2 # File system configuration
9 source "fs/ext2/Kconfig"
10 source "fs/ext3/Kconfig"
11 source "fs/ext4/Kconfig"
16 depends on EXT2_FS_XIP
19 source "fs/jbd/Kconfig"
20 source "fs/jbd2/Kconfig"
23 # Meta block cache for Extended Attributes (ext2/ext3/ext4)
25 default y if EXT2_FS=y && EXT2_FS_XATTR
26 default y if EXT3_FS=y && EXT3_FS_XATTR
27 default y if EXT4_FS=y && EXT4_FS_XATTR
28 default m if EXT2_FS_XATTR || EXT3_FS_XATTR || EXT4_FS_XATTR
31 tristate "Reiserfs support"
33 Stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a balanced
34 tree. Uses journalling.
36 Balanced trees are more efficient than traditional file system
37 architectural foundations.
39 In general, ReiserFS is as fast as ext2, but is very efficient with
40 large directories and small files. Additional patches are needed
41 for NFS and quotas, please see <http://www.namesys.com/> for links.
43 It is more easily extended to have features currently found in
44 database and keyword search systems than block allocation based file
45 systems are. The next version will be so extended, and will support
46 plugins consistent with our motto ``It takes more than a license to
47 make source code open.''
49 Read <http://www.namesys.com/> to learn more about reiserfs.
51 Sponsored by Threshold Networks, Emusic.com, and Bigstorage.com.
53 If you like it, you can pay us to add new features to it that you
54 need, buy a support contract, or pay us to port it to another OS.
57 bool "Enable reiserfs debug mode"
58 depends on REISERFS_FS
60 If you set this to Y, then ReiserFS will perform every check it can
61 possibly imagine of its internal consistency throughout its
62 operation. It will also go substantially slower. More than once we
63 have forgotten that this was on, and then gone despondent over the
64 latest benchmarks.:-) Use of this option allows our team to go all
65 out in checking for consistency when debugging without fear of its
66 effect on end users. If you are on the verge of sending in a bug
67 report, say Y and you might get a useful error message. Almost
68 everyone should say N.
70 config REISERFS_PROC_INFO
71 bool "Stats in /proc/fs/reiserfs"
72 depends on REISERFS_FS && PROC_FS
74 Create under /proc/fs/reiserfs a hierarchy of files, displaying
75 various ReiserFS statistics and internal data at the expense of
76 making your kernel or module slightly larger (+8 KB). This also
77 increases the amount of kernel memory required for each mount.
78 Almost everyone but ReiserFS developers and people fine-tuning
79 reiserfs or tracing problems should say N.
81 config REISERFS_FS_XATTR
82 bool "ReiserFS extended attributes"
83 depends on REISERFS_FS
85 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
86 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
87 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
91 config REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL
92 bool "ReiserFS POSIX Access Control Lists"
93 depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR
96 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
97 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
99 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
100 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
102 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
104 config REISERFS_FS_SECURITY
105 bool "ReiserFS Security Labels"
106 depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR
108 Security labels support alternative access control models
109 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
110 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
111 labels in the ReiserFS filesystem.
113 If you are not using a security module that requires using
114 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
117 tristate "JFS filesystem support"
120 This is a port of IBM's Journaled Filesystem . More information is
121 available in the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt>.
123 If you do not intend to use the JFS filesystem, say N.
126 bool "JFS POSIX Access Control Lists"
130 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
131 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
133 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
134 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
136 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
139 bool "JFS Security Labels"
142 Security labels support alternative access control models
143 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
144 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
145 labels in the jfs filesystem.
147 If you are not using a security module that requires using
148 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
154 If you are experiencing any problems with the JFS filesystem, say
155 Y here. This will result in additional debugging messages to be
156 written to the system log. Under normal circumstances, this
157 results in very little overhead.
159 config JFS_STATISTICS
160 bool "JFS statistics"
163 Enabling this option will cause statistics from the JFS file system
164 to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jfs/ directory.
167 # Posix ACL utility routines (for now, only ext2/ext3/jfs/reiserfs/nfs4)
169 # NOTE: you can implement Posix ACLs without these helpers (XFS does).
170 # Never use this symbol for ifdefs.
176 bool "Enable POSIX file locking API" if EMBEDDED
179 This option enables standard file locking support, required
180 for filesystems like NFS and for the flock() system
181 call. Disabling this option saves about 11k.
183 source "fs/xfs/Kconfig"
184 source "fs/gfs2/Kconfig"
187 tristate "OCFS2 file system support"
188 depends on NET && SYSFS
193 OCFS2 is a general purpose extent based shared disk cluster file
194 system with many similarities to ext3. It supports 64 bit inode
195 numbers, and has automatically extending metadata groups which may
196 also make it attractive for non-clustered use.
198 You'll want to install the ocfs2-tools package in order to at least
201 Project web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2
202 Tools web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools
203 OCFS2 mailing lists: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/mailman/
205 For more information on OCFS2, see the file
206 <file:Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt>.
209 tristate "O2CB Kernelspace Clustering"
213 OCFS2 includes a simple kernelspace clustering package, the OCFS2
214 Cluster Base. It only requires a very small userspace component
215 to configure it. This comes with the standard ocfs2-tools package.
216 O2CB is limited to maintaining a cluster for OCFS2 file systems.
217 It cannot manage any other cluster applications.
219 It is always safe to say Y here, as the clustering method is
222 config OCFS2_FS_USERSPACE_CLUSTER
223 tristate "OCFS2 Userspace Clustering"
224 depends on OCFS2_FS && DLM
227 This option will allow OCFS2 to use userspace clustering services
228 in conjunction with the DLM in fs/dlm. If you are using a
229 userspace cluster manager, say Y here.
231 It is safe to say Y, as the clustering method is run-time
234 config OCFS2_FS_STATS
235 bool "OCFS2 statistics"
239 This option allows some fs statistics to be captured. Enabling
240 this option may increase the memory consumption.
242 config OCFS2_DEBUG_MASKLOG
243 bool "OCFS2 logging support"
247 The ocfs2 filesystem has an extensive logging system. The system
248 allows selection of events to log via files in /sys/o2cb/logmask/.
249 This option will enlarge your kernel, but it allows debugging of
250 ocfs2 filesystem issues.
252 config OCFS2_DEBUG_FS
253 bool "OCFS2 expensive checks"
257 This option will enable expensive consistency checks. Enable
258 this option for debugging only as it is likely to decrease
259 performance of the filesystem.
261 config OCFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL
262 bool "OCFS2 POSIX Access Control Lists"
267 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
268 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
272 source "fs/notify/Kconfig"
277 If you say Y here, you will be able to set per user limits for disk
278 usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works for the
279 ext2, ext3, and reiserfs file system. ext3 also supports journalled
280 quotas for which you don't need to run quotacheck(8) after an unclean
282 For further details, read the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from
283 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or the documentation provided
284 with the quota tools. Probably the quota support is only useful for
285 multi user systems. If unsure, say N.
287 config QUOTA_NETLINK_INTERFACE
288 bool "Report quota messages through netlink interface"
289 depends on QUOTA && NET
291 If you say Y here, quota warnings (about exceeding softlimit, reaching
292 hardlimit, etc.) will be reported through netlink interface. If unsure,
295 config PRINT_QUOTA_WARNING
296 bool "Print quota warnings to console (OBSOLETE)"
300 If you say Y here, quota warnings (about exceeding softlimit, reaching
301 hardlimit, etc.) will be printed to the process' controlling terminal.
302 Note that this behavior is currently deprecated and may go away in
303 future. Please use notification via netlink socket instead.
306 tristate "Old quota format support"
309 This quota format was (is) used by kernels earlier than 2.4.22. If
310 you have quota working and you don't want to convert to new quota
314 tristate "Quota format v2 support"
317 This quota format allows using quotas with 32-bit UIDs/GIDs. If you
318 need this functionality say Y here.
322 depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA
326 tristate "Kernel automounter support"
328 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
329 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
330 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
331 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
333 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs
334 package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>.
335 You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
337 If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more
338 features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support",
341 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
344 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you
345 probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here.
348 tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)"
350 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
351 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
352 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
353 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
355 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from
356 <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/>; you also
357 want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
359 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
360 called autofs4. You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your
361 modules configuration file.
363 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or
364 don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the
365 local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say
369 tristate "FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) support"
371 With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem
372 in a userspace program.
374 There's also companion library: libfuse. This library along with
375 utilities is available from the FUSE homepage:
376 <http://fuse.sourceforge.net/>
378 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt> for more information.
379 See <file:Documentation/Changes> for needed library/utility version.
381 If you want to develop a userspace FS, or if you want to use
382 a filesystem based on FUSE, answer Y or M.
389 menu "CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems"
392 tristate "ISO 9660 CDROM file system support"
394 This is the standard file system used on CD-ROMs. It was previously
395 known as "High Sierra File System" and is called "hsfs" on other
396 Unix systems. The so-called Rock-Ridge extensions which allow for
397 long Unix filenames and symbolic links are also supported by this
398 driver. If you have a CD-ROM drive and want to do more with it than
399 just listen to audio CDs and watch its LEDs, say Y (and read
400 <file:Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt> and the CD-ROM-HOWTO,
401 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), thereby
402 enlarging your kernel by about 27 KB; otherwise say N.
404 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
405 module will be called isofs.
408 bool "Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions"
409 depends on ISO9660_FS
412 Joliet is a Microsoft extension for the ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system
413 which allows for long filenames in unicode format (unicode is the
414 new 16 bit character code, successor to ASCII, which encodes the
415 characters of almost all languages of the world; see
416 <http://www.unicode.org/> for more information). Say Y here if you
417 want to be able to read Joliet CD-ROMs under Linux.
420 bool "Transparent decompression extension"
421 depends on ISO9660_FS
424 This is a Linux-specific extension to RockRidge which lets you store
425 data in compressed form on a CD-ROM and have it transparently
426 decompressed when the CD-ROM is accessed. See
427 <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/zisofs/> for the tools
428 necessary to create such a filesystem. Say Y here if you want to be
429 able to read such compressed CD-ROMs.
432 tristate "UDF file system support"
435 This is the new file system used on some CD-ROMs and DVDs. Say Y if
436 you intend to mount DVD discs or CDRW's written in packet mode, or
437 if written to by other UDF utilities, such as DirectCD.
438 Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt>.
440 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
441 module will be called udf.
448 depends on (UDF_FS=m && NLS) || (UDF_FS=y && NLS=y)
454 menu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems"
460 If you want to use one of the FAT-based file systems (the MS-DOS and
461 VFAT (Windows 95) file systems), then you must say Y or M here
462 to include FAT support. You will then be able to mount partitions or
463 diskettes with FAT-based file systems and transparently access the
464 files on them, i.e. MSDOS files will look and behave just like all
467 This FAT support is not a file system in itself, it only provides
468 the foundation for the other file systems. You will have to say Y or
469 M to at least one of "MSDOS fs support" or "VFAT fs support" in
470 order to make use of it.
472 Another way to read and write MSDOS floppies and hard drive
473 partitions from within Linux (but not transparently) is with the
474 mtools ("man mtools") program suite. You don't need to say Y here in
477 If you need to move large files on floppies between a DOS and a
478 Linux box, say Y here, mount the floppy under Linux with an MSDOS
479 file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program
480 available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar").
482 The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure,
485 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
486 fat. Note that if you compile the FAT support as a module, you
487 cannot compile any of the FAT-based file systems into the kernel
488 -- they will have to be modules as well.
491 tristate "MSDOS fs support"
494 This allows you to mount MSDOS partitions of your hard drive (unless
495 they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under
496 Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the
497 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from
498 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in
499 <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you
500 intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y
501 here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes
502 transparent, i.e. the MSDOS files look and behave just like all
505 If you have Windows 95 or Windows NT installed on your MSDOS
506 partitions, you should use the VFAT file system (say Y to "VFAT fs
507 support" below), or you will not be able to see the long filenames
508 generated by Windows 95 / Windows NT.
510 This option will enlarge your kernel by about 7 KB. If unsure,
511 answer Y. This will only work if you said Y to "DOS FAT fs support"
512 as well. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will
516 tristate "VFAT (Windows-95) fs support"
519 This option provides support for normal Windows file systems with
520 long filenames. That includes non-compressed FAT-based file systems
521 used by Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and the Unix
522 programs from the mtools package.
524 The VFAT support enlarges your kernel by about 10 KB and it only
525 works if you said Y to the "DOS FAT fs support" above. Please read
526 the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for details. If
529 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
532 config FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE
533 int "Default codepage for FAT"
534 depends on MSDOS_FS || VFAT_FS
537 This option should be set to the codepage of your FAT filesystems.
538 It can be overridden with the "codepage" mount option.
539 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
541 config FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET
542 string "Default iocharset for FAT"
546 Set this to the default input/output character set you'd
547 like FAT to use. It should probably match the character set
548 that most of your FAT filesystems use, and can be overridden
549 with the "iocharset" mount option for FAT filesystems.
550 Note that "utf8" is not recommended for FAT filesystems.
551 If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here.
552 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
555 tristate "NTFS file system support"
558 NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003.
560 Saying Y or M here enables read support. There is partial, but
561 safe, write support available. For write support you must also
562 say Y to "NTFS write support" below.
564 There are also a number of user-space tools available, called
565 ntfsprogs. These include ntfsundelete and ntfsresize, that work
566 without NTFS support enabled in the kernel.
568 This is a rewrite from scratch of Linux NTFS support and replaced
569 the old NTFS code starting with Linux 2.5.11. A backport to
570 the Linux 2.4 kernel series is separately available as a patch
571 from the project web site.
573 For more information see <file:Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt>
574 and <http://www.linux-ntfs.org/>.
576 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
577 module will be called ntfs.
579 If you are not using Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 in addition to
580 Linux on your computer it is safe to say N.
583 bool "NTFS debugging support"
586 If you are experiencing any problems with the NTFS file system, say
587 Y here. This will result in additional consistency checks to be
588 performed by the driver as well as additional debugging messages to
589 be written to the system log. Note that debugging messages are
590 disabled by default. To enable them, supply the option debug_msgs=1
591 at the kernel command line when booting the kernel or as an option
592 to insmod when loading the ntfs module. Once the driver is active,
593 you can enable debugging messages by doing (as root):
594 echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug
595 Replacing the "1" with "0" would disable debug messages.
597 If you leave debugging messages disabled, this results in little
598 overhead, but enabling debug messages results in very significant
599 slowdown of the system.
601 When reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of
602 debugging messages while the misbehaviour was occurring.
605 bool "NTFS write support"
608 This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver.
610 The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without
611 changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or
612 renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to
613 so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot
616 While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have
617 so far not received a single report where the driver would have
618 damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use.
620 Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from
621 scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS
622 write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997),
625 This is currently useful with TopologiLinux. TopologiLinux is run
626 on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your
627 hard disk. Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not
628 need its own partition. For more information see
629 <http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/>
631 It is perfectly safe to say N here.
636 menu "Pseudo filesystems"
638 source "fs/proc/Kconfig"
641 bool "sysfs file system support" if EMBEDDED
644 The sysfs filesystem is a virtual filesystem that the kernel uses to
645 export internal kernel objects, their attributes, and their
646 relationships to one another.
648 Users can use sysfs to ascertain useful information about the running
649 kernel, such as the devices the kernel has discovered on each bus and
650 which driver each is bound to. sysfs can also be used to tune devices
651 and other kernel subsystems.
653 Some system agents rely on the information in sysfs to operate.
654 /sbin/hotplug uses device and object attributes in sysfs to assist in
655 delegating policy decisions, like persistently naming devices.
657 sysfs is currently used by the block subsystem to mount the root
658 partition. If sysfs is disabled you must specify the boot device on
659 the kernel boot command line via its major and minor numbers. For
660 example, "root=03:01" for /dev/hda1.
662 Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space.
665 bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)"
667 Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory.
669 Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be
670 created on your hard drive. The files live in memory and swap
671 space. If you unmount a tmpfs instance, everything stored therein is
674 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> for details.
676 config TMPFS_POSIX_ACL
677 bool "Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists"
681 POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
682 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
684 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for
685 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
687 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N.
690 bool "HugeTLB file system support"
691 depends on X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || (SUPERH && MMU) || \
692 (S390 && 64BIT) || BROKEN
694 hugetlbfs is a filesystem backing for HugeTLB pages, based on
695 ramfs. For architectures that support it, say Y here and read
696 <file:Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt> for details.
704 tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem"
707 configfs is a ram-based filesystem that provides the converse
708 of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based
709 view of kernel objects, configfs is a filesystem-based manager
710 of kernel objects, or config_items.
712 Both sysfs and configfs can and should exist together on the
713 same system. One is not a replacement for the other.
717 menu "Miscellaneous filesystems"
720 tristate "ADFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
721 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
723 The Acorn Disc Filing System is the standard file system of the
724 RiscOS operating system which runs on Acorn's ARM-based Risc PC
725 systems and the Acorn Archimedes range of machines. If you say Y
726 here, Linux will be able to read from ADFS partitions on hard drives
727 and from ADFS-formatted floppy discs. If you also want to be able to
728 write to those devices, say Y to "ADFS write support" below.
730 The ADFS partition should be the first partition (i.e.,
731 /dev/[hs]d?1) on each of your drives. Please read the file
732 <file:Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt> for further details.
734 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be
740 bool "ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)"
743 If you say Y here, you will be able to write to ADFS partitions on
744 hard drives and ADFS-formatted floppy disks. This is experimental
745 codes, so if you're unsure, say N.
748 tristate "Amiga FFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
749 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
751 The Fast File System (FFS) is the common file system used on hard
752 disks by Amiga(tm) systems since AmigaOS Version 1.3 (34.20). Say Y
753 if you want to be able to read and write files from and to an Amiga
754 FFS partition on your hard drive. Amiga floppies however cannot be
755 read with this driver due to an incompatibility of the floppy
756 controller used in an Amiga and the standard floppy controller in
757 PCs and workstations. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt>
758 and <file:fs/affs/Changes>.
760 With this driver you can also mount disk files used by Bernd
761 Schmidt's Un*X Amiga Emulator
762 (<http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/>).
763 If you want to do this, you will also need to say Y or M to "Loop
764 device support", above.
766 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
767 module will be called affs. If unsure, say N.
770 tristate "eCrypt filesystem layer support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
771 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && KEYS && CRYPTO && NET
773 Encrypted filesystem that operates on the VFS layer. See
774 <file:Documentation/filesystems/ecryptfs.txt> to learn more about
775 eCryptfs. Userspace components are required and can be
776 obtained from <http://ecryptfs.sf.net>.
778 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
779 module will be called ecryptfs.
782 tristate "Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
783 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
786 If you say Y here, you will be able to mount Macintosh-formatted
787 floppy disks and hard drive partitions with full read-write access.
788 Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/hfs.txt> to learn about
789 the available mount options.
791 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
792 module will be called hfs.
795 tristate "Apple Extended HFS file system support"
800 If you say Y here, you will be able to mount extended format
801 Macintosh-formatted hard drive partitions with full read-write access.
803 This file system is often called HFS+ and was introduced with
804 MacOS 8. It includes all Mac specific filesystem data such as
805 data forks and creator codes, but it also has several UNIX
806 style features such as file ownership and permissions.
809 tristate "BeOS file system (BeFS) support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
810 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
813 The BeOS File System (BeFS) is the native file system of Be, Inc's
814 BeOS. Notable features include support for arbitrary attributes
815 on files and directories, and database-like indices on selected
816 attributes. (Also note that this driver doesn't make those features
817 available at this time). It is a 64 bit filesystem, so it supports
818 extremely large volumes and files.
820 If you use this filesystem, you should also say Y to at least one
821 of the NLS (native language support) options below.
823 If you don't know what this is about, say N.
825 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
832 If you say Y here, you can use the 'debug' mount option to enable
833 debugging output from the driver.
836 tristate "BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
837 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
839 Boot File System (BFS) is a file system used under SCO UnixWare to
840 allow the bootloader access to the kernel image and other important
841 files during the boot process. It is usually mounted under /stand
842 and corresponds to the slice marked as "STAND" in the UnixWare
843 partition. You should say Y if you want to read or write the files
844 on your /stand slice from within Linux. You then also need to say Y
845 to "UnixWare slices support", below. More information about the BFS
846 file system is contained in the file
847 <file:Documentation/filesystems/bfs.txt>.
849 If you don't know what this is about, say N.
851 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
852 bfs. Note that the file system of your root partition (the one
853 containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
858 tristate "EFS file system support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
859 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
861 EFS is an older file system used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and hard
862 disk partitions by SGI's IRIX operating system (IRIX 6.0 and newer
863 uses the XFS file system for hard disk partitions however).
865 This implementation only offers read-only access. If you don't know
866 what all this is about, it's safe to say N. For more information
867 about EFS see its home page at <http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/>.
869 To compile the EFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the
870 module will be called efs.
872 source "fs/jffs2/Kconfig"
873 # UBIFS File system configuration
874 source "fs/ubifs/Kconfig"
877 tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)"
881 Saying Y here includes support for CramFs (Compressed ROM File
882 System). CramFs is designed to be a simple, small, and compressed
883 file system for ROM based embedded systems. CramFs is read-only,
884 limited to 256MB file systems (with 16MB files), and doesn't support
885 16/32 bits uid/gid, hard links and timestamps.
887 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt> and
888 <file:fs/cramfs/README> for further information.
890 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
891 cramfs. Note that the root file system (the one containing the
892 directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
897 tristate "FreeVxFS file system support (VERITAS VxFS(TM) compatible)"
900 FreeVxFS is a file system driver that support the VERITAS VxFS(TM)
901 file system format. VERITAS VxFS(TM) is the standard file system
902 of SCO UnixWare (and possibly others) and optionally available
903 for Sunsoft Solaris, HP-UX and many other operating systems.
904 Currently only readonly access is supported.
906 NOTE: the file system type as used by mount(1), mount(2) and
907 fstab(5) is 'vxfs' as it describes the file system format, not
910 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
911 called freevxfs. If unsure, say N.
914 tristate "Minix file system support"
917 Minix is a simple operating system used in many classes about OS's.
918 The minix file system (method to organize files on a hard disk
919 partition or a floppy disk) was the original file system for Linux,
920 but has been superseded by the second extended file system ext2fs.
921 You don't want to use the minix file system on your hard disk
922 because of certain built-in restrictions, but it is sometimes found
923 on older Linux floppy disks. This option will enlarge your kernel
924 by about 28 KB. If unsure, say N.
926 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
927 module will be called minix. Note that the file system of your root
928 partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as
932 tristate "SonicBlue Optimized MPEG File System support"
936 This is the proprietary file system used by the Rio Karma music
937 player and ReplayTV DVR. Despite the name, this filesystem is not
938 more efficient than a standard FS for MPEG files, in fact likely
939 the opposite is true. Say Y if you have either of these devices
940 and wish to mount its disk.
942 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
943 module will be called omfs. If unsure, say N.
946 tristate "OS/2 HPFS file system support"
949 OS/2 is IBM's operating system for PC's, the same as Warp, and HPFS
950 is the file system used for organizing files on OS/2 hard disk
951 partitions. Say Y if you want to be able to read files from and
952 write files to an OS/2 HPFS partition on your hard drive. OS/2
953 floppies however are in regular MSDOS format, so you don't need this
954 option in order to be able to read them. Read
955 <file:Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt>.
957 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
958 module will be called hpfs. If unsure, say N.
962 tristate "QNX4 file system support (read only)"
965 This is the file system used by the real-time operating systems
966 QNX 4 and QNX 6 (the latter is also called QNX RTP).
967 Further information is available at <http://www.qnx.com/>.
968 Say Y if you intend to mount QNX hard disks or floppies.
969 Unless you say Y to "QNX4FS read-write support" below, you will
970 only be able to read these file systems.
972 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
973 module will be called qnx4.
975 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
979 bool "QNX4FS write support (DANGEROUS)"
980 depends on QNX4FS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN
982 Say Y if you want to test write support for QNX4 file systems.
984 It's currently broken, so for now:
988 tristate "ROM file system support"
991 This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for
992 initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for
993 other read-only media as well. Read
994 <file:Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt> for details.
996 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
997 module will be called romfs. Note that the file system of your
998 root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a
1001 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
1006 tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support"
1009 SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel
1010 machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y
1011 here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk
1014 If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely
1015 that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order
1016 to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is
1017 a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse,
1018 UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux. It is
1019 available via FTP (user: ftp) from
1020 <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>).
1021 NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems;
1022 PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-)
1024 If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the
1025 network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support
1026 (but you need NFS file system support obviously).
1028 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
1029 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
1030 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
1031 tar" or preferably "info tar"). Note also that this option has
1032 nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about
1033 the System V file system in
1034 <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>.
1035 Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB.
1037 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1040 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
1044 tristate "UFS file system support (read only)"
1047 BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
1048 OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a file system called UFS. Some System V
1049 Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using
1050 this file system as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from
1051 these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the
1052 experimental "UFS file system write support", below. Please read the
1053 file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt> for more information.
1055 The recently released UFS2 variant (used in FreeBSD 5.x) is
1056 READ-ONLY supported.
1058 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
1059 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
1060 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
1061 tar" or preferably "info tar").
1063 When accessing NeXTstep files, you may need to convert them from the
1064 NeXT character set to the Latin1 character set; use the program
1065 recode ("info recode") for this purpose.
1067 To compile the UFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1068 module will be called ufs.
1070 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
1073 bool "UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS)"
1074 depends on UFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1076 Say Y here if you want to try writing to UFS partitions. This is
1077 experimental, so you should back up your UFS partitions beforehand.
1080 bool "UFS debugging"
1083 If you are experiencing any problems with the UFS filesystem, say
1084 Y here. This will result in _many_ additional debugging messages to be
1085 written to the system log.
1089 menuconfig NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS
1090 bool "Network File Systems"
1094 Say Y here to get to see options for network filesystems and
1095 filesystem-related networking code, such as NFS daemon and
1096 RPCSEC security modules.
1098 This option alone does not add any kernel code.
1100 If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and
1101 disabled; if unsure, say Y here.
1103 if NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS
1106 tristate "NFS client support"
1110 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFS_V3_ACL
1112 Choose Y here if you want to access files residing on other
1113 computers using Sun's Network File System protocol. To compile
1114 this file system support as a module, choose M here: the module
1117 To mount file systems exported by NFS servers, you also need to
1118 install the user space mount.nfs command which can be found in
1119 the Linux nfs-utils package, available from http://linux-nfs.org/.
1120 Information about using the mount command is available in the
1121 mount(8) man page. More detail about the Linux NFS client
1122 implementation is available via the nfs(5) man page.
1124 Below you can choose which versions of the NFS protocol are
1125 available in the kernel to mount NFS servers. Support for NFS
1126 version 2 (RFC 1094) is always available when NFS_FS is selected.
1128 To configure a system which mounts its root file system via NFS
1129 at boot time, say Y here, select "Kernel level IP
1130 autoconfiguration" in the NETWORK menu, and select "Root file
1131 system on NFS" below. You cannot compile this file system as a
1132 module in this case.
1137 bool "NFS client support for NFS version 3"
1140 This option enables support for version 3 of the NFS protocol
1141 (RFC 1813) in the kernel's NFS client.
1146 bool "NFS client support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension"
1149 Some NFS servers support an auxiliary NFSv3 ACL protocol that
1150 Sun added to Solaris but never became an official part of the
1151 NFS version 3 protocol. This protocol extension allows
1152 applications on NFS clients to manipulate POSIX Access Control
1153 Lists on files residing on NFS servers. NFS servers enforce
1154 ACLs on local files whether this protocol is available or not.
1156 Choose Y here if your NFS server supports the Solaris NFSv3 ACL
1157 protocol extension and you want your NFS client to allow
1158 applications to access and modify ACLs on files on the server.
1160 Most NFS servers don't support the Solaris NFSv3 ACL protocol
1161 extension. You can choose N here or specify the "noacl" mount
1162 option to prevent your NFS client from trying to use the NFSv3
1168 bool "NFS client support for NFS version 4 (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1169 depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1170 select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
1172 This option enables support for version 4 of the NFS protocol
1173 (RFC 3530) in the kernel's NFS client.
1175 To mount NFS servers using NFSv4, you also need to install user
1176 space programs which can be found in the Linux nfs-utils package,
1177 available from http://linux-nfs.org/.
1182 bool "Root file system on NFS"
1183 depends on NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP
1185 If you want your system to mount its root file system via NFS,
1186 choose Y here. This is common practice for managing systems
1187 without local permanent storage. For details, read
1188 <file:Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt>.
1190 Most people say N here.
1193 tristate "NFS server support"
1198 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFSD_V2_ACL
1200 Choose Y here if you want to allow other computers to access
1201 files residing on this system using Sun's Network File System
1202 protocol. To compile the NFS server support as a module,
1203 choose M here: the module will be called nfsd.
1205 You may choose to use a user-space NFS server instead, in which
1206 case you can choose N here.
1208 To export local file systems using NFS, you also need to install
1209 user space programs which can be found in the Linux nfs-utils
1210 package, available from http://linux-nfs.org/. More detail about
1211 the Linux NFS server implementation is available via the
1212 exports(5) man page.
1214 Below you can choose which versions of the NFS protocol are
1215 available to clients mounting the NFS server on this system.
1216 Support for NFS version 2 (RFC 1094) is always available when
1217 CONFIG_NFSD is selected.
1226 bool "NFS server support for NFS version 3"
1229 This option enables support in your system's NFS server for
1230 version 3 of the NFS protocol (RFC 1813).
1235 bool "NFS server support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension"
1239 Solaris NFS servers support an auxiliary NFSv3 ACL protocol that
1240 never became an official part of the NFS version 3 protocol.
1241 This protocol extension allows applications on NFS clients to
1242 manipulate POSIX Access Control Lists on files residing on NFS
1243 servers. NFS servers enforce POSIX ACLs on local files whether
1244 this protocol is available or not.
1246 This option enables support in your system's NFS server for the
1247 NFSv3 ACL protocol extension allowing NFS clients to manipulate
1248 POSIX ACLs on files exported by your system's NFS server. NFS
1249 clients which support the Solaris NFSv3 ACL protocol can then
1250 access and modify ACLs on your NFS server.
1252 To store ACLs on your NFS server, you also need to enable ACL-
1253 related CONFIG options for your local file systems of choice.
1258 bool "NFS server support for NFS version 4 (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1259 depends on NFSD && PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1262 select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
1264 This option enables support in your system's NFS server for
1265 version 4 of the NFS protocol (RFC 3530).
1267 To export files using NFSv4, you need to install additional user
1268 space programs which can be found in the Linux nfs-utils package,
1269 available from http://linux-nfs.org/.
1278 depends on NFSD_V3 || NFS_V3
1284 config NFS_ACL_SUPPORT
1290 depends on NFSD || NFS_FS
1299 config SUNRPC_XPRT_RDMA
1301 depends on SUNRPC && INFINIBAND && EXPERIMENTAL
1302 default SUNRPC && INFINIBAND
1304 This option enables an RPC client transport capability that
1305 allows the NFS client to mount servers via an RDMA-enabled
1308 To compile RPC client RDMA transport support as a module,
1309 choose M here: the module will be called xprtrdma.
1313 config SUNRPC_REGISTER_V4
1314 bool "Register local RPC services via rpcbind v4 (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1315 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
1318 Sun added support for registering RPC services at an IPv6
1319 address by creating two new versions of the rpcbind protocol
1322 This option enables support in the kernel RPC server for
1323 registering kernel RPC services via version 4 of the rpcbind
1324 protocol. If you enable this option, you must run a portmapper
1325 daemon that supports rpcbind protocol version 4.
1327 Serving NFS over IPv6 from knfsd (the kernel's NFS server)
1328 requires that you enable this option and use a portmapper that
1329 supports rpcbind version 4.
1331 If unsure, say N to get traditional behavior (register kernel
1332 RPC services using only rpcbind version 2). Distributions
1333 using the legacy Linux portmapper daemon must say N here.
1335 config RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
1336 tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1337 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
1344 Choose Y here to enable Secure RPC using the Kerberos version 5
1345 GSS-API mechanism (RFC 1964).
1347 Secure RPC calls with Kerberos require an auxiliary user-space
1348 daemon which may be found in the Linux nfs-utils package
1349 available from http://linux-nfs.org/. In addition, user-space
1350 Kerberos support should be installed.
1354 config RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3
1355 tristate "Secure RPC: SPKM3 mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1356 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
1364 Choose Y here to enable Secure RPC using the SPKM3 public key
1365 GSS-API mechansim (RFC 2025).
1367 Secure RPC calls with SPKM3 require an auxiliary userspace
1368 daemon which may be found in the Linux nfs-utils package
1369 available from http://linux-nfs.org/.
1374 tristate "SMB file system support (OBSOLETE, please use CIFS)"
1378 SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Windows for Workgroups
1379 (WfW), Windows 95/98, Windows NT and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share
1380 files and printers over local networks. Saying Y here allows you to
1381 mount their file systems (often called "shares" in this context) and
1382 access them just like any other Unix directory. Currently, this
1383 works only if the Windows machines use TCP/IP as the underlying
1384 transport protocol, and not NetBEUI. For details, read
1385 <file:Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt> and the SMB-HOWTO,
1386 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
1388 Note: if you just want your box to act as an SMB *server* and make
1389 files and printing services available to Windows clients (which need
1390 to have a TCP/IP stack), you don't need to say Y here; you can use
1391 the program SAMBA (available from <ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/>)
1394 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
1395 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
1397 To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here:
1398 the module will be called smbfs. Most people say N, however.
1400 config SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
1401 bool "Use a default NLS"
1404 Enabling this will make smbfs use nls translations by default. You
1405 need to specify the local charset (CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT) in the nls
1406 settings and you need to give the default nls for the SMB server as
1407 CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE.
1409 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount
1410 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters.
1412 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
1414 config SMB_NLS_REMOTE
1415 string "Default Remote NLS Option"
1416 depends on SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
1419 This setting allows you to specify a default value for which
1420 codepage the server uses. If this field is left blank no
1421 translations will be done by default. The local codepage/charset
1422 default to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT.
1424 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount
1425 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters.
1427 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
1429 source "fs/cifs/Kconfig"
1432 tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)"
1433 depends on IPX!=n || INET
1435 NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) is a protocol that runs over IPX and is
1436 used by Novell NetWare clients to talk to file servers. It is to
1437 IPX what NFS is to TCP/IP, if that helps. Saying Y here allows you
1438 to mount NetWare file server volumes and to access them just like
1439 any other Unix directory. For details, please read the file
1440 <file:Documentation/filesystems/ncpfs.txt> in the kernel source and
1441 the IPX-HOWTO from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
1443 You do not have to say Y here if you want your Linux box to act as a
1444 file *server* for Novell NetWare clients.
1446 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
1447 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
1449 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1450 ncpfs. Say N unless you are connected to a Novell network.
1452 source "fs/ncpfs/Kconfig"
1455 tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)"
1458 Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it
1459 enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them
1460 with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard
1461 disk. Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for
1462 disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server
1463 replication, security model for authentication and encryption,
1464 persistent client caches and write back caching.
1466 If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda
1467 *client*. You will need user level code as well, both for the
1468 client and server. Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need
1469 no kernel support. Please read
1470 <file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.txt> and check out the Coda
1471 home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>.
1473 To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the
1474 module will be called coda.
1477 tristate "Andrew File System support (AFS) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1478 depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL
1481 If you say Y here, you will get an experimental Andrew File System
1482 driver. It currently only supports unsecured read-only AFS access.
1484 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information.
1489 bool "AFS dynamic debugging"
1492 Say Y here to make runtime controllable debugging messages appear.
1494 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information.
1499 tristate "Plan 9 Resource Sharing Support (9P2000) (Experimental)"
1500 depends on INET && NET_9P && EXPERIMENTAL
1502 If you say Y here, you will get experimental support for
1503 Plan 9 resource sharing via the 9P2000 protocol.
1505 See <http://v9fs.sf.net> for more information.
1509 endif # NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS
1512 menu "Partition Types"
1514 source "fs/partitions/Kconfig"
1519 source "fs/nls/Kconfig"
1520 source "fs/dlm/Kconfig"