config JBD2
tristate
+ select CRC32
help
This is a generic journaling layer for block devices that support
both 32-bit and 64-bit block numbers. It is currently used by
this option for debugging only as it is likely to decrease
performance of the filesystem.
-config MINIX_FS
- tristate "Minix fs support"
- help
- Minix is a simple operating system used in many classes about OS's.
- The minix file system (method to organize files on a hard disk
- partition or a floppy disk) was the original file system for Linux,
- but has been superseded by the second extended file system ext2fs.
- You don't want to use the minix file system on your hard disk
- because of certain built-in restrictions, but it is sometimes found
- on older Linux floppy disks. This option will enlarge your kernel
- by about 28 KB. If unsure, say N.
-
- To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
- module will be called minix. Note that the file system of your root
- partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as
- a module.
-
-config ROMFS_FS
- tristate "ROM file system support"
- ---help---
- This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for
- initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for
- other read-only media as well. Read
- <file:Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt> for details.
-
- To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
- module will be called romfs. Note that the file system of your
- root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a
- module.
+endif # BLOCK
- If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
- answer N.
+config DNOTIFY
+ bool "Dnotify support"
+ default y
+ help
+ Dnotify is a directory-based per-fd file change notification system
+ that uses signals to communicate events to user-space. There exist
+ superior alternatives, but some applications may still rely on
+ dnotify.
-endif
+ If unsure, say Y.
config INOTIFY
bool "Inotify file change notification support"
depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA
default y
-config DNOTIFY
- bool "Dnotify support"
- default y
- help
- Dnotify is a directory-based per-fd file change notification system
- that uses signals to communicate events to user-space. There exist
- superior alternatives, but some applications may still rely on
- dnotify.
-
- If unsure, say Y.
-
config AUTOFS_FS
tristate "Kernel automounter support"
help
depends on (UDF_FS=m && NLS) || (UDF_FS=y && NLS=y)
endmenu
-endif
+endif # BLOCK
if BLOCK
menu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems"
It is perfectly safe to say N here.
endmenu
-endif
+endif # BLOCK
menu "Pseudo filesystems"
depends on BEFS_FS
help
If you say Y here, you can use the 'debug' mount option to enable
- debugging output from the driver.
+ debugging output from the driver.
config BFS_FS
tristate "BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
<http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
-
+
If unsure, say N.
config JFFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL
help
Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
-
+
To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
-
+
If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
config JFFS2_FS_SECURITY
implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
enables an extended attribute handler for file security
labels in the jffs2 filesystem.
-
+
If you are not using a security module that requires using
extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
called freevxfs. If unsure, say N.
+config MINIX_FS
+ tristate "Minix file system support"
+ depends on BLOCK
+ help
+ Minix is a simple operating system used in many classes about OS's.
+ The minix file system (method to organize files on a hard disk
+ partition or a floppy disk) was the original file system for Linux,
+ but has been superseded by the second extended file system ext2fs.
+ You don't want to use the minix file system on your hard disk
+ because of certain built-in restrictions, but it is sometimes found
+ on older Linux floppy disks. This option will enlarge your kernel
+ by about 28 KB. If unsure, say N.
+
+ To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
+ module will be called minix. Note that the file system of your root
+ partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as
+ a module.
+
config HPFS_FS
tristate "OS/2 HPFS file system support"
module will be called hpfs. If unsure, say N.
-
config QNX4FS_FS
tristate "QNX4 file system support (read only)"
depends on BLOCK
It's currently broken, so for now:
answer N.
+config ROMFS_FS
+ tristate "ROM file system support"
+ depends on BLOCK
+ ---help---
+ This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for
+ initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for
+ other read-only media as well. Read
+ <file:Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt> for details.
+
+ To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
+ module will be called romfs. Note that the file system of your
+ root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a
+ module.
+
+ If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
+ answer N.
config SYSV_FS
If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
-
config UFS_FS
tristate "UFS file system support (read only)"
depends on BLOCK
select CRYPTO_MD5 if NFSD_V4
select CRYPTO if NFSD_V4
select FS_POSIX_ACL if NFSD_V4
+ select PROC_FS if NFSD_V4
+ select PROC_FS if SUNRPC_GSS
help
If you want your Linux box to act as an NFS *server*, so that other
computers on your local network which support NFS can access certain
tristate
config SUNRPC_XPRT_RDMA
- tristate "RDMA transport for sunrpc (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ tristate
depends on SUNRPC && INFINIBAND && EXPERIMENTAL
- default m
- help
- Adds a client RPC transport for supporting kernel NFS over RDMA
- mounts, including Infiniband and iWARP. Experimental.
+ default SUNRPC && INFINIBAND
config SUNRPC_BIND34
bool "Support for rpcbind versions 3 & 4 (EXPERIMENTAL)"
If unsure, say N.
config SMB_FS
- tristate "SMB file system support (to mount Windows shares etc.)"
+ tristate "SMB file system support (OBSOLETE, please use CIFS)"
depends on INET
select NLS
help
General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
- To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here: the module will
- be called smbfs. Most people say N, however.
+ To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here:
+ the module will be called smbfs. Most people say N, however.
config SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
bool "Use a default NLS"
smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
config CIFS
- tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem for Samba, Window and other CIFS compliant servers)"
+ tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem, SMBFS successor)"
depends on INET
select NLS
help
file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4
and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS
server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited
- support for OS/2 and Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well.
-
- The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced
- network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers,
- including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user
- session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional
- packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements.
+ support for OS/2 and Windows ME and similar servers is provided as
+ well.
+
+ The cifs module provides an advanced network file system
+ client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers. It includes
+ support for DFS (hierarchical name space), secure per-user
+ session establishment via Kerberos or NTLM or NTLMv2,
+ safe distributed caching (oplock), optional packet
+ signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements.
If you need to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y.
config CIFS_STATS
(since 1997) support stronger NTLM (and even NTLMv2 and Kerberos)
security mechanisms. These hash the password more securely
than the mechanisms used in the older LANMAN version of the
- SMB protocol needed to establish sessions with old SMB servers.
+ SMB protocol but LANMAN based authentication is needed to
+ establish sessions with some old SMB servers.
Enabling this option allows the cifs module to mount to older
LANMAN based servers such as OS/2 and Windows 95, but such
mounts may be less secure than mounts using NTLM or more recent
security mechanisms if you are on a public network. Unless you
- have a need to access old SMB servers (and are on a private
+ have a need to access old SMB servers (and are on a private
network) you probably want to say N. Even if this support
- is enabled in the kernel build, they will not be used
- automatically. At runtime LANMAN mounts are disabled but
+ is enabled in the kernel build, LANMAN authentication will not be
+ used automatically. At runtime LANMAN mounts are disabled but
can be set to required (or optional) either in
/proc/fs/cifs (see fs/cifs/README for more detail) or via an
- option on the mount command. This support is disabled by
+ option on the mount command. This support is disabled by
default in order to reduce the possibility of a downgrade
attack.
-
+
If unsure, say N.
config CIFS_XATTR
messages in some error paths, slowing performance. This
option can be turned off unless you are debugging
cifs problems. If unsure, say N.
-
+
config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL
depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
depends on KEYS
help
- Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which will be used to contact
- userspace helper utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged Kerberos
- tickets which are needed to mount to certain secure servers
+ Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which accesses
+ userspace helper utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged (RFC 4178)
+ Kerberos tickets which are needed to mount to certain secure servers
(for which more secure Kerberos authentication is required). If
unsure, say N.
+config CIFS_DFS_UPCALL
+ bool "DFS feature support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
+ depends on KEYS
+ help
+ Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which contacts userspace
+ helper utilities to provide server name resolution (host names to
+ IP addresses) which is needed for implicit mounts of DFS junction
+ points. If unsure, say N.
+
config NCP_FS
tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)"
depends on IPX!=n || INET
However this new API is not backward compatible with older
clients. If you really need to run the old Coda userspace
cache manager then say Y.
-
+
For most cases you probably want to say N.
config AFS_FS