probably want to say N. Even if this support
1977 is enabled in the kernel build, LANMAN authentication will not be
1978 used automatically. At runtime LANMAN mounts are disabled but
1979 can be set to required (or optional) either in
1980 /proc/fs/cifs (see fs/cifs/README for more detail) or via an
1981 option on the mount command. This support is disabled by
1982 default in order to reduce the possibility of a downgrade
1988 bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup"
1989 depends on CIFS && KEYS
1991 Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which accesses
1992 userspace helper utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged (RFC 4178)
1993 Kerberos tickets which are needed to mount to certain secure servers
1994 (for which more secure Kerberos authentication is required). If
1998 bool "CIFS extended attributes"
2001 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
2002 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
2003 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). CIFS maps the name of
2004 extended attributes beginning with the user namespace prefix
2005 to SMB/CIFS EAs. EAs are stored on Windows servers without the
2006 user namespace prefix, but their names are seen by Linux cifs clients
2007 prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace
2008 (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at
2014 bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions"
2015 depends on CIFS_XATTR
2017 Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to
2018 negotiate a newer dialect with servers, such as Samba 3.0.5
2019 or later, that optionally can handle more POSIX like (rather
2020 than Windows like) file behavior. It also enables
2021 support for POSIX ACLs (getfacl and setfacl) to servers
2022 (such as Samba 3.10 and later) which can negotiate
2023 CIFS POSIX ACL support. If unsure, say N.
2026 bool "Enable additional CIFS debugging routines"
2029 Enabling this option adds a few more debugging routines
2030 to the cifs code which slightly increases the size of
2031 the cifs module and can cause additional logging of debug
2032 messages in some error paths, slowing performance. This
2033 option can be turned off unless you are debugging
2034 cifs problems. If unsure, say N.
2036 config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
2037 bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)"
2038 depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL
2040 Enables cifs features under testing. These features are
2041 experimental and currently include DFS support and directory
2042 change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY), as well as the upcall
2043 mechanism which will be used for Kerberos session negotiation
2044 and uid remapping. Some of these features also may depend on
2045 setting a value of 1 to the pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental
2046 (which is disabled by default). See the file fs/cifs/README
2047 for more details. If unsure, say N.
2049 config CIFS_DFS_UPCALL
2050 bool "DFS feature support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
2051 depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
2054 Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which contacts userspace
2055 helper utilities to provide server name resolution (host names to
2056 IP addresses) which is needed for implicit mounts of DFS junction
2057 points. If unsure, say N.
2060 tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)"
2061 depends on IPX!=n || INET
2063 NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) is a protocol that runs over IPX and is
2064 used by Novell NetWare clients to talk to file servers. It is to
2065 IPX what NFS is to TCP/IP, if that helps. Saying Y here allows you
2066 to mount NetWare file server volumes and to access them just like
2067 any other Unix directory. For details, please read the file
2068 <file:Documentation/filesystems/ncpfs.txt> in the kernel source and
2069 the IPX-HOWTO from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
2071 You do not have to say Y here if you want your Linux box to act as a
2072 file *server* for Novell NetWare clients.
2074 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
2075 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
2077 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
2078 ncpfs. Say N unless you are connected to a Novell network.
2080 source "fs/ncpfs/Kconfig"
2083 tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)"
2086 Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it
2087 enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them
2088 with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard
2089 disk. Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for
2090 disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server
2091 replication, security model for authentication and encryption,
2092 persistent client caches and write back caching.
2094 If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda
2095 *client*. You will need user level code as well, both for the
2096 client and server. Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need
2097 no kernel support. Please read
2098 <file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.txt> and check out the Coda
2099 home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>.
2101 To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the
2102 module will be called coda.
2105 tristate "Andrew File System support (AFS) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
2106 depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL
2109 If you say Y here, you will get an experimental Andrew File System
2110 driver. It currently only supports unsecured read-only AFS access.
2112 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information.
2117 bool "AFS dynamic debugging"
2120 Say Y here to make runtime controllable debugging messages appear.
2122 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information.
2127 tristate "Plan 9 Resource Sharing Support (9P2000) (Experimental)"
2128 depends on INET && NET_9P && EXPERIMENTAL
2130 If you say Y here, you will get experimental support for
2131 Plan 9 resource sharing via the 9P2000 protocol.
2133 See <http://v9fs.sf.net> for more information.
2137 endif # NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS
2140 menu "Partition Types"
2142 source "fs/partitions/Kconfig"
2147 source "fs/nls/Kconfig"
2148 source "fs/dlm/Kconfig"