11da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 21da177e4SLinus Torvalds# File system configuration 31da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 41da177e4SLinus Torvalds 51da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "File systems" 61da177e4SLinus Torvalds 79361401eSDavid Howellsif BLOCK 89361401eSDavid Howells 96da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyansource "fs/ext2/Kconfig" 106da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyansource "fs/ext3/Kconfig" 116da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyansource "fs/ext4/Kconfig" 126d79125bSCarsten Otte 136d79125bSCarsten Otteconfig FS_XIP 146d79125bSCarsten Otte# execute in place 156d79125bSCarsten Otte bool 166d79125bSCarsten Otte depends on EXT2_FS_XIP 176d79125bSCarsten Otte default y 186d79125bSCarsten Otte 196da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyansource "fs/jbd/Kconfig" 206da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyansource "fs/jbd2/Kconfig" 21dab291afSMingming Cao 221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FS_MBCACHE 2302ea2104SMingming Cao# Meta block cache for Extended Attributes (ext2/ext3/ext4) 241da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 252c512397SAdrian Bunk default y if EXT2_FS=y && EXT2_FS_XATTR 262c512397SAdrian Bunk default y if EXT3_FS=y && EXT3_FS_XATTR 272c512397SAdrian Bunk default y if EXT4_FS=y && EXT4_FS_XATTR 282c512397SAdrian Bunk default m if EXT2_FS_XATTR || EXT3_FS_XATTR || EXT4_FS_XATTR 291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30b16ecfe2SAlexey Dobriyansource "fs/reiserfs/Kconfig" 31f5c77969SAlexey Dobriyansource "fs/jfs/Kconfig" 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FS_POSIX_ACL 3489206955SChuck Lever# Posix ACL utility routines (for now, only ext2/ext3/jfs/reiserfs/nfs4) 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds# NOTE: you can implement Posix ACLs without these helpers (XFS does). 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Never use this symbol for ifdefs. 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 40b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher default n 411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 42bfcd17a6SThomas Petazzoniconfig FILE_LOCKING 43bfcd17a6SThomas Petazzoni bool "Enable POSIX file locking API" if EMBEDDED 44bfcd17a6SThomas Petazzoni default y 45bfcd17a6SThomas Petazzoni help 46bfcd17a6SThomas Petazzoni This option enables standard file locking support, required 47bfcd17a6SThomas Petazzoni for filesystems like NFS and for the flock() system 48bfcd17a6SThomas Petazzoni call. Disabling this option saves about 11k. 49bfcd17a6SThomas Petazzoni 501da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/xfs/Kconfig" 51f7825dcfSDavid Teiglandsource "fs/gfs2/Kconfig" 522fe4371dSAlexey Dobriyansource "fs/ocfs2/Kconfig" 53*335debeeSAlexey Dobriyansource "fs/btrfs/Kconfig" 5460582d1eSChris Mason 5525fad945SRandy Dunlapendif # BLOCK 5625fad945SRandy Dunlap 57272eb014SEric Parissource "fs/notify/Kconfig" 582d9048e2SAmy Griffis 591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QUOTA 601da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Quota support" 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to set per user limits for disk 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works for the 641da177e4SLinus Torvalds ext2, ext3, and reiserfs file system. ext3 also supports journalled 651da177e4SLinus Torvalds quotas for which you don't need to run quotacheck(8) after an unclean 66919532a5SAdrian Bunk shutdown. 67919532a5SAdrian Bunk For further details, read the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or the documentation provided 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the quota tools. Probably the quota support is only useful for 701da177e4SLinus Torvalds multi user systems. If unsure, say N. 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 728e893469SJan Karaconfig QUOTA_NETLINK_INTERFACE 738e893469SJan Kara bool "Report quota messages through netlink interface" 748e893469SJan Kara depends on QUOTA && NET 758e893469SJan Kara help 768e893469SJan Kara If you say Y here, quota warnings (about exceeding softlimit, reaching 778e893469SJan Kara hardlimit, etc.) will be reported through netlink interface. If unsure, 788e893469SJan Kara say Y. 798e893469SJan Kara 808e893469SJan Karaconfig PRINT_QUOTA_WARNING 818e893469SJan Kara bool "Print quota warnings to console (OBSOLETE)" 828e893469SJan Kara depends on QUOTA 838e893469SJan Kara default y 848e893469SJan Kara help 858e893469SJan Kara If you say Y here, quota warnings (about exceeding softlimit, reaching 868e893469SJan Kara hardlimit, etc.) will be printed to the process' controlling terminal. 878e893469SJan Kara Note that this behavior is currently deprecated and may go away in 888e893469SJan Kara future. Please use notification via netlink socket instead. 898e893469SJan Kara 901ccd14b9SJan Kara# Generic support for tree structured quota files. Seleted when needed. 911ccd14b9SJan Karaconfig QUOTA_TREE 921ccd14b9SJan Kara tristate 931ccd14b9SJan Kara 941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QFMT_V1 951da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Old quota format support" 961da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on QUOTA 971da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 981da177e4SLinus Torvalds This quota format was (is) used by kernels earlier than 2.4.22. If 991da177e4SLinus Torvalds you have quota working and you don't want to convert to new quota 1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds format say Y here. 1011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QFMT_V2 1031da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Quota format v2 support" 1041da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on QUOTA 1051ccd14b9SJan Kara select QUOTA_TREE 1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds This quota format allows using quotas with 32-bit UIDs/GIDs. If you 108919532a5SAdrian Bunk need this functionality say Y here. 1091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QUOTACTL 1111da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1121da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA 1131da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUTOFS_FS 1161da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Kernel automounter support" 1171da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1181da177e4SLinus Torvalds The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems 1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce 1201da177e4SLinus Torvalds overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD 1211da177e4SLinus Torvalds automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. 1221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1231da177e4SLinus Torvalds To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs 1241da177e4SLinus Torvalds package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>. 1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. 1261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1271da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more 1281da177e4SLinus Torvalds features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support", 1291da177e4SLinus Torvalds below. 1301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1311da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be 1321da177e4SLinus Torvalds called autofs. 1331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1341da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you 1351da177e4SLinus Torvalds probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here. 1361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUTOFS4_FS 1381da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)" 1391da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1401da177e4SLinus Torvalds The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems 1411da177e4SLinus Torvalds on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce 1421da177e4SLinus Torvalds overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD 1431da177e4SLinus Torvalds automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. 1441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1451da177e4SLinus Torvalds To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from 1461da177e4SLinus Torvalds <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/>; you also 1471da177e4SLinus Torvalds want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. 1481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1491da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be 1501da177e4SLinus Torvalds called autofs4. You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your 1511da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules configuration file. 1521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1531da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or 1541da177e4SLinus Torvalds don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the 1551da177e4SLinus Torvalds local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say 1561da177e4SLinus Torvalds N here. 1571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15804578f17SMiklos Szerediconfig FUSE_FS 15937194d07SRobert P. J. Day tristate "FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) support" 16004578f17SMiklos Szeredi help 16104578f17SMiklos Szeredi With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem 16204578f17SMiklos Szeredi in a userspace program. 16304578f17SMiklos Szeredi 16404578f17SMiklos Szeredi There's also companion library: libfuse. This library along with 16504578f17SMiklos Szeredi utilities is available from the FUSE homepage: 16604578f17SMiklos Szeredi <http://fuse.sourceforge.net/> 16704578f17SMiklos Szeredi 168909021eaSMiklos Szeredi See <file:Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt> for more information. 169909021eaSMiklos Szeredi See <file:Documentation/Changes> for needed library/utility version. 170909021eaSMiklos Szeredi 17104578f17SMiklos Szeredi If you want to develop a userspace FS, or if you want to use 17204578f17SMiklos Szeredi a filesystem based on FUSE, answer Y or M. 17304578f17SMiklos Szeredi 174f2fbc6c2SRandy Dunlapconfig GENERIC_ACL 175f2fbc6c2SRandy Dunlap bool 176f2fbc6c2SRandy Dunlap select FS_POSIX_ACL 177f2fbc6c2SRandy Dunlap 1789361401eSDavid Howellsif BLOCK 1791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems" 1801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ISO9660_FS 1821da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "ISO 9660 CDROM file system support" 1831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1841da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the standard file system used on CD-ROMs. It was previously 1851da177e4SLinus Torvalds known as "High Sierra File System" and is called "hsfs" on other 1861da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unix systems. The so-called Rock-Ridge extensions which allow for 1871da177e4SLinus Torvalds long Unix filenames and symbolic links are also supported by this 1881da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver. If you have a CD-ROM drive and want to do more with it than 1891da177e4SLinus Torvalds just listen to audio CDs and watch its LEDs, say Y (and read 1901da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt> and the CD-ROM-HOWTO, 1911da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), thereby 1921da177e4SLinus Torvalds enlarging your kernel by about 27 KB; otherwise say N. 1931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1941da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 1951da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called isofs. 1961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JOLIET 1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions" 1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ISO9660_FS 2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds Joliet is a Microsoft extension for the ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system 2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds which allows for long filenames in unicode format (unicode is the 2041da177e4SLinus Torvalds new 16 bit character code, successor to ASCII, which encodes the 2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds characters of almost all languages of the world; see 2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.unicode.org/> for more information). Say Y here if you 2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds want to be able to read Joliet CD-ROMs under Linux. 2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ZISOFS 2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Transparent decompression extension" 2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ISO9660_FS 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_INFLATE 2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a Linux-specific extension to RockRidge which lets you store 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds data in compressed form on a CD-ROM and have it transparently 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds decompressed when the CD-ROM is accessed. See 2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/zisofs/> for the tools 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds necessary to create such a filesystem. Say Y here if you want to be 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds able to read such compressed CD-ROMs. 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UDF_FS 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "UDF file system support" 223f845fcedSBob Copeland select CRC_ITU_T 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the new file system used on some CD-ROMs and DVDs. Say Y if 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds you intend to mount DVD discs or CDRW's written in packet mode, or 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds if written to by other UDF utilities, such as DirectCD. 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt>. 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called udf. 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UDF_NLS 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (UDF_FS=m && NLS) || (UDF_FS=y && NLS=y) 2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 24125fad945SRandy Dunlapendif # BLOCK 2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2439361401eSDavid Howellsif BLOCK 2441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems" 2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FAT_FS 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to use one of the FAT-based file systems (the MS-DOS and 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds VFAT (Windows 95) file systems), then you must say Y or M here 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds to include FAT support. You will then be able to mount partitions or 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds diskettes with FAT-based file systems and transparently access the 2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds files on them, i.e. MSDOS files will look and behave just like all 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds other Unix files. 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds This FAT support is not a file system in itself, it only provides 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds the foundation for the other file systems. You will have to say Y or 2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds M to at least one of "MSDOS fs support" or "VFAT fs support" in 2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds order to make use of it. 2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds Another way to read and write MSDOS floppies and hard drive 2631da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions from within Linux (but not transparently) is with the 2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds mtools ("man mtools") program suite. You don't need to say Y here in 2651da177e4SLinus Torvalds order to do that. 2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2671da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you need to move large files on floppies between a DOS and a 2681da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux box, say Y here, mount the floppy under Linux with an MSDOS 2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program 2701da177e4SLinus Torvalds available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar"). 2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure, 2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds say Y. 2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2751da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds fat. Note that if you compile the FAT support as a module, you 2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds cannot compile any of the FAT-based file systems into the kernel 2781da177e4SLinus Torvalds -- they will have to be modules as well. 2791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MSDOS_FS 2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "MSDOS fs support" 2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds select FAT_FS 2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds This allows you to mount MSDOS partitions of your hard drive (unless 2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under 2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the 2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from 2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in 2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y 2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds transparent, i.e. the MSDOS files look and behave just like all 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds other Unix files. 2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have Windows 95 or Windows NT installed on your MSDOS 2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions, you should use the VFAT file system (say Y to "VFAT fs 2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds support" below), or you will not be able to see the long filenames 2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds generated by Windows 95 / Windows NT. 2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will enlarge your kernel by about 7 KB. If unsure, 3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer Y. This will only work if you said Y to "DOS FAT fs support" 3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds as well. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds be called msdos. 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig VFAT_FS 3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "VFAT (Windows-95) fs support" 3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds select FAT_FS 3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option provides support for normal Windows file systems with 3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds long filenames. That includes non-compressed FAT-based file systems 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds used by Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and the Unix 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs from the mtools package. 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds The VFAT support enlarges your kernel by about 10 KB and it only 3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds works if you said Y to the "DOS FAT fs support" above. Please read 3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for details. If 3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say Y. 3181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds vfat. 3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE 3231da177e4SLinus Torvalds int "Default codepage for FAT" 3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MSDOS_FS || VFAT_FS 3251da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 437 3261da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option should be set to the codepage of your FAT filesystems. 3281da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can be overridden with the "codepage" mount option. 3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information. 3301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET 3321da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Default iocharset for FAT" 3331da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on VFAT_FS 3341da177e4SLinus Torvalds default "iso8859-1" 3351da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Set this to the default input/output character set you'd 3371da177e4SLinus Torvalds like FAT to use. It should probably match the character set 3381da177e4SLinus Torvalds that most of your FAT filesystems use, and can be overridden 3391da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the "iocharset" mount option for FAT filesystems. 3401da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that "utf8" is not recommended for FAT filesystems. 3411da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here. 3421da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information. 3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NTFS_FS 3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NTFS file system support" 3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3481da177e4SLinus Torvalds NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003. 3491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y or M here enables read support. There is partial, but 3511da177e4SLinus Torvalds safe, write support available. For write support you must also 3521da177e4SLinus Torvalds say Y to "NTFS write support" below. 3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds There are also a number of user-space tools available, called 3551da177e4SLinus Torvalds ntfsprogs. These include ntfsundelete and ntfsresize, that work 3561da177e4SLinus Torvalds without NTFS support enabled in the kernel. 3571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3581da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a rewrite from scratch of Linux NTFS support and replaced 3591da177e4SLinus Torvalds the old NTFS code starting with Linux 2.5.11. A backport to 3601da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Linux 2.4 kernel series is separately available as a patch 3611da177e4SLinus Torvalds from the project web site. 3621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3631da177e4SLinus Torvalds For more information see <file:Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt> 364337e2ab5SJess Guerrero and <http://www.linux-ntfs.org/>. 3651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3661da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 3671da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called ntfs. 3681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3691da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not using Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 in addition to 3701da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux on your computer it is safe to say N. 3711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NTFS_DEBUG 3731da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "NTFS debugging support" 3741da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NTFS_FS 3751da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3761da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are experiencing any problems with the NTFS file system, say 3771da177e4SLinus Torvalds Y here. This will result in additional consistency checks to be 3781da177e4SLinus Torvalds performed by the driver as well as additional debugging messages to 3791da177e4SLinus Torvalds be written to the system log. Note that debugging messages are 3801da177e4SLinus Torvalds disabled by default. To enable them, supply the option debug_msgs=1 3811da177e4SLinus Torvalds at the kernel command line when booting the kernel or as an option 3821da177e4SLinus Torvalds to insmod when loading the ntfs module. Once the driver is active, 3831da177e4SLinus Torvalds you can enable debugging messages by doing (as root): 3841da177e4SLinus Torvalds echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug 3851da177e4SLinus Torvalds Replacing the "1" with "0" would disable debug messages. 3861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3871da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you leave debugging messages disabled, this results in little 3881da177e4SLinus Torvalds overhead, but enabling debug messages results in very significant 3891da177e4SLinus Torvalds slowdown of the system. 3901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3911da177e4SLinus Torvalds When reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of 3921da177e4SLinus Torvalds debugging messages while the misbehaviour was occurring. 3931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NTFS_RW 3951da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "NTFS write support" 3961da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NTFS_FS 3971da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3981da177e4SLinus Torvalds This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver. 3991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4001da177e4SLinus Torvalds The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without 4011da177e4SLinus Torvalds changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or 4021da177e4SLinus Torvalds renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to 4031da177e4SLinus Torvalds so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot 4041da177e4SLinus Torvalds be written to. 4051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4061da177e4SLinus Torvalds While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have 4071da177e4SLinus Torvalds so far not received a single report where the driver would have 4081da177e4SLinus Torvalds damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use. 4091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4101da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from 4111da177e4SLinus Torvalds scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS 4121da177e4SLinus Torvalds write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997), 4131da177e4SLinus Torvalds is not safe. 4141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4151da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is currently useful with TopologiLinux. TopologiLinux is run 4161da177e4SLinus Torvalds on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your 4171da177e4SLinus Torvalds hard disk. Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not 4181da177e4SLinus Torvalds need its own partition. For more information see 4191da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/> 4201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4211da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is perfectly safe to say N here. 4221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 42425fad945SRandy Dunlapendif # BLOCK 4251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Pseudo filesystems" 4271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4286eedf8d3SAlexey Dobriyansource "fs/proc/Kconfig" 429b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 4301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSFS 4311da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "sysfs file system support" if EMBEDDED 4321da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 4331da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4341da177e4SLinus Torvalds The sysfs filesystem is a virtual filesystem that the kernel uses to 4351da177e4SLinus Torvalds export internal kernel objects, their attributes, and their 4361da177e4SLinus Torvalds relationships to one another. 4371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4381da177e4SLinus Torvalds Users can use sysfs to ascertain useful information about the running 4391da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel, such as the devices the kernel has discovered on each bus and 4401da177e4SLinus Torvalds which driver each is bound to. sysfs can also be used to tune devices 4411da177e4SLinus Torvalds and other kernel subsystems. 4421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4431da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some system agents rely on the information in sysfs to operate. 4441da177e4SLinus Torvalds /sbin/hotplug uses device and object attributes in sysfs to assist in 44503a67a46SJan Engelhardt delegating policy decisions, like persistently naming devices. 4461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4471da177e4SLinus Torvalds sysfs is currently used by the block subsystem to mount the root 4481da177e4SLinus Torvalds partition. If sysfs is disabled you must specify the boot device on 4491da177e4SLinus Torvalds the kernel boot command line via its major and minor numbers. For 4501da177e4SLinus Torvalds example, "root=03:01" for /dev/hda1. 4511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4521da177e4SLinus Torvalds Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space. 4531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TMPFS 4551da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)" 4561da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4571da177e4SLinus Torvalds Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory. 4581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4591da177e4SLinus Torvalds Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be 4601da177e4SLinus Torvalds created on your hard drive. The files live in memory and swap 4611da177e4SLinus Torvalds space. If you unmount a tmpfs instance, everything stored therein is 4621da177e4SLinus Torvalds lost. 4631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4641da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> for details. 4651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 46639f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacherconfig TMPFS_POSIX_ACL 46739f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher bool "Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists" 46839f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher depends on TMPFS 46939f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher select GENERIC_ACL 47039f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher help 47139f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 47239f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 47339f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher 47439f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for 47539f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 47639f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher 47739f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N. 47839f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher 4791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HUGETLBFS 4801da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "HugeTLB file system support" 48153492b1dSGerald Schaefer depends on X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || (SUPERH && MMU) || \ 48253492b1dSGerald Schaefer (S390 && 64BIT) || BROKEN 483dda27d1aSArthur Othieno help 484dda27d1aSArthur Othieno hugetlbfs is a filesystem backing for HugeTLB pages, based on 485dda27d1aSArthur Othieno ramfs. For architectures that support it, say Y here and read 486dda27d1aSArthur Othieno <file:Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt> for details. 487dda27d1aSArthur Othieno 488dda27d1aSArthur Othieno If unsure, say N. 4891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HUGETLB_PAGE 4911da177e4SLinus Torvalds def_bool HUGETLBFS 4921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4937063fbf2SJoel Beckerconfig CONFIGFS_FS 49402ac0499SJoel Becker tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem" 49502ac0499SJoel Becker depends on SYSFS 4967063fbf2SJoel Becker help 4977063fbf2SJoel Becker configfs is a ram-based filesystem that provides the converse 4987063fbf2SJoel Becker of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based 4997063fbf2SJoel Becker view of kernel objects, configfs is a filesystem-based manager 5007063fbf2SJoel Becker of kernel objects, or config_items. 5017063fbf2SJoel Becker 5027063fbf2SJoel Becker Both sysfs and configfs can and should exist together on the 5037063fbf2SJoel Becker same system. One is not a replacement for the other. 5047063fbf2SJoel Becker 5051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 5061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 50767ec7d3aSRandy Dunlapmenuconfig MISC_FILESYSTEMS 50867ec7d3aSRandy Dunlap bool "Miscellaneous filesystems" 50967ec7d3aSRandy Dunlap default y 51067ec7d3aSRandy Dunlap ---help--- 51167ec7d3aSRandy Dunlap Say Y here to get to see options for various miscellaneous 51267ec7d3aSRandy Dunlap filesystems, such as filesystems that came from other 51367ec7d3aSRandy Dunlap operating systems. 51467ec7d3aSRandy Dunlap 51567ec7d3aSRandy Dunlap This option alone does not add any kernel code. 51667ec7d3aSRandy Dunlap 51767ec7d3aSRandy Dunlap If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and 51867ec7d3aSRandy Dunlap disabled; if unsure, say Y here. 51967ec7d3aSRandy Dunlap 52067ec7d3aSRandy Dunlapif MISC_FILESYSTEMS 5211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ADFS_FS 5231da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "ADFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 5249361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 5251da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5261da177e4SLinus Torvalds The Acorn Disc Filing System is the standard file system of the 5271da177e4SLinus Torvalds RiscOS operating system which runs on Acorn's ARM-based Risc PC 5281da177e4SLinus Torvalds systems and the Acorn Archimedes range of machines. If you say Y 5291da177e4SLinus Torvalds here, Linux will be able to read from ADFS partitions on hard drives 5301da177e4SLinus Torvalds and from ADFS-formatted floppy discs. If you also want to be able to 5311da177e4SLinus Torvalds write to those devices, say Y to "ADFS write support" below. 5321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5331da177e4SLinus Torvalds The ADFS partition should be the first partition (i.e., 5341da177e4SLinus Torvalds /dev/[hs]d?1) on each of your drives. Please read the file 5351da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt> for further details. 5361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5371da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be 5381da177e4SLinus Torvalds called adfs. 5391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5401da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 5411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ADFS_FS_RW 5431da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)" 5441da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ADFS_FS 5451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5461da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to write to ADFS partitions on 5471da177e4SLinus Torvalds hard drives and ADFS-formatted floppy disks. This is experimental 5481da177e4SLinus Torvalds codes, so if you're unsure, say N. 5491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AFFS_FS 5511da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Amiga FFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 5529361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 5531da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5541da177e4SLinus Torvalds The Fast File System (FFS) is the common file system used on hard 5551da177e4SLinus Torvalds disks by Amiga(tm) systems since AmigaOS Version 1.3 (34.20). Say Y 5561da177e4SLinus Torvalds if you want to be able to read and write files from and to an Amiga 5571da177e4SLinus Torvalds FFS partition on your hard drive. Amiga floppies however cannot be 5581da177e4SLinus Torvalds read with this driver due to an incompatibility of the floppy 5591da177e4SLinus Torvalds controller used in an Amiga and the standard floppy controller in 5601da177e4SLinus Torvalds PCs and workstations. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt> 5611da177e4SLinus Torvalds and <file:fs/affs/Changes>. 5621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5631da177e4SLinus Torvalds With this driver you can also mount disk files used by Bernd 5641da177e4SLinus Torvalds Schmidt's Un*X Amiga Emulator 5651da177e4SLinus Torvalds (<http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/>). 5661da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to do this, you will also need to say Y or M to "Loop 5671da177e4SLinus Torvalds device support", above. 5681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5691da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 5701da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called affs. If unsure, say N. 5711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 572237fead6SMichael Halcrowconfig ECRYPT_FS 573237fead6SMichael Halcrow tristate "eCrypt filesystem layer support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 57488b4a07eSMichael Halcrow depends on EXPERIMENTAL && KEYS && CRYPTO && NET 575237fead6SMichael Halcrow help 576237fead6SMichael Halcrow Encrypted filesystem that operates on the VFS layer. See 577e403149cSDirk Hohndel <file:Documentation/filesystems/ecryptfs.txt> to learn more about 578237fead6SMichael Halcrow eCryptfs. Userspace components are required and can be 579237fead6SMichael Halcrow obtained from <http://ecryptfs.sf.net>. 580237fead6SMichael Halcrow 581237fead6SMichael Halcrow To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 582237fead6SMichael Halcrow module will be called ecryptfs. 583237fead6SMichael Halcrow 5841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HFS_FS 5851da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 5869361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 587878129a3SLennert Buytenhek select NLS 5881da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5891da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to mount Macintosh-formatted 5901da177e4SLinus Torvalds floppy disks and hard drive partitions with full read-write access. 591889c94a1SJohann Felix Soden Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/hfs.txt> to learn about 592889c94a1SJohann Felix Soden the available mount options. 5931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5941da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 5951da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called hfs. 5961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HFSPLUS_FS 5981da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Apple Extended HFS file system support" 5999361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 6001da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 6011da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS_UTF8 6021da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6031da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to mount extended format 6041da177e4SLinus Torvalds Macintosh-formatted hard drive partitions with full read-write access. 6051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6061da177e4SLinus Torvalds This file system is often called HFS+ and was introduced with 6071da177e4SLinus Torvalds MacOS 8. It includes all Mac specific filesystem data such as 6081da177e4SLinus Torvalds data forks and creator codes, but it also has several UNIX 6091da177e4SLinus Torvalds style features such as file ownership and permissions. 6101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BEFS_FS 6121da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "BeOS file system (BeFS) support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 6139361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 6141da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 6151da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6161da177e4SLinus Torvalds The BeOS File System (BeFS) is the native file system of Be, Inc's 6171da177e4SLinus Torvalds BeOS. Notable features include support for arbitrary attributes 6183cb2fcccSMatt LaPlante on files and directories, and database-like indices on selected 6191da177e4SLinus Torvalds attributes. (Also note that this driver doesn't make those features 6201da177e4SLinus Torvalds available at this time). It is a 64 bit filesystem, so it supports 62144c09201SMatt LaPlante extremely large volumes and files. 6221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6231da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you use this filesystem, you should also say Y to at least one 6241da177e4SLinus Torvalds of the NLS (native language support) options below. 6251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6261da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what this is about, say N. 6271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6281da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 6291da177e4SLinus Torvalds called befs. 6301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BEFS_DEBUG 6321da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Debug BeFS" 6331da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BEFS_FS 6341da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6351da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you can use the 'debug' mount option to enable 6361da177e4SLinus Torvalds debugging output from the driver. 6371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BFS_FS 6391da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 6409361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 6411da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6421da177e4SLinus Torvalds Boot File System (BFS) is a file system used under SCO UnixWare to 6431da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow the bootloader access to the kernel image and other important 6441da177e4SLinus Torvalds files during the boot process. It is usually mounted under /stand 6451da177e4SLinus Torvalds and corresponds to the slice marked as "STAND" in the UnixWare 6461da177e4SLinus Torvalds partition. You should say Y if you want to read or write the files 6471da177e4SLinus Torvalds on your /stand slice from within Linux. You then also need to say Y 6481da177e4SLinus Torvalds to "UnixWare slices support", below. More information about the BFS 6491da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system is contained in the file 6501da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/bfs.txt>. 6511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6521da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what this is about, say N. 6531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6541da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 6551da177e4SLinus Torvalds bfs. Note that the file system of your root partition (the one 6561da177e4SLinus Torvalds containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module. 6571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EFS_FS 6611da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "EFS file system support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 6629361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 6631da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6641da177e4SLinus Torvalds EFS is an older file system used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and hard 6651da177e4SLinus Torvalds disk partitions by SGI's IRIX operating system (IRIX 6.0 and newer 6661da177e4SLinus Torvalds uses the XFS file system for hard disk partitions however). 6671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6681da177e4SLinus Torvalds This implementation only offers read-only access. If you don't know 6691da177e4SLinus Torvalds what all this is about, it's safe to say N. For more information 6701da177e4SLinus Torvalds about EFS see its home page at <http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/>. 6711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6721da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the EFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the 6731da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called efs. 6741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 67531db6e9eSAlexey Dobriyansource "fs/jffs2/Kconfig" 6760d7eff87SArtem Bityutskiy# UBIFS File system configuration 6770d7eff87SArtem Bityutskiysource "fs/ubifs/Kconfig" 6780d7eff87SArtem Bityutskiy 6791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CRAMFS 6801da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)" 6819361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 6821da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_INFLATE 6831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6841da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here includes support for CramFs (Compressed ROM File 6851da177e4SLinus Torvalds System). CramFs is designed to be a simple, small, and compressed 6861da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system for ROM based embedded systems. CramFs is read-only, 6871da177e4SLinus Torvalds limited to 256MB file systems (with 16MB files), and doesn't support 6881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16/32 bits uid/gid, hard links and timestamps. 6891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6901da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt> and 6911da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:fs/cramfs/README> for further information. 6921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6931da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 6941da177e4SLinus Torvalds cramfs. Note that the root file system (the one containing the 6951da177e4SLinus Torvalds directory /) cannot be compiled as a module. 6961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6971da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 6981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6996ab5c1caSPhillip Lougherconfig SQUASHFS 7006ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher tristate "SquashFS 4.0 - Squashed file system support" 7016ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher depends on BLOCK 7026ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher select ZLIB_INFLATE 7036ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher help 7046ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher Saying Y here includes support for SquashFS 4.0 (a Compressed 7056ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher Read-Only File System). Squashfs is a highly compressed read-only 7066ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher filesystem for Linux. It uses zlib compression to compress both 7076ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher files, inodes and directories. Inodes in the system are very small 7086ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher and all blocks are packed to minimise data overhead. Block sizes 7096ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher greater than 4K are supported up to a maximum of 1 Mbytes (default 7106ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher block size 128K). SquashFS 4.0 supports 64 bit filesystems and files 7116ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher (larger than 4GB), full uid/gid information, hard links and 7126ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher timestamps. 7136ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher 7146ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher Squashfs is intended for general read-only filesystem use, for 7156ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher archival use (i.e. in cases where a .tar.gz file may be used), and in 7166ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher embedded systems where low overhead is needed. Further information 7176ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher and tools are available from http://squashfs.sourceforge.net. 7186ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher 7196ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher If you want to compile this as a module ( = code which can be 7206ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want), 7216ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>. The module 7226ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher will be called squashfs. Note that the root file system (the one 7236ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module. 7246ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher 7256ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher If unsure, say N. 7266ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher 7276ab5c1caSPhillip Lougherconfig SQUASHFS_EMBEDDED 7286ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher 7296ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher bool "Additional option for memory-constrained systems" 7306ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher depends on SQUASHFS 7316ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher default n 7326ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher help 7336ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher Saying Y here allows you to specify cache size. 7346ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher 7356ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher If unsure, say N. 7366ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher 7376ab5c1caSPhillip Lougherconfig SQUASHFS_FRAGMENT_CACHE_SIZE 7386ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher int "Number of fragments cached" if SQUASHFS_EMBEDDED 7396ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher depends on SQUASHFS 7406ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher default "3" 7416ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher help 7426ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher By default SquashFS caches the last 3 fragments read from 7436ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher the filesystem. Increasing this amount may mean SquashFS 7446ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher has to re-read fragments less often from disk, at the expense 7456ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher of extra system memory. Decreasing this amount will mean 7466ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher SquashFS uses less memory at the expense of extra reads from disk. 7476ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher 7486ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher Note there must be at least one cached fragment. Anything 7496ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher much more than three will probably not make much difference. 7506ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher 7511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig VXFS_FS 7521da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "FreeVxFS file system support (VERITAS VxFS(TM) compatible)" 7539361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 7541da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7551da177e4SLinus Torvalds FreeVxFS is a file system driver that support the VERITAS VxFS(TM) 7561da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system format. VERITAS VxFS(TM) is the standard file system 7571da177e4SLinus Torvalds of SCO UnixWare (and possibly others) and optionally available 7581da177e4SLinus Torvalds for Sunsoft Solaris, HP-UX and many other operating systems. 7591da177e4SLinus Torvalds Currently only readonly access is supported. 7601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7611da177e4SLinus Torvalds NOTE: the file system type as used by mount(1), mount(2) and 7621da177e4SLinus Torvalds fstab(5) is 'vxfs' as it describes the file system format, not 7631da177e4SLinus Torvalds the actual driver. 7641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7651da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 7661da177e4SLinus Torvalds called freevxfs. If unsure, say N. 7671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 76825fad945SRandy Dunlapconfig MINIX_FS 76925fad945SRandy Dunlap tristate "Minix file system support" 77025fad945SRandy Dunlap depends on BLOCK 77125fad945SRandy Dunlap help 77225fad945SRandy Dunlap Minix is a simple operating system used in many classes about OS's. 77325fad945SRandy Dunlap The minix file system (method to organize files on a hard disk 77425fad945SRandy Dunlap partition or a floppy disk) was the original file system for Linux, 77525fad945SRandy Dunlap but has been superseded by the second extended file system ext2fs. 77625fad945SRandy Dunlap You don't want to use the minix file system on your hard disk 77725fad945SRandy Dunlap because of certain built-in restrictions, but it is sometimes found 77825fad945SRandy Dunlap on older Linux floppy disks. This option will enlarge your kernel 77925fad945SRandy Dunlap by about 28 KB. If unsure, say N. 78025fad945SRandy Dunlap 78125fad945SRandy Dunlap To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 78225fad945SRandy Dunlap module will be called minix. Note that the file system of your root 78325fad945SRandy Dunlap partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as 78425fad945SRandy Dunlap a module. 78525fad945SRandy Dunlap 78663ca8ce2SBob Copelandconfig OMFS_FS 78763ca8ce2SBob Copeland tristate "SonicBlue Optimized MPEG File System support" 78863ca8ce2SBob Copeland depends on BLOCK 78963ca8ce2SBob Copeland select CRC_ITU_T 79063ca8ce2SBob Copeland help 79163ca8ce2SBob Copeland This is the proprietary file system used by the Rio Karma music 79263ca8ce2SBob Copeland player and ReplayTV DVR. Despite the name, this filesystem is not 79363ca8ce2SBob Copeland more efficient than a standard FS for MPEG files, in fact likely 79463ca8ce2SBob Copeland the opposite is true. Say Y if you have either of these devices 79563ca8ce2SBob Copeland and wish to mount its disk. 79663ca8ce2SBob Copeland 79763ca8ce2SBob Copeland To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 79863ca8ce2SBob Copeland module will be called omfs. If unsure, say N. 7991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HPFS_FS 8011da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "OS/2 HPFS file system support" 8029361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 8031da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds OS/2 is IBM's operating system for PC's, the same as Warp, and HPFS 8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds is the file system used for organizing files on OS/2 hard disk 8061da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions. Say Y if you want to be able to read files from and 8071da177e4SLinus Torvalds write files to an OS/2 HPFS partition on your hard drive. OS/2 8081da177e4SLinus Torvalds floppies however are in regular MSDOS format, so you don't need this 8091da177e4SLinus Torvalds option in order to be able to read them. Read 8101da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt>. 8111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8121da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 8131da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called hpfs. If unsure, say N. 8141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QNX4FS_FS 8171da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "QNX4 file system support (read only)" 8189361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 8191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8201da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the file system used by the real-time operating systems 8211da177e4SLinus Torvalds QNX 4 and QNX 6 (the latter is also called QNX RTP). 8221da177e4SLinus Torvalds Further information is available at <http://www.qnx.com/>. 8231da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y if you intend to mount QNX hard disks or floppies. 8241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless you say Y to "QNX4FS read-write support" below, you will 8251da177e4SLinus Torvalds only be able to read these file systems. 8261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8271da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 8281da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called qnx4. 8291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8301da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it: 8311da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer N. 8321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QNX4FS_RW 8341da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "QNX4FS write support (DANGEROUS)" 8351da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on QNX4FS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN 8361da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8371da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y if you want to test write support for QNX4 file systems. 8381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8391da177e4SLinus Torvalds It's currently broken, so for now: 8401da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer N. 8411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 84225fad945SRandy Dunlapconfig ROMFS_FS 84325fad945SRandy Dunlap tristate "ROM file system support" 84425fad945SRandy Dunlap depends on BLOCK 84525fad945SRandy Dunlap ---help--- 84625fad945SRandy Dunlap This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for 84725fad945SRandy Dunlap initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for 84825fad945SRandy Dunlap other read-only media as well. Read 84925fad945SRandy Dunlap <file:Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt> for details. 85025fad945SRandy Dunlap 85125fad945SRandy Dunlap To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 85225fad945SRandy Dunlap module will be called romfs. Note that the file system of your 85325fad945SRandy Dunlap root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a 85425fad945SRandy Dunlap module. 85525fad945SRandy Dunlap 85625fad945SRandy Dunlap If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it: 85725fad945SRandy Dunlap answer N. 8581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSV_FS 8611da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support" 8629361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 8631da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8641da177e4SLinus Torvalds SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel 8651da177e4SLinus Torvalds machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y 8661da177e4SLinus Torvalds here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk 8671da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions. 8681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8691da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely 8701da177e4SLinus Torvalds that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order 871cab00891SMatt LaPlante to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is 8721da177e4SLinus Torvalds a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse, 8731da177e4SLinus Torvalds UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux. It is 8741da177e4SLinus Torvalds available via FTP (user: ftp) from 8751da177e4SLinus Torvalds <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>). 8761da177e4SLinus Torvalds NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems; 8771da177e4SLinus Torvalds PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-) 8781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8791da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the 8801da177e4SLinus Torvalds network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support 8811da177e4SLinus Torvalds (but you need NFS file system support obviously). 8821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8831da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a 8841da177e4SLinus Torvalds good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes 8851da177e4SLinus Torvalds (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man 8861da177e4SLinus Torvalds tar" or preferably "info tar"). Note also that this option has 8871da177e4SLinus Torvalds nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about 8881da177e4SLinus Torvalds the System V file system in 8891da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>. 8901da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB. 8911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8921da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 8931da177e4SLinus Torvalds sysv. 8941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8951da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. 8961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UFS_FS 8991da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "UFS file system support (read only)" 9009361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 9011da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9021da177e4SLinus Torvalds BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, 9031da177e4SLinus Torvalds OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a file system called UFS. Some System V 9041da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using 9051da177e4SLinus Torvalds this file system as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from 9061da177e4SLinus Torvalds these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the 9071da177e4SLinus Torvalds experimental "UFS file system write support", below. Please read the 9081da177e4SLinus Torvalds file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt> for more information. 9091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9101da177e4SLinus Torvalds The recently released UFS2 variant (used in FreeBSD 5.x) is 9111da177e4SLinus Torvalds READ-ONLY supported. 9121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a 9141da177e4SLinus Torvalds good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes 9151da177e4SLinus Torvalds (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man 9161da177e4SLinus Torvalds tar" or preferably "info tar"). 9171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9181da177e4SLinus Torvalds When accessing NeXTstep files, you may need to convert them from the 9191da177e4SLinus Torvalds NeXT character set to the Latin1 character set; use the program 9201da177e4SLinus Torvalds recode ("info recode") for this purpose. 9211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9221da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the UFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the 9231da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called ufs. 9241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9251da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. 9261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UFS_FS_WRITE 9281da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS)" 9295afb3145SEvgeniy Dushistov depends on UFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 9301da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9311da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you want to try writing to UFS partitions. This is 9321da177e4SLinus Torvalds experimental, so you should back up your UFS partitions beforehand. 9331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 934abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistovconfig UFS_DEBUG 935abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov bool "UFS debugging" 936abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov depends on UFS_FS 937abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov help 938abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov If you are experiencing any problems with the UFS filesystem, say 939abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov Y here. This will result in _many_ additional debugging messages to be 940abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov written to the system log. 941abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov 94267ec7d3aSRandy Dunlapendif # MISC_FILESYSTEMS 9431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 944ea0985adSJan Engelhardtmenuconfig NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS 945ea0985adSJan Engelhardt bool "Network File Systems" 946ea0985adSJan Engelhardt default y 9471da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET 948ea0985adSJan Engelhardt ---help--- 949ea0985adSJan Engelhardt Say Y here to get to see options for network filesystems and 950ea0985adSJan Engelhardt filesystem-related networking code, such as NFS daemon and 951ea0985adSJan Engelhardt RPCSEC security modules. 9526fb1bc10SChuck Lever 953ea0985adSJan Engelhardt This option alone does not add any kernel code. 954ea0985adSJan Engelhardt 955ea0985adSJan Engelhardt If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and 956ea0985adSJan Engelhardt disabled; if unsure, say Y here. 957ea0985adSJan Engelhardt 958ea0985adSJan Engelhardtif NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS 9591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_FS 9616fb1bc10SChuck Lever tristate "NFS client support" 9621da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 9631da177e4SLinus Torvalds select LOCKD 9641da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC 965b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFS_V3_ACL 9661da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9676fb1bc10SChuck Lever Choose Y here if you want to access files residing on other 9686fb1bc10SChuck Lever computers using Sun's Network File System protocol. To compile 9696fb1bc10SChuck Lever this file system support as a module, choose M here: the module 9706fb1bc10SChuck Lever will be called nfs. 9711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9726fb1bc10SChuck Lever To mount file systems exported by NFS servers, you also need to 9736fb1bc10SChuck Lever install the user space mount.nfs command which can be found in 9746fb1bc10SChuck Lever the Linux nfs-utils package, available from http://linux-nfs.org/. 9756fb1bc10SChuck Lever Information about using the mount command is available in the 9766fb1bc10SChuck Lever mount(8) man page. More detail about the Linux NFS client 9776fb1bc10SChuck Lever implementation is available via the nfs(5) man page. 9781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9796fb1bc10SChuck Lever Below you can choose which versions of the NFS protocol are 9806fb1bc10SChuck Lever available in the kernel to mount NFS servers. Support for NFS 9816fb1bc10SChuck Lever version 2 (RFC 1094) is always available when NFS_FS is selected. 9821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9836fb1bc10SChuck Lever To configure a system which mounts its root file system via NFS 9846fb1bc10SChuck Lever at boot time, say Y here, select "Kernel level IP 9856fb1bc10SChuck Lever autoconfiguration" in the NETWORK menu, and select "Root file 9866fb1bc10SChuck Lever system on NFS" below. You cannot compile this file system as a 9876fb1bc10SChuck Lever module in this case. 9881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9896fb1bc10SChuck Lever If unsure, say N. 9901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_V3 9926fb1bc10SChuck Lever bool "NFS client support for NFS version 3" 9931da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFS_FS 9941da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9956fb1bc10SChuck Lever This option enables support for version 3 of the NFS protocol 9966fb1bc10SChuck Lever (RFC 1813) in the kernel's NFS client. 9971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9981da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 9991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1000b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFS_V3_ACL 10016fb1bc10SChuck Lever bool "NFS client support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension" 1002b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFS_V3 1003b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher help 10046fb1bc10SChuck Lever Some NFS servers support an auxiliary NFSv3 ACL protocol that 10056fb1bc10SChuck Lever Sun added to Solaris but never became an official part of the 10066fb1bc10SChuck Lever NFS version 3 protocol. This protocol extension allows 10076fb1bc10SChuck Lever applications on NFS clients to manipulate POSIX Access Control 10086fb1bc10SChuck Lever Lists on files residing on NFS servers. NFS servers enforce 10096fb1bc10SChuck Lever ACLs on local files whether this protocol is available or not. 10106fb1bc10SChuck Lever 10116fb1bc10SChuck Lever Choose Y here if your NFS server supports the Solaris NFSv3 ACL 10126fb1bc10SChuck Lever protocol extension and you want your NFS client to allow 10136fb1bc10SChuck Lever applications to access and modify ACLs on files on the server. 10146fb1bc10SChuck Lever 10156fb1bc10SChuck Lever Most NFS servers don't support the Solaris NFSv3 ACL protocol 10166fb1bc10SChuck Lever extension. You can choose N here or specify the "noacl" mount 10176fb1bc10SChuck Lever option to prevent your NFS client from trying to use the NFSv3 10186fb1bc10SChuck Lever ACL protocol. 1019b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher 1020b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher If unsure, say N. 1021b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher 10221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_V4 10236fb1bc10SChuck Lever bool "NFS client support for NFS version 4 (EXPERIMENTAL)" 10241da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 10251da177e4SLinus Torvalds select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 10261da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10276fb1bc10SChuck Lever This option enables support for version 4 of the NFS protocol 10286fb1bc10SChuck Lever (RFC 3530) in the kernel's NFS client. 10291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10306fb1bc10SChuck Lever To mount NFS servers using NFSv4, you also need to install user 10316fb1bc10SChuck Lever space programs which can be found in the Linux nfs-utils package, 10326fb1bc10SChuck Lever available from http://linux-nfs.org/. 10331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10341da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 10351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10366fb1bc10SChuck Leverconfig ROOT_NFS 10376fb1bc10SChuck Lever bool "Root file system on NFS" 10386fb1bc10SChuck Lever depends on NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP 10396fb1bc10SChuck Lever help 10406fb1bc10SChuck Lever If you want your system to mount its root file system via NFS, 10416fb1bc10SChuck Lever choose Y here. This is common practice for managing systems 10426fb1bc10SChuck Lever without local permanent storage. For details, read 10436fb1bc10SChuck Lever <file:Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt>. 10446fb1bc10SChuck Lever 10456fb1bc10SChuck Lever Most people say N here. 10466fb1bc10SChuck Lever 10471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD 10481da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NFS server support" 10491da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 10501da177e4SLinus Torvalds select LOCKD 10511da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC 10521da177e4SLinus Torvalds select EXPORTFS 1053f05e15b5SHerbert Xu select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFSD_V2_ACL 10541da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1055d24455b5SChuck Lever Choose Y here if you want to allow other computers to access 1056d24455b5SChuck Lever files residing on this system using Sun's Network File System 1057d24455b5SChuck Lever protocol. To compile the NFS server support as a module, 1058d24455b5SChuck Lever choose M here: the module will be called nfsd. 10591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1060d24455b5SChuck Lever You may choose to use a user-space NFS server instead, in which 1061d24455b5SChuck Lever case you can choose N here. 10621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1063d24455b5SChuck Lever To export local file systems using NFS, you also need to install 1064d24455b5SChuck Lever user space programs which can be found in the Linux nfs-utils 1065d24455b5SChuck Lever package, available from http://linux-nfs.org/. More detail about 1066d24455b5SChuck Lever the Linux NFS server implementation is available via the 1067d24455b5SChuck Lever exports(5) man page. 10681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1069d24455b5SChuck Lever Below you can choose which versions of the NFS protocol are 1070d24455b5SChuck Lever available to clients mounting the NFS server on this system. 1071d24455b5SChuck Lever Support for NFS version 2 (RFC 1094) is always available when 1072d24455b5SChuck Lever CONFIG_NFSD is selected. 10731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1074d24455b5SChuck Lever If unsure, say N. 10751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1076a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFSD_V2_ACL 1077a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher bool 1078a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFSD 1079a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 10801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD_V3 1081d24455b5SChuck Lever bool "NFS server support for NFS version 3" 10821da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFSD 10831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1084d24455b5SChuck Lever This option enables support in your system's NFS server for 1085d24455b5SChuck Lever version 3 of the NFS protocol (RFC 1813). 1086d24455b5SChuck Lever 1087d24455b5SChuck Lever If unsure, say Y. 10881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1089a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFSD_V3_ACL 1090d24455b5SChuck Lever bool "NFS server support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension" 1091a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFSD_V3 109278dd0992SChuck Lever select NFSD_V2_ACL 1093a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher help 1094d24455b5SChuck Lever Solaris NFS servers support an auxiliary NFSv3 ACL protocol that 1095d24455b5SChuck Lever never became an official part of the NFS version 3 protocol. 1096d24455b5SChuck Lever This protocol extension allows applications on NFS clients to 1097d24455b5SChuck Lever manipulate POSIX Access Control Lists on files residing on NFS 1098d24455b5SChuck Lever servers. NFS servers enforce POSIX ACLs on local files whether 1099d24455b5SChuck Lever this protocol is available or not. 1100d24455b5SChuck Lever 1101d24455b5SChuck Lever This option enables support in your system's NFS server for the 1102d24455b5SChuck Lever NFSv3 ACL protocol extension allowing NFS clients to manipulate 1103d24455b5SChuck Lever POSIX ACLs on files exported by your system's NFS server. NFS 1104d24455b5SChuck Lever clients which support the Solaris NFSv3 ACL protocol can then 1105d24455b5SChuck Lever access and modify ACLs on your NFS server. 1106d24455b5SChuck Lever 1107d24455b5SChuck Lever To store ACLs on your NFS server, you also need to enable ACL- 1108d24455b5SChuck Lever related CONFIG options for your local file systems of choice. 1109d24455b5SChuck Lever 1110d24455b5SChuck Lever If unsure, say N. 1111a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 11121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD_V4 1113d24455b5SChuck Lever bool "NFS server support for NFS version 4 (EXPERIMENTAL)" 11141a448fdbSChuck Lever depends on NFSD && PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 11151a448fdbSChuck Lever select NFSD_V3 111689206955SChuck Lever select FS_POSIX_ACL 111742ed95c4SJ. Bruce Fields select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 11181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1119d24455b5SChuck Lever This option enables support in your system's NFS server for 1120d24455b5SChuck Lever version 4 of the NFS protocol (RFC 3530). 1121d24455b5SChuck Lever 1122d24455b5SChuck Lever To export files using NFSv4, you need to install additional user 1123d24455b5SChuck Lever space programs which can be found in the Linux nfs-utils package, 1124d24455b5SChuck Lever available from http://linux-nfs.org/. 1125d24455b5SChuck Lever 11261da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 11271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCKD 11291da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 11301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCKD_V4 11321da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 11331da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFSD_V3 || NFS_V3 11341da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 11351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPORTFS 11371da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 11381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1139a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFS_ACL_SUPPORT 1140a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher tristate 1141a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 1142a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 1143a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFS_COMMON 1144a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher bool 1145a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFSD || NFS_FS 1146a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher default y 1147a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 11481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNRPC 11491da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 11501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNRPC_GSS 11521da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 11531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1154c3a57ed7S\"Talpey, Thomas\config SUNRPC_XPRT_RDMA 11553211e4ebSJames Lentini tristate 1156113632d0S\"Talpey, Thomas\ depends on SUNRPC && INFINIBAND && EXPERIMENTAL 11573211e4ebSJames Lentini default SUNRPC && INFINIBAND 1158327a299dSChuck Lever help 1159327a299dSChuck Lever This option enables an RPC client transport capability that 1160327a299dSChuck Lever allows the NFS client to mount servers via an RDMA-enabled 1161327a299dSChuck Lever transport. 1162327a299dSChuck Lever 1163327a299dSChuck Lever To compile RPC client RDMA transport support as a module, 1164327a299dSChuck Lever choose M here: the module will be called xprtrdma. 1165327a299dSChuck Lever 1166327a299dSChuck Lever If unsure, say N. 1167c3a57ed7S\"Talpey, Thomas\ 1168a26cfad6SChuck Leverconfig SUNRPC_REGISTER_V4 1169a26cfad6SChuck Lever bool "Register local RPC services via rpcbind v4 (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1170a26cfad6SChuck Lever depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL 1171a26cfad6SChuck Lever default n 1172a26cfad6SChuck Lever help 1173a26cfad6SChuck Lever Sun added support for registering RPC services at an IPv6 1174a26cfad6SChuck Lever address by creating two new versions of the rpcbind protocol 1175a26cfad6SChuck Lever (RFC 1833). 1176a26cfad6SChuck Lever 1177a26cfad6SChuck Lever This option enables support in the kernel RPC server for 1178a26cfad6SChuck Lever registering kernel RPC services via version 4 of the rpcbind 1179a26cfad6SChuck Lever protocol. If you enable this option, you must run a portmapper 1180a26cfad6SChuck Lever daemon that supports rpcbind protocol version 4. 1181a26cfad6SChuck Lever 1182a26cfad6SChuck Lever Serving NFS over IPv6 from knfsd (the kernel's NFS server) 1183a26cfad6SChuck Lever requires that you enable this option and use a portmapper that 1184a26cfad6SChuck Lever supports rpcbind version 4. 1185a26cfad6SChuck Lever 1186a26cfad6SChuck Lever If unsure, say N to get traditional behavior (register kernel 1187a26cfad6SChuck Lever RPC services using only rpcbind version 2). Distributions 1188a26cfad6SChuck Lever using the legacy Linux portmapper daemon must say N here. 1189a26cfad6SChuck Lever 11901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 11911da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)" 11921da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL 11931da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC_GSS 11941da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO 11951da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_MD5 11961da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_DES 1197bcbaecbbSPatrick McHardy select CRYPTO_CBC 11981da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1199327a299dSChuck Lever Choose Y here to enable Secure RPC using the Kerberos version 5 1200327a299dSChuck Lever GSS-API mechanism (RFC 1964). 12011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1202327a299dSChuck Lever Secure RPC calls with Kerberos require an auxiliary user-space 1203327a299dSChuck Lever daemon which may be found in the Linux nfs-utils package 1204327a299dSChuck Lever available from http://linux-nfs.org/. In addition, user-space 1205327a299dSChuck Lever Kerberos support should be installed. 12061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12071da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 12081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3 12101da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Secure RPC: SPKM3 mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)" 12111da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL 12121da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC_GSS 12131da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO 12141da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_MD5 12151da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_DES 1216df6db302SJ. Bruce Fields select CRYPTO_CAST5 1217bcbaecbbSPatrick McHardy select CRYPTO_CBC 12181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1219327a299dSChuck Lever Choose Y here to enable Secure RPC using the SPKM3 public key 1220327a299dSChuck Lever GSS-API mechansim (RFC 2025). 12211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1222327a299dSChuck Lever Secure RPC calls with SPKM3 require an auxiliary userspace 1223327a299dSChuck Lever daemon which may be found in the Linux nfs-utils package 1224327a299dSChuck Lever available from http://linux-nfs.org/. 12251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12261da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 12271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SMB_FS 1229c7736339SAndrew Morton tristate "SMB file system support (OBSOLETE, please use CIFS)" 12301da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 12311da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 12321da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12331da177e4SLinus Torvalds SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Windows for Workgroups 12341da177e4SLinus Torvalds (WfW), Windows 95/98, Windows NT and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share 12351da177e4SLinus Torvalds files and printers over local networks. Saying Y here allows you to 12361da177e4SLinus Torvalds mount their file systems (often called "shares" in this context) and 12371da177e4SLinus Torvalds access them just like any other Unix directory. Currently, this 12381da177e4SLinus Torvalds works only if the Windows machines use TCP/IP as the underlying 12391da177e4SLinus Torvalds transport protocol, and not NetBEUI. For details, read 12401da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt> and the SMB-HOWTO, 12411da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 12421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12431da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: if you just want your box to act as an SMB *server* and make 12441da177e4SLinus Torvalds files and printing services available to Windows clients (which need 12451da177e4SLinus Torvalds to have a TCP/IP stack), you don't need to say Y here; you can use 12461da177e4SLinus Torvalds the program SAMBA (available from <ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/>) 12471da177e4SLinus Torvalds for that. 12481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12491da177e4SLinus Torvalds General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and 12501da177e4SLinus Torvalds Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>. 12511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1252c7736339SAndrew Morton To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here: 1253c7736339SAndrew Morton the module will be called smbfs. Most people say N, however. 12541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SMB_NLS_DEFAULT 12561da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use a default NLS" 12571da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SMB_FS 12581da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12591da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this will make smbfs use nls translations by default. You 12601da177e4SLinus Torvalds need to specify the local charset (CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT) in the nls 12611da177e4SLinus Torvalds settings and you need to give the default nls for the SMB server as 12621da177e4SLinus Torvalds CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE. 12631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12641da177e4SLinus Torvalds The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount 12651da177e4SLinus Torvalds supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters. 12661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12671da177e4SLinus Torvalds smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this. 12681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SMB_NLS_REMOTE 12701da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Default Remote NLS Option" 12711da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SMB_NLS_DEFAULT 12721da177e4SLinus Torvalds default "cp437" 12731da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12741da177e4SLinus Torvalds This setting allows you to specify a default value for which 12751da177e4SLinus Torvalds codepage the server uses. If this field is left blank no 12761da177e4SLinus Torvalds translations will be done by default. The local codepage/charset 12771da177e4SLinus Torvalds default to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT. 12781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12791da177e4SLinus Torvalds The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount 12801da177e4SLinus Torvalds supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters. 12811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12821da177e4SLinus Torvalds smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this. 12831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1284bb26b963SAlexey Dobriyansource "fs/cifs/Kconfig" 12856103335dSSteve French 12861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NCP_FS 12871da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)" 12881da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IPX!=n || INET 12891da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12901da177e4SLinus Torvalds NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) is a protocol that runs over IPX and is 12911da177e4SLinus Torvalds used by Novell NetWare clients to talk to file servers. It is to 12921da177e4SLinus Torvalds IPX what NFS is to TCP/IP, if that helps. Saying Y here allows you 12931da177e4SLinus Torvalds to mount NetWare file server volumes and to access them just like 12941da177e4SLinus Torvalds any other Unix directory. For details, please read the file 12951da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/ncpfs.txt> in the kernel source and 12961da177e4SLinus Torvalds the IPX-HOWTO from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 12971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12981da177e4SLinus Torvalds You do not have to say Y here if you want your Linux box to act as a 12991da177e4SLinus Torvalds file *server* for Novell NetWare clients. 13001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13011da177e4SLinus Torvalds General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and 13021da177e4SLinus Torvalds Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>. 13031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13041da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 13051da177e4SLinus Torvalds ncpfs. Say N unless you are connected to a Novell network. 13061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13071da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/ncpfs/Kconfig" 13081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CODA_FS 13101da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)" 13111da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 13121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it 13141da177e4SLinus Torvalds enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them 13151da177e4SLinus Torvalds with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard 13161da177e4SLinus Torvalds disk. Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for 13171da177e4SLinus Torvalds disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server 13181da177e4SLinus Torvalds replication, security model for authentication and encryption, 13191da177e4SLinus Torvalds persistent client caches and write back caching. 13201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13211da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda 13221da177e4SLinus Torvalds *client*. You will need user level code as well, both for the 13231da177e4SLinus Torvalds client and server. Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need 13241da177e4SLinus Torvalds no kernel support. Please read 13251da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.txt> and check out the Coda 13261da177e4SLinus Torvalds home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>. 13271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13281da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the 13291da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called coda. 13301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AFS_FS 133264aaa4f8SDavid Howells tristate "Andrew File System support (AFS) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 13331da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL 133408e0e7c8SDavid Howells select AF_RXRPC 13351da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13361da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will get an experimental Andrew File System 13371da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver. It currently only supports unsecured read-only AFS access. 13381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1339cc2e2767SMatt LaPlante See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information. 13401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13411da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 13421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 134308e0e7c8SDavid Howellsconfig AFS_DEBUG 134408e0e7c8SDavid Howells bool "AFS dynamic debugging" 134508e0e7c8SDavid Howells depends on AFS_FS 134608e0e7c8SDavid Howells help 134708e0e7c8SDavid Howells Say Y here to make runtime controllable debugging messages appear. 134808e0e7c8SDavid Howells 134908e0e7c8SDavid Howells See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information. 135008e0e7c8SDavid Howells 135108e0e7c8SDavid Howells If unsure, say N. 135208e0e7c8SDavid Howells 135393fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergenconfig 9P_FS 135493fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen tristate "Plan 9 Resource Sharing Support (9P2000) (Experimental)" 1355bd238fb4SLatchesar Ionkov depends on INET && NET_9P && EXPERIMENTAL 135693fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen help 135793fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen If you say Y here, you will get experimental support for 135893fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen Plan 9 resource sharing via the 9P2000 protocol. 135993fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen 136093fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen See <http://v9fs.sf.net> for more information. 136193fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen 136293fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen If unsure, say N. 136393fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen 1364ea0985adSJan Engelhardtendif # NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS 13651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13669361401eSDavid Howellsif BLOCK 13671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Partition Types" 13681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13691da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/partitions/Kconfig" 13701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 13729361401eSDavid Howellsendif 13731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13741da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/nls/Kconfig" 1375e7fd4179SDavid Teiglandsource "fs/dlm/Kconfig" 13761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 1378