2 # File system configuration
8 tristate "Second extended fs support"
10 Ext2 is a standard Linux file system for hard disks.
12 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
13 module will be called ext2. Be aware however that the file system
14 of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot
15 be compiled as a module, and so this could be dangerous.
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 journaling 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 journaling 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. Be aware however that the file system
100 of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot
101 be compiled as a module, and so this may be dangerous.
104 bool "Ext3 extended attributes"
108 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
109 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
110 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
114 You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext3.
116 config EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL
117 bool "Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists"
118 depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR
121 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
122 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
124 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
125 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
127 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
129 config EXT3_FS_SECURITY
130 bool "Ext3 Security Labels"
131 depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR
133 Security labels support alternative access control models
134 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
135 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
136 labels in the ext3 filesystem.
138 If you are not using a security module that requires using
139 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
144 This is a generic journaling layer for block devices. It is
145 currently used by the ext3 and OCFS2 file systems, but it could
146 also be used to add journal support to other file systems or block
147 devices such as RAID or LVM.
149 If you are using the ext3 or OCFS2 file systems, you need to
150 say Y here. If you are not using ext3 OCFS2 then you will probably
153 To compile this device as a module, choose M here: the module will be
154 called jbd. If you are compiling ext3 or OCFS2 into the kernel,
155 you cannot compile this code as a module.
158 bool "JBD (ext3) debugging support"
161 If you are using the ext3 journaled file system (or potentially any
162 other file system/device using JBD), this option allows you to
163 enable debugging output while the system is running, in order to
164 help track down any problems you are having. By default the
165 debugging output will be turned off.
167 If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging
168 with "echo N > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug", where N is a number between
169 1 and 5, the higher the number, the more debugging output is
170 generated. To turn debugging off again, do
171 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug".
174 # Meta block cache for Extended Attributes (ext2/ext3)
176 depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR || EXT3_FS_XATTR
177 default y if EXT2_FS=y || EXT3_FS=y
178 default m if EXT2_FS=m || EXT3_FS=m
181 tristate "Reiserfs support"
183 Stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a balanced
184 tree. Uses journaling.
186 Balanced trees are more efficient than traditional file system
187 architectural foundations.
189 In general, ReiserFS is as fast as ext2, but is very efficient with
190 large directories and small files. Additional patches are needed
191 for NFS and quotas, please see <http://www.namesys.com/> for links.
193 It is more easily extended to have features currently found in
194 database and keyword search systems than block allocation based file
195 systems are. The next version will be so extended, and will support
196 plugins consistent with our motto ``It takes more than a license to
197 make source code open.''
199 Read <http://www.namesys.com/> to learn more about reiserfs.
201 Sponsored by Threshold Networks, Emusic.com, and Bigstorage.com.
203 If you like it, you can pay us to add new features to it that you
204 need, buy a support contract, or pay us to port it to another OS.
206 config REISERFS_CHECK
207 bool "Enable reiserfs debug mode"
208 depends on REISERFS_FS
210 If you set this to Y, then ReiserFS will perform every check it can
211 possibly imagine of its internal consistency throughout its
212 operation. It will also go substantially slower. More than once we
213 have forgotten that this was on, and then gone despondent over the
214 latest benchmarks.:-) Use of this option allows our team to go all
215 out in checking for consistency when debugging without fear of its
216 effect on end users. If you are on the verge of sending in a bug
217 report, say Y and you might get a useful error message. Almost
218 everyone should say N.
220 config REISERFS_PROC_INFO
221 bool "Stats in /proc/fs/reiserfs"
222 depends on REISERFS_FS
224 Create under /proc/fs/reiserfs a hierarchy of files, displaying
225 various ReiserFS statistics and internal data at the expense of
226 making your kernel or module slightly larger (+8 KB). This also
227 increases the amount of kernel memory required for each mount.
228 Almost everyone but ReiserFS developers and people fine-tuning
229 reiserfs or tracing problems should say N.
231 config REISERFS_FS_XATTR
232 bool "ReiserFS extended attributes"
233 depends on REISERFS_FS
235 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
236 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
237 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
241 config REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL
242 bool "ReiserFS POSIX Access Control Lists"
243 depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR
246 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
247 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
249 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
250 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
252 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
254 config REISERFS_FS_SECURITY
255 bool "ReiserFS Security Labels"
256 depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR
258 Security labels support alternative access control models
259 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
260 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
261 labels in the ReiserFS filesystem.
263 If you are not using a security module that requires using
264 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
267 tristate "JFS filesystem support"
270 This is a port of IBM's Journaled Filesystem . More information is
271 available in the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt>.
273 If you do not intend to use the JFS filesystem, say N.
276 bool "JFS POSIX Access Control Lists"
280 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
281 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
283 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
284 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
286 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
289 bool "JFS Security Labels"
292 Security labels support alternative access control models
293 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
294 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
295 labels in the jfs filesystem.
297 If you are not using a security module that requires using
298 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
304 If you are experiencing any problems with the JFS filesystem, say
305 Y here. This will result in additional debugging messages to be
306 written to the system log. Under normal circumstances, this
307 results in very little overhead.
309 config JFS_STATISTICS
310 bool "JFS statistics"
313 Enabling this option will cause statistics from the JFS file system
314 to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jfs/ directory.
317 # Posix ACL utility routines (for now, only ext2/ext3/jfs/reiserfs)
319 # NOTE: you can implement Posix ACLs without these helpers (XFS does).
320 # Never use this symbol for ifdefs.
325 source "fs/xfs/Kconfig"
328 tristate "OCFS2 file system support"
329 depends on NET && SYSFS
335 OCFS2 is a general purpose extent based shared disk cluster file
336 system with many similarities to ext3. It supports 64 bit inode
337 numbers, and has automatically extending metadata groups which may
338 also make it attractive for non-clustered use.
340 You'll want to install the ocfs2-tools package in order to at least
343 Project web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2
344 Tools web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools
345 OCFS2 mailing lists: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/mailman/
347 Note: Features which OCFS2 does not support yet:
348 - extended attributes
349 - shared writeable mmap
350 - loopback is supported, but data written will not
353 - cluster aware flock
354 - Directory change notification (F_NOTIFY)
355 - Distributed Caching (F_SETLEASE/F_GETLEASE/break_lease)
357 - readpages / writepages (not user visible)
359 config OCFS2_DEBUG_MASKLOG
360 bool "OCFS2 logging support"
364 The ocfs2 filesystem has an extensive logging system. The system
365 allows selection of events to log via files in /sys/o2cb/logmask/.
366 This option will enlarge your kernel, but it allows debugging of
367 ocfs2 filesystem issues.
370 tristate "Minix fs support"
372 Minix is a simple operating system used in many classes about OS's.
373 The minix file system (method to organize files on a hard disk
374 partition or a floppy disk) was the original file system for Linux,
375 but has been superseded by the second extended file system ext2fs.
376 You don't want to use the minix file system on your hard disk
377 because of certain built-in restrictions, but it is sometimes found
378 on older Linux floppy disks. This option will enlarge your kernel
379 by about 28 KB. If unsure, say N.
381 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
382 module will be called minix. Note that the file system of your root
383 partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as
387 tristate "ROM file system support"
389 This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for
390 initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for
391 other read-only media as well. Read
392 <file:Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt> for details.
394 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
395 module will be called romfs. Note that the file system of your
396 root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a
399 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
403 bool "Inotify file change notification support"
406 Say Y here to enable inotify support. Inotify is a file change
407 notification system and a replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes
408 numerous shortcomings in dnotify and introduces several new features
409 including multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount
412 For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt
417 bool "Inotify support for userspace"
421 Say Y here to enable inotify support for userspace, including the
422 associated system calls. Inotify allows monitoring of both files and
423 directories via a single open fd. Events are read from the file
424 descriptor, which is also select()- and poll()-able.
426 For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt
433 If you say Y here, you will be able to set per user limits for disk
434 usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works for the
435 ext2, ext3, and reiserfs file system. ext3 also supports journalled
436 quotas for which you don't need to run quotacheck(8) after an unclean
438 For further details, read the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from
439 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or the documentation provided
440 with the quota tools. Probably the quota support is only useful for
441 multi user systems. If unsure, say N.
444 tristate "Old quota format support"
447 This quota format was (is) used by kernels earlier than 2.4.22. If
448 you have quota working and you don't want to convert to new quota
452 tristate "Quota format v2 support"
455 This quota format allows using quotas with 32-bit UIDs/GIDs. If you
456 need this functionality say Y here.
460 depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA
464 bool "Dnotify support" if EMBEDDED
467 Dnotify is a directory-based per-fd file change notification system
468 that uses signals to communicate events to user-space. There exist
469 superior alternatives, but some applications may still rely on
472 Because of this, if unsure, say Y.
475 tristate "Kernel automounter support"
477 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
478 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
479 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
480 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
482 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs
483 package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>.
484 You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
486 If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more
487 features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support",
490 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
493 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you
494 probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here.
497 tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)"
499 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
500 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
501 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
502 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
504 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from
505 <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/>; you also
506 want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
508 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
509 called autofs4. You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your
510 modules configuration file.
512 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or
513 don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the
514 local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say
518 tristate "Filesystem in Userspace support"
520 With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem
521 in a userspace program.
523 There's also companion library: libfuse. This library along with
524 utilities is available from the FUSE homepage:
525 <http://fuse.sourceforge.net/>
527 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt> for more information.
528 See <file:Documentation/Changes> for needed library/utility version.
530 If you want to develop a userspace FS, or if you want to use
531 a filesystem based on FUSE, answer Y or M.
533 menu "CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems"
536 tristate "ISO 9660 CDROM file system support"
538 This is the standard file system used on CD-ROMs. It was previously
539 known as "High Sierra File System" and is called "hsfs" on other
540 Unix systems. The so-called Rock-Ridge extensions which allow for
541 long Unix filenames and symbolic links are also supported by this
542 driver. If you have a CD-ROM drive and want to do more with it than
543 just listen to audio CDs and watch its LEDs, say Y (and read
544 <file:Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt> and the CD-ROM-HOWTO,
545 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), thereby
546 enlarging your kernel by about 27 KB; otherwise say N.
548 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
549 module will be called isofs.
552 bool "Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions"
553 depends on ISO9660_FS
556 Joliet is a Microsoft extension for the ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system
557 which allows for long filenames in unicode format (unicode is the
558 new 16 bit character code, successor to ASCII, which encodes the
559 characters of almost all languages of the world; see
560 <http://www.unicode.org/> for more information). Say Y here if you
561 want to be able to read Joliet CD-ROMs under Linux.
564 bool "Transparent decompression extension"
565 depends on ISO9660_FS
568 This is a Linux-specific extension to RockRidge which lets you store
569 data in compressed form on a CD-ROM and have it transparently
570 decompressed when the CD-ROM is accessed. See
571 <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/zisofs/> for the tools
572 necessary to create such a filesystem. Say Y here if you want to be
573 able to read such compressed CD-ROMs.
576 # for fs/nls/Config.in
582 tristate "UDF file system support"
584 This is the new file system used on some CD-ROMs and DVDs. Say Y if
585 you intend to mount DVD discs or CDRW's written in packet mode, or
586 if written to by other UDF utilities, such as DirectCD.
587 Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt>.
589 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
590 module will be called udf.
597 depends on (UDF_FS=m && NLS) || (UDF_FS=y && NLS=y)
601 menu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems"
607 If you want to use one of the FAT-based file systems (the MS-DOS and
608 VFAT (Windows 95) file systems), then you must say Y or M here
609 to include FAT support. You will then be able to mount partitions or
610 diskettes with FAT-based file systems and transparently access the
611 files on them, i.e. MSDOS files will look and behave just like all
614 This FAT support is not a file system in itself, it only provides
615 the foundation for the other file systems. You will have to say Y or
616 M to at least one of "MSDOS fs support" or "VFAT fs support" in
617 order to make use of it.
619 Another way to read and write MSDOS floppies and hard drive
620 partitions from within Linux (but not transparently) is with the
621 mtools ("man mtools") program suite. You don't need to say Y here in
624 If you need to move large files on floppies between a DOS and a
625 Linux box, say Y here, mount the floppy under Linux with an MSDOS
626 file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program
627 available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar").
629 It is now also becoming possible to read and write compressed FAT
630 file systems; read <file:Documentation/filesystems/fat_cvf.txt> for
633 The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure,
636 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
637 fat. Note that if you compile the FAT support as a module, you
638 cannot compile any of the FAT-based file systems into the kernel
639 -- they will have to be modules as well.
642 tristate "MSDOS fs support"
645 This allows you to mount MSDOS partitions of your hard drive (unless
646 they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under
647 Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the
648 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from
649 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in
650 <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you
651 intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y
652 here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes
653 transparent, i.e. the MSDOS files look and behave just like all
656 If you have Windows 95 or Windows NT installed on your MSDOS
657 partitions, you should use the VFAT file system (say Y to "VFAT fs
658 support" below), or you will not be able to see the long filenames
659 generated by Windows 95 / Windows NT.
661 This option will enlarge your kernel by about 7 KB. If unsure,
662 answer Y. This will only work if you said Y to "DOS FAT fs support"
663 as well. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will
667 tristate "VFAT (Windows-95) fs support"
670 This option provides support for normal Windows file systems with
671 long filenames. That includes non-compressed FAT-based file systems
672 used by Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and the Unix
673 programs from the mtools package.
675 The VFAT support enlarges your kernel by about 10 KB and it only
676 works if you said Y to the "DOS FAT fs support" above. Please read
677 the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for details. If
680 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
683 config FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE
684 int "Default codepage for FAT"
685 depends on MSDOS_FS || VFAT_FS
688 This option should be set to the codepage of your FAT filesystems.
689 It can be overridden with the "codepage" mount option.
690 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
692 config FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET
693 string "Default iocharset for FAT"
697 Set this to the default input/output character set you'd
698 like FAT to use. It should probably match the character set
699 that most of your FAT filesystems use, and can be overridden
700 with the "iocharset" mount option for FAT filesystems.
701 Note that "utf8" is not recommended for FAT filesystems.
702 If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here.
703 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
706 tristate "NTFS file system support"
709 NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003.
711 Saying Y or M here enables read support. There is partial, but
712 safe, write support available. For write support you must also
713 say Y to "NTFS write support" below.
715 There are also a number of user-space tools available, called
716 ntfsprogs. These include ntfsundelete and ntfsresize, that work
717 without NTFS support enabled in the kernel.
719 This is a rewrite from scratch of Linux NTFS support and replaced
720 the old NTFS code starting with Linux 2.5.11. A backport to
721 the Linux 2.4 kernel series is separately available as a patch
722 from the project web site.
724 For more information see <file:Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt>
725 and <http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/>.
727 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
728 module will be called ntfs.
730 If you are not using Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 in addition to
731 Linux on your computer it is safe to say N.
734 bool "NTFS debugging support"
737 If you are experiencing any problems with the NTFS file system, say
738 Y here. This will result in additional consistency checks to be
739 performed by the driver as well as additional debugging messages to
740 be written to the system log. Note that debugging messages are
741 disabled by default. To enable them, supply the option debug_msgs=1
742 at the kernel command line when booting the kernel or as an option
743 to insmod when loading the ntfs module. Once the driver is active,
744 you can enable debugging messages by doing (as root):
745 echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug
746 Replacing the "1" with "0" would disable debug messages.
748 If you leave debugging messages disabled, this results in little
749 overhead, but enabling debug messages results in very significant
750 slowdown of the system.
752 When reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of
753 debugging messages while the misbehaviour was occurring.
756 bool "NTFS write support"
759 This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver.
761 The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without
762 changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or
763 renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to
764 so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot
767 While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have
768 so far not received a single report where the driver would have
769 damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use.
771 Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from
772 scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS
773 write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997),
776 This is currently useful with TopologiLinux. TopologiLinux is run
777 on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your
778 hard disk. Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not
779 need its own partition. For more information see
780 <http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/>
782 It is perfectly safe to say N here.
786 menu "Pseudo filesystems"
789 bool "/proc file system support" if EMBEDDED
792 This is a virtual file system providing information about the status
793 of the system. "Virtual" means that it doesn't take up any space on
794 your hard disk: the files are created on the fly by the kernel when
795 you try to access them. Also, you cannot read the files with older
796 version of the program less: you need to use more or cat.
798 It's totally cool; for example, "cat /proc/interrupts" gives
799 information about what the different IRQs are used for at the moment
800 (there is a small number of Interrupt ReQuest lines in your computer
801 that are used by the attached devices to gain the CPU's attention --
802 often a source of trouble if two devices are mistakenly configured
803 to use the same IRQ). The program procinfo to display some
804 information about your system gathered from the /proc file system.
806 Before you can use the /proc file system, it has to be mounted,
807 meaning it has to be given a location in the directory hierarchy.
808 That location should be /proc. A command such as "mount -t proc proc
809 /proc" or the equivalent line in /etc/fstab does the job.
811 The /proc file system is explained in the file
812 <file:Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt> and on the proc(5) manpage
815 This option will enlarge your kernel by about 67 KB. Several
816 programs depend on this, so everyone should say Y here.
819 bool "/proc/kcore support" if !ARM
820 depends on PROC_FS && MMU
823 bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
824 depends on PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP
827 Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format.
830 bool "sysfs file system support" if EMBEDDED
833 The sysfs filesystem is a virtual filesystem that the kernel uses to
834 export internal kernel objects, their attributes, and their
835 relationships to one another.
837 Users can use sysfs to ascertain useful information about the running
838 kernel, such as the devices the kernel has discovered on each bus and
839 which driver each is bound to. sysfs can also be used to tune devices
840 and other kernel subsystems.
842 Some system agents rely on the information in sysfs to operate.
843 /sbin/hotplug uses device and object attributes in sysfs to assist in
844 delegating policy decisions, like persistantly naming devices.
846 sysfs is currently used by the block subsystem to mount the root
847 partition. If sysfs is disabled you must specify the boot device on
848 the kernel boot command line via its major and minor numbers. For
849 example, "root=03:01" for /dev/hda1.
851 Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space.
854 bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)"
856 Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory.
858 Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be
859 created on your hard drive. The files live in memory and swap
860 space. If you unmount a tmpfs instance, everything stored therein is
863 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> for details.
866 bool "HugeTLB file system support"
867 depends X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || BROKEN
869 hugetlbfs is a filesystem backing for HugeTLB pages, based on
870 ramfs. For architectures that support it, say Y here and read
871 <file:Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt> for details.
882 Ramfs is a file system which keeps all files in RAM. It allows
883 read and write access.
885 It is more of an programming example than a useable file system. If
886 you need a file system which lives in RAM with limit checking use
889 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
893 tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem (EXPERIMENTAL)"
894 depends on SYSFS && EXPERIMENTAL
896 configfs is a ram-based filesystem that provides the converse
897 of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based
898 view of kernel objects, configfs is a filesystem-based manager
899 of kernel objects, or config_items.
901 Both sysfs and configfs can and should exist together on the
902 same system. One is not a replacement for the other.
906 menu "Miscellaneous filesystems"
909 tristate "ADFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
910 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
912 The Acorn Disc Filing System is the standard file system of the
913 RiscOS operating system which runs on Acorn's ARM-based Risc PC
914 systems and the Acorn Archimedes range of machines. If you say Y
915 here, Linux will be able to read from ADFS partitions on hard drives
916 and from ADFS-formatted floppy discs. If you also want to be able to
917 write to those devices, say Y to "ADFS write support" below.
919 The ADFS partition should be the first partition (i.e.,
920 /dev/[hs]d?1) on each of your drives. Please read the file
921 <file:Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt> for further details.
923 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be
929 bool "ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)"
932 If you say Y here, you will be able to write to ADFS partitions on
933 hard drives and ADFS-formatted floppy disks. This is experimental
934 codes, so if you're unsure, say N.
937 tristate "Amiga FFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
938 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
940 The Fast File System (FFS) is the common file system used on hard
941 disks by Amiga(tm) systems since AmigaOS Version 1.3 (34.20). Say Y
942 if you want to be able to read and write files from and to an Amiga
943 FFS partition on your hard drive. Amiga floppies however cannot be
944 read with this driver due to an incompatibility of the floppy
945 controller used in an Amiga and the standard floppy controller in
946 PCs and workstations. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt>
947 and <file:fs/affs/Changes>.
949 With this driver you can also mount disk files used by Bernd
950 Schmidt's Un*X Amiga Emulator
951 (<http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/>).
952 If you want to do this, you will also need to say Y or M to "Loop
953 device support", above.
955 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
956 module will be called affs. If unsure, say N.
959 tristate "Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
960 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
963 If you say Y here, you will be able to mount Macintosh-formatted
964 floppy disks and hard drive partitions with full read-write access.
965 Please read <file:fs/hfs/HFS.txt> to learn about the available mount
968 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
969 module will be called hfs.
972 tristate "Apple Extended HFS file system support"
976 If you say Y here, you will be able to mount extended format
977 Macintosh-formatted hard drive partitions with full read-write access.
979 This file system is often called HFS+ and was introduced with
980 MacOS 8. It includes all Mac specific filesystem data such as
981 data forks and creator codes, but it also has several UNIX
982 style features such as file ownership and permissions.
985 tristate "BeOS file system (BeFS) support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
986 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
989 The BeOS File System (BeFS) is the native file system of Be, Inc's
990 BeOS. Notable features include support for arbitrary attributes
991 on files and directories, and database-like indeces on selected
992 attributes. (Also note that this driver doesn't make those features
993 available at this time). It is a 64 bit filesystem, so it supports
994 extremly large volumes and files.
996 If you use this filesystem, you should also say Y to at least one
997 of the NLS (native language support) options below.
999 If you don't know what this is about, say N.
1001 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
1008 If you say Y here, you can use the 'debug' mount option to enable
1009 debugging output from the driver.
1012 tristate "BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1013 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
1015 Boot File System (BFS) is a file system used under SCO UnixWare to
1016 allow the bootloader access to the kernel image and other important
1017 files during the boot process. It is usually mounted under /stand
1018 and corresponds to the slice marked as "STAND" in the UnixWare
1019 partition. You should say Y if you want to read or write the files
1020 on your /stand slice from within Linux. You then also need to say Y
1021 to "UnixWare slices support", below. More information about the BFS
1022 file system is contained in the file
1023 <file:Documentation/filesystems/bfs.txt>.
1025 If you don't know what this is about, say N.
1027 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1028 bfs. Note that the file system of your root partition (the one
1029 containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
1034 tristate "EFS file system support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1035 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
1037 EFS is an older file system used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and hard
1038 disk partitions by SGI's IRIX operating system (IRIX 6.0 and newer
1039 uses the XFS file system for hard disk partitions however).
1041 This implementation only offers read-only access. If you don't know
1042 what all this is about, it's safe to say N. For more information
1043 about EFS see its home page at <http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/>.
1045 To compile the EFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1046 module will be called efs.
1049 tristate "Journalling Flash File System (JFFS) support"
1052 JFFS is the Journaling Flash File System developed by Axis
1053 Communications in Sweden, aimed at providing a crash/powerdown-safe
1054 file system for disk-less embedded devices. Further information is
1055 available at (<http://developer.axis.com/software/jffs/>).
1057 config JFFS_FS_VERBOSE
1058 int "JFFS debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 3 = noisy)"
1062 Determines the verbosity level of the JFFS debugging messages.
1065 bool "JFFS stats available in /proc filesystem"
1066 depends on JFFS_FS && PROC_FS
1068 Enabling this option will cause statistics from mounted JFFS file systems
1069 to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jffs/ directory.
1072 tristate "Journalling Flash File System v2 (JFFS2) support"
1076 JFFS2 is the second generation of the Journalling Flash File System
1077 for use on diskless embedded devices. It provides improved wear
1078 levelling, compression and support for hard links. You cannot use
1079 this on normal block devices, only on 'MTD' devices.
1081 Further information on the design and implementation of JFFS2 is
1082 available at <http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2/>.
1084 config JFFS2_FS_DEBUG
1085 int "JFFS2 debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 2 = noisy)"
1089 This controls the amount of debugging messages produced by the JFFS2
1090 code. Set it to zero for use in production systems. For evaluation,
1091 testing and debugging, it's advisable to set it to one. This will
1092 enable a few assertions and will print debugging messages at the
1093 KERN_DEBUG loglevel, where they won't normally be visible. Level 2
1094 is unlikely to be useful - it enables extra debugging in certain
1095 areas which at one point needed debugging, but when the bugs were
1096 located and fixed, the detailed messages were relegated to level 2.
1098 If reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of the
1099 messages at debug level 1 while the misbehaviour was occurring.
1101 config JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER
1102 bool "JFFS2 write-buffering support"
1106 This enables the write-buffering support in JFFS2.
1108 This functionality is required to support JFFS2 on the following
1109 types of flash devices:
1111 - NOR flash with transparent ECC
1114 config JFFS2_SUMMARY
1115 bool "JFFS2 summary support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1116 depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1119 This feature makes it possible to use summary information
1120 for faster filesystem mount.
1122 The summary information can be inserted into a filesystem image
1123 by the utility 'sumtool'.
1127 config JFFS2_FS_XATTR
1128 bool "JFFS2 XATTR support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1129 depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1132 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
1133 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
1134 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
1138 config JFFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL
1139 bool "JFFS2 POSIX Access Control Lists"
1140 depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR
1144 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
1145 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
1147 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
1148 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
1150 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
1152 config JFFS2_FS_SECURITY
1153 bool "JFFS2 Security Labels"
1154 depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR
1157 Security labels support alternative access control models
1158 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
1159 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
1160 labels in the jffs2 filesystem.
1162 If you are not using a security module that requires using
1163 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
1165 config JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1166 bool "Advanced compression options for JFFS2"
1170 Enabling this option allows you to explicitly choose which
1171 compression modules, if any, are enabled in JFFS2. Removing
1172 compressors and mean you cannot read existing file systems,
1173 and enabling experimental compressors can mean that you
1174 write a file system which cannot be read by a standard kernel.
1176 If unsure, you should _definitely_ say 'N'.
1179 bool "JFFS2 ZLIB compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1185 Zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered,
1186 lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer
1187 hardware and operating system. See <http://www.gzip.org/zlib/> for
1188 further information.
1193 bool "JFFS2 RTIME compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1197 Rtime does manage to recompress already-compressed data. Say 'Y' if unsure.
1200 bool "JFFS2 RUBIN compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1204 RUBINMIPS and DYNRUBIN compressors. Say 'N' if unsure.
1207 prompt "JFFS2 default compression mode" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1208 default JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY
1211 You can set here the default compression mode of JFFS2 from
1212 the available compression modes. Don't touch if unsure.
1214 config JFFS2_CMODE_NONE
1215 bool "no compression"
1217 Uses no compression.
1219 config JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY
1222 Tries the compressors in a predefinied order and chooses the first
1225 config JFFS2_CMODE_SIZE
1226 bool "size (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1228 Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest
1234 tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)"
1237 Saying Y here includes support for CramFs (Compressed ROM File
1238 System). CramFs is designed to be a simple, small, and compressed
1239 file system for ROM based embedded systems. CramFs is read-only,
1240 limited to 256MB file systems (with 16MB files), and doesn't support
1241 16/32 bits uid/gid, hard links and timestamps.
1243 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt> and
1244 <file:fs/cramfs/README> for further information.
1246 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1247 cramfs. Note that the root file system (the one containing the
1248 directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
1253 tristate "FreeVxFS file system support (VERITAS VxFS(TM) compatible)"
1255 FreeVxFS is a file system driver that support the VERITAS VxFS(TM)
1256 file system format. VERITAS VxFS(TM) is the standard file system
1257 of SCO UnixWare (and possibly others) and optionally available
1258 for Sunsoft Solaris, HP-UX and many other operating systems.
1259 Currently only readonly access is supported.
1261 NOTE: the file system type as used by mount(1), mount(2) and
1262 fstab(5) is 'vxfs' as it describes the file system format, not
1265 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
1266 called freevxfs. If unsure, say N.
1270 tristate "OS/2 HPFS file system support"
1272 OS/2 is IBM's operating system for PC's, the same as Warp, and HPFS
1273 is the file system used for organizing files on OS/2 hard disk
1274 partitions. Say Y if you want to be able to read files from and
1275 write files to an OS/2 HPFS partition on your hard drive. OS/2
1276 floppies however are in regular MSDOS format, so you don't need this
1277 option in order to be able to read them. Read
1278 <file:Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt>.
1280 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1281 module will be called hpfs. If unsure, say N.
1286 tristate "QNX4 file system support (read only)"
1288 This is the file system used by the real-time operating systems
1289 QNX 4 and QNX 6 (the latter is also called QNX RTP).
1290 Further information is available at <http://www.qnx.com/>.
1291 Say Y if you intend to mount QNX hard disks or floppies.
1292 Unless you say Y to "QNX4FS read-write support" below, you will
1293 only be able to read these file systems.
1295 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1296 module will be called qnx4.
1298 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
1302 bool "QNX4FS write support (DANGEROUS)"
1303 depends on QNX4FS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN
1305 Say Y if you want to test write support for QNX4 file systems.
1307 It's currently broken, so for now:
1313 tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support"
1315 SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel
1316 machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y
1317 here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk
1320 If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely
1321 that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order
1322 to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is a
1323 a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse,
1324 UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux. It is
1325 available via FTP (user: ftp) from
1326 <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>).
1327 NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems;
1328 PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-)
1330 If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the
1331 network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support
1332 (but you need NFS file system support obviously).
1334 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
1335 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
1336 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
1337 tar" or preferably "info tar"). Note also that this option has
1338 nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about
1339 the System V file system in
1340 <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>.
1341 Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB.
1343 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1346 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
1351 tristate "UFS file system support (read only)"
1353 BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
1354 OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a file system called UFS. Some System V
1355 Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using
1356 this file system as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from
1357 these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the
1358 experimental "UFS file system write support", below. Please read the
1359 file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt> for more information.
1361 The recently released UFS2 variant (used in FreeBSD 5.x) is
1362 READ-ONLY supported.
1364 If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the
1365 network using NFS, you don't need the UFS file system support (but
1366 you need NFS file system support obviously).
1368 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
1369 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
1370 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
1371 tar" or preferably "info tar").
1373 When accessing NeXTstep files, you may need to convert them from the
1374 NeXT character set to the Latin1 character set; use the program
1375 recode ("info recode") for this purpose.
1377 To compile the UFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1378 module will be called ufs.
1380 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
1383 bool "UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS)"
1384 depends on UFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1386 Say Y here if you want to try writing to UFS partitions. This is
1387 experimental, so you should back up your UFS partitions beforehand.
1390 bool "UFS debugging"
1393 If you are experiencing any problems with the UFS filesystem, say
1394 Y here. This will result in _many_ additional debugging messages to be
1395 written to the system log.
1399 menu "Network File Systems"
1403 tristate "NFS file system support"
1407 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFS_V3_ACL
1409 If you are connected to some other (usually local) Unix computer
1410 (using SLIP, PLIP, PPP or Ethernet) and want to mount files residing
1411 on that computer (the NFS server) using the Network File Sharing
1412 protocol, say Y. "Mounting files" means that the client can access
1413 the files with usual UNIX commands as if they were sitting on the
1414 client's hard disk. For this to work, the server must run the
1415 programs nfsd and mountd (but does not need to have NFS file system
1416 support enabled in its kernel). NFS is explained in the Network
1417 Administrator's Guide, available from
1418 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>, on its man page: "man
1419 nfs", and in the NFS-HOWTO.
1421 A superior but less widely used alternative to NFS is provided by
1422 the Coda file system; see "Coda file system support" below.
1424 If you say Y here, you should have said Y to TCP/IP networking also.
1425 This option would enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB.
1427 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1428 module will be called nfs.
1430 If you are configuring a diskless machine which will mount its root
1431 file system over NFS at boot time, say Y here and to "Kernel
1432 level IP autoconfiguration" above and to "Root file system on NFS"
1433 below. You cannot compile this driver as a module in this case.
1434 There are two packages designed for booting diskless machines over
1435 the net: netboot, available from
1436 <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/netboot/>, and Etherboot,
1437 available from <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/etherboot/>.
1439 If you don't know what all this is about, say N.
1442 bool "Provide NFSv3 client support"
1445 Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak version
1446 3 of the NFS protocol.
1451 bool "Provide client support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension"
1454 Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX
1455 Access Control Lists. The server should also be compiled with
1456 the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL option.
1461 bool "Provide NFSv4 client support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1462 depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1463 select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
1465 Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak the newer
1466 version 4 of the NFS protocol.
1468 Note: Requires auxiliary userspace daemons which may be found on
1469 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
1474 bool "Allow direct I/O on NFS files (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1475 depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1477 This option enables applications to perform uncached I/O on files
1478 in NFS file systems using the O_DIRECT open() flag. When O_DIRECT
1479 is set for a file, its data is not cached in the system's page
1480 cache. Data is moved to and from user-level application buffers
1481 directly. Unlike local disk-based file systems, NFS O_DIRECT has
1482 no alignment restrictions.
1484 Unless your program is designed to use O_DIRECT properly, you are
1485 much better off allowing the NFS client to manage data caching for
1486 you. Misusing O_DIRECT can cause poor server performance or network
1487 storms. This kernel build option defaults OFF to avoid exposing
1488 system administrators unwittingly to a potentially hazardous
1491 For more details on NFS O_DIRECT, see fs/nfs/direct.c.
1493 If unsure, say N. This reduces the size of the NFS client, and
1494 causes open() to return EINVAL if a file residing in NFS is
1495 opened with the O_DIRECT flag.
1498 tristate "NFS server support"
1503 select NFSD_V2_ACL if NFSD_V3_ACL
1504 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFSD_V2_ACL
1505 select NFSD_TCP if NFSD_V4
1506 select CRYPTO_MD5 if NFSD_V4
1507 select CRYPTO if NFSD_V4
1508 select FS_POSIX_ACL if NFSD_V4
1510 If you want your Linux box to act as an NFS *server*, so that other
1511 computers on your local network which support NFS can access certain
1512 directories on your box transparently, you have two options: you can
1513 use the self-contained user space program nfsd, in which case you
1514 should say N here, or you can say Y and use the kernel based NFS
1515 server. The advantage of the kernel based solution is that it is
1518 In either case, you will need support software; the respective
1519 locations are given in the file <file:Documentation/Changes> in the
1522 If you say Y here, you will get support for version 2 of the NFS
1523 protocol (NFSv2). If you also want NFSv3, say Y to the next question
1526 Please read the NFS-HOWTO, available from
1527 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
1529 To compile the NFS server support as a module, choose M here: the
1530 module will be called nfsd. If unsure, say N.
1537 bool "Provide NFSv3 server support"
1540 If you would like to include the NFSv3 server as well as the NFSv2
1541 server, say Y here. If unsure, say Y.
1544 bool "Provide server support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension"
1547 Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX
1548 Access Control Lists on exported file systems. NFS clients should
1549 be compiled with the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the
1550 CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL option. If unsure, say N.
1553 bool "Provide NFSv4 server support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1554 depends on NFSD_V3 && EXPERIMENTAL
1556 If you would like to include the NFSv4 server as well as the NFSv2
1557 and NFSv3 servers, say Y here. This feature is experimental, and
1558 should only be used if you are interested in helping to test NFSv4.
1562 bool "Provide NFS server over TCP support"
1566 If you want your NFS server to support TCP connections, say Y here.
1567 TCP connections usually perform better than the default UDP when
1568 the network is lossy or congested. If unsure, say Y.
1571 bool "Root file system on NFS"
1572 depends on NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP
1574 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
1575 one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
1576 net via NFS (presumably because your box doesn't have a hard disk),
1577 say Y. Read <file:Documentation/nfsroot.txt> for details. It is
1578 likely that in this case, you also want to say Y to "Kernel level IP
1579 autoconfiguration" so that your box can discover its network address
1582 Most people say N here.
1589 depends on NFSD_V3 || NFS_V3
1595 config NFS_ACL_SUPPORT
1601 depends on NFSD || NFS_FS
1610 config RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
1611 tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1612 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
1618 Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api
1619 mechanism based on Kerberos V5. This is required for
1622 Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on
1623 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
1627 config RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3
1628 tristate "Secure RPC: SPKM3 mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1629 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
1636 Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api
1637 mechanism based on the SPKM3 public-key mechanism.
1639 Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on
1640 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
1645 tristate "SMB file system support (to mount Windows shares etc.)"
1649 SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Windows for Workgroups
1650 (WfW), Windows 95/98, Windows NT and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share
1651 files and printers over local networks. Saying Y here allows you to
1652 mount their file systems (often called "shares" in this context) and
1653 access them just like any other Unix directory. Currently, this
1654 works only if the Windows machines use TCP/IP as the underlying
1655 transport protocol, and not NetBEUI. For details, read
1656 <file:Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt> and the SMB-HOWTO,
1657 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
1659 Note: if you just want your box to act as an SMB *server* and make
1660 files and printing services available to Windows clients (which need
1661 to have a TCP/IP stack), you don't need to say Y here; you can use
1662 the program SAMBA (available from <ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/>)
1665 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
1666 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
1668 To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here: the module will
1669 be called smbfs. Most people say N, however.
1671 config SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
1672 bool "Use a default NLS"
1675 Enabling this will make smbfs use nls translations by default. You
1676 need to specify the local charset (CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT) in the nls
1677 settings and you need to give the default nls for the SMB server as
1678 CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE.
1680 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount
1681 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters.
1683 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
1685 config SMB_NLS_REMOTE
1686 string "Default Remote NLS Option"
1687 depends on SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
1690 This setting allows you to specify a default value for which
1691 codepage the server uses. If this field is left blank no
1692 translations will be done by default. The local codepage/charset
1693 default to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT.
1695 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount
1696 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters.
1698 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
1701 tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem for Samba, Window and other CIFS compliant servers)"
1705 This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System
1706 (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block
1707 (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early
1708 PC operating systems. The CIFS protocol is fully supported by
1709 file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4
1710 and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS
1711 server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited
1712 support for Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well.
1713 You must use the smbfs client filesystem to access older SMB servers
1714 such as OS/2 and DOS.
1716 The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced
1717 network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers,
1718 including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user
1719 session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional
1720 packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements,
1721 and optional Winbind (nsswitch) integration. You do not need to enable
1722 cifs if running only a (Samba) server. It is possible to enable both
1723 smbfs and cifs (e.g. if you are using CIFS for accessing Windows 2003
1724 and Samba 3 servers, and smbfs for accessing old servers). If you need
1725 to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y.
1728 bool "CIFS statistics"
1731 Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share
1732 mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats
1735 bool "Extended statistics"
1736 depends on CIFS_STATS
1738 Enabling this option will allow more detailed statistics on SMB
1739 request timing to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData and also
1740 allow optional logging of slow responses to dmesg (depending on the
1741 value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI, see fs/cifs/README for more details).
1742 These additional statistics may have a minor effect on performance
1743 and memory utilization.
1745 Unless you are a developer or are doing network performance analysis
1748 config CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH
1749 bool "Support legacy servers which use weaker LANMAN security"
1752 Modern CIFS servers including Samba and most Windows versions
1753 (since 1997) support stronger NTLM (and even NTLMv2 and Kerberos)
1754 security mechanisms. These hash the password more securely
1755 than the mechanisms used in the older LANMAN version of the
1756 SMB protocol needed to establish sessions with old SMB servers.
1758 Enabling this option allows the cifs module to mount to older
1759 LANMAN based servers such as OS/2 and Windows 95, but such
1760 mounts may be less secure than mounts using NTLM or more recent
1761 security mechanisms if you are on a public network. Unless you
1762 have a need to access old SMB servers (and are on a private
1763 network) you probably want to say N. Even if this support
1764 is enabled in the kernel build, they will not be used
1765 automatically. At runtime LANMAN mounts are disabled but
1766 can be set to required (or optional) either in
1767 /proc/fs/cifs (see fs/cifs/README for more detail) or via an
1768 option on the mount command. This support is disabled by
1769 default in order to reduce the possibility of a downgrade
1775 bool "CIFS extended attributes"
1778 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
1779 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
1780 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). CIFS maps the name of
1781 extended attributes beginning with the user namespace prefix
1782 to SMB/CIFS EAs. EAs are stored on Windows servers without the
1783 user namespace prefix, but their names are seen by Linux cifs clients
1784 prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace
1785 (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at
1791 bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions"
1792 depends on CIFS_XATTR
1794 Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to
1795 negotiate a newer dialect with servers, such as Samba 3.0.5
1796 or later, that optionally can handle more POSIX like (rather
1797 than Windows like) file behavior. It also enables
1798 support for POSIX ACLs (getfacl and setfacl) to servers
1799 (such as Samba 3.10 and later) which can negotiate
1800 CIFS POSIX ACL support. If unsure, say N.
1803 bool "Enable additional CIFS debugging routines"
1806 Enabling this option adds a few more debugging routines
1807 to the cifs code which slightly increases the size of
1808 the cifs module and can cause additional logging of debug
1809 messages in some error paths, slowing performance. This
1810 option can be turned off unless you are debugging
1811 cifs problems. If unsure, say N.
1813 config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
1814 bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1815 depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL
1817 Enables cifs features under testing. These features are
1818 experimental and currently include support for writepages
1819 (multipage writebehind performance improvements) and directory
1820 change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY) as well as some security
1821 improvements. Some also depend on setting at runtime the
1822 pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental (which is disabled by
1823 default). See the file fs/cifs/README for more details.
1828 bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1829 depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
1832 Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which will be used to contact
1833 userspace helper utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged Kerberos
1834 tickets which are needed to mount to certain secure servers
1835 (for which more secure Kerberos authentication is required). If
1839 tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)"
1840 depends on IPX!=n || INET
1842 NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) is a protocol that runs over IPX and is
1843 used by Novell NetWare clients to talk to file servers. It is to
1844 IPX what NFS is to TCP/IP, if that helps. Saying Y here allows you
1845 to mount NetWare file server volumes and to access them just like
1846 any other Unix directory. For details, please read the file
1847 <file:Documentation/filesystems/ncpfs.txt> in the kernel source and
1848 the IPX-HOWTO from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
1850 You do not have to say Y here if you want your Linux box to act as a
1851 file *server* for Novell NetWare clients.
1853 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
1854 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
1856 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1857 ncpfs. Say N unless you are connected to a Novell network.
1859 source "fs/ncpfs/Kconfig"
1862 tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)"
1865 Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it
1866 enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them
1867 with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard
1868 disk. Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for
1869 disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server
1870 replication, security model for authentication and encryption,
1871 persistent client caches and write back caching.
1873 If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda
1874 *client*. You will need user level code as well, both for the
1875 client and server. Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need
1876 no kernel support. Please read
1877 <file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.txt> and check out the Coda
1878 home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>.
1880 To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the
1881 module will be called coda.
1883 config CODA_FS_OLD_API
1884 bool "Use 96-bit Coda file identifiers"
1887 A new kernel-userspace API had to be introduced for Coda v6.0
1888 to support larger 128-bit file identifiers as needed by the
1889 new realms implementation.
1891 However this new API is not backward compatible with older
1892 clients. If you really need to run the old Coda userspace
1893 cache manager then say Y.
1895 For most cases you probably want to say N.
1898 # for fs/nls/Config.in
1899 tristate "Andrew File System support (AFS) (Experimental)"
1900 depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL
1903 If you say Y here, you will get an experimental Andrew File System
1904 driver. It currently only supports unsecured read-only AFS access.
1906 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more intormation.
1914 tristate "Plan 9 Resource Sharing Support (9P2000) (Experimental)"
1915 depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL
1917 If you say Y here, you will get experimental support for
1918 Plan 9 resource sharing via the 9P2000 protocol.
1920 See <http://v9fs.sf.net> for more information.
1926 menu "Partition Types"
1928 source "fs/partitions/Kconfig"
1932 source "fs/nls/Kconfig"