11da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 21da177e4SLinus Torvalds# File system configuration 31da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 41da177e4SLinus Torvalds 51da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "File systems" 61da177e4SLinus Torvalds 79361401eSDavid Howellsif BLOCK 89361401eSDavid Howells 91da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT2_FS 101da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Second extended fs support" 111da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 121da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ext2 is a standard Linux file system for hard disks. 131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 141da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 15d23edbd3SJan Engelhardt module will be called ext2. 161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 171da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT2_FS_XATTR 201da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Ext2 extended attributes" 211da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXT2_FS 221da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 231da177e4SLinus Torvalds Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 241da177e4SLinus Torvalds the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 251da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 271da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Ext2 POSIX Access Control Lists" 311da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR 32b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT2_FS_SECURITY 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Ext2 Security Labels" 441da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Security labels support alternative access control models 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds enables an extended attribute handler for file security 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds labels in the ext2 filesystem. 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not using a security module that requires using 521da177e4SLinus Torvalds extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 546d79125bSCarsten Otteconfig EXT2_FS_XIP 556d79125bSCarsten Otte bool "Ext2 execute in place support" 560c426f26SAl Viro depends on EXT2_FS && MMU 576d79125bSCarsten Otte help 586d79125bSCarsten Otte Execute in place can be used on memory-backed block devices. If you 596d79125bSCarsten Otte enable this option, you can select to mount block devices which are 606d79125bSCarsten Otte capable of this feature without using the page cache. 616d79125bSCarsten Otte 626d79125bSCarsten Otte If you do not use a block device that is capable of using this, 636d79125bSCarsten Otte or if unsure, say N. 646d79125bSCarsten Otte 656d79125bSCarsten Otteconfig FS_XIP 666d79125bSCarsten Otte# execute in place 676d79125bSCarsten Otte bool 686d79125bSCarsten Otte depends on EXT2_FS_XIP 696d79125bSCarsten Otte default y 706d79125bSCarsten Otte 711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT3_FS 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Ext3 journalling file system support" 73b4e40a51SMark Fasheh select JBD 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 75cc2e2767SMatt LaPlante This is the journalling version of the Second extended file system 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds (often called ext3), the de facto standard Linux file system 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds (method to organize files on a storage device) for hard disks. 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 79cc2e2767SMatt LaPlante The journalling code included in this driver means you do not have 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds to run e2fsck (file system checker) on your file systems after a 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds crash. The journal keeps track of any changes that were being made 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds at the time the system crashed, and can ensure that your file system 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds is consistent without the need for a lengthy check. 841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 851da177e4SLinus Torvalds Other than adding the journal to the file system, the on-disk format 861da177e4SLinus Torvalds of ext3 is identical to ext2. It is possible to freely switch 871da177e4SLinus Torvalds between using the ext3 driver and the ext2 driver, as long as the 881da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system has been cleanly unmounted, or e2fsck is run on the file 891da177e4SLinus Torvalds system. 901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 911da177e4SLinus Torvalds To add a journal on an existing ext2 file system or change the 921da177e4SLinus Torvalds behavior of ext3 file systems, you can use the tune2fs utility ("man 931da177e4SLinus Torvalds tune2fs"). To modify attributes of files and directories on ext3 941da177e4SLinus Torvalds file systems, use chattr ("man chattr"). You need to be using 951da177e4SLinus Torvalds e2fsprogs version 1.20 or later in order to create ext3 journals 961da177e4SLinus Torvalds (available at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/e2fsprogs/>). 971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 981da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 99d23edbd3SJan Engelhardt module will be called ext3. 1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT3_FS_XATTR 1021da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Ext3 extended attributes" 1031da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXT3_FS 1041da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1051da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 1081da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 1091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1101da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 1111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1121da177e4SLinus Torvalds You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext3. 1131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL 1151da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists" 1161da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR 117b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 1181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 1201da177e4SLinus Torvalds groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 1211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1221da177e4SLinus Torvalds To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 1231da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 1241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 1261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT3_FS_SECURITY 1281da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Ext3 Security Labels" 1291da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR 1301da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1311da177e4SLinus Torvalds Security labels support alternative access control models 1321da177e4SLinus Torvalds implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 1331da177e4SLinus Torvalds enables an extended attribute handler for file security 1341da177e4SLinus Torvalds labels in the ext3 filesystem. 1351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1361da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not using a security module that requires using 1371da177e4SLinus Torvalds extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 1381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 139*03010a33STheodore Ts'oconfig EXT4_FS 140*03010a33STheodore Ts'o tristate "The Extended 4 (ext4) filesystem" 141dab291afSMingming Cao select JBD2 142717d50e4SAndreas Dilger select CRC16 14302ea2104SMingming Cao help 144*03010a33STheodore Ts'o This is the next generation of the ext3 filesystem. 14502ea2104SMingming Cao 14602ea2104SMingming Cao Unlike the change from ext2 filesystem to ext3 filesystem, 147*03010a33STheodore Ts'o the on-disk format of ext4 is not forwards compatible with 148*03010a33STheodore Ts'o ext3; it is based on extent maps and it supports 48-bit 149*03010a33STheodore Ts'o physical block numbers. The ext4 filesystem also supports delayed 150*03010a33STheodore Ts'o allocation, persistent preallocation, high resolution time stamps, 151*03010a33STheodore Ts'o and a number of other features to improve performance and speed 152*03010a33STheodore Ts'o up fsck time. For more information, please see the web pages at 153*03010a33STheodore Ts'o http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org. 15402ea2104SMingming Cao 155*03010a33STheodore Ts'o The ext4 filesystem will support mounting an ext3 156*03010a33STheodore Ts'o filesystem; while there will be some performance gains from 157*03010a33STheodore Ts'o the delayed allocation and inode table readahead, the best 158*03010a33STheodore Ts'o performance gains will require enabling ext4 features in the 159*03010a33STheodore Ts'o filesystem, or formating a new filesystem as an ext4 160*03010a33STheodore Ts'o filesystem initially. 16102ea2104SMingming Cao 16202ea2104SMingming Cao To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here. The 163d23edbd3SJan Engelhardt module will be called ext4dev. 16402ea2104SMingming Cao 16502ea2104SMingming Cao If unsure, say N. 16602ea2104SMingming Cao 167*03010a33STheodore Ts'oconfig EXT4DEV_COMPAT 168*03010a33STheodore Ts'o bool "Enable ext4dev compatibility" 169*03010a33STheodore Ts'o depends on EXT4_FS 170*03010a33STheodore Ts'o help 171*03010a33STheodore Ts'o Starting with 2.6.28, the name of the ext4 filesystem was 172*03010a33STheodore Ts'o renamed from ext4dev to ext4. Unfortunately there are some 173*03010a33STheodore Ts'o lagecy userspace programs (such as klibc's fstype) have 174*03010a33STheodore Ts'o "ext4dev" hardcoded. 175*03010a33STheodore Ts'o 176*03010a33STheodore Ts'o To enable backwards compatibility so that systems that are 177*03010a33STheodore Ts'o still expecting to mount ext4 filesystems using ext4dev, 178*03010a33STheodore Ts'o chose Y here. This feature will go away by 2.6.31, so 179*03010a33STheodore Ts'o please arrange to get your userspace programs fixed! 180*03010a33STheodore Ts'o 181*03010a33STheodore Ts'oconfig EXT4_FS_XATTR 182*03010a33STheodore Ts'o bool "Ext4 extended attributes" 183*03010a33STheodore Ts'o depends on EXT4_FS 18402ea2104SMingming Cao default y 18502ea2104SMingming Cao help 18602ea2104SMingming Cao Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 18702ea2104SMingming Cao the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 18802ea2104SMingming Cao <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 18902ea2104SMingming Cao 19002ea2104SMingming Cao If unsure, say N. 19102ea2104SMingming Cao 192*03010a33STheodore Ts'o You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext4. 19302ea2104SMingming Cao 194*03010a33STheodore Ts'oconfig EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL 195*03010a33STheodore Ts'o bool "Ext4 POSIX Access Control Lists" 196*03010a33STheodore Ts'o depends on EXT4_FS_XATTR 19702ea2104SMingming Cao select FS_POSIX_ACL 19802ea2104SMingming Cao help 19902ea2104SMingming Cao POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 20002ea2104SMingming Cao groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 20102ea2104SMingming Cao 20202ea2104SMingming Cao To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for 20302ea2104SMingming Cao Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 20402ea2104SMingming Cao 20502ea2104SMingming Cao If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 20602ea2104SMingming Cao 207*03010a33STheodore Ts'oconfig EXT4_FS_SECURITY 208*03010a33STheodore Ts'o bool "Ext4 Security Labels" 209*03010a33STheodore Ts'o depends on EXT4_FS_XATTR 21002ea2104SMingming Cao help 21102ea2104SMingming Cao Security labels support alternative access control models 21202ea2104SMingming Cao implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 21302ea2104SMingming Cao enables an extended attribute handler for file security 214*03010a33STheodore Ts'o labels in the ext4 filesystem. 21502ea2104SMingming Cao 21602ea2104SMingming Cao If you are not using a security module that requires using 21702ea2104SMingming Cao extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 21802ea2104SMingming Cao 2191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JBD 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 222cc2e2767SMatt LaPlante This is a generic journalling layer for block devices. It is 223b4e40a51SMark Fasheh currently used by the ext3 and OCFS2 file systems, but it could 224b4e40a51SMark Fasheh also be used to add journal support to other file systems or block 225b4e40a51SMark Fasheh devices such as RAID or LVM. 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 227b4e40a51SMark Fasheh If you are using the ext3 or OCFS2 file systems, you need to 228b4e40a51SMark Fasheh say Y here. If you are not using ext3 OCFS2 then you will probably 229b4e40a51SMark Fasheh want to say N. 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this device as a module, choose M here: the module will be 232b4e40a51SMark Fasheh called jbd. If you are compiling ext3 or OCFS2 into the kernel, 233b4e40a51SMark Fasheh you cannot compile this code as a module. 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JBD_DEBUG 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JBD (ext3) debugging support" 237c2a9159cSJose R. Santos depends on JBD && DEBUG_FS 2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are using the ext3 journaled file system (or potentially any 2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds other file system/device using JBD), this option allows you to 2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds enable debugging output while the system is running, in order to 2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds help track down any problems you are having. By default the 2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds debugging output will be turned off. 2441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging 246c2a9159cSJose R. Santos with "echo N > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd/jbd-debug", where N is a 247c2a9159cSJose R. Santos number between 1 and 5, the higher the number, the more debugging 248c2a9159cSJose R. Santos output is generated. To turn debugging off again, do 249c2a9159cSJose R. Santos "echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd/jbd-debug". 2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 251dab291afSMingming Caoconfig JBD2 252dab291afSMingming Cao tristate 253818d276cSGirish Shilamkar select CRC32 254dab291afSMingming Cao help 255dab291afSMingming Cao This is a generic journaling layer for block devices that support 256dab291afSMingming Cao both 32-bit and 64-bit block numbers. It is currently used by 257*03010a33STheodore Ts'o the ext4 filesystem, but it could also be used to add 258dab291afSMingming Cao journal support to other file systems or block devices such 259dab291afSMingming Cao as RAID or LVM. 260dab291afSMingming Cao 261*03010a33STheodore Ts'o If you are using ext4, you need to say Y here. If you are not 262*03010a33STheodore Ts'o using ext4 then you will probably want to say N. 263dab291afSMingming Cao 264dab291afSMingming Cao To compile this device as a module, choose M here. The module will be 265*03010a33STheodore Ts'o called jbd2. If you are compiling ext4 into the kernel, 266dab291afSMingming Cao you cannot compile this code as a module. 267dab291afSMingming Cao 268dab291afSMingming Caoconfig JBD2_DEBUG 269*03010a33STheodore Ts'o bool "JBD2 (ext4) debugging support" 2700f49d5d0SJose R. Santos depends on JBD2 && DEBUG_FS 271dab291afSMingming Cao help 272*03010a33STheodore Ts'o If you are using the ext4 journaled file system (or 273dab291afSMingming Cao potentially any other filesystem/device using JBD2), this option 274dab291afSMingming Cao allows you to enable debugging output while the system is running, 275dab291afSMingming Cao in order to help track down any problems you are having. 276dab291afSMingming Cao By default, the debugging output will be turned off. 277dab291afSMingming Cao 278dab291afSMingming Cao If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging 2790f49d5d0SJose R. Santos with "echo N > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd2/jbd2-debug", where N is a 2800f49d5d0SJose R. Santos number between 1 and 5. The higher the number, the more debugging 2810f49d5d0SJose R. Santos output is generated. To turn debugging off again, do 2820f49d5d0SJose R. Santos "echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd2/jbd2-debug". 283dab291afSMingming Cao 2841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FS_MBCACHE 28502ea2104SMingming Cao# Meta block cache for Extended Attributes (ext2/ext3/ext4) 2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 287*03010a33STheodore Ts'o depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR || EXT3_FS_XATTR || EXT4_FS_XATTR 288*03010a33STheodore Ts'o default y if EXT2_FS=y || EXT3_FS=y || EXT4_FS=y 289*03010a33STheodore Ts'o default m if EXT2_FS=m || EXT3_FS=m || EXT4_FS=m 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_FS 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Reiserfs support" 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds Stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a balanced 295cc2e2767SMatt LaPlante tree. Uses journalling. 2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds Balanced trees are more efficient than traditional file system 2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds architectural foundations. 2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds In general, ReiserFS is as fast as ext2, but is very efficient with 3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds large directories and small files. Additional patches are needed 3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds for NFS and quotas, please see <http://www.namesys.com/> for links. 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is more easily extended to have features currently found in 3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds database and keyword search systems than block allocation based file 3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds systems are. The next version will be so extended, and will support 3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds plugins consistent with our motto ``It takes more than a license to 3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds make source code open.'' 3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds Read <http://www.namesys.com/> to learn more about reiserfs. 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds Sponsored by Threshold Networks, Emusic.com, and Bigstorage.com. 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you like it, you can pay us to add new features to it that you 3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds need, buy a support contract, or pay us to port it to another OS. 3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_CHECK 3181da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable reiserfs debug mode" 3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on REISERFS_FS 3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you set this to Y, then ReiserFS will perform every check it can 3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds possibly imagine of its internal consistency throughout its 3231da177e4SLinus Torvalds operation. It will also go substantially slower. More than once we 3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds have forgotten that this was on, and then gone despondent over the 3251da177e4SLinus Torvalds latest benchmarks.:-) Use of this option allows our team to go all 3261da177e4SLinus Torvalds out in checking for consistency when debugging without fear of its 3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds effect on end users. If you are on the verge of sending in a bug 3281da177e4SLinus Torvalds report, say Y and you might get a useful error message. Almost 3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds everyone should say N. 3301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_PROC_INFO 3321da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Stats in /proc/fs/reiserfs" 333880ebdc5SRandy Dunlap depends on REISERFS_FS && PROC_FS 3341da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3351da177e4SLinus Torvalds Create under /proc/fs/reiserfs a hierarchy of files, displaying 3361da177e4SLinus Torvalds various ReiserFS statistics and internal data at the expense of 3371da177e4SLinus Torvalds making your kernel or module slightly larger (+8 KB). This also 3381da177e4SLinus Torvalds increases the amount of kernel memory required for each mount. 3391da177e4SLinus Torvalds Almost everyone but ReiserFS developers and people fine-tuning 3401da177e4SLinus Torvalds reiserfs or tracing problems should say N. 3411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_FS_XATTR 3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "ReiserFS extended attributes" 3441da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on REISERFS_FS 3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 3481da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 3491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 3511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL 3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "ReiserFS POSIX Access Control Lists" 3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR 355b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 3561da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3571da177e4SLinus Torvalds Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 3581da177e4SLinus Torvalds groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 3591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3601da177e4SLinus Torvalds To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 3611da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 3621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3631da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 3641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_FS_SECURITY 3661da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "ReiserFS Security Labels" 3671da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR 3681da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3691da177e4SLinus Torvalds Security labels support alternative access control models 3701da177e4SLinus Torvalds implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 3711da177e4SLinus Torvalds enables an extended attribute handler for file security 3721da177e4SLinus Torvalds labels in the ReiserFS filesystem. 3731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3741da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not using a security module that requires using 3751da177e4SLinus Torvalds extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 3761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_FS 3781da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "JFS filesystem support" 3791da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 3801da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3811da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a port of IBM's Journaled Filesystem . More information is 3821da177e4SLinus Torvalds available in the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt>. 3831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3841da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you do not intend to use the JFS filesystem, say N. 3851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_POSIX_ACL 3871da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFS POSIX Access Control Lists" 3881da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFS_FS 389b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 3901da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 3921da177e4SLinus Torvalds groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 3931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3941da177e4SLinus Torvalds To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 3951da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 3961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3971da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 3981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_SECURITY 4001da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFS Security Labels" 4011da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFS_FS 4021da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4031da177e4SLinus Torvalds Security labels support alternative access control models 4041da177e4SLinus Torvalds implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 4051da177e4SLinus Torvalds enables an extended attribute handler for file security 4061da177e4SLinus Torvalds labels in the jfs filesystem. 4071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4081da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not using a security module that requires using 4091da177e4SLinus Torvalds extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 4101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_DEBUG 4121da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFS debugging" 4131da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFS_FS 4141da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4151da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are experiencing any problems with the JFS filesystem, say 4161da177e4SLinus Torvalds Y here. This will result in additional debugging messages to be 4171da177e4SLinus Torvalds written to the system log. Under normal circumstances, this 4181da177e4SLinus Torvalds results in very little overhead. 4191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_STATISTICS 4211da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFS statistics" 4221da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFS_FS 4231da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will cause statistics from the JFS file system 4251da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jfs/ directory. 4261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FS_POSIX_ACL 42889206955SChuck Lever# Posix ACL utility routines (for now, only ext2/ext3/jfs/reiserfs/nfs4) 4291da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 4301da177e4SLinus Torvalds# NOTE: you can implement Posix ACLs without these helpers (XFS does). 4311da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Never use this symbol for ifdefs. 4321da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 4331da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 434b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher default n 4351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4361da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/xfs/Kconfig" 437f7825dcfSDavid Teiglandsource "fs/gfs2/Kconfig" 4381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 439b4e40a51SMark Fashehconfig OCFS2_FS 44002ed8416SMark Fasheh tristate "OCFS2 file system support" 44102ed8416SMark Fasheh depends on NET && SYSFS 442b4e40a51SMark Fasheh select CONFIGFS_FS 443b4e40a51SMark Fasheh select JBD 444b4e40a51SMark Fasheh select CRC32 445b4e40a51SMark Fasheh help 446b4e40a51SMark Fasheh OCFS2 is a general purpose extent based shared disk cluster file 447b4e40a51SMark Fasheh system with many similarities to ext3. It supports 64 bit inode 448b4e40a51SMark Fasheh numbers, and has automatically extending metadata groups which may 449b4e40a51SMark Fasheh also make it attractive for non-clustered use. 450b4e40a51SMark Fasheh 451b4e40a51SMark Fasheh You'll want to install the ocfs2-tools package in order to at least 452b4e40a51SMark Fasheh get "mount.ocfs2". 453b4e40a51SMark Fasheh 454b4e40a51SMark Fasheh Project web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2 455b4e40a51SMark Fasheh Tools web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools 456b4e40a51SMark Fasheh OCFS2 mailing lists: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/mailman/ 457b4e40a51SMark Fasheh 4581252c434SMark Fasheh For more information on OCFS2, see the file 4591252c434SMark Fasheh <file:Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt>. 460b4e40a51SMark Fasheh 4619341d229SJoel Beckerconfig OCFS2_FS_O2CB 4629341d229SJoel Becker tristate "O2CB Kernelspace Clustering" 4639341d229SJoel Becker depends on OCFS2_FS 4649341d229SJoel Becker default y 4659341d229SJoel Becker help 4669341d229SJoel Becker OCFS2 includes a simple kernelspace clustering package, the OCFS2 4679341d229SJoel Becker Cluster Base. It only requires a very small userspace component 4689341d229SJoel Becker to configure it. This comes with the standard ocfs2-tools package. 4699341d229SJoel Becker O2CB is limited to maintaining a cluster for OCFS2 file systems. 4709341d229SJoel Becker It cannot manage any other cluster applications. 4719341d229SJoel Becker 4729341d229SJoel Becker It is always safe to say Y here, as the clustering method is 4739341d229SJoel Becker run-time selectable. 4749341d229SJoel Becker 4759341d229SJoel Beckerconfig OCFS2_FS_USERSPACE_CLUSTER 4769341d229SJoel Becker tristate "OCFS2 Userspace Clustering" 4779341d229SJoel Becker depends on OCFS2_FS && DLM 4789341d229SJoel Becker default y 4799341d229SJoel Becker help 4809341d229SJoel Becker This option will allow OCFS2 to use userspace clustering services 4819341d229SJoel Becker in conjunction with the DLM in fs/dlm. If you are using a 4829341d229SJoel Becker userspace cluster manager, say Y here. 4839341d229SJoel Becker 4849341d229SJoel Becker It is safe to say Y, as the clustering method is run-time 4859341d229SJoel Becker selectable. 4869341d229SJoel Becker 487ce7231e9SSunil Mushranconfig OCFS2_FS_STATS 488ce7231e9SSunil Mushran bool "OCFS2 statistics" 489ce7231e9SSunil Mushran depends on OCFS2_FS 490ce7231e9SSunil Mushran default y 491ce7231e9SSunil Mushran help 492ce7231e9SSunil Mushran This option allows some fs statistics to be captured. Enabling 493ce7231e9SSunil Mushran this option may increase the memory consumption. 494ce7231e9SSunil Mushran 4952b388c67SJoel Beckerconfig OCFS2_DEBUG_MASKLOG 4962b388c67SJoel Becker bool "OCFS2 logging support" 4972b388c67SJoel Becker depends on OCFS2_FS 4982b388c67SJoel Becker default y 4992b388c67SJoel Becker help 5002b388c67SJoel Becker The ocfs2 filesystem has an extensive logging system. The system 5012b388c67SJoel Becker allows selection of events to log via files in /sys/o2cb/logmask/. 5022b388c67SJoel Becker This option will enlarge your kernel, but it allows debugging of 5032b388c67SJoel Becker ocfs2 filesystem issues. 5042b388c67SJoel Becker 5055a58c3efSJan Karaconfig OCFS2_DEBUG_FS 5065a58c3efSJan Kara bool "OCFS2 expensive checks" 5075a58c3efSJan Kara depends on OCFS2_FS 5085a58c3efSJan Kara default n 5095a58c3efSJan Kara help 5105a58c3efSJan Kara This option will enable expensive consistency checks. Enable 5115a58c3efSJan Kara this option for debugging only as it is likely to decrease 5125a58c3efSJan Kara performance of the filesystem. 5135a58c3efSJan Kara 51425fad945SRandy Dunlapendif # BLOCK 51525fad945SRandy Dunlap 51625fad945SRandy Dunlapconfig DNOTIFY 51725fad945SRandy Dunlap bool "Dnotify support" 51825fad945SRandy Dunlap default y 5191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 52025fad945SRandy Dunlap Dnotify is a directory-based per-fd file change notification system 52125fad945SRandy Dunlap that uses signals to communicate events to user-space. There exist 52225fad945SRandy Dunlap superior alternatives, but some applications may still rely on 52325fad945SRandy Dunlap dnotify. 5241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 52525fad945SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say Y. 5269361401eSDavid Howells 5270eeca283SRobert Loveconfig INOTIFY 5280eeca283SRobert Love bool "Inotify file change notification support" 5290eeca283SRobert Love default y 5300eeca283SRobert Love ---help--- 5312d9048e2SAmy Griffis Say Y here to enable inotify support. Inotify is a file change 5322d9048e2SAmy Griffis notification system and a replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes 5332d9048e2SAmy Griffis numerous shortcomings in dnotify and introduces several new features 5342d9048e2SAmy Griffis including multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount 5353de11748SRobert Love notification. 5363de11748SRobert Love 537e403149cSDirk Hohndel For more information, see <file:Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt> 5380eeca283SRobert Love 5390eeca283SRobert Love If unsure, say Y. 5400eeca283SRobert Love 5412d9048e2SAmy Griffisconfig INOTIFY_USER 5422d9048e2SAmy Griffis bool "Inotify support for userspace" 5432d9048e2SAmy Griffis depends on INOTIFY 5442d9048e2SAmy Griffis default y 5452d9048e2SAmy Griffis ---help--- 5462d9048e2SAmy Griffis Say Y here to enable inotify support for userspace, including the 5472d9048e2SAmy Griffis associated system calls. Inotify allows monitoring of both files and 5482d9048e2SAmy Griffis directories via a single open fd. Events are read from the file 5492d9048e2SAmy Griffis descriptor, which is also select()- and poll()-able. 5502d9048e2SAmy Griffis 551e403149cSDirk Hohndel For more information, see <file:Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt> 5522d9048e2SAmy Griffis 5532d9048e2SAmy Griffis If unsure, say Y. 5542d9048e2SAmy Griffis 5551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QUOTA 5561da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Quota support" 5571da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5581da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to set per user limits for disk 5591da177e4SLinus Torvalds usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works for the 5601da177e4SLinus Torvalds ext2, ext3, and reiserfs file system. ext3 also supports journalled 5611da177e4SLinus Torvalds quotas for which you don't need to run quotacheck(8) after an unclean 562919532a5SAdrian Bunk shutdown. 563919532a5SAdrian Bunk For further details, read the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from 5641da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or the documentation provided 5651da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the quota tools. Probably the quota support is only useful for 5661da177e4SLinus Torvalds multi user systems. If unsure, say N. 5671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5688e893469SJan Karaconfig QUOTA_NETLINK_INTERFACE 5698e893469SJan Kara bool "Report quota messages through netlink interface" 5708e893469SJan Kara depends on QUOTA && NET 5718e893469SJan Kara help 5728e893469SJan Kara If you say Y here, quota warnings (about exceeding softlimit, reaching 5738e893469SJan Kara hardlimit, etc.) will be reported through netlink interface. If unsure, 5748e893469SJan Kara say Y. 5758e893469SJan Kara 5768e893469SJan Karaconfig PRINT_QUOTA_WARNING 5778e893469SJan Kara bool "Print quota warnings to console (OBSOLETE)" 5788e893469SJan Kara depends on QUOTA 5798e893469SJan Kara default y 5808e893469SJan Kara help 5818e893469SJan Kara If you say Y here, quota warnings (about exceeding softlimit, reaching 5828e893469SJan Kara hardlimit, etc.) will be printed to the process' controlling terminal. 5838e893469SJan Kara Note that this behavior is currently deprecated and may go away in 5848e893469SJan Kara future. Please use notification via netlink socket instead. 5858e893469SJan Kara 5861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QFMT_V1 5871da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Old quota format support" 5881da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on QUOTA 5891da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5901da177e4SLinus Torvalds This quota format was (is) used by kernels earlier than 2.4.22. If 5911da177e4SLinus Torvalds you have quota working and you don't want to convert to new quota 5921da177e4SLinus Torvalds format say Y here. 5931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QFMT_V2 5951da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Quota format v2 support" 5961da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on QUOTA 5971da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5981da177e4SLinus Torvalds This quota format allows using quotas with 32-bit UIDs/GIDs. If you 599919532a5SAdrian Bunk need this functionality say Y here. 6001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QUOTACTL 6021da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 6031da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA 6041da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 6051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUTOFS_FS 6071da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Kernel automounter support" 6081da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6091da177e4SLinus Torvalds The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems 6101da177e4SLinus Torvalds on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce 6111da177e4SLinus Torvalds overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD 6121da177e4SLinus Torvalds automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. 6131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6141da177e4SLinus Torvalds To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs 6151da177e4SLinus Torvalds package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>. 6161da177e4SLinus Torvalds You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. 6171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6181da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more 6191da177e4SLinus Torvalds features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support", 6201da177e4SLinus Torvalds below. 6211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6221da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be 6231da177e4SLinus Torvalds called autofs. 6241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6251da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you 6261da177e4SLinus Torvalds probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here. 6271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUTOFS4_FS 6291da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)" 6301da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6311da177e4SLinus Torvalds The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems 6321da177e4SLinus Torvalds on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce 6331da177e4SLinus Torvalds overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD 6341da177e4SLinus Torvalds automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. 6351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6361da177e4SLinus Torvalds To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from 6371da177e4SLinus Torvalds <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/>; you also 6381da177e4SLinus Torvalds want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. 6391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6401da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be 6411da177e4SLinus Torvalds called autofs4. You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your 6421da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules configuration file. 6431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6441da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or 6451da177e4SLinus Torvalds don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the 6461da177e4SLinus Torvalds local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say 6471da177e4SLinus Torvalds N here. 6481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 64904578f17SMiklos Szerediconfig FUSE_FS 65004578f17SMiklos Szeredi tristate "Filesystem in Userspace support" 65104578f17SMiklos Szeredi help 65204578f17SMiklos Szeredi With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem 65304578f17SMiklos Szeredi in a userspace program. 65404578f17SMiklos Szeredi 65504578f17SMiklos Szeredi There's also companion library: libfuse. This library along with 65604578f17SMiklos Szeredi utilities is available from the FUSE homepage: 65704578f17SMiklos Szeredi <http://fuse.sourceforge.net/> 65804578f17SMiklos Szeredi 659909021eaSMiklos Szeredi See <file:Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt> for more information. 660909021eaSMiklos Szeredi See <file:Documentation/Changes> for needed library/utility version. 661909021eaSMiklos Szeredi 66204578f17SMiklos Szeredi If you want to develop a userspace FS, or if you want to use 66304578f17SMiklos Szeredi a filesystem based on FUSE, answer Y or M. 66404578f17SMiklos Szeredi 665f2fbc6c2SRandy Dunlapconfig GENERIC_ACL 666f2fbc6c2SRandy Dunlap bool 667f2fbc6c2SRandy Dunlap select FS_POSIX_ACL 668f2fbc6c2SRandy Dunlap 6699361401eSDavid Howellsif BLOCK 6701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems" 6711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ISO9660_FS 6731da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "ISO 9660 CDROM file system support" 6741da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6751da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the standard file system used on CD-ROMs. It was previously 6761da177e4SLinus Torvalds known as "High Sierra File System" and is called "hsfs" on other 6771da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unix systems. The so-called Rock-Ridge extensions which allow for 6781da177e4SLinus Torvalds long Unix filenames and symbolic links are also supported by this 6791da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver. If you have a CD-ROM drive and want to do more with it than 6801da177e4SLinus Torvalds just listen to audio CDs and watch its LEDs, say Y (and read 6811da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt> and the CD-ROM-HOWTO, 6821da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), thereby 6831da177e4SLinus Torvalds enlarging your kernel by about 27 KB; otherwise say N. 6841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6851da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 6861da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called isofs. 6871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JOLIET 6891da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions" 6901da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ISO9660_FS 6911da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 6921da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6931da177e4SLinus Torvalds Joliet is a Microsoft extension for the ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system 6941da177e4SLinus Torvalds which allows for long filenames in unicode format (unicode is the 6951da177e4SLinus Torvalds new 16 bit character code, successor to ASCII, which encodes the 6961da177e4SLinus Torvalds characters of almost all languages of the world; see 6971da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.unicode.org/> for more information). Say Y here if you 6981da177e4SLinus Torvalds want to be able to read Joliet CD-ROMs under Linux. 6991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ZISOFS 7011da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Transparent decompression extension" 7021da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ISO9660_FS 7031da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_INFLATE 7041da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7051da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a Linux-specific extension to RockRidge which lets you store 7061da177e4SLinus Torvalds data in compressed form on a CD-ROM and have it transparently 7071da177e4SLinus Torvalds decompressed when the CD-ROM is accessed. See 7081da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/zisofs/> for the tools 7091da177e4SLinus Torvalds necessary to create such a filesystem. Say Y here if you want to be 7101da177e4SLinus Torvalds able to read such compressed CD-ROMs. 7111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UDF_FS 7131da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "UDF file system support" 714f845fcedSBob Copeland select CRC_ITU_T 7151da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7161da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the new file system used on some CD-ROMs and DVDs. Say Y if 7171da177e4SLinus Torvalds you intend to mount DVD discs or CDRW's written in packet mode, or 7181da177e4SLinus Torvalds if written to by other UDF utilities, such as DirectCD. 7191da177e4SLinus Torvalds Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt>. 7201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7211da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 7221da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called udf. 7231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7241da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 7251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UDF_NLS 7271da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 7281da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 7291da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (UDF_FS=m && NLS) || (UDF_FS=y && NLS=y) 7301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 73225fad945SRandy Dunlapendif # BLOCK 7331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7349361401eSDavid Howellsif BLOCK 7351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems" 7361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FAT_FS 7381da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 7391da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 7401da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7411da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to use one of the FAT-based file systems (the MS-DOS and 7421da177e4SLinus Torvalds VFAT (Windows 95) file systems), then you must say Y or M here 7431da177e4SLinus Torvalds to include FAT support. You will then be able to mount partitions or 7441da177e4SLinus Torvalds diskettes with FAT-based file systems and transparently access the 7451da177e4SLinus Torvalds files on them, i.e. MSDOS files will look and behave just like all 7461da177e4SLinus Torvalds other Unix files. 7471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7481da177e4SLinus Torvalds This FAT support is not a file system in itself, it only provides 7491da177e4SLinus Torvalds the foundation for the other file systems. You will have to say Y or 7501da177e4SLinus Torvalds M to at least one of "MSDOS fs support" or "VFAT fs support" in 7511da177e4SLinus Torvalds order to make use of it. 7521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7531da177e4SLinus Torvalds Another way to read and write MSDOS floppies and hard drive 7541da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions from within Linux (but not transparently) is with the 7551da177e4SLinus Torvalds mtools ("man mtools") program suite. You don't need to say Y here in 7561da177e4SLinus Torvalds order to do that. 7571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7581da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you need to move large files on floppies between a DOS and a 7591da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux box, say Y here, mount the floppy under Linux with an MSDOS 7601da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program 7611da177e4SLinus Torvalds available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar"). 7621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7631da177e4SLinus Torvalds The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure, 7641da177e4SLinus Torvalds say Y. 7651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7661da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 7671da177e4SLinus Torvalds fat. Note that if you compile the FAT support as a module, you 7681da177e4SLinus Torvalds cannot compile any of the FAT-based file systems into the kernel 7691da177e4SLinus Torvalds -- they will have to be modules as well. 7701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MSDOS_FS 7721da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "MSDOS fs support" 7731da177e4SLinus Torvalds select FAT_FS 7741da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7751da177e4SLinus Torvalds This allows you to mount MSDOS partitions of your hard drive (unless 7761da177e4SLinus Torvalds they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under 7771da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the 7781da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from 7791da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in 7801da177e4SLinus Torvalds <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you 7811da177e4SLinus Torvalds intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y 7821da177e4SLinus Torvalds here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes 7831da177e4SLinus Torvalds transparent, i.e. the MSDOS files look and behave just like all 7841da177e4SLinus Torvalds other Unix files. 7851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7861da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have Windows 95 or Windows NT installed on your MSDOS 7871da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions, you should use the VFAT file system (say Y to "VFAT fs 7881da177e4SLinus Torvalds support" below), or you will not be able to see the long filenames 7891da177e4SLinus Torvalds generated by Windows 95 / Windows NT. 7901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7911da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will enlarge your kernel by about 7 KB. If unsure, 7921da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer Y. This will only work if you said Y to "DOS FAT fs support" 7931da177e4SLinus Torvalds as well. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will 7941da177e4SLinus Torvalds be called msdos. 7951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig VFAT_FS 7971da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "VFAT (Windows-95) fs support" 7981da177e4SLinus Torvalds select FAT_FS 7991da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8001da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option provides support for normal Windows file systems with 8011da177e4SLinus Torvalds long filenames. That includes non-compressed FAT-based file systems 8021da177e4SLinus Torvalds used by Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and the Unix 8031da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs from the mtools package. 8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds The VFAT support enlarges your kernel by about 10 KB and it only 8061da177e4SLinus Torvalds works if you said Y to the "DOS FAT fs support" above. Please read 8071da177e4SLinus Torvalds the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for details. If 8081da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say Y. 8091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8101da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 8111da177e4SLinus Torvalds vfat. 8121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE 8141da177e4SLinus Torvalds int "Default codepage for FAT" 8151da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MSDOS_FS || VFAT_FS 8161da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 437 8171da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8181da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option should be set to the codepage of your FAT filesystems. 8191da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can be overridden with the "codepage" mount option. 8201da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information. 8211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET 8231da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Default iocharset for FAT" 8241da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on VFAT_FS 8251da177e4SLinus Torvalds default "iso8859-1" 8261da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8271da177e4SLinus Torvalds Set this to the default input/output character set you'd 8281da177e4SLinus Torvalds like FAT to use. It should probably match the character set 8291da177e4SLinus Torvalds that most of your FAT filesystems use, and can be overridden 8301da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the "iocharset" mount option for FAT filesystems. 8311da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that "utf8" is not recommended for FAT filesystems. 8321da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here. 8331da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information. 8341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NTFS_FS 8361da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NTFS file system support" 8371da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 8381da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8391da177e4SLinus Torvalds NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003. 8401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8411da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y or M here enables read support. There is partial, but 8421da177e4SLinus Torvalds safe, write support available. For write support you must also 8431da177e4SLinus Torvalds say Y to "NTFS write support" below. 8441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8451da177e4SLinus Torvalds There are also a number of user-space tools available, called 8461da177e4SLinus Torvalds ntfsprogs. These include ntfsundelete and ntfsresize, that work 8471da177e4SLinus Torvalds without NTFS support enabled in the kernel. 8481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8491da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a rewrite from scratch of Linux NTFS support and replaced 8501da177e4SLinus Torvalds the old NTFS code starting with Linux 2.5.11. A backport to 8511da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Linux 2.4 kernel series is separately available as a patch 8521da177e4SLinus Torvalds from the project web site. 8531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8541da177e4SLinus Torvalds For more information see <file:Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt> 855337e2ab5SJess Guerrero and <http://www.linux-ntfs.org/>. 8561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8571da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 8581da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called ntfs. 8591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8601da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not using Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 in addition to 8611da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux on your computer it is safe to say N. 8621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NTFS_DEBUG 8641da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "NTFS debugging support" 8651da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NTFS_FS 8661da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8671da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are experiencing any problems with the NTFS file system, say 8681da177e4SLinus Torvalds Y here. This will result in additional consistency checks to be 8691da177e4SLinus Torvalds performed by the driver as well as additional debugging messages to 8701da177e4SLinus Torvalds be written to the system log. Note that debugging messages are 8711da177e4SLinus Torvalds disabled by default. To enable them, supply the option debug_msgs=1 8721da177e4SLinus Torvalds at the kernel command line when booting the kernel or as an option 8731da177e4SLinus Torvalds to insmod when loading the ntfs module. Once the driver is active, 8741da177e4SLinus Torvalds you can enable debugging messages by doing (as root): 8751da177e4SLinus Torvalds echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug 8761da177e4SLinus Torvalds Replacing the "1" with "0" would disable debug messages. 8771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8781da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you leave debugging messages disabled, this results in little 8791da177e4SLinus Torvalds overhead, but enabling debug messages results in very significant 8801da177e4SLinus Torvalds slowdown of the system. 8811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8821da177e4SLinus Torvalds When reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of 8831da177e4SLinus Torvalds debugging messages while the misbehaviour was occurring. 8841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NTFS_RW 8861da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "NTFS write support" 8871da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NTFS_FS 8881da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8891da177e4SLinus Torvalds This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver. 8901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8911da177e4SLinus Torvalds The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without 8921da177e4SLinus Torvalds changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or 8931da177e4SLinus Torvalds renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to 8941da177e4SLinus Torvalds so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot 8951da177e4SLinus Torvalds be written to. 8961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8971da177e4SLinus Torvalds While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have 8981da177e4SLinus Torvalds so far not received a single report where the driver would have 8991da177e4SLinus Torvalds damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use. 9001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9011da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from 9021da177e4SLinus Torvalds scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS 9031da177e4SLinus Torvalds write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997), 9041da177e4SLinus Torvalds is not safe. 9051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9061da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is currently useful with TopologiLinux. TopologiLinux is run 9071da177e4SLinus Torvalds on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your 9081da177e4SLinus Torvalds hard disk. Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not 9091da177e4SLinus Torvalds need its own partition. For more information see 9101da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/> 9111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9121da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is perfectly safe to say N here. 9131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 91525fad945SRandy Dunlapendif # BLOCK 9161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Pseudo filesystems" 9181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9196eedf8d3SAlexey Dobriyansource "fs/proc/Kconfig" 920b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 9211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSFS 9221da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "sysfs file system support" if EMBEDDED 9231da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 9241da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9251da177e4SLinus Torvalds The sysfs filesystem is a virtual filesystem that the kernel uses to 9261da177e4SLinus Torvalds export internal kernel objects, their attributes, and their 9271da177e4SLinus Torvalds relationships to one another. 9281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9291da177e4SLinus Torvalds Users can use sysfs to ascertain useful information about the running 9301da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel, such as the devices the kernel has discovered on each bus and 9311da177e4SLinus Torvalds which driver each is bound to. sysfs can also be used to tune devices 9321da177e4SLinus Torvalds and other kernel subsystems. 9331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9341da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some system agents rely on the information in sysfs to operate. 9351da177e4SLinus Torvalds /sbin/hotplug uses device and object attributes in sysfs to assist in 93603a67a46SJan Engelhardt delegating policy decisions, like persistently naming devices. 9371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9381da177e4SLinus Torvalds sysfs is currently used by the block subsystem to mount the root 9391da177e4SLinus Torvalds partition. If sysfs is disabled you must specify the boot device on 9401da177e4SLinus Torvalds the kernel boot command line via its major and minor numbers. For 9411da177e4SLinus Torvalds example, "root=03:01" for /dev/hda1. 9421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9431da177e4SLinus Torvalds Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space. 9441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TMPFS 9461da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)" 9471da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9481da177e4SLinus Torvalds Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory. 9491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9501da177e4SLinus Torvalds Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be 9511da177e4SLinus Torvalds created on your hard drive. The files live in memory and swap 9521da177e4SLinus Torvalds space. If you unmount a tmpfs instance, everything stored therein is 9531da177e4SLinus Torvalds lost. 9541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9551da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> for details. 9561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 95739f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacherconfig TMPFS_POSIX_ACL 95839f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher bool "Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists" 95939f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher depends on TMPFS 96039f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher select GENERIC_ACL 96139f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher help 96239f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 96339f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 96439f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher 96539f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for 96639f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 96739f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher 96839f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N. 96939f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher 9701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HUGETLBFS 9711da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "HugeTLB file system support" 97253492b1dSGerald Schaefer depends on X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || (SUPERH && MMU) || \ 97353492b1dSGerald Schaefer (S390 && 64BIT) || BROKEN 974dda27d1aSArthur Othieno help 975dda27d1aSArthur Othieno hugetlbfs is a filesystem backing for HugeTLB pages, based on 976dda27d1aSArthur Othieno ramfs. For architectures that support it, say Y here and read 977dda27d1aSArthur Othieno <file:Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt> for details. 978dda27d1aSArthur Othieno 979dda27d1aSArthur Othieno If unsure, say N. 9801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HUGETLB_PAGE 9821da177e4SLinus Torvalds def_bool HUGETLBFS 9831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9847063fbf2SJoel Beckerconfig CONFIGFS_FS 98502ac0499SJoel Becker tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem" 98602ac0499SJoel Becker depends on SYSFS 9877063fbf2SJoel Becker help 9887063fbf2SJoel Becker configfs is a ram-based filesystem that provides the converse 9897063fbf2SJoel Becker of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based 9907063fbf2SJoel Becker view of kernel objects, configfs is a filesystem-based manager 9917063fbf2SJoel Becker of kernel objects, or config_items. 9927063fbf2SJoel Becker 9937063fbf2SJoel Becker Both sysfs and configfs can and should exist together on the 9947063fbf2SJoel Becker same system. One is not a replacement for the other. 9957063fbf2SJoel Becker 9961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 9971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Miscellaneous filesystems" 9991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ADFS_FS 10011da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "ADFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 10029361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 10031da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10041da177e4SLinus Torvalds The Acorn Disc Filing System is the standard file system of the 10051da177e4SLinus Torvalds RiscOS operating system which runs on Acorn's ARM-based Risc PC 10061da177e4SLinus Torvalds systems and the Acorn Archimedes range of machines. If you say Y 10071da177e4SLinus Torvalds here, Linux will be able to read from ADFS partitions on hard drives 10081da177e4SLinus Torvalds and from ADFS-formatted floppy discs. If you also want to be able to 10091da177e4SLinus Torvalds write to those devices, say Y to "ADFS write support" below. 10101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10111da177e4SLinus Torvalds The ADFS partition should be the first partition (i.e., 10121da177e4SLinus Torvalds /dev/[hs]d?1) on each of your drives. Please read the file 10131da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt> for further details. 10141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10151da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be 10161da177e4SLinus Torvalds called adfs. 10171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10181da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 10191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ADFS_FS_RW 10211da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)" 10221da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ADFS_FS 10231da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10241da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to write to ADFS partitions on 10251da177e4SLinus Torvalds hard drives and ADFS-formatted floppy disks. This is experimental 10261da177e4SLinus Torvalds codes, so if you're unsure, say N. 10271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AFFS_FS 10291da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Amiga FFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 10309361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 10311da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10321da177e4SLinus Torvalds The Fast File System (FFS) is the common file system used on hard 10331da177e4SLinus Torvalds disks by Amiga(tm) systems since AmigaOS Version 1.3 (34.20). Say Y 10341da177e4SLinus Torvalds if you want to be able to read and write files from and to an Amiga 10351da177e4SLinus Torvalds FFS partition on your hard drive. Amiga floppies however cannot be 10361da177e4SLinus Torvalds read with this driver due to an incompatibility of the floppy 10371da177e4SLinus Torvalds controller used in an Amiga and the standard floppy controller in 10381da177e4SLinus Torvalds PCs and workstations. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt> 10391da177e4SLinus Torvalds and <file:fs/affs/Changes>. 10401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10411da177e4SLinus Torvalds With this driver you can also mount disk files used by Bernd 10421da177e4SLinus Torvalds Schmidt's Un*X Amiga Emulator 10431da177e4SLinus Torvalds (<http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/>). 10441da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to do this, you will also need to say Y or M to "Loop 10451da177e4SLinus Torvalds device support", above. 10461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10471da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 10481da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called affs. If unsure, say N. 10491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1050237fead6SMichael Halcrowconfig ECRYPT_FS 1051237fead6SMichael Halcrow tristate "eCrypt filesystem layer support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 105288b4a07eSMichael Halcrow depends on EXPERIMENTAL && KEYS && CRYPTO && NET 1053237fead6SMichael Halcrow help 1054237fead6SMichael Halcrow Encrypted filesystem that operates on the VFS layer. See 1055e403149cSDirk Hohndel <file:Documentation/filesystems/ecryptfs.txt> to learn more about 1056237fead6SMichael Halcrow eCryptfs. Userspace components are required and can be 1057237fead6SMichael Halcrow obtained from <http://ecryptfs.sf.net>. 1058237fead6SMichael Halcrow 1059237fead6SMichael Halcrow To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 1060237fead6SMichael Halcrow module will be called ecryptfs. 1061237fead6SMichael Halcrow 10621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HFS_FS 10631da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 10649361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 1065878129a3SLennert Buytenhek select NLS 10661da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10671da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to mount Macintosh-formatted 10681da177e4SLinus Torvalds floppy disks and hard drive partitions with full read-write access. 1069889c94a1SJohann Felix Soden Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/hfs.txt> to learn about 1070889c94a1SJohann Felix Soden the available mount options. 10711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10721da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 10731da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called hfs. 10741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HFSPLUS_FS 10761da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Apple Extended HFS file system support" 10779361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 10781da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 10791da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS_UTF8 10801da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10811da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to mount extended format 10821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Macintosh-formatted hard drive partitions with full read-write access. 10831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10841da177e4SLinus Torvalds This file system is often called HFS+ and was introduced with 10851da177e4SLinus Torvalds MacOS 8. It includes all Mac specific filesystem data such as 10861da177e4SLinus Torvalds data forks and creator codes, but it also has several UNIX 10871da177e4SLinus Torvalds style features such as file ownership and permissions. 10881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BEFS_FS 10901da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "BeOS file system (BeFS) support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 10919361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 10921da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 10931da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10941da177e4SLinus Torvalds The BeOS File System (BeFS) is the native file system of Be, Inc's 10951da177e4SLinus Torvalds BeOS. Notable features include support for arbitrary attributes 10963cb2fcccSMatt LaPlante on files and directories, and database-like indices on selected 10971da177e4SLinus Torvalds attributes. (Also note that this driver doesn't make those features 10981da177e4SLinus Torvalds available at this time). It is a 64 bit filesystem, so it supports 109944c09201SMatt LaPlante extremely large volumes and files. 11001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11011da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you use this filesystem, you should also say Y to at least one 11021da177e4SLinus Torvalds of the NLS (native language support) options below. 11031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11041da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what this is about, say N. 11051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11061da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 11071da177e4SLinus Torvalds called befs. 11081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BEFS_DEBUG 11101da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Debug BeFS" 11111da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BEFS_FS 11121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11131da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you can use the 'debug' mount option to enable 11141da177e4SLinus Torvalds debugging output from the driver. 11151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BFS_FS 11171da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 11189361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 11191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11201da177e4SLinus Torvalds Boot File System (BFS) is a file system used under SCO UnixWare to 11211da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow the bootloader access to the kernel image and other important 11221da177e4SLinus Torvalds files during the boot process. It is usually mounted under /stand 11231da177e4SLinus Torvalds and corresponds to the slice marked as "STAND" in the UnixWare 11241da177e4SLinus Torvalds partition. You should say Y if you want to read or write the files 11251da177e4SLinus Torvalds on your /stand slice from within Linux. You then also need to say Y 11261da177e4SLinus Torvalds to "UnixWare slices support", below. More information about the BFS 11271da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system is contained in the file 11281da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/bfs.txt>. 11291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11301da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what this is about, say N. 11311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11321da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 11331da177e4SLinus Torvalds bfs. Note that the file system of your root partition (the one 11341da177e4SLinus Torvalds containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module. 11351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EFS_FS 11391da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "EFS file system support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 11409361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 11411da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11421da177e4SLinus Torvalds EFS is an older file system used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and hard 11431da177e4SLinus Torvalds disk partitions by SGI's IRIX operating system (IRIX 6.0 and newer 11441da177e4SLinus Torvalds uses the XFS file system for hard disk partitions however). 11451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11461da177e4SLinus Torvalds This implementation only offers read-only access. If you don't know 11471da177e4SLinus Torvalds what all this is about, it's safe to say N. For more information 11481da177e4SLinus Torvalds about EFS see its home page at <http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/>. 11491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11501da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the EFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the 11511da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called efs. 11521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_FS 11541da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Journalling Flash File System v2 (JFFS2) support" 11551da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 11561da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MTD 11571da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11581da177e4SLinus Torvalds JFFS2 is the second generation of the Journalling Flash File System 11591da177e4SLinus Torvalds for use on diskless embedded devices. It provides improved wear 11601da177e4SLinus Torvalds levelling, compression and support for hard links. You cannot use 11611da177e4SLinus Torvalds this on normal block devices, only on 'MTD' devices. 11621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11631da177e4SLinus Torvalds Further information on the design and implementation of JFFS2 is 11641da177e4SLinus Torvalds available at <http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2/>. 11651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_FS_DEBUG 11671da177e4SLinus Torvalds int "JFFS2 debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 2 = noisy)" 11681da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 11691da177e4SLinus Torvalds default "0" 11701da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11711da177e4SLinus Torvalds This controls the amount of debugging messages produced by the JFFS2 11721da177e4SLinus Torvalds code. Set it to zero for use in production systems. For evaluation, 11731da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing and debugging, it's advisable to set it to one. This will 11741da177e4SLinus Torvalds enable a few assertions and will print debugging messages at the 11751da177e4SLinus Torvalds KERN_DEBUG loglevel, where they won't normally be visible. Level 2 11761da177e4SLinus Torvalds is unlikely to be useful - it enables extra debugging in certain 11771da177e4SLinus Torvalds areas which at one point needed debugging, but when the bugs were 11781da177e4SLinus Torvalds located and fixed, the detailed messages were relegated to level 2. 11791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11801da177e4SLinus Torvalds If reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of the 11811da177e4SLinus Torvalds messages at debug level 1 while the misbehaviour was occurring. 11821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11832ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouseconfig JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER 11842ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse bool "JFFS2 write-buffering support" 1185aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei depends on JFFS2_FS 11862ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse default y 11872ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse help 11882ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse This enables the write-buffering support in JFFS2. 11892ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse 11902ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse This functionality is required to support JFFS2 on the following 11912ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse types of flash devices: 11922ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse - NAND flash 11932ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse - NOR flash with transparent ECC 11942ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse - DataFlash 11952ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse 1196a6bc432eSDavid Woodhouseconfig JFFS2_FS_WBUF_VERIFY 1197a6bc432eSDavid Woodhouse bool "Verify JFFS2 write-buffer reads" 1198a6bc432eSDavid Woodhouse depends on JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER 1199a6bc432eSDavid Woodhouse default n 1200a6bc432eSDavid Woodhouse help 1201a6bc432eSDavid Woodhouse This causes JFFS2 to read back every page written through the 1202a6bc432eSDavid Woodhouse write-buffer, and check for errors. 1203a6bc432eSDavid Woodhouse 12042ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouseconfig JFFS2_SUMMARY 12052ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse bool "JFFS2 summary support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 12062ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 12072ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse default n 12082ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse help 12092ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse This feature makes it possible to use summary information 12102ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse for faster filesystem mount. 12112ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse 12122ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse The summary information can be inserted into a filesystem image 12132ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse by the utility 'sumtool'. 12142ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse 12152ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse If unsure, say 'N'. 12162ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse 12172ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouseconfig JFFS2_FS_XATTR 12182ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse bool "JFFS2 XATTR support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 121904510deeSKaiGai Kohei depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 1220aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei default n 1221aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei help 1222aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 1223aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 1224aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 1225aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 1226aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei If unsure, say N. 1227aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 1228aa98d7cfSKaiGai Koheiconfig JFFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL 1229aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei bool "JFFS2 POSIX Access Control Lists" 1230aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR 1231aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei default y 1232aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei select FS_POSIX_ACL 1233aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei help 1234aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 1235aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 1236aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 1237aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 1238aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 1239aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 1240aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 1241aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 1242aa98d7cfSKaiGai Koheiconfig JFFS2_FS_SECURITY 1243aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei bool "JFFS2 Security Labels" 1244aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR 1245aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei default y 1246aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei help 1247aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei Security labels support alternative access control models 1248aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 1249aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei enables an extended attribute handler for file security 1250aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei labels in the jffs2 filesystem. 1251aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 1252aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei If you are not using a security module that requires using 1253aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 1254aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 12551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 12561da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Advanced compression options for JFFS2" 12571da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 12581da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 12591da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12601da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this option allows you to explicitly choose which 12611da177e4SLinus Torvalds compression modules, if any, are enabled in JFFS2. Removing 12629e2de407SUwe Kleine-König compressors can mean you cannot read existing file systems, 12631da177e4SLinus Torvalds and enabling experimental compressors can mean that you 12641da177e4SLinus Torvalds write a file system which cannot be read by a standard kernel. 12651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12661da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, you should _definitely_ say 'N'. 12671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_ZLIB 12691da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFFS2 ZLIB compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 12701da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_INFLATE 12711da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_DEFLATE 12721da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 12731da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 12741da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12751da177e4SLinus Torvalds Zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered, 12761da177e4SLinus Torvalds lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer 12771da177e4SLinus Torvalds hardware and operating system. See <http://www.gzip.org/zlib/> for 12781da177e4SLinus Torvalds further information. 12791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12801da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say 'Y' if unsure. 12811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1282c799aca3SRichard Purdieconfig JFFS2_LZO 1283c799aca3SRichard Purdie bool "JFFS2 LZO compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 1284c799aca3SRichard Purdie select LZO_COMPRESS 1285c799aca3SRichard Purdie select LZO_DECOMPRESS 1286c799aca3SRichard Purdie depends on JFFS2_FS 12873ca135e1SDavid Woodhouse default n 1288c799aca3SRichard Purdie help 1289c799aca3SRichard Purdie minilzo-based compression. Generally works better than Zlib. 1290c799aca3SRichard Purdie 12913ca135e1SDavid Woodhouse This feature was added in July, 2007. Say 'N' if you need 12923ca135e1SDavid Woodhouse compatibility with older bootloaders or kernels. 1293c799aca3SRichard Purdie 12941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_RTIME 12951da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFFS2 RTIME compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 12961da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 12971da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 12981da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12991da177e4SLinus Torvalds Rtime does manage to recompress already-compressed data. Say 'Y' if unsure. 13001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_RUBIN 13021da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFFS2 RUBIN compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 13031da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 13041da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 13051da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13061da177e4SLinus Torvalds RUBINMIPS and DYNRUBIN compressors. Say 'N' if unsure. 13071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13081da177e4SLinus Torvaldschoice 13091da177e4SLinus Torvalds prompt "JFFS2 default compression mode" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 13101da177e4SLinus Torvalds default JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY 13111da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 13121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13131da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can set here the default compression mode of JFFS2 from 13141da177e4SLinus Torvalds the available compression modes. Don't touch if unsure. 13151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_CMODE_NONE 13171da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "no compression" 13181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13191da177e4SLinus Torvalds Uses no compression. 13201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY 13221da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "priority" 13231da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1324cc2e2767SMatt LaPlante Tries the compressors in a predefined order and chooses the first 13251da177e4SLinus Torvalds successful one. 13261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_CMODE_SIZE 13281da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "size (EXPERIMENTAL)" 13291da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13301da177e4SLinus Torvalds Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest 13311da177e4SLinus Torvalds result. 13321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13333b23c1f5SRichard Purdieconfig JFFS2_CMODE_FAVOURLZO 13343b23c1f5SRichard Purdie bool "Favour LZO" 13353b23c1f5SRichard Purdie help 13363b23c1f5SRichard Purdie Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest 13373b23c1f5SRichard Purdie result but gives some preference to LZO (which has faster 13383b23c1f5SRichard Purdie decompression) at the expense of size. 13393b23c1f5SRichard Purdie 13401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendchoice 13411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13420d7eff87SArtem Bityutskiy# UBIFS File system configuration 13430d7eff87SArtem Bityutskiysource "fs/ubifs/Kconfig" 13440d7eff87SArtem Bityutskiy 13451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CRAMFS 13461da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)" 13479361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 13481da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_INFLATE 13491da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13501da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here includes support for CramFs (Compressed ROM File 13511da177e4SLinus Torvalds System). CramFs is designed to be a simple, small, and compressed 13521da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system for ROM based embedded systems. CramFs is read-only, 13531da177e4SLinus Torvalds limited to 256MB file systems (with 16MB files), and doesn't support 13541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16/32 bits uid/gid, hard links and timestamps. 13551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13561da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt> and 13571da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:fs/cramfs/README> for further information. 13581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13591da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 13601da177e4SLinus Torvalds cramfs. Note that the root file system (the one containing the 13611da177e4SLinus Torvalds directory /) cannot be compiled as a module. 13621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13631da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 13641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig VXFS_FS 13661da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "FreeVxFS file system support (VERITAS VxFS(TM) compatible)" 13679361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 13681da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13691da177e4SLinus Torvalds FreeVxFS is a file system driver that support the VERITAS VxFS(TM) 13701da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system format. VERITAS VxFS(TM) is the standard file system 13711da177e4SLinus Torvalds of SCO UnixWare (and possibly others) and optionally available 13721da177e4SLinus Torvalds for Sunsoft Solaris, HP-UX and many other operating systems. 13731da177e4SLinus Torvalds Currently only readonly access is supported. 13741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13751da177e4SLinus Torvalds NOTE: the file system type as used by mount(1), mount(2) and 13761da177e4SLinus Torvalds fstab(5) is 'vxfs' as it describes the file system format, not 13771da177e4SLinus Torvalds the actual driver. 13781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13791da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 13801da177e4SLinus Torvalds called freevxfs. If unsure, say N. 13811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 138225fad945SRandy Dunlapconfig MINIX_FS 138325fad945SRandy Dunlap tristate "Minix file system support" 138425fad945SRandy Dunlap depends on BLOCK 138525fad945SRandy Dunlap help 138625fad945SRandy Dunlap Minix is a simple operating system used in many classes about OS's. 138725fad945SRandy Dunlap The minix file system (method to organize files on a hard disk 138825fad945SRandy Dunlap partition or a floppy disk) was the original file system for Linux, 138925fad945SRandy Dunlap but has been superseded by the second extended file system ext2fs. 139025fad945SRandy Dunlap You don't want to use the minix file system on your hard disk 139125fad945SRandy Dunlap because of certain built-in restrictions, but it is sometimes found 139225fad945SRandy Dunlap on older Linux floppy disks. This option will enlarge your kernel 139325fad945SRandy Dunlap by about 28 KB. If unsure, say N. 139425fad945SRandy Dunlap 139525fad945SRandy Dunlap To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 139625fad945SRandy Dunlap module will be called minix. Note that the file system of your root 139725fad945SRandy Dunlap partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as 139825fad945SRandy Dunlap a module. 139925fad945SRandy Dunlap 140063ca8ce2SBob Copelandconfig OMFS_FS 140163ca8ce2SBob Copeland tristate "SonicBlue Optimized MPEG File System support" 140263ca8ce2SBob Copeland depends on BLOCK 140363ca8ce2SBob Copeland select CRC_ITU_T 140463ca8ce2SBob Copeland help 140563ca8ce2SBob Copeland This is the proprietary file system used by the Rio Karma music 140663ca8ce2SBob Copeland player and ReplayTV DVR. Despite the name, this filesystem is not 140763ca8ce2SBob Copeland more efficient than a standard FS for MPEG files, in fact likely 140863ca8ce2SBob Copeland the opposite is true. Say Y if you have either of these devices 140963ca8ce2SBob Copeland and wish to mount its disk. 141063ca8ce2SBob Copeland 141163ca8ce2SBob Copeland To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 141263ca8ce2SBob Copeland module will be called omfs. If unsure, say N. 14131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HPFS_FS 14151da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "OS/2 HPFS file system support" 14169361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 14171da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14181da177e4SLinus Torvalds OS/2 is IBM's operating system for PC's, the same as Warp, and HPFS 14191da177e4SLinus Torvalds is the file system used for organizing files on OS/2 hard disk 14201da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions. Say Y if you want to be able to read files from and 14211da177e4SLinus Torvalds write files to an OS/2 HPFS partition on your hard drive. OS/2 14221da177e4SLinus Torvalds floppies however are in regular MSDOS format, so you don't need this 14231da177e4SLinus Torvalds option in order to be able to read them. Read 14241da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt>. 14251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14261da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 14271da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called hpfs. If unsure, say N. 14281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QNX4FS_FS 14311da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "QNX4 file system support (read only)" 14329361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 14331da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14341da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the file system used by the real-time operating systems 14351da177e4SLinus Torvalds QNX 4 and QNX 6 (the latter is also called QNX RTP). 14361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Further information is available at <http://www.qnx.com/>. 14371da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y if you intend to mount QNX hard disks or floppies. 14381da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless you say Y to "QNX4FS read-write support" below, you will 14391da177e4SLinus Torvalds only be able to read these file systems. 14401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14411da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 14421da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called qnx4. 14431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14441da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it: 14451da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer N. 14461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QNX4FS_RW 14481da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "QNX4FS write support (DANGEROUS)" 14491da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on QNX4FS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN 14501da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14511da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y if you want to test write support for QNX4 file systems. 14521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14531da177e4SLinus Torvalds It's currently broken, so for now: 14541da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer N. 14551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 145625fad945SRandy Dunlapconfig ROMFS_FS 145725fad945SRandy Dunlap tristate "ROM file system support" 145825fad945SRandy Dunlap depends on BLOCK 145925fad945SRandy Dunlap ---help--- 146025fad945SRandy Dunlap This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for 146125fad945SRandy Dunlap initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for 146225fad945SRandy Dunlap other read-only media as well. Read 146325fad945SRandy Dunlap <file:Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt> for details. 146425fad945SRandy Dunlap 146525fad945SRandy Dunlap To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 146625fad945SRandy Dunlap module will be called romfs. Note that the file system of your 146725fad945SRandy Dunlap root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a 146825fad945SRandy Dunlap module. 146925fad945SRandy Dunlap 147025fad945SRandy Dunlap If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it: 147125fad945SRandy Dunlap answer N. 14721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSV_FS 14751da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support" 14769361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 14771da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14781da177e4SLinus Torvalds SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel 14791da177e4SLinus Torvalds machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y 14801da177e4SLinus Torvalds here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk 14811da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions. 14821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14831da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely 14841da177e4SLinus Torvalds that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order 1485cab00891SMatt LaPlante to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is 14861da177e4SLinus Torvalds a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse, 14871da177e4SLinus Torvalds UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux. It is 14881da177e4SLinus Torvalds available via FTP (user: ftp) from 14891da177e4SLinus Torvalds <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>). 14901da177e4SLinus Torvalds NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems; 14911da177e4SLinus Torvalds PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-) 14921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14931da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the 14941da177e4SLinus Torvalds network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support 14951da177e4SLinus Torvalds (but you need NFS file system support obviously). 14961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14971da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a 14981da177e4SLinus Torvalds good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes 14991da177e4SLinus Torvalds (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man 15001da177e4SLinus Torvalds tar" or preferably "info tar"). Note also that this option has 15011da177e4SLinus Torvalds nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about 15021da177e4SLinus Torvalds the System V file system in 15031da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>. 15041da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB. 15051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15061da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 15071da177e4SLinus Torvalds sysv. 15081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15091da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. 15101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UFS_FS 15131da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "UFS file system support (read only)" 15149361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 15151da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15161da177e4SLinus Torvalds BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, 15171da177e4SLinus Torvalds OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a file system called UFS. Some System V 15181da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using 15191da177e4SLinus Torvalds this file system as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from 15201da177e4SLinus Torvalds these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the 15211da177e4SLinus Torvalds experimental "UFS file system write support", below. Please read the 15221da177e4SLinus Torvalds file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt> for more information. 15231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15241da177e4SLinus Torvalds The recently released UFS2 variant (used in FreeBSD 5.x) is 15251da177e4SLinus Torvalds READ-ONLY supported. 15261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15271da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a 15281da177e4SLinus Torvalds good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes 15291da177e4SLinus Torvalds (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man 15301da177e4SLinus Torvalds tar" or preferably "info tar"). 15311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15321da177e4SLinus Torvalds When accessing NeXTstep files, you may need to convert them from the 15331da177e4SLinus Torvalds NeXT character set to the Latin1 character set; use the program 15341da177e4SLinus Torvalds recode ("info recode") for this purpose. 15351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15361da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the UFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the 15371da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called ufs. 15381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15391da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. 15401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UFS_FS_WRITE 15421da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS)" 15435afb3145SEvgeniy Dushistov depends on UFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 15441da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15451da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you want to try writing to UFS partitions. This is 15461da177e4SLinus Torvalds experimental, so you should back up your UFS partitions beforehand. 15471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1548abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistovconfig UFS_DEBUG 1549abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov bool "UFS debugging" 1550abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov depends on UFS_FS 1551abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov help 1552abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov If you are experiencing any problems with the UFS filesystem, say 1553abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov Y here. This will result in _many_ additional debugging messages to be 1554abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov written to the system log. 1555abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov 15561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 15571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1558ea0985adSJan Engelhardtmenuconfig NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS 1559ea0985adSJan Engelhardt bool "Network File Systems" 1560ea0985adSJan Engelhardt default y 15611da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET 1562ea0985adSJan Engelhardt ---help--- 1563ea0985adSJan Engelhardt Say Y here to get to see options for network filesystems and 1564ea0985adSJan Engelhardt filesystem-related networking code, such as NFS daemon and 1565ea0985adSJan Engelhardt RPCSEC security modules. 15666fb1bc10SChuck Lever 1567ea0985adSJan Engelhardt This option alone does not add any kernel code. 1568ea0985adSJan Engelhardt 1569ea0985adSJan Engelhardt If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and 1570ea0985adSJan Engelhardt disabled; if unsure, say Y here. 1571ea0985adSJan Engelhardt 1572ea0985adSJan Engelhardtif NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS 15731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_FS 15756fb1bc10SChuck Lever tristate "NFS client support" 15761da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 15771da177e4SLinus Torvalds select LOCKD 15781da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC 1579b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFS_V3_ACL 15801da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15816fb1bc10SChuck Lever Choose Y here if you want to access files residing on other 15826fb1bc10SChuck Lever computers using Sun's Network File System protocol. To compile 15836fb1bc10SChuck Lever this file system support as a module, choose M here: the module 15846fb1bc10SChuck Lever will be called nfs. 15851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15866fb1bc10SChuck Lever To mount file systems exported by NFS servers, you also need to 15876fb1bc10SChuck Lever install the user space mount.nfs command which can be found in 15886fb1bc10SChuck Lever the Linux nfs-utils package, available from http://linux-nfs.org/. 15896fb1bc10SChuck Lever Information about using the mount command is available in the 15906fb1bc10SChuck Lever mount(8) man page. More detail about the Linux NFS client 15916fb1bc10SChuck Lever implementation is available via the nfs(5) man page. 15921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15936fb1bc10SChuck Lever Below you can choose which versions of the NFS protocol are 15946fb1bc10SChuck Lever available in the kernel to mount NFS servers. Support for NFS 15956fb1bc10SChuck Lever version 2 (RFC 1094) is always available when NFS_FS is selected. 15961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15976fb1bc10SChuck Lever To configure a system which mounts its root file system via NFS 15986fb1bc10SChuck Lever at boot time, say Y here, select "Kernel level IP 15996fb1bc10SChuck Lever autoconfiguration" in the NETWORK menu, and select "Root file 16006fb1bc10SChuck Lever system on NFS" below. You cannot compile this file system as a 16016fb1bc10SChuck Lever module in this case. 16021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16036fb1bc10SChuck Lever If unsure, say N. 16041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_V3 16066fb1bc10SChuck Lever bool "NFS client support for NFS version 3" 16071da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFS_FS 16081da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16096fb1bc10SChuck Lever This option enables support for version 3 of the NFS protocol 16106fb1bc10SChuck Lever (RFC 1813) in the kernel's NFS client. 16111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16121da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 16131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1614b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFS_V3_ACL 16156fb1bc10SChuck Lever bool "NFS client support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension" 1616b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFS_V3 1617b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher help 16186fb1bc10SChuck Lever Some NFS servers support an auxiliary NFSv3 ACL protocol that 16196fb1bc10SChuck Lever Sun added to Solaris but never became an official part of the 16206fb1bc10SChuck Lever NFS version 3 protocol. This protocol extension allows 16216fb1bc10SChuck Lever applications on NFS clients to manipulate POSIX Access Control 16226fb1bc10SChuck Lever Lists on files residing on NFS servers. NFS servers enforce 16236fb1bc10SChuck Lever ACLs on local files whether this protocol is available or not. 16246fb1bc10SChuck Lever 16256fb1bc10SChuck Lever Choose Y here if your NFS server supports the Solaris NFSv3 ACL 16266fb1bc10SChuck Lever protocol extension and you want your NFS client to allow 16276fb1bc10SChuck Lever applications to access and modify ACLs on files on the server. 16286fb1bc10SChuck Lever 16296fb1bc10SChuck Lever Most NFS servers don't support the Solaris NFSv3 ACL protocol 16306fb1bc10SChuck Lever extension. You can choose N here or specify the "noacl" mount 16316fb1bc10SChuck Lever option to prevent your NFS client from trying to use the NFSv3 16326fb1bc10SChuck Lever ACL protocol. 1633b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher 1634b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher If unsure, say N. 1635b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher 16361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_V4 16376fb1bc10SChuck Lever bool "NFS client support for NFS version 4 (EXPERIMENTAL)" 16381da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 16391da177e4SLinus Torvalds select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 16401da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16416fb1bc10SChuck Lever This option enables support for version 4 of the NFS protocol 16426fb1bc10SChuck Lever (RFC 3530) in the kernel's NFS client. 16431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16446fb1bc10SChuck Lever To mount NFS servers using NFSv4, you also need to install user 16456fb1bc10SChuck Lever space programs which can be found in the Linux nfs-utils package, 16466fb1bc10SChuck Lever available from http://linux-nfs.org/. 16471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16481da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 16491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16506fb1bc10SChuck Leverconfig ROOT_NFS 16516fb1bc10SChuck Lever bool "Root file system on NFS" 16526fb1bc10SChuck Lever depends on NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP 16536fb1bc10SChuck Lever help 16546fb1bc10SChuck Lever If you want your system to mount its root file system via NFS, 16556fb1bc10SChuck Lever choose Y here. This is common practice for managing systems 16566fb1bc10SChuck Lever without local permanent storage. For details, read 16576fb1bc10SChuck Lever <file:Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt>. 16586fb1bc10SChuck Lever 16596fb1bc10SChuck Lever Most people say N here. 16606fb1bc10SChuck Lever 16611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD 16621da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NFS server support" 16631da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 16641da177e4SLinus Torvalds select LOCKD 16651da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC 16661da177e4SLinus Torvalds select EXPORTFS 1667f05e15b5SHerbert Xu select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFSD_V2_ACL 16681da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1669d24455b5SChuck Lever Choose Y here if you want to allow other computers to access 1670d24455b5SChuck Lever files residing on this system using Sun's Network File System 1671d24455b5SChuck Lever protocol. To compile the NFS server support as a module, 1672d24455b5SChuck Lever choose M here: the module will be called nfsd. 16731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1674d24455b5SChuck Lever You may choose to use a user-space NFS server instead, in which 1675d24455b5SChuck Lever case you can choose N here. 16761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1677d24455b5SChuck Lever To export local file systems using NFS, you also need to install 1678d24455b5SChuck Lever user space programs which can be found in the Linux nfs-utils 1679d24455b5SChuck Lever package, available from http://linux-nfs.org/. More detail about 1680d24455b5SChuck Lever the Linux NFS server implementation is available via the 1681d24455b5SChuck Lever exports(5) man page. 16821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1683d24455b5SChuck Lever Below you can choose which versions of the NFS protocol are 1684d24455b5SChuck Lever available to clients mounting the NFS server on this system. 1685d24455b5SChuck Lever Support for NFS version 2 (RFC 1094) is always available when 1686d24455b5SChuck Lever CONFIG_NFSD is selected. 16871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1688d24455b5SChuck Lever If unsure, say N. 16891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1690a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFSD_V2_ACL 1691a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher bool 1692a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFSD 1693a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 16941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD_V3 1695d24455b5SChuck Lever bool "NFS server support for NFS version 3" 16961da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFSD 16971da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1698d24455b5SChuck Lever This option enables support in your system's NFS server for 1699d24455b5SChuck Lever version 3 of the NFS protocol (RFC 1813). 1700d24455b5SChuck Lever 1701d24455b5SChuck Lever If unsure, say Y. 17021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1703a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFSD_V3_ACL 1704d24455b5SChuck Lever bool "NFS server support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension" 1705a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFSD_V3 170678dd0992SChuck Lever select NFSD_V2_ACL 1707a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher help 1708d24455b5SChuck Lever Solaris NFS servers support an auxiliary NFSv3 ACL protocol that 1709d24455b5SChuck Lever never became an official part of the NFS version 3 protocol. 1710d24455b5SChuck Lever This protocol extension allows applications on NFS clients to 1711d24455b5SChuck Lever manipulate POSIX Access Control Lists on files residing on NFS 1712d24455b5SChuck Lever servers. NFS servers enforce POSIX ACLs on local files whether 1713d24455b5SChuck Lever this protocol is available or not. 1714d24455b5SChuck Lever 1715d24455b5SChuck Lever This option enables support in your system's NFS server for the 1716d24455b5SChuck Lever NFSv3 ACL protocol extension allowing NFS clients to manipulate 1717d24455b5SChuck Lever POSIX ACLs on files exported by your system's NFS server. NFS 1718d24455b5SChuck Lever clients which support the Solaris NFSv3 ACL protocol can then 1719d24455b5SChuck Lever access and modify ACLs on your NFS server. 1720d24455b5SChuck Lever 1721d24455b5SChuck Lever To store ACLs on your NFS server, you also need to enable ACL- 1722d24455b5SChuck Lever related CONFIG options for your local file systems of choice. 1723d24455b5SChuck Lever 1724d24455b5SChuck Lever If unsure, say N. 1725a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 17261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD_V4 1727d24455b5SChuck Lever bool "NFS server support for NFS version 4 (EXPERIMENTAL)" 17281a448fdbSChuck Lever depends on NFSD && PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 17291a448fdbSChuck Lever select NFSD_V3 173089206955SChuck Lever select FS_POSIX_ACL 173142ed95c4SJ. Bruce Fields select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 17321da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1733d24455b5SChuck Lever This option enables support in your system's NFS server for 1734d24455b5SChuck Lever version 4 of the NFS protocol (RFC 3530). 1735d24455b5SChuck Lever 1736d24455b5SChuck Lever To export files using NFSv4, you need to install additional user 1737d24455b5SChuck Lever space programs which can be found in the Linux nfs-utils package, 1738d24455b5SChuck Lever available from http://linux-nfs.org/. 1739d24455b5SChuck Lever 17401da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 17411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCKD 17431da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 17441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCKD_V4 17461da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 17471da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFSD_V3 || NFS_V3 17481da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 17491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPORTFS 17511da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 17521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1753a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFS_ACL_SUPPORT 1754a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher tristate 1755a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 1756a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 1757a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFS_COMMON 1758a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher bool 1759a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFSD || NFS_FS 1760a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher default y 1761a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 17621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNRPC 17631da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 17641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNRPC_GSS 17661da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 17671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1768c3a57ed7S\"Talpey, Thomas\config SUNRPC_XPRT_RDMA 17693211e4ebSJames Lentini tristate 1770113632d0S\"Talpey, Thomas\ depends on SUNRPC && INFINIBAND && EXPERIMENTAL 17713211e4ebSJames Lentini default SUNRPC && INFINIBAND 1772327a299dSChuck Lever help 1773327a299dSChuck Lever This option enables an RPC client transport capability that 1774327a299dSChuck Lever allows the NFS client to mount servers via an RDMA-enabled 1775327a299dSChuck Lever transport. 1776327a299dSChuck Lever 1777327a299dSChuck Lever To compile RPC client RDMA transport support as a module, 1778327a299dSChuck Lever choose M here: the module will be called xprtrdma. 1779327a299dSChuck Lever 1780327a299dSChuck Lever If unsure, say N. 1781c3a57ed7S\"Talpey, Thomas\ 17821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 17831da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)" 17841da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL 17851da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC_GSS 17861da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO 17871da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_MD5 17881da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_DES 1789bcbaecbbSPatrick McHardy select CRYPTO_CBC 17901da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1791327a299dSChuck Lever Choose Y here to enable Secure RPC using the Kerberos version 5 1792327a299dSChuck Lever GSS-API mechanism (RFC 1964). 17931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1794327a299dSChuck Lever Secure RPC calls with Kerberos require an auxiliary user-space 1795327a299dSChuck Lever daemon which may be found in the Linux nfs-utils package 1796327a299dSChuck Lever available from http://linux-nfs.org/. In addition, user-space 1797327a299dSChuck Lever Kerberos support should be installed. 17981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17991da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 18001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3 18021da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Secure RPC: SPKM3 mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)" 18031da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL 18041da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC_GSS 18051da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO 18061da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_MD5 18071da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_DES 1808df6db302SJ. Bruce Fields select CRYPTO_CAST5 1809bcbaecbbSPatrick McHardy select CRYPTO_CBC 18101da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1811327a299dSChuck Lever Choose Y here to enable Secure RPC using the SPKM3 public key 1812327a299dSChuck Lever GSS-API mechansim (RFC 2025). 18131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1814327a299dSChuck Lever Secure RPC calls with SPKM3 require an auxiliary userspace 1815327a299dSChuck Lever daemon which may be found in the Linux nfs-utils package 1816327a299dSChuck Lever available from http://linux-nfs.org/. 18171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18181da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 18191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SMB_FS 1821c7736339SAndrew Morton tristate "SMB file system support (OBSOLETE, please use CIFS)" 18221da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 18231da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 18241da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18251da177e4SLinus Torvalds SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Windows for Workgroups 18261da177e4SLinus Torvalds (WfW), Windows 95/98, Windows NT and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share 18271da177e4SLinus Torvalds files and printers over local networks. Saying Y here allows you to 18281da177e4SLinus Torvalds mount their file systems (often called "shares" in this context) and 18291da177e4SLinus Torvalds access them just like any other Unix directory. Currently, this 18301da177e4SLinus Torvalds works only if the Windows machines use TCP/IP as the underlying 18311da177e4SLinus Torvalds transport protocol, and not NetBEUI. For details, read 18321da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt> and the SMB-HOWTO, 18331da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 18341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18351da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: if you just want your box to act as an SMB *server* and make 18361da177e4SLinus Torvalds files and printing services available to Windows clients (which need 18371da177e4SLinus Torvalds to have a TCP/IP stack), you don't need to say Y here; you can use 18381da177e4SLinus Torvalds the program SAMBA (available from <ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/>) 18391da177e4SLinus Torvalds for that. 18401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18411da177e4SLinus Torvalds General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and 18421da177e4SLinus Torvalds Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>. 18431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1844c7736339SAndrew Morton To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here: 1845c7736339SAndrew Morton the module will be called smbfs. Most people say N, however. 18461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SMB_NLS_DEFAULT 18481da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use a default NLS" 18491da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SMB_FS 18501da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18511da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this will make smbfs use nls translations by default. You 18521da177e4SLinus Torvalds need to specify the local charset (CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT) in the nls 18531da177e4SLinus Torvalds settings and you need to give the default nls for the SMB server as 18541da177e4SLinus Torvalds CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE. 18551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18561da177e4SLinus Torvalds The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount 18571da177e4SLinus Torvalds supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters. 18581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18591da177e4SLinus Torvalds smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this. 18601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SMB_NLS_REMOTE 18621da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Default Remote NLS Option" 18631da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SMB_NLS_DEFAULT 18641da177e4SLinus Torvalds default "cp437" 18651da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18661da177e4SLinus Torvalds This setting allows you to specify a default value for which 18671da177e4SLinus Torvalds codepage the server uses. If this field is left blank no 18681da177e4SLinus Torvalds translations will be done by default. The local codepage/charset 18691da177e4SLinus Torvalds default to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT. 18701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18711da177e4SLinus Torvalds The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount 18721da177e4SLinus Torvalds supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters. 18731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18741da177e4SLinus Torvalds smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this. 18751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS 1877c7736339SAndrew Morton tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem, SMBFS successor)" 18781da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 18791da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 18801da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18811da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System 18821da177e4SLinus Torvalds (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block 18831da177e4SLinus Torvalds (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early 18841da177e4SLinus Torvalds PC operating systems. The CIFS protocol is fully supported by 18851da177e4SLinus Torvalds file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4 18861da177e4SLinus Torvalds and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS 1887ec58ef03SSteve French server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited 18886103335dSSteve French support for OS/2 and Windows ME and similar servers is provided as 18896103335dSSteve French well. 18901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18916103335dSSteve French The cifs module provides an advanced network file system 18926103335dSSteve French client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers. It includes 18936103335dSSteve French support for DFS (hierarchical name space), secure per-user 18946103335dSSteve French session establishment via Kerberos or NTLM or NTLMv2, 18956103335dSSteve French safe distributed caching (oplock), optional packet 18966103335dSSteve French signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements. 18978af18971SSteve French If you need to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y. 18981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS_STATS 19001da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "CIFS statistics" 19011da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on CIFS 19021da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19031da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share 19041da177e4SLinus Torvalds mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats 19051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1906ec58ef03SSteve Frenchconfig CIFS_STATS2 19073979877eSSteve French bool "Extended statistics" 1908ec58ef03SSteve French depends on CIFS_STATS 1909ec58ef03SSteve French help 1910ec58ef03SSteve French Enabling this option will allow more detailed statistics on SMB 1911ec58ef03SSteve French request timing to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData and also 1912ec58ef03SSteve French allow optional logging of slow responses to dmesg (depending on the 1913ec58ef03SSteve French value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI, see fs/cifs/README for more details). 1914ec58ef03SSteve French These additional statistics may have a minor effect on performance 1915ec58ef03SSteve French and memory utilization. 1916ec58ef03SSteve French 1917ec58ef03SSteve French Unless you are a developer or are doing network performance analysis 1918ec58ef03SSteve French or tuning, say N. 1919ec58ef03SSteve French 19203979877eSSteve Frenchconfig CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH 19213979877eSSteve French bool "Support legacy servers which use weaker LANMAN security" 19223979877eSSteve French depends on CIFS 19233979877eSSteve French help 19243979877eSSteve French Modern CIFS servers including Samba and most Windows versions 19253979877eSSteve French (since 1997) support stronger NTLM (and even NTLMv2 and Kerberos) 19263979877eSSteve French security mechanisms. These hash the password more securely 19273979877eSSteve French than the mechanisms used in the older LANMAN version of the 19286103335dSSteve French SMB protocol but LANMAN based authentication is needed to 19296103335dSSteve French establish sessions with some old SMB servers. 19303979877eSSteve French 19313979877eSSteve French Enabling this option allows the cifs module to mount to older 19323979877eSSteve French LANMAN based servers such as OS/2 and Windows 95, but such 19333979877eSSteve French mounts may be less secure than mounts using NTLM or more recent 19343979877eSSteve French security mechanisms if you are on a public network. Unless you 19353979877eSSteve French have a need to access old SMB servers (and are on a private 19363979877eSSteve French network) you probably want to say N. Even if this support 19376103335dSSteve French is enabled in the kernel build, LANMAN authentication will not be 19386103335dSSteve French used automatically. At runtime LANMAN mounts are disabled but 19393979877eSSteve French can be set to required (or optional) either in 19403979877eSSteve French /proc/fs/cifs (see fs/cifs/README for more detail) or via an 19413979877eSSteve French option on the mount command. This support is disabled by 19423979877eSSteve French default in order to reduce the possibility of a downgrade 19433979877eSSteve French attack. 19443979877eSSteve French 19453979877eSSteve French If unsure, say N. 19463979877eSSteve French 194796c2a113SSteve Frenchconfig CIFS_UPCALL 194896c2a113SSteve French bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup" 194996c2a113SSteve French depends on CIFS && KEYS 195096c2a113SSteve French help 195196c2a113SSteve French Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which accesses 195296c2a113SSteve French userspace helper utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged (RFC 4178) 195396c2a113SSteve French Kerberos tickets which are needed to mount to certain secure servers 195496c2a113SSteve French (for which more secure Kerberos authentication is required). If 195596c2a113SSteve French unsure, say N. 195696c2a113SSteve French 19571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS_XATTR 1958ec58ef03SSteve French bool "CIFS extended attributes" 19591da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on CIFS 19601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19611da177e4SLinus Torvalds Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 19621da177e4SLinus Torvalds the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 19631da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). CIFS maps the name of 19641da177e4SLinus Torvalds extended attributes beginning with the user namespace prefix 19651da177e4SLinus Torvalds to SMB/CIFS EAs. EAs are stored on Windows servers without the 19661da177e4SLinus Torvalds user namespace prefix, but their names are seen by Linux cifs clients 19671da177e4SLinus Torvalds prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace 19681da177e4SLinus Torvalds (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at 19691da177e4SLinus Torvalds this time. 19701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19711da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 19721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS_POSIX 1974ec58ef03SSteve French bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions" 19751da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on CIFS_XATTR 19761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19771da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to 19781da177e4SLinus Torvalds negotiate a newer dialect with servers, such as Samba 3.0.5 19791da177e4SLinus Torvalds or later, that optionally can handle more POSIX like (rather 19801da177e4SLinus Torvalds than Windows like) file behavior. It also enables 19811da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for POSIX ACLs (getfacl and setfacl) to servers 19821da177e4SLinus Torvalds (such as Samba 3.10 and later) which can negotiate 19831da177e4SLinus Torvalds CIFS POSIX ACL support. If unsure, say N. 19841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19853979877eSSteve Frenchconfig CIFS_DEBUG2 19863856a9d4SSteve French bool "Enable additional CIFS debugging routines" 19878ba10ab1SSteve French depends on CIFS 19883979877eSSteve French help 19893979877eSSteve French Enabling this option adds a few more debugging routines 19903979877eSSteve French to the cifs code which slightly increases the size of 19913979877eSSteve French the cifs module and can cause additional logging of debug 19923979877eSSteve French messages in some error paths, slowing performance. This 19933979877eSSteve French option can be turned off unless you are debugging 19943979877eSSteve French cifs problems. If unsure, say N. 19953979877eSSteve French 19961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL 19971da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1998cb9dbff9SSteve French depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL 19991da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2000ec58ef03SSteve French Enables cifs features under testing. These features are 20018af18971SSteve French experimental and currently include DFS support and directory 20028af18971SSteve French change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY), as well as the upcall 20038af18971SSteve French mechanism which will be used for Kerberos session negotiation 20048af18971SSteve French and uid remapping. Some of these features also may depend on 20058af18971SSteve French setting a value of 1 to the pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental 20068af18971SSteve French (which is disabled by default). See the file fs/cifs/README 20078af18971SSteve French for more details. If unsure, say N. 20081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20096103335dSSteve Frenchconfig CIFS_DFS_UPCALL 20106103335dSSteve French bool "DFS feature support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 20116103335dSSteve French depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL 20126103335dSSteve French depends on KEYS 20136103335dSSteve French help 20146103335dSSteve French Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which contacts userspace 20156103335dSSteve French helper utilities to provide server name resolution (host names to 20166103335dSSteve French IP addresses) which is needed for implicit mounts of DFS junction 20176103335dSSteve French points. If unsure, say N. 20186103335dSSteve French 20191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NCP_FS 20201da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)" 20211da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IPX!=n || INET 20221da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20231da177e4SLinus Torvalds NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) is a protocol that runs over IPX and is 20241da177e4SLinus Torvalds used by Novell NetWare clients to talk to file servers. It is to 20251da177e4SLinus Torvalds IPX what NFS is to TCP/IP, if that helps. Saying Y here allows you 20261da177e4SLinus Torvalds to mount NetWare file server volumes and to access them just like 20271da177e4SLinus Torvalds any other Unix directory. For details, please read the file 20281da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/ncpfs.txt> in the kernel source and 20291da177e4SLinus Torvalds the IPX-HOWTO from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 20301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20311da177e4SLinus Torvalds You do not have to say Y here if you want your Linux box to act as a 20321da177e4SLinus Torvalds file *server* for Novell NetWare clients. 20331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20341da177e4SLinus Torvalds General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and 20351da177e4SLinus Torvalds Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>. 20361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20371da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 20381da177e4SLinus Torvalds ncpfs. Say N unless you are connected to a Novell network. 20391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20401da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/ncpfs/Kconfig" 20411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CODA_FS 20431da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)" 20441da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 20451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it 20471da177e4SLinus Torvalds enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them 20481da177e4SLinus Torvalds with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard 20491da177e4SLinus Torvalds disk. Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for 20501da177e4SLinus Torvalds disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server 20511da177e4SLinus Torvalds replication, security model for authentication and encryption, 20521da177e4SLinus Torvalds persistent client caches and write back caching. 20531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20541da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda 20551da177e4SLinus Torvalds *client*. You will need user level code as well, both for the 20561da177e4SLinus Torvalds client and server. Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need 20571da177e4SLinus Torvalds no kernel support. Please read 20581da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.txt> and check out the Coda 20591da177e4SLinus Torvalds home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>. 20601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20611da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the 20621da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called coda. 20631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AFS_FS 206564aaa4f8SDavid Howells tristate "Andrew File System support (AFS) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 20661da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL 206708e0e7c8SDavid Howells select AF_RXRPC 20681da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20691da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will get an experimental Andrew File System 20701da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver. It currently only supports unsecured read-only AFS access. 20711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2072cc2e2767SMatt LaPlante See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information. 20731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20741da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 20751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 207608e0e7c8SDavid Howellsconfig AFS_DEBUG 207708e0e7c8SDavid Howells bool "AFS dynamic debugging" 207808e0e7c8SDavid Howells depends on AFS_FS 207908e0e7c8SDavid Howells help 208008e0e7c8SDavid Howells Say Y here to make runtime controllable debugging messages appear. 208108e0e7c8SDavid Howells 208208e0e7c8SDavid Howells See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information. 208308e0e7c8SDavid Howells 208408e0e7c8SDavid Howells If unsure, say N. 208508e0e7c8SDavid Howells 208693fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergenconfig 9P_FS 208793fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen tristate "Plan 9 Resource Sharing Support (9P2000) (Experimental)" 2088bd238fb4SLatchesar Ionkov depends on INET && NET_9P && EXPERIMENTAL 208993fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen help 209093fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen If you say Y here, you will get experimental support for 209193fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen Plan 9 resource sharing via the 9P2000 protocol. 209293fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen 209393fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen See <http://v9fs.sf.net> for more information. 209493fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen 209593fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen If unsure, say N. 209693fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen 2097ea0985adSJan Engelhardtendif # NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS 20981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20999361401eSDavid Howellsif BLOCK 21001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Partition Types" 21011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21021da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/partitions/Kconfig" 21031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 21059361401eSDavid Howellsendif 21061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21071da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/nls/Kconfig" 2108e7fd4179SDavid Teiglandsource "fs/dlm/Kconfig" 21091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 2111