2 # File system configuration
10 tristate "Second extended fs support"
12 Ext2 is a standard Linux file system for hard disks.
14 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
15 module will be called ext2.
20 bool "Ext2 extended attributes"
23 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
24 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
25 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
29 config EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL
30 bool "Ext2 POSIX Access Control Lists"
31 depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR
34 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
35 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
37 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
38 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
40 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
42 config EXT2_FS_SECURITY
43 bool "Ext2 Security Labels"
44 depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR
46 Security labels support alternative access control models
47 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
48 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
49 labels in the ext2 filesystem.
51 If you are not using a security module that requires using
52 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
55 bool "Ext2 execute in place support"
56 depends on EXT2_FS && MMU
58 Execute in place can be used on memory-backed block devices. If you
59 enable this option, you can select to mount block devices which are
60 capable of this feature without using the page cache.
62 If you do not use a block device that is capable of using this,
68 depends on EXT2_FS_XIP
72 tristate "Ext3 journalling file system support"
75 This is the journalling version of the Second extended file system
76 (often called ext3), the de facto standard Linux file system
77 (method to organize files on a storage device) for hard disks.
79 The journalling code included in this driver means you do not have
80 to run e2fsck (file system checker) on your file systems after a
81 crash. The journal keeps track of any changes that were being made
82 at the time the system crashed, and can ensure that your file system
83 is consistent without the need for a lengthy check.
85 Other than adding the journal to the file system, the on-disk format
86 of ext3 is identical to ext2. It is possible to freely switch
87 between using the ext3 driver and the ext2 driver, as long as the
88 file system has been cleanly unmounted, or e2fsck is run on the file
91 To add a journal on an existing ext2 file system or change the
92 behavior of ext3 file systems, you can use the tune2fs utility ("man
93 tune2fs"). To modify attributes of files and directories on ext3
94 file systems, use chattr ("man chattr"). You need to be using
95 e2fsprogs version 1.20 or later in order to create ext3 journals
96 (available at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/e2fsprogs/>).
98 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
99 module will be called ext3.
102 bool "Ext3 extended attributes"
106 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
107 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
108 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
112 You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext3.
114 config EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL
115 bool "Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists"
116 depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR
119 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
120 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
122 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
123 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
125 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
127 config EXT3_FS_SECURITY
128 bool "Ext3 Security Labels"
129 depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR
131 Security labels support alternative access control models
132 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
133 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
134 labels in the ext3 filesystem.
136 If you are not using a security module that requires using
137 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
140 tristate "Ext4dev/ext4 extended fs support development (EXPERIMENTAL)"
141 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
145 Ext4dev is a predecessor filesystem of the next generation
146 extended fs ext4, based on ext3 filesystem code. It will be
147 renamed ext4 fs later, once ext4dev is mature and stabilized.
149 Unlike the change from ext2 filesystem to ext3 filesystem,
150 the on-disk format of ext4dev is not the same as ext3 any more:
151 it is based on extent maps and it supports 48-bit physical block
152 numbers. These combined on-disk format changes will allow
153 ext4dev/ext4 to handle more than 16 TB filesystem volumes --
154 a hard limit that ext3 cannot overcome without changing the
157 Other than extent maps and 48-bit block numbers, ext4dev also is
158 likely to have other new features such as persistent preallocation,
159 high resolution time stamps, and larger file support etc. These
160 features will be added to ext4dev gradually.
162 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here. The
163 module will be called ext4dev.
167 config EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
168 bool "Ext4dev extended attributes"
169 depends on EXT4DEV_FS
172 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
173 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
174 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
178 You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext4dev/ext4.
180 config EXT4DEV_FS_POSIX_ACL
181 bool "Ext4dev POSIX Access Control Lists"
182 depends on EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
185 POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
186 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
188 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for
189 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
191 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
193 config EXT4DEV_FS_SECURITY
194 bool "Ext4dev Security Labels"
195 depends on EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
197 Security labels support alternative access control models
198 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
199 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
200 labels in the ext4dev/ext4 filesystem.
202 If you are not using a security module that requires using
203 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
208 This is a generic journalling layer for block devices. It is
209 currently used by the ext3 and OCFS2 file systems, but it could
210 also be used to add journal support to other file systems or block
211 devices such as RAID or LVM.
213 If you are using the ext3 or OCFS2 file systems, you need to
214 say Y here. If you are not using ext3 OCFS2 then you will probably
217 To compile this device as a module, choose M here: the module will be
218 called jbd. If you are compiling ext3 or OCFS2 into the kernel,
219 you cannot compile this code as a module.
222 bool "JBD (ext3) debugging support"
223 depends on JBD && DEBUG_FS
225 If you are using the ext3 journaled file system (or potentially any
226 other file system/device using JBD), this option allows you to
227 enable debugging output while the system is running, in order to
228 help track down any problems you are having. By default the
229 debugging output will be turned off.
231 If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging
232 with "echo N > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd/jbd-debug", where N is a
233 number between 1 and 5, the higher the number, the more debugging
234 output is generated. To turn debugging off again, do
235 "echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd/jbd-debug".
241 This is a generic journaling layer for block devices that support
242 both 32-bit and 64-bit block numbers. It is currently used by
243 the ext4dev/ext4 filesystem, but it could also be used to add
244 journal support to other file systems or block devices such
247 If you are using ext4dev/ext4, you need to say Y here. If you are not
248 using ext4dev/ext4 then you will probably want to say N.
250 To compile this device as a module, choose M here. The module will be
251 called jbd2. If you are compiling ext4dev/ext4 into the kernel,
252 you cannot compile this code as a module.
255 bool "JBD2 (ext4dev/ext4) debugging support"
256 depends on JBD2 && DEBUG_FS
258 If you are using the ext4dev/ext4 journaled file system (or
259 potentially any other filesystem/device using JBD2), this option
260 allows you to enable debugging output while the system is running,
261 in order to help track down any problems you are having.
262 By default, the debugging output will be turned off.
264 If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging
265 with "echo N > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd2/jbd2-debug", where N is a
266 number between 1 and 5. The higher the number, the more debugging
267 output is generated. To turn debugging off again, do
268 "echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd2/jbd2-debug".
271 # Meta block cache for Extended Attributes (ext2/ext3/ext4)
273 depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR || EXT3_FS_XATTR || EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
274 default y if EXT2_FS=y || EXT3_FS=y || EXT4DEV_FS=y
275 default m if EXT2_FS=m || EXT3_FS=m || EXT4DEV_FS=m
278 tristate "Reiserfs support"
280 Stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a balanced
281 tree. Uses journalling.
283 Balanced trees are more efficient than traditional file system
284 architectural foundations.
286 In general, ReiserFS is as fast as ext2, but is very efficient with
287 large directories and small files. Additional patches are needed
288 for NFS and quotas, please see <http://www.namesys.com/> for links.
290 It is more easily extended to have features currently found in
291 database and keyword search systems than block allocation based file
292 systems are. The next version will be so extended, and will support
293 plugins consistent with our motto ``It takes more than a license to
294 make source code open.''
296 Read <http://www.namesys.com/> to learn more about reiserfs.
298 Sponsored by Threshold Networks, Emusic.com, and Bigstorage.com.
300 If you like it, you can pay us to add new features to it that you
301 need, buy a support contract, or pay us to port it to another OS.
303 config REISERFS_CHECK
304 bool "Enable reiserfs debug mode"
305 depends on REISERFS_FS
307 If you set this to Y, then ReiserFS will perform every check it can
308 possibly imagine of its internal consistency throughout its
309 operation. It will also go substantially slower. More than once we
310 have forgotten that this was on, and then gone despondent over the
311 latest benchmarks.:-) Use of this option allows our team to go all
312 out in checking for consistency when debugging without fear of its
313 effect on end users. If you are on the verge of sending in a bug
314 report, say Y and you might get a useful error message. Almost
315 everyone should say N.
317 config REISERFS_PROC_INFO
318 bool "Stats in /proc/fs/reiserfs"
319 depends on REISERFS_FS && PROC_FS
321 Create under /proc/fs/reiserfs a hierarchy of files, displaying
322 various ReiserFS statistics and internal data at the expense of
323 making your kernel or module slightly larger (+8 KB). This also
324 increases the amount of kernel memory required for each mount.
325 Almost everyone but ReiserFS developers and people fine-tuning
326 reiserfs or tracing problems should say N.
328 config REISERFS_FS_XATTR
329 bool "ReiserFS extended attributes"
330 depends on REISERFS_FS
332 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
333 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
334 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
338 config REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL
339 bool "ReiserFS POSIX Access Control Lists"
340 depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR
343 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
344 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
346 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
347 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
349 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
351 config REISERFS_FS_SECURITY
352 bool "ReiserFS Security Labels"
353 depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR
355 Security labels support alternative access control models
356 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
357 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
358 labels in the ReiserFS filesystem.
360 If you are not using a security module that requires using
361 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
364 tristate "JFS filesystem support"
367 This is a port of IBM's Journaled Filesystem . More information is
368 available in the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt>.
370 If you do not intend to use the JFS filesystem, say N.
373 bool "JFS POSIX Access Control Lists"
377 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
378 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
380 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
381 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
383 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
386 bool "JFS Security Labels"
389 Security labels support alternative access control models
390 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
391 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
392 labels in the jfs filesystem.
394 If you are not using a security module that requires using
395 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
401 If you are experiencing any problems with the JFS filesystem, say
402 Y here. This will result in additional debugging messages to be
403 written to the system log. Under normal circumstances, this
404 results in very little overhead.
406 config JFS_STATISTICS
407 bool "JFS statistics"
410 Enabling this option will cause statistics from the JFS file system
411 to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jfs/ directory.
414 # Posix ACL utility routines (for now, only ext2/ext3/jfs/reiserfs)
416 # NOTE: you can implement Posix ACLs without these helpers (XFS does).
417 # Never use this symbol for ifdefs.
422 source "fs/xfs/Kconfig"
423 source "fs/gfs2/Kconfig"
426 tristate "OCFS2 file system support"
427 depends on NET && SYSFS
432 OCFS2 is a general purpose extent based shared disk cluster file
433 system with many similarities to ext3. It supports 64 bit inode
434 numbers, and has automatically extending metadata groups which may
435 also make it attractive for non-clustered use.
437 You'll want to install the ocfs2-tools package in order to at least
440 Project web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2
441 Tools web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools
442 OCFS2 mailing lists: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/mailman/
444 For more information on OCFS2, see the file
445 <file:Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt>.
448 tristate "O2CB Kernelspace Clustering"
452 OCFS2 includes a simple kernelspace clustering package, the OCFS2
453 Cluster Base. It only requires a very small userspace component
454 to configure it. This comes with the standard ocfs2-tools package.
455 O2CB is limited to maintaining a cluster for OCFS2 file systems.
456 It cannot manage any other cluster applications.
458 It is always safe to say Y here, as the clustering method is
461 config OCFS2_FS_USERSPACE_CLUSTER
462 tristate "OCFS2 Userspace Clustering"
463 depends on OCFS2_FS && DLM
466 This option will allow OCFS2 to use userspace clustering services
467 in conjunction with the DLM in fs/dlm. If you are using a
468 userspace cluster manager, say Y here.
470 It is safe to say Y, as the clustering method is run-time
473 config OCFS2_DEBUG_MASKLOG
474 bool "OCFS2 logging support"
478 The ocfs2 filesystem has an extensive logging system. The system
479 allows selection of events to log via files in /sys/o2cb/logmask/.
480 This option will enlarge your kernel, but it allows debugging of
481 ocfs2 filesystem issues.
483 config OCFS2_DEBUG_FS
484 bool "OCFS2 expensive checks"
488 This option will enable expensive consistency checks. Enable
489 this option for debugging only as it is likely to decrease
490 performance of the filesystem.
495 bool "Dnotify support"
498 Dnotify is a directory-based per-fd file change notification system
499 that uses signals to communicate events to user-space. There exist
500 superior alternatives, but some applications may still rely on
506 bool "Inotify file change notification support"
509 Say Y here to enable inotify support. Inotify is a file change
510 notification system and a replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes
511 numerous shortcomings in dnotify and introduces several new features
512 including multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount
515 For more information, see <file:Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt>
520 bool "Inotify support for userspace"
524 Say Y here to enable inotify support for userspace, including the
525 associated system calls. Inotify allows monitoring of both files and
526 directories via a single open fd. Events are read from the file
527 descriptor, which is also select()- and poll()-able.
529 For more information, see <file:Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt>
536 If you say Y here, you will be able to set per user limits for disk
537 usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works for the
538 ext2, ext3, and reiserfs file system. ext3 also supports journalled
539 quotas for which you don't need to run quotacheck(8) after an unclean
541 For further details, read the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from
542 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or the documentation provided
543 with the quota tools. Probably the quota support is only useful for
544 multi user systems. If unsure, say N.
546 config QUOTA_NETLINK_INTERFACE
547 bool "Report quota messages through netlink interface"
548 depends on QUOTA && NET
550 If you say Y here, quota warnings (about exceeding softlimit, reaching
551 hardlimit, etc.) will be reported through netlink interface. If unsure,
554 config PRINT_QUOTA_WARNING
555 bool "Print quota warnings to console (OBSOLETE)"
559 If you say Y here, quota warnings (about exceeding softlimit, reaching
560 hardlimit, etc.) will be printed to the process' controlling terminal.
561 Note that this behavior is currently deprecated and may go away in
562 future. Please use notification via netlink socket instead.
565 tristate "Old quota format support"
568 This quota format was (is) used by kernels earlier than 2.4.22. If
569 you have quota working and you don't want to convert to new quota
573 tristate "Quota format v2 support"
576 This quota format allows using quotas with 32-bit UIDs/GIDs. If you
577 need this functionality say Y here.
581 depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA
585 tristate "Kernel automounter support"
587 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
588 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
589 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
590 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
592 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs
593 package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>.
594 You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
596 If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more
597 features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support",
600 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
603 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you
604 probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here.
607 tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)"
609 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
610 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
611 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
612 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
614 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from
615 <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/>; you also
616 want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
618 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
619 called autofs4. You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your
620 modules configuration file.
622 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or
623 don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the
624 local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say
628 tristate "Filesystem in Userspace support"
630 With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem
631 in a userspace program.
633 There's also companion library: libfuse. This library along with
634 utilities is available from the FUSE homepage:
635 <http://fuse.sourceforge.net/>
637 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt> for more information.
638 See <file:Documentation/Changes> for needed library/utility version.
640 If you want to develop a userspace FS, or if you want to use
641 a filesystem based on FUSE, answer Y or M.
648 menu "CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems"
651 tristate "ISO 9660 CDROM file system support"
653 This is the standard file system used on CD-ROMs. It was previously
654 known as "High Sierra File System" and is called "hsfs" on other
655 Unix systems. The so-called Rock-Ridge extensions which allow for
656 long Unix filenames and symbolic links are also supported by this
657 driver. If you have a CD-ROM drive and want to do more with it than
658 just listen to audio CDs and watch its LEDs, say Y (and read
659 <file:Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt> and the CD-ROM-HOWTO,
660 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), thereby
661 enlarging your kernel by about 27 KB; otherwise say N.
663 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
664 module will be called isofs.
667 bool "Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions"
668 depends on ISO9660_FS
671 Joliet is a Microsoft extension for the ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system
672 which allows for long filenames in unicode format (unicode is the
673 new 16 bit character code, successor to ASCII, which encodes the
674 characters of almost all languages of the world; see
675 <http://www.unicode.org/> for more information). Say Y here if you
676 want to be able to read Joliet CD-ROMs under Linux.
679 bool "Transparent decompression extension"
680 depends on ISO9660_FS
683 This is a Linux-specific extension to RockRidge which lets you store
684 data in compressed form on a CD-ROM and have it transparently
685 decompressed when the CD-ROM is accessed. See
686 <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/zisofs/> for the tools
687 necessary to create such a filesystem. Say Y here if you want to be
688 able to read such compressed CD-ROMs.
691 tristate "UDF file system support"
694 This is the new file system used on some CD-ROMs and DVDs. Say Y if
695 you intend to mount DVD discs or CDRW's written in packet mode, or
696 if written to by other UDF utilities, such as DirectCD.
697 Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt>.
699 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
700 module will be called udf.
707 depends on (UDF_FS=m && NLS) || (UDF_FS=y && NLS=y)
713 menu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems"
719 If you want to use one of the FAT-based file systems (the MS-DOS and
720 VFAT (Windows 95) file systems), then you must say Y or M here
721 to include FAT support. You will then be able to mount partitions or
722 diskettes with FAT-based file systems and transparently access the
723 files on them, i.e. MSDOS files will look and behave just like all
726 This FAT support is not a file system in itself, it only provides
727 the foundation for the other file systems. You will have to say Y or
728 M to at least one of "MSDOS fs support" or "VFAT fs support" in
729 order to make use of it.
731 Another way to read and write MSDOS floppies and hard drive
732 partitions from within Linux (but not transparently) is with the
733 mtools ("man mtools") program suite. You don't need to say Y here in
736 If you need to move large files on floppies between a DOS and a
737 Linux box, say Y here, mount the floppy under Linux with an MSDOS
738 file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program
739 available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar").
741 The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure,
744 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
745 fat. Note that if you compile the FAT support as a module, you
746 cannot compile any of the FAT-based file systems into the kernel
747 -- they will have to be modules as well.
750 tristate "MSDOS fs support"
753 This allows you to mount MSDOS partitions of your hard drive (unless
754 they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under
755 Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the
756 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from
757 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in
758 <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you
759 intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y
760 here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes
761 transparent, i.e. the MSDOS files look and behave just like all
764 If you have Windows 95 or Windows NT installed on your MSDOS
765 partitions, you should use the VFAT file system (say Y to "VFAT fs
766 support" below), or you will not be able to see the long filenames
767 generated by Windows 95 / Windows NT.
769 This option will enlarge your kernel by about 7 KB. If unsure,
770 answer Y. This will only work if you said Y to "DOS FAT fs support"
771 as well. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will
775 tristate "VFAT (Windows-95) fs support"
778 This option provides support for normal Windows file systems with
779 long filenames. That includes non-compressed FAT-based file systems
780 used by Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and the Unix
781 programs from the mtools package.
783 The VFAT support enlarges your kernel by about 10 KB and it only
784 works if you said Y to the "DOS FAT fs support" above. Please read
785 the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for details. If
788 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
791 config FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE
792 int "Default codepage for FAT"
793 depends on MSDOS_FS || VFAT_FS
796 This option should be set to the codepage of your FAT filesystems.
797 It can be overridden with the "codepage" mount option.
798 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
800 config FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET
801 string "Default iocharset for FAT"
805 Set this to the default input/output character set you'd
806 like FAT to use. It should probably match the character set
807 that most of your FAT filesystems use, and can be overridden
808 with the "iocharset" mount option for FAT filesystems.
809 Note that "utf8" is not recommended for FAT filesystems.
810 If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here.
811 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
814 tristate "NTFS file system support"
817 NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003.
819 Saying Y or M here enables read support. There is partial, but
820 safe, write support available. For write support you must also
821 say Y to "NTFS write support" below.
823 There are also a number of user-space tools available, called
824 ntfsprogs. These include ntfsundelete and ntfsresize, that work
825 without NTFS support enabled in the kernel.
827 This is a rewrite from scratch of Linux NTFS support and replaced
828 the old NTFS code starting with Linux 2.5.11. A backport to
829 the Linux 2.4 kernel series is separately available as a patch
830 from the project web site.
832 For more information see <file:Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt>
833 and <http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/>.
835 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
836 module will be called ntfs.
838 If you are not using Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 in addition to
839 Linux on your computer it is safe to say N.
842 bool "NTFS debugging support"
845 If you are experiencing any problems with the NTFS file system, say
846 Y here. This will result in additional consistency checks to be
847 performed by the driver as well as additional debugging messages to
848 be written to the system log. Note that debugging messages are
849 disabled by default. To enable them, supply the option debug_msgs=1
850 at the kernel command line when booting the kernel or as an option
851 to insmod when loading the ntfs module. Once the driver is active,
852 you can enable debugging messages by doing (as root):
853 echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug
854 Replacing the "1" with "0" would disable debug messages.
856 If you leave debugging messages disabled, this results in little
857 overhead, but enabling debug messages results in very significant
858 slowdown of the system.
860 When reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of
861 debugging messages while the misbehaviour was occurring.
864 bool "NTFS write support"
867 This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver.
869 The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without
870 changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or
871 renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to
872 so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot
875 While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have
876 so far not received a single report where the driver would have
877 damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use.
879 Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from
880 scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS
881 write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997),
884 This is currently useful with TopologiLinux. TopologiLinux is run
885 on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your
886 hard disk. Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not
887 need its own partition. For more information see
888 <http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/>
890 It is perfectly safe to say N here.
895 menu "Pseudo filesystems"
898 bool "/proc file system support" if EMBEDDED
901 This is a virtual file system providing information about the status
902 of the system. "Virtual" means that it doesn't take up any space on
903 your hard disk: the files are created on the fly by the kernel when
904 you try to access them. Also, you cannot read the files with older
905 version of the program less: you need to use more or cat.
907 It's totally cool; for example, "cat /proc/interrupts" gives
908 information about what the different IRQs are used for at the moment
909 (there is a small number of Interrupt ReQuest lines in your computer
910 that are used by the attached devices to gain the CPU's attention --
911 often a source of trouble if two devices are mistakenly configured
912 to use the same IRQ). The program procinfo to display some
913 information about your system gathered from the /proc file system.
915 Before you can use the /proc file system, it has to be mounted,
916 meaning it has to be given a location in the directory hierarchy.
917 That location should be /proc. A command such as "mount -t proc proc
918 /proc" or the equivalent line in /etc/fstab does the job.
920 The /proc file system is explained in the file
921 <file:Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt> and on the proc(5) manpage
924 This option will enlarge your kernel by about 67 KB. Several
925 programs depend on this, so everyone should say Y here.
928 bool "/proc/kcore support" if !ARM
929 depends on PROC_FS && MMU
932 bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
933 depends on PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP
936 Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format.
939 bool "Sysctl support (/proc/sys)" if EMBEDDED
944 The sysctl interface provides a means of dynamically changing
945 certain kernel parameters and variables on the fly without requiring
946 a recompile of the kernel or reboot of the system. The primary
947 interface is through /proc/sys. If you say Y here a tree of
948 modifiable sysctl entries will be generated beneath the
949 /proc/sys directory. They are explained in the files
950 in <file:Documentation/sysctl/>. Note that enabling this
951 option will enlarge the kernel by at least 8 KB.
953 As it is generally a good thing, you should say Y here unless
954 building a kernel for install/rescue disks or your system is very
958 bool "sysfs file system support" if EMBEDDED
961 The sysfs filesystem is a virtual filesystem that the kernel uses to
962 export internal kernel objects, their attributes, and their
963 relationships to one another.
965 Users can use sysfs to ascertain useful information about the running
966 kernel, such as the devices the kernel has discovered on each bus and
967 which driver each is bound to. sysfs can also be used to tune devices
968 and other kernel subsystems.
970 Some system agents rely on the information in sysfs to operate.
971 /sbin/hotplug uses device and object attributes in sysfs to assist in
972 delegating policy decisions, like persistently naming devices.
974 sysfs is currently used by the block subsystem to mount the root
975 partition. If sysfs is disabled you must specify the boot device on
976 the kernel boot command line via its major and minor numbers. For
977 example, "root=03:01" for /dev/hda1.
979 Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space.
982 bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)"
984 Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory.
986 Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be
987 created on your hard drive. The files live in memory and swap
988 space. If you unmount a tmpfs instance, everything stored therein is
991 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> for details.
993 config TMPFS_POSIX_ACL
994 bool "Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists"
998 POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
999 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
1001 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for
1002 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
1004 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N.
1007 bool "HugeTLB file system support"
1008 depends on X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || (SUPERH && MMU) || BROKEN
1010 hugetlbfs is a filesystem backing for HugeTLB pages, based on
1011 ramfs. For architectures that support it, say Y here and read
1012 <file:Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt> for details.
1020 tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem"
1023 configfs is a ram-based filesystem that provides the converse
1024 of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based
1025 view of kernel objects, configfs is a filesystem-based manager
1026 of kernel objects, or config_items.
1028 Both sysfs and configfs can and should exist together on the
1029 same system. One is not a replacement for the other.
1033 menu "Miscellaneous filesystems"
1036 tristate "ADFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1037 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1039 The Acorn Disc Filing System is the standard file system of the
1040 RiscOS operating system which runs on Acorn's ARM-based Risc PC
1041 systems and the Acorn Archimedes range of machines. If you say Y
1042 here, Linux will be able to read from ADFS partitions on hard drives
1043 and from ADFS-formatted floppy discs. If you also want to be able to
1044 write to those devices, say Y to "ADFS write support" below.
1046 The ADFS partition should be the first partition (i.e.,
1047 /dev/[hs]d?1) on each of your drives. Please read the file
1048 <file:Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt> for further details.
1050 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be
1056 bool "ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)"
1059 If you say Y here, you will be able to write to ADFS partitions on
1060 hard drives and ADFS-formatted floppy disks. This is experimental
1061 codes, so if you're unsure, say N.
1064 tristate "Amiga FFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1065 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1067 The Fast File System (FFS) is the common file system used on hard
1068 disks by Amiga(tm) systems since AmigaOS Version 1.3 (34.20). Say Y
1069 if you want to be able to read and write files from and to an Amiga
1070 FFS partition on your hard drive. Amiga floppies however cannot be
1071 read with this driver due to an incompatibility of the floppy
1072 controller used in an Amiga and the standard floppy controller in
1073 PCs and workstations. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt>
1074 and <file:fs/affs/Changes>.
1076 With this driver you can also mount disk files used by Bernd
1077 Schmidt's Un*X Amiga Emulator
1078 (<http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/>).
1079 If you want to do this, you will also need to say Y or M to "Loop
1080 device support", above.
1082 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1083 module will be called affs. If unsure, say N.
1086 tristate "eCrypt filesystem layer support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1087 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && KEYS && CRYPTO && NET
1089 Encrypted filesystem that operates on the VFS layer. See
1090 <file:Documentation/filesystems/ecryptfs.txt> to learn more about
1091 eCryptfs. Userspace components are required and can be
1092 obtained from <http://ecryptfs.sf.net>.
1094 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1095 module will be called ecryptfs.
1098 tristate "Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1099 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1102 If you say Y here, you will be able to mount Macintosh-formatted
1103 floppy disks and hard drive partitions with full read-write access.
1104 Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/hfs.txt> to learn about
1105 the available mount options.
1107 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1108 module will be called hfs.
1111 tristate "Apple Extended HFS file system support"
1116 If you say Y here, you will be able to mount extended format
1117 Macintosh-formatted hard drive partitions with full read-write access.
1119 This file system is often called HFS+ and was introduced with
1120 MacOS 8. It includes all Mac specific filesystem data such as
1121 data forks and creator codes, but it also has several UNIX
1122 style features such as file ownership and permissions.
1125 tristate "BeOS file system (BeFS) support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1126 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1129 The BeOS File System (BeFS) is the native file system of Be, Inc's
1130 BeOS. Notable features include support for arbitrary attributes
1131 on files and directories, and database-like indices on selected
1132 attributes. (Also note that this driver doesn't make those features
1133 available at this time). It is a 64 bit filesystem, so it supports
1134 extremely large volumes and files.
1136 If you use this filesystem, you should also say Y to at least one
1137 of the NLS (native language support) options below.
1139 If you don't know what this is about, say N.
1141 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
1148 If you say Y here, you can use the 'debug' mount option to enable
1149 debugging output from the driver.
1152 tristate "BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1153 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1155 Boot File System (BFS) is a file system used under SCO UnixWare to
1156 allow the bootloader access to the kernel image and other important
1157 files during the boot process. It is usually mounted under /stand
1158 and corresponds to the slice marked as "STAND" in the UnixWare
1159 partition. You should say Y if you want to read or write the files
1160 on your /stand slice from within Linux. You then also need to say Y
1161 to "UnixWare slices support", below. More information about the BFS
1162 file system is contained in the file
1163 <file:Documentation/filesystems/bfs.txt>.
1165 If you don't know what this is about, say N.
1167 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1168 bfs. Note that the file system of your root partition (the one
1169 containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
1174 tristate "EFS file system support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1175 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1177 EFS is an older file system used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and hard
1178 disk partitions by SGI's IRIX operating system (IRIX 6.0 and newer
1179 uses the XFS file system for hard disk partitions however).
1181 This implementation only offers read-only access. If you don't know
1182 what all this is about, it's safe to say N. For more information
1183 about EFS see its home page at <http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/>.
1185 To compile the EFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1186 module will be called efs.
1189 tristate "Journalling Flash File System v2 (JFFS2) support"
1193 JFFS2 is the second generation of the Journalling Flash File System
1194 for use on diskless embedded devices. It provides improved wear
1195 levelling, compression and support for hard links. You cannot use
1196 this on normal block devices, only on 'MTD' devices.
1198 Further information on the design and implementation of JFFS2 is
1199 available at <http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2/>.
1201 config JFFS2_FS_DEBUG
1202 int "JFFS2 debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 2 = noisy)"
1206 This controls the amount of debugging messages produced by the JFFS2
1207 code. Set it to zero for use in production systems. For evaluation,
1208 testing and debugging, it's advisable to set it to one. This will
1209 enable a few assertions and will print debugging messages at the
1210 KERN_DEBUG loglevel, where they won't normally be visible. Level 2
1211 is unlikely to be useful - it enables extra debugging in certain
1212 areas which at one point needed debugging, but when the bugs were
1213 located and fixed, the detailed messages were relegated to level 2.
1215 If reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of the
1216 messages at debug level 1 while the misbehaviour was occurring.
1218 config JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER
1219 bool "JFFS2 write-buffering support"
1223 This enables the write-buffering support in JFFS2.
1225 This functionality is required to support JFFS2 on the following
1226 types of flash devices:
1228 - NOR flash with transparent ECC
1231 config JFFS2_FS_WBUF_VERIFY
1232 bool "Verify JFFS2 write-buffer reads"
1233 depends on JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER
1236 This causes JFFS2 to read back every page written through the
1237 write-buffer, and check for errors.
1239 config JFFS2_SUMMARY
1240 bool "JFFS2 summary support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1241 depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1244 This feature makes it possible to use summary information
1245 for faster filesystem mount.
1247 The summary information can be inserted into a filesystem image
1248 by the utility 'sumtool'.
1252 config JFFS2_FS_XATTR
1253 bool "JFFS2 XATTR support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1254 depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1257 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
1258 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
1259 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
1263 config JFFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL
1264 bool "JFFS2 POSIX Access Control Lists"
1265 depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR
1269 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
1270 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
1272 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
1273 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
1275 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
1277 config JFFS2_FS_SECURITY
1278 bool "JFFS2 Security Labels"
1279 depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR
1282 Security labels support alternative access control models
1283 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
1284 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
1285 labels in the jffs2 filesystem.
1287 If you are not using a security module that requires using
1288 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
1290 config JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1291 bool "Advanced compression options for JFFS2"
1295 Enabling this option allows you to explicitly choose which
1296 compression modules, if any, are enabled in JFFS2. Removing
1297 compressors can mean you cannot read existing file systems,
1298 and enabling experimental compressors can mean that you
1299 write a file system which cannot be read by a standard kernel.
1301 If unsure, you should _definitely_ say 'N'.
1304 bool "JFFS2 ZLIB compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1310 Zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered,
1311 lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer
1312 hardware and operating system. See <http://www.gzip.org/zlib/> for
1313 further information.
1318 bool "JFFS2 LZO compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1320 select LZO_DECOMPRESS
1324 minilzo-based compression. Generally works better than Zlib.
1326 This feature was added in July, 2007. Say 'N' if you need
1327 compatibility with older bootloaders or kernels.
1330 bool "JFFS2 RTIME compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1334 Rtime does manage to recompress already-compressed data. Say 'Y' if unsure.
1337 bool "JFFS2 RUBIN compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1341 RUBINMIPS and DYNRUBIN compressors. Say 'N' if unsure.
1344 prompt "JFFS2 default compression mode" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1345 default JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY
1348 You can set here the default compression mode of JFFS2 from
1349 the available compression modes. Don't touch if unsure.
1351 config JFFS2_CMODE_NONE
1352 bool "no compression"
1354 Uses no compression.
1356 config JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY
1359 Tries the compressors in a predefined order and chooses the first
1362 config JFFS2_CMODE_SIZE
1363 bool "size (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1365 Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest
1368 config JFFS2_CMODE_FAVOURLZO
1371 Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest
1372 result but gives some preference to LZO (which has faster
1373 decompression) at the expense of size.
1378 tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)"
1382 Saying Y here includes support for CramFs (Compressed ROM File
1383 System). CramFs is designed to be a simple, small, and compressed
1384 file system for ROM based embedded systems. CramFs is read-only,
1385 limited to 256MB file systems (with 16MB files), and doesn't support
1386 16/32 bits uid/gid, hard links and timestamps.
1388 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt> and
1389 <file:fs/cramfs/README> for further information.
1391 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1392 cramfs. Note that the root file system (the one containing the
1393 directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
1398 tristate "FreeVxFS file system support (VERITAS VxFS(TM) compatible)"
1401 FreeVxFS is a file system driver that support the VERITAS VxFS(TM)
1402 file system format. VERITAS VxFS(TM) is the standard file system
1403 of SCO UnixWare (and possibly others) and optionally available
1404 for Sunsoft Solaris, HP-UX and many other operating systems.
1405 Currently only readonly access is supported.
1407 NOTE: the file system type as used by mount(1), mount(2) and
1408 fstab(5) is 'vxfs' as it describes the file system format, not
1411 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
1412 called freevxfs. If unsure, say N.
1415 tristate "Minix file system support"
1418 Minix is a simple operating system used in many classes about OS's.
1419 The minix file system (method to organize files on a hard disk
1420 partition or a floppy disk) was the original file system for Linux,
1421 but has been superseded by the second extended file system ext2fs.
1422 You don't want to use the minix file system on your hard disk
1423 because of certain built-in restrictions, but it is sometimes found
1424 on older Linux floppy disks. This option will enlarge your kernel
1425 by about 28 KB. If unsure, say N.
1427 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1428 module will be called minix. Note that the file system of your root
1429 partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as
1434 tristate "OS/2 HPFS file system support"
1437 OS/2 is IBM's operating system for PC's, the same as Warp, and HPFS
1438 is the file system used for organizing files on OS/2 hard disk
1439 partitions. Say Y if you want to be able to read files from and
1440 write files to an OS/2 HPFS partition on your hard drive. OS/2
1441 floppies however are in regular MSDOS format, so you don't need this
1442 option in order to be able to read them. Read
1443 <file:Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt>.
1445 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1446 module will be called hpfs. If unsure, say N.
1450 tristate "QNX4 file system support (read only)"
1453 This is the file system used by the real-time operating systems
1454 QNX 4 and QNX 6 (the latter is also called QNX RTP).
1455 Further information is available at <http://www.qnx.com/>.
1456 Say Y if you intend to mount QNX hard disks or floppies.
1457 Unless you say Y to "QNX4FS read-write support" below, you will
1458 only be able to read these file systems.
1460 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1461 module will be called qnx4.
1463 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
1467 bool "QNX4FS write support (DANGEROUS)"
1468 depends on QNX4FS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN
1470 Say Y if you want to test write support for QNX4 file systems.
1472 It's currently broken, so for now:
1476 tristate "ROM file system support"
1479 This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for
1480 initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for
1481 other read-only media as well. Read
1482 <file:Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt> for details.
1484 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1485 module will be called romfs. Note that the file system of your
1486 root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a
1489 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
1494 tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support"
1497 SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel
1498 machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y
1499 here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk
1502 If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely
1503 that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order
1504 to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is
1505 a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse,
1506 UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux. It is
1507 available via FTP (user: ftp) from
1508 <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>).
1509 NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems;
1510 PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-)
1512 If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the
1513 network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support
1514 (but you need NFS file system support obviously).
1516 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
1517 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
1518 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
1519 tar" or preferably "info tar"). Note also that this option has
1520 nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about
1521 the System V file system in
1522 <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>.
1523 Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB.
1525 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1528 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
1532 tristate "UFS file system support (read only)"
1535 BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
1536 OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a file system called UFS. Some System V
1537 Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using
1538 this file system as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from
1539 these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the
1540 experimental "UFS file system write support", below. Please read the
1541 file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt> for more information.
1543 The recently released UFS2 variant (used in FreeBSD 5.x) is
1544 READ-ONLY supported.
1546 If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the
1547 network using NFS, you don't need the UFS file system support (but
1548 you need NFS file system support obviously).
1550 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
1551 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
1552 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
1553 tar" or preferably "info tar").
1555 When accessing NeXTstep files, you may need to convert them from the
1556 NeXT character set to the Latin1 character set; use the program
1557 recode ("info recode") for this purpose.
1559 To compile the UFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1560 module will be called ufs.
1562 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
1565 bool "UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS)"
1566 depends on UFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1568 Say Y here if you want to try writing to UFS partitions. This is
1569 experimental, so you should back up your UFS partitions beforehand.
1572 bool "UFS debugging"
1575 If you are experiencing any problems with the UFS filesystem, say
1576 Y here. This will result in _many_ additional debugging messages to be
1577 written to the system log.
1581 menuconfig NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS
1582 bool "Network File Systems"
1586 Say Y here to get to see options for network filesystems and
1587 filesystem-related networking code, such as NFS daemon and
1588 RPCSEC security modules.
1589 This option alone does not add any kernel code.
1591 If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and
1592 disabled; if unsure, say Y here.
1594 if NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS
1597 tristate "NFS file system support"
1601 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFS_V3_ACL
1603 If you are connected to some other (usually local) Unix computer
1604 (using SLIP, PLIP, PPP or Ethernet) and want to mount files residing
1605 on that computer (the NFS server) using the Network File Sharing
1606 protocol, say Y. "Mounting files" means that the client can access
1607 the files with usual UNIX commands as if they were sitting on the
1608 client's hard disk. For this to work, the server must run the
1609 programs nfsd and mountd (but does not need to have NFS file system
1610 support enabled in its kernel). NFS is explained in the Network
1611 Administrator's Guide, available from
1612 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>, on its man page: "man
1613 nfs", and in the NFS-HOWTO.
1615 A superior but less widely used alternative to NFS is provided by
1616 the Coda file system; see "Coda file system support" below.
1618 If you say Y here, you should have said Y to TCP/IP networking also.
1619 This option would enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB.
1621 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1622 module will be called nfs.
1624 If you are configuring a diskless machine which will mount its root
1625 file system over NFS at boot time, say Y here and to "Kernel
1626 level IP autoconfiguration" above and to "Root file system on NFS"
1627 below. You cannot compile this driver as a module in this case.
1628 There are two packages designed for booting diskless machines over
1629 the net: netboot, available from
1630 <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/netboot/>, and Etherboot,
1631 available from <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/etherboot/>.
1633 If you don't know what all this is about, say N.
1636 bool "Provide NFSv3 client support"
1639 Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak version
1640 3 of the NFS protocol.
1645 bool "Provide client support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension"
1648 Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX
1649 Access Control Lists. The server should also be compiled with
1650 the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL option.
1655 bool "Provide NFSv4 client support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1656 depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1657 select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
1659 Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak the newer
1660 version 4 of the NFS protocol.
1662 Note: Requires auxiliary userspace daemons which may be found on
1663 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
1668 bool "Allow direct I/O on NFS files"
1671 This option enables applications to perform uncached I/O on files
1672 in NFS file systems using the O_DIRECT open() flag. When O_DIRECT
1673 is set for a file, its data is not cached in the system's page
1674 cache. Data is moved to and from user-level application buffers
1675 directly. Unlike local disk-based file systems, NFS O_DIRECT has
1676 no alignment restrictions.
1678 Unless your program is designed to use O_DIRECT properly, you are
1679 much better off allowing the NFS client to manage data caching for
1680 you. Misusing O_DIRECT can cause poor server performance or network
1681 storms. This kernel build option defaults OFF to avoid exposing
1682 system administrators unwittingly to a potentially hazardous
1685 For more details on NFS O_DIRECT, see fs/nfs/direct.c.
1687 If unsure, say N. This reduces the size of the NFS client, and
1688 causes open() to return EINVAL if a file residing in NFS is
1689 opened with the O_DIRECT flag.
1692 tristate "NFS server support"
1697 select NFSD_V2_ACL if NFSD_V3_ACL
1698 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFSD_V2_ACL
1699 select NFSD_TCP if NFSD_V4
1700 select CRYPTO_MD5 if NFSD_V4
1701 select CRYPTO if NFSD_V4
1702 select FS_POSIX_ACL if NFSD_V4
1703 select PROC_FS if NFSD_V4
1704 select PROC_FS if SUNRPC_GSS
1706 If you want your Linux box to act as an NFS *server*, so that other
1707 computers on your local network which support NFS can access certain
1708 directories on your box transparently, you have two options: you can
1709 use the self-contained user space program nfsd, in which case you
1710 should say N here, or you can say Y and use the kernel based NFS
1711 server. The advantage of the kernel based solution is that it is
1714 In either case, you will need support software; the respective
1715 locations are given in the file <file:Documentation/Changes> in the
1718 If you say Y here, you will get support for version 2 of the NFS
1719 protocol (NFSv2). If you also want NFSv3, say Y to the next question
1722 Please read the NFS-HOWTO, available from
1723 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
1725 To compile the NFS server support as a module, choose M here: the
1726 module will be called nfsd. If unsure, say N.
1733 bool "Provide NFSv3 server support"
1736 If you would like to include the NFSv3 server as well as the NFSv2
1737 server, say Y here. If unsure, say Y.
1740 bool "Provide server support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension"
1743 Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX
1744 Access Control Lists on exported file systems. NFS clients should
1745 be compiled with the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the
1746 CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL option. If unsure, say N.
1749 bool "Provide NFSv4 server support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1750 depends on NFSD && NFSD_V3 && EXPERIMENTAL
1751 select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
1753 If you would like to include the NFSv4 server as well as the NFSv2
1754 and NFSv3 servers, say Y here. This feature is experimental, and
1755 should only be used if you are interested in helping to test NFSv4.
1759 bool "Provide NFS server over TCP support"
1763 If you want your NFS server to support TCP connections, say Y here.
1764 TCP connections usually perform better than the default UDP when
1765 the network is lossy or congested. If unsure, say Y.
1768 bool "Root file system on NFS"
1769 depends on NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP
1771 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
1772 one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
1773 net via NFS (presumably because your box doesn't have a hard disk),
1774 say Y. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt> for
1775 details. It is likely that in this case, you also want to say Y to
1776 "Kernel level IP autoconfiguration" so that your box can discover
1777 its network address at boot time.
1779 Most people say N here.
1786 depends on NFSD_V3 || NFS_V3
1792 config NFS_ACL_SUPPORT
1798 depends on NFSD || NFS_FS
1807 config SUNRPC_XPRT_RDMA
1809 depends on SUNRPC && INFINIBAND && EXPERIMENTAL
1810 default SUNRPC && INFINIBAND
1812 config SUNRPC_BIND34
1813 bool "Support for rpcbind versions 3 & 4 (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1814 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
1816 Provides kernel support for querying rpcbind servers via versions 3
1817 and 4 of the rpcbind protocol. The kernel automatically falls back
1818 to version 2 if a remote rpcbind service does not support versions
1821 If unsure, say N to get traditional behavior (version 2 rpcbind
1824 config RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
1825 tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1826 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
1833 Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api
1834 mechanism based on Kerberos V5. This is required for
1837 Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on
1838 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
1842 config RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3
1843 tristate "Secure RPC: SPKM3 mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1844 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
1852 Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api
1853 mechanism based on the SPKM3 public-key mechanism.
1855 Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on
1856 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
1861 tristate "SMB file system support (OBSOLETE, please use CIFS)"
1865 SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Windows for Workgroups
1866 (WfW), Windows 95/98, Windows NT and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share
1867 files and printers over local networks. Saying Y here allows you to
1868 mount their file systems (often called "shares" in this context) and
1869 access them just like any other Unix directory. Currently, this
1870 works only if the Windows machines use TCP/IP as the underlying
1871 transport protocol, and not NetBEUI. For details, read
1872 <file:Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt> and the SMB-HOWTO,
1873 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
1875 Note: if you just want your box to act as an SMB *server* and make
1876 files and printing services available to Windows clients (which need
1877 to have a TCP/IP stack), you don't need to say Y here; you can use
1878 the program SAMBA (available from <ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/>)
1881 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
1882 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
1884 To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here:
1885 the module will be called smbfs. Most people say N, however.
1887 config SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
1888 bool "Use a default NLS"
1891 Enabling this will make smbfs use nls translations by default. You
1892 need to specify the local charset (CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT) in the nls
1893 settings and you need to give the default nls for the SMB server as
1894 CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE.
1896 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount
1897 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters.
1899 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
1901 config SMB_NLS_REMOTE
1902 string "Default Remote NLS Option"
1903 depends on SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
1906 This setting allows you to specify a default value for which
1907 codepage the server uses. If this field is left blank no
1908 translations will be done by default. The local codepage/charset
1909 default to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT.
1911 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount
1912 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters.
1914 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
1917 tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem, SMBFS successor)"
1921 This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System
1922 (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block
1923 (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early
1924 PC operating systems. The CIFS protocol is fully supported by
1925 file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4
1926 and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS
1927 server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited
1928 support for OS/2 and Windows ME and similar servers is provided as
1931 The cifs module provides an advanced network file system
1932 client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers. It includes
1933 support for DFS (hierarchical name space), secure per-user
1934 session establishment via Kerberos or NTLM or NTLMv2,
1935 safe distributed caching (oplock), optional packet
1936 signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements.
1937 If you need to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y.
1940 bool "CIFS statistics"
1943 Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share
1944 mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats
1947 bool "Extended statistics"
1948 depends on CIFS_STATS
1950 Enabling this option will allow more detailed statistics on SMB
1951 request timing to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData and also
1952 allow optional logging of slow responses to dmesg (depending on the
1953 value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI, see fs/cifs/README for more details).
1954 These additional statistics may have a minor effect on performance
1955 and memory utilization.
1957 Unless you are a developer or are doing network performance analysis
1960 config CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH
1961 bool "Support legacy servers which use weaker LANMAN security"
1964 Modern CIFS servers including Samba and most Windows versions
1965 (since 1997) support stronger NTLM (and even NTLMv2 and Kerberos)
1966 security mechanisms. These hash the password more securely
1967 than the mechanisms used in the older LANMAN version of the
1968 SMB protocol but LANMAN based authentication is needed to
1969 establish sessions with some old SMB servers.
1971 Enabling this option allows the cifs module to mount to older
1972 LANMAN based servers such as OS/2 and Windows 95, but such
1973 mounts may be less secure than mounts using NTLM or more recent
1974 security mechanisms if you are on a public network. Unless you
1975 have a need to access old SMB servers (and are on a private
1976 network) you probably want to say N. Even if this support
1977 is enabled in the kernel build, LANMAN authentication will not be
1978 used automatically. At runtime LANMAN mounts are disabled but
1979 can be set to required (or optional) either in
1980 /proc/fs/cifs (see fs/cifs/README for more detail) or via an
1981 option on the mount command. This support is disabled by
1982 default in order to reduce the possibility of a downgrade
1988 bool "CIFS extended attributes"
1991 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
1992 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
1993 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). CIFS maps the name of
1994 extended attributes beginning with the user namespace prefix
1995 to SMB/CIFS EAs. EAs are stored on Windows servers without the
1996 user namespace prefix, but their names are seen by Linux cifs clients
1997 prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace
1998 (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at
2004 bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions"
2005 depends on CIFS_XATTR
2007 Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to
2008 negotiate a newer dialect with servers, such as Samba 3.0.5
2009 or later, that optionally can handle more POSIX like (rather
2010 than Windows like) file behavior. It also enables
2011 support for POSIX ACLs (getfacl and setfacl) to servers
2012 (such as Samba 3.10 and later) which can negotiate
2013 CIFS POSIX ACL support. If unsure, say N.
2016 bool "Enable additional CIFS debugging routines"
2019 Enabling this option adds a few more debugging routines
2020 to the cifs code which slightly increases the size of
2021 the cifs module and can cause additional logging of debug
2022 messages in some error paths, slowing performance. This
2023 option can be turned off unless you are debugging
2024 cifs problems. If unsure, say N.
2026 config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
2027 bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)"
2028 depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL
2030 Enables cifs features under testing. These features are
2031 experimental and currently include DFS support and directory
2032 change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY), as well as the upcall
2033 mechanism which will be used for Kerberos session negotiation
2034 and uid remapping. Some of these features also may depend on
2035 setting a value of 1 to the pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental
2036 (which is disabled by default). See the file fs/cifs/README
2037 for more details. If unsure, say N.
2040 bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)"
2041 depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
2044 Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which accesses
2045 userspace helper utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged (RFC 4178)
2046 Kerberos tickets which are needed to mount to certain secure servers
2047 (for which more secure Kerberos authentication is required). If
2050 config CIFS_DFS_UPCALL
2051 bool "DFS feature support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
2052 depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
2055 Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which contacts userspace
2056 helper utilities to provide server name resolution (host names to
2057 IP addresses) which is needed for implicit mounts of DFS junction
2058 points. If unsure, say N.
2061 tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)"
2062 depends on IPX!=n || INET
2064 NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) is a protocol that runs over IPX and is
2065 used by Novell NetWare clients to talk to file servers. It is to
2066 IPX what NFS is to TCP/IP, if that helps. Saying Y here allows you
2067 to mount NetWare file server volumes and to access them just like
2068 any other Unix directory. For details, please read the file
2069 <file:Documentation/filesystems/ncpfs.txt> in the kernel source and
2070 the IPX-HOWTO from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
2072 You do not have to say Y here if you want your Linux box to act as a
2073 file *server* for Novell NetWare clients.
2075 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
2076 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
2078 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
2079 ncpfs. Say N unless you are connected to a Novell network.
2081 source "fs/ncpfs/Kconfig"
2084 tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)"
2087 Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it
2088 enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them
2089 with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard
2090 disk. Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for
2091 disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server
2092 replication, security model for authentication and encryption,
2093 persistent client caches and write back caching.
2095 If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda
2096 *client*. You will need user level code as well, both for the
2097 client and server. Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need
2098 no kernel support. Please read
2099 <file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.txt> and check out the Coda
2100 home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>.
2102 To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the
2103 module will be called coda.
2105 config CODA_FS_OLD_API
2106 bool "Use 96-bit Coda file identifiers"
2109 A new kernel-userspace API had to be introduced for Coda v6.0
2110 to support larger 128-bit file identifiers as needed by the
2111 new realms implementation.
2113 However this new API is not backward compatible with older
2114 clients. If you really need to run the old Coda userspace
2115 cache manager then say Y.
2117 For most cases you probably want to say N.
2120 tristate "Andrew File System support (AFS) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
2121 depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL
2124 If you say Y here, you will get an experimental Andrew File System
2125 driver. It currently only supports unsecured read-only AFS access.
2127 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information.
2132 bool "AFS dynamic debugging"
2135 Say Y here to make runtime controllable debugging messages appear.
2137 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information.
2142 tristate "Plan 9 Resource Sharing Support (9P2000) (Experimental)"
2143 depends on INET && NET_9P && EXPERIMENTAL
2145 If you say Y here, you will get experimental support for
2146 Plan 9 resource sharing via the 9P2000 protocol.
2148 See <http://v9fs.sf.net> for more information.
2152 endif # NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS
2155 menu "Partition Types"
2157 source "fs/partitions/Kconfig"
2162 source "fs/nls/Kconfig"
2163 source "fs/dlm/Kconfig"