11da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 21da177e4SLinus Torvalds# File system configuration 31da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 41da177e4SLinus Torvalds 51da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "File systems" 61da177e4SLinus Torvalds 71da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT2_FS 81da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Second extended fs support" 91da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 101da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ext2 is a standard Linux file system for hard disks. 111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 121da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 131da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called ext2. Be aware however that the file system 141da177e4SLinus Torvalds of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot 151da177e4SLinus Torvalds be compiled as a module, and so this could be dangerous. 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 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the journaling 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 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds The journaling 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 991da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called ext3. Be aware however that the file system 1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot 1011da177e4SLinus Torvalds be compiled as a module, and so this may be dangerous. 1021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT3_FS_XATTR 1041da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Ext3 extended attributes" 1051da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXT3_FS 1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1081da177e4SLinus Torvalds Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 1091da177e4SLinus Torvalds the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 1101da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 1111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1121da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 1131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1141da177e4SLinus Torvalds You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext3. 1151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL 1171da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists" 1181da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR 119b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 1201da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1211da177e4SLinus Torvalds Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 1221da177e4SLinus Torvalds groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 1231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1241da177e4SLinus Torvalds To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 1261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1271da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 1281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT3_FS_SECURITY 1301da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Ext3 Security Labels" 1311da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR 1321da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1331da177e4SLinus Torvalds Security labels support alternative access control models 1341da177e4SLinus Torvalds implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 1351da177e4SLinus Torvalds enables an extended attribute handler for file security 1361da177e4SLinus Torvalds labels in the ext3 filesystem. 1371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1381da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not using a security module that requires using 1391da177e4SLinus Torvalds extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 1401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JBD 1421da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 1431da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1441da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a generic journaling layer for block devices. It is 145b4e40a51SMark Fasheh currently used by the ext3 and OCFS2 file systems, but it could 146b4e40a51SMark Fasheh also be used to add journal support to other file systems or block 147b4e40a51SMark Fasheh devices such as RAID or LVM. 1481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 149b4e40a51SMark Fasheh If you are using the ext3 or OCFS2 file systems, you need to 150b4e40a51SMark Fasheh say Y here. If you are not using ext3 OCFS2 then you will probably 151b4e40a51SMark Fasheh want to say N. 1521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1531da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this device as a module, choose M here: the module will be 154b4e40a51SMark Fasheh called jbd. If you are compiling ext3 or OCFS2 into the kernel, 155b4e40a51SMark Fasheh you cannot compile this code as a module. 1561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JBD_DEBUG 1581da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JBD (ext3) debugging support" 1591da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JBD 1601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1611da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are using the ext3 journaled file system (or potentially any 1621da177e4SLinus Torvalds other file system/device using JBD), this option allows you to 1631da177e4SLinus Torvalds enable debugging output while the system is running, in order to 1641da177e4SLinus Torvalds help track down any problems you are having. By default the 1651da177e4SLinus Torvalds debugging output will be turned off. 1661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1671da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging 1681da177e4SLinus Torvalds with "echo N > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug", where N is a number between 1691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1 and 5, the higher the number, the more debugging output is 1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds generated. To turn debugging off again, do 1711da177e4SLinus Torvalds "echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug". 1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FS_MBCACHE 1741da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Meta block cache for Extended Attributes (ext2/ext3) 1751da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 1761da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR || EXT3_FS_XATTR 1771da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if EXT2_FS=y || EXT3_FS=y 1781da177e4SLinus Torvalds default m if EXT2_FS=m || EXT3_FS=m 1791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_FS 1811da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Reiserfs support" 1821da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1831da177e4SLinus Torvalds Stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a balanced 1841da177e4SLinus Torvalds tree. Uses journaling. 1851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1861da177e4SLinus Torvalds Balanced trees are more efficient than traditional file system 1871da177e4SLinus Torvalds architectural foundations. 1881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1891da177e4SLinus Torvalds In general, ReiserFS is as fast as ext2, but is very efficient with 1901da177e4SLinus Torvalds large directories and small files. Additional patches are needed 1911da177e4SLinus Torvalds for NFS and quotas, please see <http://www.namesys.com/> for links. 1921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1931da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is more easily extended to have features currently found in 1941da177e4SLinus Torvalds database and keyword search systems than block allocation based file 1951da177e4SLinus Torvalds systems are. The next version will be so extended, and will support 1961da177e4SLinus Torvalds plugins consistent with our motto ``It takes more than a license to 1971da177e4SLinus Torvalds make source code open.'' 1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds Read <http://www.namesys.com/> to learn more about reiserfs. 2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds Sponsored by Threshold Networks, Emusic.com, and Bigstorage.com. 2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you like it, you can pay us to add new features to it that you 2041da177e4SLinus Torvalds need, buy a support contract, or pay us to port it to another OS. 2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_CHECK 2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable reiserfs debug mode" 2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on REISERFS_FS 2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you set this to Y, then ReiserFS will perform every check it can 2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds possibly imagine of its internal consistency throughout its 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds operation. It will also go substantially slower. More than once we 2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds have forgotten that this was on, and then gone despondent over the 2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds latest benchmarks.:-) Use of this option allows our team to go all 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds out in checking for consistency when debugging without fear of its 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds effect on end users. If you are on the verge of sending in a bug 2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds report, say Y and you might get a useful error message. Almost 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds everyone should say N. 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_PROC_INFO 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Stats in /proc/fs/reiserfs" 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on REISERFS_FS 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Create under /proc/fs/reiserfs a hierarchy of files, displaying 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds various ReiserFS statistics and internal data at the expense of 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds making your kernel or module slightly larger (+8 KB). This also 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds increases the amount of kernel memory required for each mount. 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds Almost everyone but ReiserFS developers and people fine-tuning 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds reiserfs or tracing problems should say N. 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_FS_XATTR 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "ReiserFS extended attributes" 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on REISERFS_FS 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL 2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "ReiserFS POSIX Access Control Lists" 2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR 244b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_FS_SECURITY 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "ReiserFS Security Labels" 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds Security labels support alternative access control models 2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds enables an extended attribute handler for file security 2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds labels in the ReiserFS filesystem. 2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2631da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not using a security module that requires using 2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 2651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_FS 2671da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "JFS filesystem support" 2681da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2701da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a port of IBM's Journaled Filesystem . More information is 2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds available in the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt>. 2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you do not intend to use the JFS filesystem, say N. 2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_POSIX_ACL 2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFS POSIX Access Control Lists" 2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFS_FS 278b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 2791da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2801da177e4SLinus Torvalds Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_SECURITY 2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFS Security Labels" 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFS_FS 2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds Security labels support alternative access control models 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds enables an extended attribute handler for file security 2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds labels in the jfs filesystem. 2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not using a security module that requires using 2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_DEBUG 3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFS debugging" 3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFS_FS 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are experiencing any problems with the JFS filesystem, say 3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds Y here. This will result in additional debugging messages to be 3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds written to the system log. Under normal circumstances, this 3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds results in very little overhead. 3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_STATISTICS 3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFS statistics" 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFS_FS 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will cause statistics from the JFS file system 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jfs/ directory. 3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FS_POSIX_ACL 3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Posix ACL utility routines (for now, only ext2/ext3/jfs/reiserfs) 3181da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds# NOTE: you can implement Posix ACLs without these helpers (XFS does). 3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Never use this symbol for ifdefs. 3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 323b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher default n 3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3251da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/xfs/Kconfig" 3261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 327b4e40a51SMark Fashehconfig OCFS2_FS 32802ed8416SMark Fasheh tristate "OCFS2 file system support" 32902ed8416SMark Fasheh depends on NET && SYSFS 330b4e40a51SMark Fasheh select CONFIGFS_FS 331b4e40a51SMark Fasheh select JBD 332b4e40a51SMark Fasheh select CRC32 333b4e40a51SMark Fasheh select INET 334b4e40a51SMark Fasheh help 335b4e40a51SMark Fasheh OCFS2 is a general purpose extent based shared disk cluster file 336b4e40a51SMark Fasheh system with many similarities to ext3. It supports 64 bit inode 337b4e40a51SMark Fasheh numbers, and has automatically extending metadata groups which may 338b4e40a51SMark Fasheh also make it attractive for non-clustered use. 339b4e40a51SMark Fasheh 340b4e40a51SMark Fasheh You'll want to install the ocfs2-tools package in order to at least 341b4e40a51SMark Fasheh get "mount.ocfs2". 342b4e40a51SMark Fasheh 343b4e40a51SMark Fasheh Project web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2 344b4e40a51SMark Fasheh Tools web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools 345b4e40a51SMark Fasheh OCFS2 mailing lists: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/mailman/ 346b4e40a51SMark Fasheh 347b4e40a51SMark Fasheh Note: Features which OCFS2 does not support yet: 348b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - extended attributes 349b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - shared writeable mmap 350b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - loopback is supported, but data written will not 351b4e40a51SMark Fasheh be cluster coherent. 352b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - quotas 353b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - cluster aware flock 354b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - Directory change notification (F_NOTIFY) 355b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - Distributed Caching (F_SETLEASE/F_GETLEASE/break_lease) 356b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - POSIX ACLs 357b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - readpages / writepages (not user visible) 358b4e40a51SMark Fasheh 3592b388c67SJoel Beckerconfig OCFS2_DEBUG_MASKLOG 3602b388c67SJoel Becker bool "OCFS2 logging support" 3612b388c67SJoel Becker depends on OCFS2_FS 3622b388c67SJoel Becker default y 3632b388c67SJoel Becker help 3642b388c67SJoel Becker The ocfs2 filesystem has an extensive logging system. The system 3652b388c67SJoel Becker allows selection of events to log via files in /sys/o2cb/logmask/. 3662b388c67SJoel Becker This option will enlarge your kernel, but it allows debugging of 3672b388c67SJoel Becker ocfs2 filesystem issues. 3682b388c67SJoel Becker 3691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MINIX_FS 3701da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Minix fs support" 3711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3721da177e4SLinus Torvalds Minix is a simple operating system used in many classes about OS's. 3731da177e4SLinus Torvalds The minix file system (method to organize files on a hard disk 3741da177e4SLinus Torvalds partition or a floppy disk) was the original file system for Linux, 3751da177e4SLinus Torvalds but has been superseded by the second extended file system ext2fs. 3761da177e4SLinus Torvalds You don't want to use the minix file system on your hard disk 3771da177e4SLinus Torvalds because of certain built-in restrictions, but it is sometimes found 3781da177e4SLinus Torvalds on older Linux floppy disks. This option will enlarge your kernel 3791da177e4SLinus Torvalds by about 28 KB. If unsure, say N. 3801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3811da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 3821da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called minix. Note that the file system of your root 3831da177e4SLinus Torvalds partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as 3841da177e4SLinus Torvalds a module. 3851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ROMFS_FS 3871da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "ROM file system support" 3881da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3891da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for 3901da177e4SLinus Torvalds initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for 3911da177e4SLinus Torvalds other read-only media as well. Read 3921da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt> for details. 3931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3941da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 3951da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called romfs. Note that the file system of your 3961da177e4SLinus Torvalds root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a 3971da177e4SLinus Torvalds module. 3981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3991da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it: 4001da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer N. 4011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4020eeca283SRobert Loveconfig INOTIFY 4030eeca283SRobert Love bool "Inotify file change notification support" 4040eeca283SRobert Love default y 4050eeca283SRobert Love ---help--- 4062d9048e2SAmy Griffis Say Y here to enable inotify support. Inotify is a file change 4072d9048e2SAmy Griffis notification system and a replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes 4082d9048e2SAmy Griffis numerous shortcomings in dnotify and introduces several new features 4092d9048e2SAmy Griffis including multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount 4103de11748SRobert Love notification. 4113de11748SRobert Love 4123de11748SRobert Love For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt 4130eeca283SRobert Love 4140eeca283SRobert Love If unsure, say Y. 4150eeca283SRobert Love 4162d9048e2SAmy Griffisconfig INOTIFY_USER 4172d9048e2SAmy Griffis bool "Inotify support for userspace" 4182d9048e2SAmy Griffis depends on INOTIFY 4192d9048e2SAmy Griffis default y 4202d9048e2SAmy Griffis ---help--- 4212d9048e2SAmy Griffis Say Y here to enable inotify support for userspace, including the 4222d9048e2SAmy Griffis associated system calls. Inotify allows monitoring of both files and 4232d9048e2SAmy Griffis directories via a single open fd. Events are read from the file 4242d9048e2SAmy Griffis descriptor, which is also select()- and poll()-able. 4252d9048e2SAmy Griffis 4262d9048e2SAmy Griffis For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt 4272d9048e2SAmy Griffis 4282d9048e2SAmy Griffis If unsure, say Y. 4292d9048e2SAmy Griffis 4301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QUOTA 4311da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Quota support" 4321da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4331da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to set per user limits for disk 4341da177e4SLinus Torvalds usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works for the 4351da177e4SLinus Torvalds ext2, ext3, and reiserfs file system. ext3 also supports journalled 4361da177e4SLinus Torvalds quotas for which you don't need to run quotacheck(8) after an unclean 437919532a5SAdrian Bunk shutdown. 438919532a5SAdrian Bunk For further details, read the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from 4391da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or the documentation provided 4401da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the quota tools. Probably the quota support is only useful for 4411da177e4SLinus Torvalds multi user systems. If unsure, say N. 4421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QFMT_V1 4441da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Old quota format support" 4451da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on QUOTA 4461da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4471da177e4SLinus Torvalds This quota format was (is) used by kernels earlier than 2.4.22. If 4481da177e4SLinus Torvalds you have quota working and you don't want to convert to new quota 4491da177e4SLinus Torvalds format say Y here. 4501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QFMT_V2 4521da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Quota format v2 support" 4531da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on QUOTA 4541da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4551da177e4SLinus Torvalds This quota format allows using quotas with 32-bit UIDs/GIDs. If you 456919532a5SAdrian Bunk need this functionality say Y here. 4571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4581da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QUOTACTL 4591da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 4601da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA 4611da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 4621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DNOTIFY 4641da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Dnotify support" if EMBEDDED 4651da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 4661da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4671da177e4SLinus Torvalds Dnotify is a directory-based per-fd file change notification system 4681da177e4SLinus Torvalds that uses signals to communicate events to user-space. There exist 4691da177e4SLinus Torvalds superior alternatives, but some applications may still rely on 4701da177e4SLinus Torvalds dnotify. 4711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4721da177e4SLinus Torvalds Because of this, if unsure, say Y. 4731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUTOFS_FS 4751da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Kernel automounter support" 4761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4771da177e4SLinus Torvalds The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems 4781da177e4SLinus Torvalds on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce 4791da177e4SLinus Torvalds overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD 4801da177e4SLinus Torvalds automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. 4811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4821da177e4SLinus Torvalds To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs 4831da177e4SLinus Torvalds package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>. 4841da177e4SLinus Torvalds You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. 4851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4861da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more 4871da177e4SLinus Torvalds features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support", 4881da177e4SLinus Torvalds below. 4891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4901da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be 4911da177e4SLinus Torvalds called autofs. 4921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4931da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you 4941da177e4SLinus Torvalds probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here. 4951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUTOFS4_FS 4971da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)" 4981da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4991da177e4SLinus Torvalds The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems 5001da177e4SLinus Torvalds on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce 5011da177e4SLinus Torvalds overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD 5021da177e4SLinus Torvalds automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. 5031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5041da177e4SLinus Torvalds To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from 5051da177e4SLinus Torvalds <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/>; you also 5061da177e4SLinus Torvalds want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. 5071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5081da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be 5091da177e4SLinus Torvalds called autofs4. You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your 5101da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules configuration file. 5111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5121da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or 5131da177e4SLinus Torvalds don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the 5141da177e4SLinus Torvalds local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say 5151da177e4SLinus Torvalds N here. 5161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 51704578f17SMiklos Szerediconfig FUSE_FS 51804578f17SMiklos Szeredi tristate "Filesystem in Userspace support" 51904578f17SMiklos Szeredi help 52004578f17SMiklos Szeredi With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem 52104578f17SMiklos Szeredi in a userspace program. 52204578f17SMiklos Szeredi 52304578f17SMiklos Szeredi There's also companion library: libfuse. This library along with 52404578f17SMiklos Szeredi utilities is available from the FUSE homepage: 52504578f17SMiklos Szeredi <http://fuse.sourceforge.net/> 52604578f17SMiklos Szeredi 527909021eaSMiklos Szeredi See <file:Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt> for more information. 528909021eaSMiklos Szeredi See <file:Documentation/Changes> for needed library/utility version. 529909021eaSMiklos Szeredi 53004578f17SMiklos Szeredi If you want to develop a userspace FS, or if you want to use 53104578f17SMiklos Szeredi a filesystem based on FUSE, answer Y or M. 53204578f17SMiklos Szeredi 5331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems" 5341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ISO9660_FS 5361da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "ISO 9660 CDROM file system support" 5371da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5381da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the standard file system used on CD-ROMs. It was previously 5391da177e4SLinus Torvalds known as "High Sierra File System" and is called "hsfs" on other 5401da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unix systems. The so-called Rock-Ridge extensions which allow for 5411da177e4SLinus Torvalds long Unix filenames and symbolic links are also supported by this 5421da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver. If you have a CD-ROM drive and want to do more with it than 5431da177e4SLinus Torvalds just listen to audio CDs and watch its LEDs, say Y (and read 5441da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt> and the CD-ROM-HOWTO, 5451da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), thereby 5461da177e4SLinus Torvalds enlarging your kernel by about 27 KB; otherwise say N. 5471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5481da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 5491da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called isofs. 5501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JOLIET 5521da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions" 5531da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ISO9660_FS 5541da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 5551da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5561da177e4SLinus Torvalds Joliet is a Microsoft extension for the ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system 5571da177e4SLinus Torvalds which allows for long filenames in unicode format (unicode is the 5581da177e4SLinus Torvalds new 16 bit character code, successor to ASCII, which encodes the 5591da177e4SLinus Torvalds characters of almost all languages of the world; see 5601da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.unicode.org/> for more information). Say Y here if you 5611da177e4SLinus Torvalds want to be able to read Joliet CD-ROMs under Linux. 5621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ZISOFS 5641da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Transparent decompression extension" 5651da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ISO9660_FS 5661da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_INFLATE 5671da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5681da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a Linux-specific extension to RockRidge which lets you store 5691da177e4SLinus Torvalds data in compressed form on a CD-ROM and have it transparently 5701da177e4SLinus Torvalds decompressed when the CD-ROM is accessed. See 5711da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/zisofs/> for the tools 5721da177e4SLinus Torvalds necessary to create such a filesystem. Say Y here if you want to be 5731da177e4SLinus Torvalds able to read such compressed CD-ROMs. 5741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ZISOFS_FS 5761da177e4SLinus Torvalds# for fs/nls/Config.in 5771da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 5781da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ZISOFS 5791da177e4SLinus Torvalds default ISO9660_FS 5801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UDF_FS 5821da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "UDF file system support" 5831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5841da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the new file system used on some CD-ROMs and DVDs. Say Y if 5851da177e4SLinus Torvalds you intend to mount DVD discs or CDRW's written in packet mode, or 5861da177e4SLinus Torvalds if written to by other UDF utilities, such as DirectCD. 5871da177e4SLinus Torvalds Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt>. 5881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5891da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 5901da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called udf. 5911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5921da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 5931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UDF_NLS 5951da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 5961da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 5971da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (UDF_FS=m && NLS) || (UDF_FS=y && NLS=y) 5981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 6001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems" 6021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FAT_FS 6041da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 6051da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 6061da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6071da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to use one of the FAT-based file systems (the MS-DOS and 6081da177e4SLinus Torvalds VFAT (Windows 95) file systems), then you must say Y or M here 6091da177e4SLinus Torvalds to include FAT support. You will then be able to mount partitions or 6101da177e4SLinus Torvalds diskettes with FAT-based file systems and transparently access the 6111da177e4SLinus Torvalds files on them, i.e. MSDOS files will look and behave just like all 6121da177e4SLinus Torvalds other Unix files. 6131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6141da177e4SLinus Torvalds This FAT support is not a file system in itself, it only provides 6151da177e4SLinus Torvalds the foundation for the other file systems. You will have to say Y or 6161da177e4SLinus Torvalds M to at least one of "MSDOS fs support" or "VFAT fs support" in 6171da177e4SLinus Torvalds order to make use of it. 6181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6191da177e4SLinus Torvalds Another way to read and write MSDOS floppies and hard drive 6201da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions from within Linux (but not transparently) is with the 6211da177e4SLinus Torvalds mtools ("man mtools") program suite. You don't need to say Y here in 6221da177e4SLinus Torvalds order to do that. 6231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6241da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you need to move large files on floppies between a DOS and a 6251da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux box, say Y here, mount the floppy under Linux with an MSDOS 6261da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program 6271da177e4SLinus Torvalds available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar"). 6281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6291da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is now also becoming possible to read and write compressed FAT 6301da177e4SLinus Torvalds file systems; read <file:Documentation/filesystems/fat_cvf.txt> for 6311da177e4SLinus Torvalds details. 6321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6331da177e4SLinus Torvalds The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure, 6341da177e4SLinus Torvalds say Y. 6351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6361da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 6371da177e4SLinus Torvalds fat. Note that if you compile the FAT support as a module, you 6381da177e4SLinus Torvalds cannot compile any of the FAT-based file systems into the kernel 6391da177e4SLinus Torvalds -- they will have to be modules as well. 6401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MSDOS_FS 6421da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "MSDOS fs support" 6431da177e4SLinus Torvalds select FAT_FS 6441da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6451da177e4SLinus Torvalds This allows you to mount MSDOS partitions of your hard drive (unless 6461da177e4SLinus Torvalds they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under 6471da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the 6481da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from 6491da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in 6501da177e4SLinus Torvalds <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you 6511da177e4SLinus Torvalds intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y 6521da177e4SLinus Torvalds here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes 6531da177e4SLinus Torvalds transparent, i.e. the MSDOS files look and behave just like all 6541da177e4SLinus Torvalds other Unix files. 6551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6561da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have Windows 95 or Windows NT installed on your MSDOS 6571da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions, you should use the VFAT file system (say Y to "VFAT fs 6581da177e4SLinus Torvalds support" below), or you will not be able to see the long filenames 6591da177e4SLinus Torvalds generated by Windows 95 / Windows NT. 6601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6611da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will enlarge your kernel by about 7 KB. If unsure, 6621da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer Y. This will only work if you said Y to "DOS FAT fs support" 6631da177e4SLinus Torvalds as well. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will 6641da177e4SLinus Torvalds be called msdos. 6651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig VFAT_FS 6671da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "VFAT (Windows-95) fs support" 6681da177e4SLinus Torvalds select FAT_FS 6691da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6701da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option provides support for normal Windows file systems with 6711da177e4SLinus Torvalds long filenames. That includes non-compressed FAT-based file systems 6721da177e4SLinus Torvalds used by Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and the Unix 6731da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs from the mtools package. 6741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6751da177e4SLinus Torvalds The VFAT support enlarges your kernel by about 10 KB and it only 6761da177e4SLinus Torvalds works if you said Y to the "DOS FAT fs support" above. Please read 6771da177e4SLinus Torvalds the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for details. If 6781da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say Y. 6791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6801da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 6811da177e4SLinus Torvalds vfat. 6821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE 6841da177e4SLinus Torvalds int "Default codepage for FAT" 6851da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MSDOS_FS || VFAT_FS 6861da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 437 6871da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6881da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option should be set to the codepage of your FAT filesystems. 6891da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can be overridden with the "codepage" mount option. 6901da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information. 6911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET 6931da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Default iocharset for FAT" 6941da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on VFAT_FS 6951da177e4SLinus Torvalds default "iso8859-1" 6961da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6971da177e4SLinus Torvalds Set this to the default input/output character set you'd 6981da177e4SLinus Torvalds like FAT to use. It should probably match the character set 6991da177e4SLinus Torvalds that most of your FAT filesystems use, and can be overridden 7001da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the "iocharset" mount option for FAT filesystems. 7011da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that "utf8" is not recommended for FAT filesystems. 7021da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here. 7031da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information. 7041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NTFS_FS 7061da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NTFS file system support" 7071da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 7081da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7091da177e4SLinus Torvalds NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003. 7101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7111da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y or M here enables read support. There is partial, but 7121da177e4SLinus Torvalds safe, write support available. For write support you must also 7131da177e4SLinus Torvalds say Y to "NTFS write support" below. 7141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7151da177e4SLinus Torvalds There are also a number of user-space tools available, called 7161da177e4SLinus Torvalds ntfsprogs. These include ntfsundelete and ntfsresize, that work 7171da177e4SLinus Torvalds without NTFS support enabled in the kernel. 7181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7191da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a rewrite from scratch of Linux NTFS support and replaced 7201da177e4SLinus Torvalds the old NTFS code starting with Linux 2.5.11. A backport to 7211da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Linux 2.4 kernel series is separately available as a patch 7221da177e4SLinus Torvalds from the project web site. 7231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7241da177e4SLinus Torvalds For more information see <file:Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt> 7251da177e4SLinus Torvalds and <http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/>. 7261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7271da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 7281da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called ntfs. 7291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7301da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not using Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 in addition to 7311da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux on your computer it is safe to say N. 7321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NTFS_DEBUG 7341da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "NTFS debugging support" 7351da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NTFS_FS 7361da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7371da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are experiencing any problems with the NTFS file system, say 7381da177e4SLinus Torvalds Y here. This will result in additional consistency checks to be 7391da177e4SLinus Torvalds performed by the driver as well as additional debugging messages to 7401da177e4SLinus Torvalds be written to the system log. Note that debugging messages are 7411da177e4SLinus Torvalds disabled by default. To enable them, supply the option debug_msgs=1 7421da177e4SLinus Torvalds at the kernel command line when booting the kernel or as an option 7431da177e4SLinus Torvalds to insmod when loading the ntfs module. Once the driver is active, 7441da177e4SLinus Torvalds you can enable debugging messages by doing (as root): 7451da177e4SLinus Torvalds echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug 7461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Replacing the "1" with "0" would disable debug messages. 7471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7481da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you leave debugging messages disabled, this results in little 7491da177e4SLinus Torvalds overhead, but enabling debug messages results in very significant 7501da177e4SLinus Torvalds slowdown of the system. 7511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7521da177e4SLinus Torvalds When reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of 7531da177e4SLinus Torvalds debugging messages while the misbehaviour was occurring. 7541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NTFS_RW 7561da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "NTFS write support" 7571da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NTFS_FS 7581da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7591da177e4SLinus Torvalds This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver. 7601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7611da177e4SLinus Torvalds The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without 7621da177e4SLinus Torvalds changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or 7631da177e4SLinus Torvalds renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to 7641da177e4SLinus Torvalds so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot 7651da177e4SLinus Torvalds be written to. 7661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7671da177e4SLinus Torvalds While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have 7681da177e4SLinus Torvalds so far not received a single report where the driver would have 7691da177e4SLinus Torvalds damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use. 7701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7711da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from 7721da177e4SLinus Torvalds scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS 7731da177e4SLinus Torvalds write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997), 7741da177e4SLinus Torvalds is not safe. 7751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7761da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is currently useful with TopologiLinux. TopologiLinux is run 7771da177e4SLinus Torvalds on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your 7781da177e4SLinus Torvalds hard disk. Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not 7791da177e4SLinus Torvalds need its own partition. For more information see 7801da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/> 7811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7821da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is perfectly safe to say N here. 7831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 7851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Pseudo filesystems" 7871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PROC_FS 78969755652SH. Peter Anvin bool "/proc file system support" if EMBEDDED 79069755652SH. Peter Anvin default y 7911da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7921da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a virtual file system providing information about the status 7931da177e4SLinus Torvalds of the system. "Virtual" means that it doesn't take up any space on 7941da177e4SLinus Torvalds your hard disk: the files are created on the fly by the kernel when 7951da177e4SLinus Torvalds you try to access them. Also, you cannot read the files with older 7961da177e4SLinus Torvalds version of the program less: you need to use more or cat. 7971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7981da177e4SLinus Torvalds It's totally cool; for example, "cat /proc/interrupts" gives 7991da177e4SLinus Torvalds information about what the different IRQs are used for at the moment 8001da177e4SLinus Torvalds (there is a small number of Interrupt ReQuest lines in your computer 8011da177e4SLinus Torvalds that are used by the attached devices to gain the CPU's attention -- 8021da177e4SLinus Torvalds often a source of trouble if two devices are mistakenly configured 8031da177e4SLinus Torvalds to use the same IRQ). The program procinfo to display some 8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds information about your system gathered from the /proc file system. 8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8061da177e4SLinus Torvalds Before you can use the /proc file system, it has to be mounted, 8071da177e4SLinus Torvalds meaning it has to be given a location in the directory hierarchy. 8081da177e4SLinus Torvalds That location should be /proc. A command such as "mount -t proc proc 8091da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc" or the equivalent line in /etc/fstab does the job. 8101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8111da177e4SLinus Torvalds The /proc file system is explained in the file 8121da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt> and on the proc(5) manpage 8131da177e4SLinus Torvalds ("man 5 proc"). 8141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8151da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will enlarge your kernel by about 67 KB. Several 8161da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs depend on this, so everyone should say Y here. 8171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PROC_KCORE 8191da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "/proc/kcore support" if !ARM 8201da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS && MMU 8211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 822666bfddbSVivek Goyalconfig PROC_VMCORE 823666bfddbSVivek Goyal bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 82405970d47SManeesh Soni depends on PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP 82568250ba5SVivek Goyal default y 826666bfddbSVivek Goyal help 827666bfddbSVivek Goyal Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format. 828666bfddbSVivek Goyal 829b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig PROC_SYSCTL 830b89a8171SEric W. Biederman bool "Sysctl support (/proc/sys)" if EMBEDDED 831b89a8171SEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_FS 832b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 833b89a8171SEric W. Biederman default y 834b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 835b89a8171SEric W. Biederman The sysctl interface provides a means of dynamically changing 836b89a8171SEric W. Biederman certain kernel parameters and variables on the fly without requiring 837b89a8171SEric W. Biederman a recompile of the kernel or reboot of the system. The primary 838b89a8171SEric W. Biederman interface is through /proc/sys. If you say Y here a tree of 839b89a8171SEric W. Biederman modifiable sysctl entries will be generated beneath the 840b89a8171SEric W. Biederman /proc/sys directory. They are explained in the files 841b89a8171SEric W. Biederman in <file:Documentation/sysctl/>. Note that enabling this 842b89a8171SEric W. Biederman option will enlarge the kernel by at least 8 KB. 843b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 844b89a8171SEric W. Biederman As it is generally a good thing, you should say Y here unless 845b89a8171SEric W. Biederman building a kernel for install/rescue disks or your system is very 846b89a8171SEric W. Biederman limited in memory. 847b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 8481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSFS 8491da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "sysfs file system support" if EMBEDDED 8501da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 8511da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8521da177e4SLinus Torvalds The sysfs filesystem is a virtual filesystem that the kernel uses to 8531da177e4SLinus Torvalds export internal kernel objects, their attributes, and their 8541da177e4SLinus Torvalds relationships to one another. 8551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8561da177e4SLinus Torvalds Users can use sysfs to ascertain useful information about the running 8571da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel, such as the devices the kernel has discovered on each bus and 8581da177e4SLinus Torvalds which driver each is bound to. sysfs can also be used to tune devices 8591da177e4SLinus Torvalds and other kernel subsystems. 8601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8611da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some system agents rely on the information in sysfs to operate. 8621da177e4SLinus Torvalds /sbin/hotplug uses device and object attributes in sysfs to assist in 8631da177e4SLinus Torvalds delegating policy decisions, like persistantly naming devices. 8641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8651da177e4SLinus Torvalds sysfs is currently used by the block subsystem to mount the root 8661da177e4SLinus Torvalds partition. If sysfs is disabled you must specify the boot device on 8671da177e4SLinus Torvalds the kernel boot command line via its major and minor numbers. For 8681da177e4SLinus Torvalds example, "root=03:01" for /dev/hda1. 8691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8701da177e4SLinus Torvalds Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space. 8711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TMPFS 8731da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)" 8741da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8751da177e4SLinus Torvalds Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory. 8761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8771da177e4SLinus Torvalds Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be 8781da177e4SLinus Torvalds created on your hard drive. The files live in memory and swap 8791da177e4SLinus Torvalds space. If you unmount a tmpfs instance, everything stored therein is 8801da177e4SLinus Torvalds lost. 8811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8821da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> for details. 8831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 884*39f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacherconfig TMPFS_POSIX_ACL 885*39f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher bool "Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists" 886*39f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher depends on TMPFS 887*39f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher select GENERIC_ACL 888*39f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher help 889*39f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 890*39f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 891*39f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher 892*39f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for 893*39f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 894*39f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher 895*39f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N. 896*39f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher 8971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HUGETLBFS 8981da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "HugeTLB file system support" 8990d078f6fSBrian Gerst depends X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || BROKEN 900dda27d1aSArthur Othieno help 901dda27d1aSArthur Othieno hugetlbfs is a filesystem backing for HugeTLB pages, based on 902dda27d1aSArthur Othieno ramfs. For architectures that support it, say Y here and read 903dda27d1aSArthur Othieno <file:Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt> for details. 904dda27d1aSArthur Othieno 905dda27d1aSArthur Othieno If unsure, say N. 9061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HUGETLB_PAGE 9081da177e4SLinus Torvalds def_bool HUGETLBFS 9091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig RAMFS 9111da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 9121da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 9131da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 9141da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ramfs is a file system which keeps all files in RAM. It allows 9151da177e4SLinus Torvalds read and write access. 9161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9171da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is more of an programming example than a useable file system. If 9181da177e4SLinus Torvalds you need a file system which lives in RAM with limit checking use 9191da177e4SLinus Torvalds tmpfs. 9201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9211da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 9221da177e4SLinus Torvalds ramfs. 9231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9247063fbf2SJoel Beckerconfig CONFIGFS_FS 9257063fbf2SJoel Becker tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem (EXPERIMENTAL)" 92665714b91SAdrian Bunk depends on SYSFS && EXPERIMENTAL 9277063fbf2SJoel Becker help 9287063fbf2SJoel Becker configfs is a ram-based filesystem that provides the converse 9297063fbf2SJoel Becker of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based 9307063fbf2SJoel Becker view of kernel objects, configfs is a filesystem-based manager 9317063fbf2SJoel Becker of kernel objects, or config_items. 9327063fbf2SJoel Becker 9337063fbf2SJoel Becker Both sysfs and configfs can and should exist together on the 9347063fbf2SJoel Becker same system. One is not a replacement for the other. 9357063fbf2SJoel Becker 9361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 9371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Miscellaneous filesystems" 9391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ADFS_FS 9411da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "ADFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 9421da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXPERIMENTAL 9431da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9441da177e4SLinus Torvalds The Acorn Disc Filing System is the standard file system of the 9451da177e4SLinus Torvalds RiscOS operating system which runs on Acorn's ARM-based Risc PC 9461da177e4SLinus Torvalds systems and the Acorn Archimedes range of machines. If you say Y 9471da177e4SLinus Torvalds here, Linux will be able to read from ADFS partitions on hard drives 9481da177e4SLinus Torvalds and from ADFS-formatted floppy discs. If you also want to be able to 9491da177e4SLinus Torvalds write to those devices, say Y to "ADFS write support" below. 9501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9511da177e4SLinus Torvalds The ADFS partition should be the first partition (i.e., 9521da177e4SLinus Torvalds /dev/[hs]d?1) on each of your drives. Please read the file 9531da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt> for further details. 9541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9551da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be 9561da177e4SLinus Torvalds called adfs. 9571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9581da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 9591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ADFS_FS_RW 9611da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)" 9621da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ADFS_FS 9631da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9641da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to write to ADFS partitions on 9651da177e4SLinus Torvalds hard drives and ADFS-formatted floppy disks. This is experimental 9661da177e4SLinus Torvalds codes, so if you're unsure, say N. 9671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AFFS_FS 9691da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Amiga FFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 9701da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXPERIMENTAL 9711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9721da177e4SLinus Torvalds The Fast File System (FFS) is the common file system used on hard 9731da177e4SLinus Torvalds disks by Amiga(tm) systems since AmigaOS Version 1.3 (34.20). Say Y 9741da177e4SLinus Torvalds if you want to be able to read and write files from and to an Amiga 9751da177e4SLinus Torvalds FFS partition on your hard drive. Amiga floppies however cannot be 9761da177e4SLinus Torvalds read with this driver due to an incompatibility of the floppy 9771da177e4SLinus Torvalds controller used in an Amiga and the standard floppy controller in 9781da177e4SLinus Torvalds PCs and workstations. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt> 9791da177e4SLinus Torvalds and <file:fs/affs/Changes>. 9801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9811da177e4SLinus Torvalds With this driver you can also mount disk files used by Bernd 9821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Schmidt's Un*X Amiga Emulator 9831da177e4SLinus Torvalds (<http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/>). 9841da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to do this, you will also need to say Y or M to "Loop 9851da177e4SLinus Torvalds device support", above. 9861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9871da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 9881da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called affs. If unsure, say N. 9891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HFS_FS 9911da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 9921da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXPERIMENTAL 993878129a3SLennert Buytenhek select NLS 9941da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9951da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to mount Macintosh-formatted 9961da177e4SLinus Torvalds floppy disks and hard drive partitions with full read-write access. 9971da177e4SLinus Torvalds Please read <file:fs/hfs/HFS.txt> to learn about the available mount 9981da177e4SLinus Torvalds options. 9991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10001da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 10011da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called hfs. 10021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HFSPLUS_FS 10041da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Apple Extended HFS file system support" 10051da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 10061da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS_UTF8 10071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10081da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to mount extended format 10091da177e4SLinus Torvalds Macintosh-formatted hard drive partitions with full read-write access. 10101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10111da177e4SLinus Torvalds This file system is often called HFS+ and was introduced with 10121da177e4SLinus Torvalds MacOS 8. It includes all Mac specific filesystem data such as 10131da177e4SLinus Torvalds data forks and creator codes, but it also has several UNIX 10141da177e4SLinus Torvalds style features such as file ownership and permissions. 10151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BEFS_FS 10171da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "BeOS file system (BeFS) support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 10181da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXPERIMENTAL 10191da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 10201da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10211da177e4SLinus Torvalds The BeOS File System (BeFS) is the native file system of Be, Inc's 10221da177e4SLinus Torvalds BeOS. Notable features include support for arbitrary attributes 10231da177e4SLinus Torvalds on files and directories, and database-like indeces on selected 10241da177e4SLinus Torvalds attributes. (Also note that this driver doesn't make those features 10251da177e4SLinus Torvalds available at this time). It is a 64 bit filesystem, so it supports 10261da177e4SLinus Torvalds extremly large volumes and files. 10271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10281da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you use this filesystem, you should also say Y to at least one 10291da177e4SLinus Torvalds of the NLS (native language support) options below. 10301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10311da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what this is about, say N. 10321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10331da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 10341da177e4SLinus Torvalds called befs. 10351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BEFS_DEBUG 10371da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Debug BeFS" 10381da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BEFS_FS 10391da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10401da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you can use the 'debug' mount option to enable 10411da177e4SLinus Torvalds debugging output from the driver. 10421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BFS_FS 10441da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 10451da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXPERIMENTAL 10461da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10471da177e4SLinus Torvalds Boot File System (BFS) is a file system used under SCO UnixWare to 10481da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow the bootloader access to the kernel image and other important 10491da177e4SLinus Torvalds files during the boot process. It is usually mounted under /stand 10501da177e4SLinus Torvalds and corresponds to the slice marked as "STAND" in the UnixWare 10511da177e4SLinus Torvalds partition. You should say Y if you want to read or write the files 10521da177e4SLinus Torvalds on your /stand slice from within Linux. You then also need to say Y 10531da177e4SLinus Torvalds to "UnixWare slices support", below. More information about the BFS 10541da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system is contained in the file 10551da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/bfs.txt>. 10561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10571da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what this is about, say N. 10581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10591da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 10601da177e4SLinus Torvalds bfs. Note that the file system of your root partition (the one 10611da177e4SLinus Torvalds containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module. 10621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EFS_FS 10661da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "EFS file system support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 10671da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXPERIMENTAL 10681da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10691da177e4SLinus Torvalds EFS is an older file system used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and hard 10701da177e4SLinus Torvalds disk partitions by SGI's IRIX operating system (IRIX 6.0 and newer 10711da177e4SLinus Torvalds uses the XFS file system for hard disk partitions however). 10721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10731da177e4SLinus Torvalds This implementation only offers read-only access. If you don't know 10741da177e4SLinus Torvalds what all this is about, it's safe to say N. For more information 10751da177e4SLinus Torvalds about EFS see its home page at <http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/>. 10761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10771da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the EFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the 10781da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called efs. 10791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS_FS 10811da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Journalling Flash File System (JFFS) support" 10821da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MTD 10831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10841da177e4SLinus Torvalds JFFS is the Journaling Flash File System developed by Axis 10851da177e4SLinus Torvalds Communications in Sweden, aimed at providing a crash/powerdown-safe 10861da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system for disk-less embedded devices. Further information is 10871da177e4SLinus Torvalds available at (<http://developer.axis.com/software/jffs/>). 10881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS_FS_VERBOSE 10901da177e4SLinus Torvalds int "JFFS debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 3 = noisy)" 10911da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS_FS 10921da177e4SLinus Torvalds default "0" 10931da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10941da177e4SLinus Torvalds Determines the verbosity level of the JFFS debugging messages. 10951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS_PROC_FS 10971da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFFS stats available in /proc filesystem" 10981da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS_FS && PROC_FS 10991da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11001da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will cause statistics from mounted JFFS file systems 11011da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jffs/ directory. 11021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_FS 11041da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Journalling Flash File System v2 (JFFS2) support" 11051da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 11061da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MTD 11071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11081da177e4SLinus Torvalds JFFS2 is the second generation of the Journalling Flash File System 11091da177e4SLinus Torvalds for use on diskless embedded devices. It provides improved wear 11101da177e4SLinus Torvalds levelling, compression and support for hard links. You cannot use 11111da177e4SLinus Torvalds this on normal block devices, only on 'MTD' devices. 11121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Further information on the design and implementation of JFFS2 is 11141da177e4SLinus Torvalds available at <http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2/>. 11151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_FS_DEBUG 11171da177e4SLinus Torvalds int "JFFS2 debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 2 = noisy)" 11181da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 11191da177e4SLinus Torvalds default "0" 11201da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11211da177e4SLinus Torvalds This controls the amount of debugging messages produced by the JFFS2 11221da177e4SLinus Torvalds code. Set it to zero for use in production systems. For evaluation, 11231da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing and debugging, it's advisable to set it to one. This will 11241da177e4SLinus Torvalds enable a few assertions and will print debugging messages at the 11251da177e4SLinus Torvalds KERN_DEBUG loglevel, where they won't normally be visible. Level 2 11261da177e4SLinus Torvalds is unlikely to be useful - it enables extra debugging in certain 11271da177e4SLinus Torvalds areas which at one point needed debugging, but when the bugs were 11281da177e4SLinus Torvalds located and fixed, the detailed messages were relegated to level 2. 11291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11301da177e4SLinus Torvalds If reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of the 11311da177e4SLinus Torvalds messages at debug level 1 while the misbehaviour was occurring. 11321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11332ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouseconfig JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER 11342ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse bool "JFFS2 write-buffering support" 1135aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei depends on JFFS2_FS 11362ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse default y 11372ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse help 11382ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse This enables the write-buffering support in JFFS2. 11392ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse 11402ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse This functionality is required to support JFFS2 on the following 11412ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse types of flash devices: 11422ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse - NAND flash 11432ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse - NOR flash with transparent ECC 11442ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse - DataFlash 11452ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse 11462ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouseconfig JFFS2_SUMMARY 11472ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse bool "JFFS2 summary support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 11482ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 11492ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse default n 11502ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse help 11512ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse This feature makes it possible to use summary information 11522ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse for faster filesystem mount. 11532ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse 11542ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse The summary information can be inserted into a filesystem image 11552ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse by the utility 'sumtool'. 11562ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse 11572ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse If unsure, say 'N'. 11582ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse 11592ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouseconfig JFFS2_FS_XATTR 11602ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse bool "JFFS2 XATTR support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 116104510deeSKaiGai Kohei depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 1162aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei default n 1163aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei help 1164aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 1165aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 1166aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 1167aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 1168aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei If unsure, say N. 1169aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 1170aa98d7cfSKaiGai Koheiconfig JFFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL 1171aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei bool "JFFS2 POSIX Access Control Lists" 1172aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR 1173aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei default y 1174aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei select FS_POSIX_ACL 1175aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei help 1176aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 1177aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 1178aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 1179aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 1180aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 1181aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 1182aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 1183aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 1184aa98d7cfSKaiGai Koheiconfig JFFS2_FS_SECURITY 1185aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei bool "JFFS2 Security Labels" 1186aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR 1187aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei default y 1188aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei help 1189aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei Security labels support alternative access control models 1190aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 1191aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei enables an extended attribute handler for file security 1192aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei labels in the jffs2 filesystem. 1193aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 1194aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei If you are not using a security module that requires using 1195aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 1196aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 11971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 11981da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Advanced compression options for JFFS2" 11991da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 12001da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 12011da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12021da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this option allows you to explicitly choose which 12031da177e4SLinus Torvalds compression modules, if any, are enabled in JFFS2. Removing 12041da177e4SLinus Torvalds compressors and mean you cannot read existing file systems, 12051da177e4SLinus Torvalds and enabling experimental compressors can mean that you 12061da177e4SLinus Torvalds write a file system which cannot be read by a standard kernel. 12071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12081da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, you should _definitely_ say 'N'. 12091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_ZLIB 12111da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFFS2 ZLIB compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 12121da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_INFLATE 12131da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_DEFLATE 12141da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 12151da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 12161da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12171da177e4SLinus Torvalds Zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered, 12181da177e4SLinus Torvalds lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer 12191da177e4SLinus Torvalds hardware and operating system. See <http://www.gzip.org/zlib/> for 12201da177e4SLinus Torvalds further information. 12211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12221da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say 'Y' if unsure. 12231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_RTIME 12251da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFFS2 RTIME compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 12261da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 12271da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 12281da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12291da177e4SLinus Torvalds Rtime does manage to recompress already-compressed data. Say 'Y' if unsure. 12301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_RUBIN 12321da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFFS2 RUBIN compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 12331da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 12341da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 12351da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12361da177e4SLinus Torvalds RUBINMIPS and DYNRUBIN compressors. Say 'N' if unsure. 12371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12381da177e4SLinus Torvaldschoice 12391da177e4SLinus Torvalds prompt "JFFS2 default compression mode" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 12401da177e4SLinus Torvalds default JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY 12411da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 12421da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12431da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can set here the default compression mode of JFFS2 from 12441da177e4SLinus Torvalds the available compression modes. Don't touch if unsure. 12451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_CMODE_NONE 12471da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "no compression" 12481da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12491da177e4SLinus Torvalds Uses no compression. 12501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY 12521da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "priority" 12531da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12541da177e4SLinus Torvalds Tries the compressors in a predefinied order and chooses the first 12551da177e4SLinus Torvalds successful one. 12561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_CMODE_SIZE 12581da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "size (EXPERIMENTAL)" 12591da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12601da177e4SLinus Torvalds Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest 12611da177e4SLinus Torvalds result. 12621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendchoice 12641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CRAMFS 12661da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)" 12671da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_INFLATE 12681da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12691da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here includes support for CramFs (Compressed ROM File 12701da177e4SLinus Torvalds System). CramFs is designed to be a simple, small, and compressed 12711da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system for ROM based embedded systems. CramFs is read-only, 12721da177e4SLinus Torvalds limited to 256MB file systems (with 16MB files), and doesn't support 12731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16/32 bits uid/gid, hard links and timestamps. 12741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12751da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt> and 12761da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:fs/cramfs/README> for further information. 12771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12781da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 12791da177e4SLinus Torvalds cramfs. Note that the root file system (the one containing the 12801da177e4SLinus Torvalds directory /) cannot be compiled as a module. 12811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12821da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 12831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig VXFS_FS 12851da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "FreeVxFS file system support (VERITAS VxFS(TM) compatible)" 12861da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12871da177e4SLinus Torvalds FreeVxFS is a file system driver that support the VERITAS VxFS(TM) 12881da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system format. VERITAS VxFS(TM) is the standard file system 12891da177e4SLinus Torvalds of SCO UnixWare (and possibly others) and optionally available 12901da177e4SLinus Torvalds for Sunsoft Solaris, HP-UX and many other operating systems. 12911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Currently only readonly access is supported. 12921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12931da177e4SLinus Torvalds NOTE: the file system type as used by mount(1), mount(2) and 12941da177e4SLinus Torvalds fstab(5) is 'vxfs' as it describes the file system format, not 12951da177e4SLinus Torvalds the actual driver. 12961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12971da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 12981da177e4SLinus Torvalds called freevxfs. If unsure, say N. 12991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HPFS_FS 13021da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "OS/2 HPFS file system support" 13031da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13041da177e4SLinus Torvalds OS/2 is IBM's operating system for PC's, the same as Warp, and HPFS 13051da177e4SLinus Torvalds is the file system used for organizing files on OS/2 hard disk 13061da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions. Say Y if you want to be able to read files from and 13071da177e4SLinus Torvalds write files to an OS/2 HPFS partition on your hard drive. OS/2 13081da177e4SLinus Torvalds floppies however are in regular MSDOS format, so you don't need this 13091da177e4SLinus Torvalds option in order to be able to read them. Read 13101da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt>. 13111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13121da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 13131da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called hpfs. If unsure, say N. 13141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QNX4FS_FS 13181da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "QNX4 file system support (read only)" 13191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13201da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the file system used by the real-time operating systems 13211da177e4SLinus Torvalds QNX 4 and QNX 6 (the latter is also called QNX RTP). 13221da177e4SLinus Torvalds Further information is available at <http://www.qnx.com/>. 13231da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y if you intend to mount QNX hard disks or floppies. 13241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless you say Y to "QNX4FS read-write support" below, you will 13251da177e4SLinus Torvalds only be able to read these file systems. 13261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13271da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 13281da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called qnx4. 13291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13301da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it: 13311da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer N. 13321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QNX4FS_RW 13341da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "QNX4FS write support (DANGEROUS)" 13351da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on QNX4FS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN 13361da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13371da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y if you want to test write support for QNX4 file systems. 13381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13391da177e4SLinus Torvalds It's currently broken, so for now: 13401da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer N. 13411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSV_FS 13451da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support" 13461da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13471da177e4SLinus Torvalds SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel 13481da177e4SLinus Torvalds machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y 13491da177e4SLinus Torvalds here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk 13501da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions. 13511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13521da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely 13531da177e4SLinus Torvalds that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order 13541da177e4SLinus Torvalds to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is a 13551da177e4SLinus Torvalds a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse, 13561da177e4SLinus Torvalds UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux. It is 13571da177e4SLinus Torvalds available via FTP (user: ftp) from 13581da177e4SLinus Torvalds <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>). 13591da177e4SLinus Torvalds NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems; 13601da177e4SLinus Torvalds PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-) 13611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13621da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the 13631da177e4SLinus Torvalds network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support 13641da177e4SLinus Torvalds (but you need NFS file system support obviously). 13651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13661da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a 13671da177e4SLinus Torvalds good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes 13681da177e4SLinus Torvalds (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man 13691da177e4SLinus Torvalds tar" or preferably "info tar"). Note also that this option has 13701da177e4SLinus Torvalds nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about 13711da177e4SLinus Torvalds the System V file system in 13721da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>. 13731da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB. 13741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13751da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 13761da177e4SLinus Torvalds sysv. 13771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13781da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. 13791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UFS_FS 13831da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "UFS file system support (read only)" 13841da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13851da177e4SLinus Torvalds BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, 13861da177e4SLinus Torvalds OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a file system called UFS. Some System V 13871da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using 13881da177e4SLinus Torvalds this file system as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from 13891da177e4SLinus Torvalds these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the 13901da177e4SLinus Torvalds experimental "UFS file system write support", below. Please read the 13911da177e4SLinus Torvalds file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt> for more information. 13921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13931da177e4SLinus Torvalds The recently released UFS2 variant (used in FreeBSD 5.x) is 13941da177e4SLinus Torvalds READ-ONLY supported. 13951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13961da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the 13971da177e4SLinus Torvalds network using NFS, you don't need the UFS file system support (but 13981da177e4SLinus Torvalds you need NFS file system support obviously). 13991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14001da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a 14011da177e4SLinus Torvalds good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes 14021da177e4SLinus Torvalds (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man 14031da177e4SLinus Torvalds tar" or preferably "info tar"). 14041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14051da177e4SLinus Torvalds When accessing NeXTstep files, you may need to convert them from the 14061da177e4SLinus Torvalds NeXT character set to the Latin1 character set; use the program 14071da177e4SLinus Torvalds recode ("info recode") for this purpose. 14081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14091da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the UFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the 14101da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called ufs. 14111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14121da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. 14131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UFS_FS_WRITE 14151da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS)" 14165afb3145SEvgeniy Dushistov depends on UFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 14171da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14181da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you want to try writing to UFS partitions. This is 14191da177e4SLinus Torvalds experimental, so you should back up your UFS partitions beforehand. 14201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1421abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistovconfig UFS_DEBUG 1422abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov bool "UFS debugging" 1423abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov depends on UFS_FS 1424abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov help 1425abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov If you are experiencing any problems with the UFS filesystem, say 1426abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov Y here. This will result in _many_ additional debugging messages to be 1427abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov written to the system log. 1428abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov 14291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 14301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Network File Systems" 14321da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET 14331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_FS 14351da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NFS file system support" 14361da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 14371da177e4SLinus Torvalds select LOCKD 14381da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC 1439b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFS_V3_ACL 14401da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14411da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are connected to some other (usually local) Unix computer 14421da177e4SLinus Torvalds (using SLIP, PLIP, PPP or Ethernet) and want to mount files residing 14431da177e4SLinus Torvalds on that computer (the NFS server) using the Network File Sharing 14441da177e4SLinus Torvalds protocol, say Y. "Mounting files" means that the client can access 14451da177e4SLinus Torvalds the files with usual UNIX commands as if they were sitting on the 14461da177e4SLinus Torvalds client's hard disk. For this to work, the server must run the 14471da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs nfsd and mountd (but does not need to have NFS file system 14481da177e4SLinus Torvalds support enabled in its kernel). NFS is explained in the Network 14491da177e4SLinus Torvalds Administrator's Guide, available from 14501da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>, on its man page: "man 14511da177e4SLinus Torvalds nfs", and in the NFS-HOWTO. 14521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14531da177e4SLinus Torvalds A superior but less widely used alternative to NFS is provided by 14541da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Coda file system; see "Coda file system support" below. 14551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14561da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you should have said Y to TCP/IP networking also. 14571da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option would enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB. 14581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14591da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 14601da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called nfs. 14611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14621da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are configuring a diskless machine which will mount its root 14631da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system over NFS at boot time, say Y here and to "Kernel 14641da177e4SLinus Torvalds level IP autoconfiguration" above and to "Root file system on NFS" 14651da177e4SLinus Torvalds below. You cannot compile this driver as a module in this case. 14661da177e4SLinus Torvalds There are two packages designed for booting diskless machines over 14671da177e4SLinus Torvalds the net: netboot, available from 14681da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/netboot/>, and Etherboot, 14691da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/etherboot/>. 14701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14711da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what all this is about, say N. 14721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_V3 14741da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Provide NFSv3 client support" 14751da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFS_FS 14761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14771da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak version 14781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3 of the NFS protocol. 14791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14801da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 14811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1482b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFS_V3_ACL 1483b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher bool "Provide client support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension" 1484b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFS_V3 1485b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher help 1486b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX 1487b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher Access Control Lists. The server should also be compiled with 1488b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL option. 1489b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher 1490b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher If unsure, say N. 1491b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher 14921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_V4 14931da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Provide NFSv4 client support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14941da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 14951da177e4SLinus Torvalds select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 14961da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14971da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak the newer 14981da177e4SLinus Torvalds version 4 of the NFS protocol. 14991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15001da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: Requires auxiliary userspace daemons which may be found on 15011da177e4SLinus Torvalds http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ 15021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15031da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 15041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_DIRECTIO 1506026ed5c9SChuck Lever bool "Allow direct I/O on NFS files" 1507026ed5c9SChuck Lever depends on NFS_FS 15081da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15091da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables applications to perform uncached I/O on files 15101da177e4SLinus Torvalds in NFS file systems using the O_DIRECT open() flag. When O_DIRECT 15111da177e4SLinus Torvalds is set for a file, its data is not cached in the system's page 15121da177e4SLinus Torvalds cache. Data is moved to and from user-level application buffers 15131da177e4SLinus Torvalds directly. Unlike local disk-based file systems, NFS O_DIRECT has 15141da177e4SLinus Torvalds no alignment restrictions. 15151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15161da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless your program is designed to use O_DIRECT properly, you are 15171da177e4SLinus Torvalds much better off allowing the NFS client to manage data caching for 15181da177e4SLinus Torvalds you. Misusing O_DIRECT can cause poor server performance or network 15191da177e4SLinus Torvalds storms. This kernel build option defaults OFF to avoid exposing 15201da177e4SLinus Torvalds system administrators unwittingly to a potentially hazardous 15211da177e4SLinus Torvalds feature. 15221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15231da177e4SLinus Torvalds For more details on NFS O_DIRECT, see fs/nfs/direct.c. 15241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15251da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. This reduces the size of the NFS client, and 15261da177e4SLinus Torvalds causes open() to return EINVAL if a file residing in NFS is 15271da177e4SLinus Torvalds opened with the O_DIRECT flag. 15281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD 15301da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NFS server support" 15311da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 15321da177e4SLinus Torvalds select LOCKD 15331da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC 15341da177e4SLinus Torvalds select EXPORTFS 1535f05e15b5SHerbert Xu select NFSD_V2_ACL if NFSD_V3_ACL 1536f05e15b5SHerbert Xu select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFSD_V2_ACL 1537f05e15b5SHerbert Xu select NFSD_TCP if NFSD_V4 1538f05e15b5SHerbert Xu select CRYPTO_MD5 if NFSD_V4 1539f05e15b5SHerbert Xu select CRYPTO if NFSD_V4 1540f05e15b5SHerbert Xu select FS_POSIX_ACL if NFSD_V4 15411da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15421da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want your Linux box to act as an NFS *server*, so that other 15431da177e4SLinus Torvalds computers on your local network which support NFS can access certain 15441da177e4SLinus Torvalds directories on your box transparently, you have two options: you can 15451da177e4SLinus Torvalds use the self-contained user space program nfsd, in which case you 15461da177e4SLinus Torvalds should say N here, or you can say Y and use the kernel based NFS 15471da177e4SLinus Torvalds server. The advantage of the kernel based solution is that it is 15481da177e4SLinus Torvalds faster. 15491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15501da177e4SLinus Torvalds In either case, you will need support software; the respective 15511da177e4SLinus Torvalds locations are given in the file <file:Documentation/Changes> in the 15521da177e4SLinus Torvalds NFS section. 15531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15541da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will get support for version 2 of the NFS 15551da177e4SLinus Torvalds protocol (NFSv2). If you also want NFSv3, say Y to the next question 15561da177e4SLinus Torvalds as well. 15571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15581da177e4SLinus Torvalds Please read the NFS-HOWTO, available from 15591da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 15601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15611da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the NFS server support as a module, choose M here: the 15621da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called nfsd. If unsure, say N. 15631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1564a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFSD_V2_ACL 1565a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher bool 1566a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFSD 1567a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 15681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD_V3 15691da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Provide NFSv3 server support" 15701da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFSD 15711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15721da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you would like to include the NFSv3 server as well as the NFSv2 15731da177e4SLinus Torvalds server, say Y here. If unsure, say Y. 15741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1575a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFSD_V3_ACL 1576a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher bool "Provide server support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension" 1577a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFSD_V3 1578a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher help 1579a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX 1580a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher Access Control Lists on exported file systems. NFS clients should 1581a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher be compiled with the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the 1582a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL option. If unsure, say N. 1583a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 15841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD_V4 15851da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Provide NFSv4 server support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 15861da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFSD_V3 && EXPERIMENTAL 15871da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15881da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you would like to include the NFSv4 server as well as the NFSv2 15891da177e4SLinus Torvalds and NFSv3 servers, say Y here. This feature is experimental, and 15901da177e4SLinus Torvalds should only be used if you are interested in helping to test NFSv4. 15911da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 15921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD_TCP 15941da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Provide NFS server over TCP support" 15951da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFSD 15961da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15971da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15981da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want your NFS server to support TCP connections, say Y here. 15991da177e4SLinus Torvalds TCP connections usually perform better than the default UDP when 16001da177e4SLinus Torvalds the network is lossy or congested. If unsure, say Y. 16011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ROOT_NFS 16031da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Root file system on NFS" 16041da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP 16051da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16061da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the 16071da177e4SLinus Torvalds one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the 16081da177e4SLinus Torvalds net via NFS (presumably because your box doesn't have a hard disk), 16091da177e4SLinus Torvalds say Y. Read <file:Documentation/nfsroot.txt> for details. It is 16101da177e4SLinus Torvalds likely that in this case, you also want to say Y to "Kernel level IP 16111da177e4SLinus Torvalds autoconfiguration" so that your box can discover its network address 16121da177e4SLinus Torvalds at boot time. 16131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16141da177e4SLinus Torvalds Most people say N here. 16151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCKD 16171da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 16181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCKD_V4 16201da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 16211da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFSD_V3 || NFS_V3 16221da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPORTFS 16251da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 16261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1627a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFS_ACL_SUPPORT 1628a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher tristate 1629a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 1630a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 1631a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFS_COMMON 1632a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher bool 1633a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFSD || NFS_FS 1634a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher default y 1635a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 16361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNRPC 16371da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 16381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNRPC_GSS 16401da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 16411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 16431da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)" 16441da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL 16451da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC_GSS 16461da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO 16471da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_MD5 16481da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_DES 16491da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16501da177e4SLinus Torvalds Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api 16511da177e4SLinus Torvalds mechanism based on Kerberos V5. This is required for 16521da177e4SLinus Torvalds NFSv4. 16531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16541da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on 16551da177e4SLinus Torvalds http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ 16561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16571da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 16581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3 16601da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Secure RPC: SPKM3 mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)" 16611da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL 16621da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC_GSS 16631da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO 16641da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_MD5 16651da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_DES 1666df6db302SJ. Bruce Fields select CRYPTO_CAST5 16671da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16681da177e4SLinus Torvalds Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api 16691da177e4SLinus Torvalds mechanism based on the SPKM3 public-key mechanism. 16701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16711da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on 16721da177e4SLinus Torvalds http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ 16731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16741da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 16751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SMB_FS 16771da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SMB file system support (to mount Windows shares etc.)" 16781da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 16791da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 16801da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16811da177e4SLinus Torvalds SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Windows for Workgroups 16821da177e4SLinus Torvalds (WfW), Windows 95/98, Windows NT and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share 16831da177e4SLinus Torvalds files and printers over local networks. Saying Y here allows you to 16841da177e4SLinus Torvalds mount their file systems (often called "shares" in this context) and 16851da177e4SLinus Torvalds access them just like any other Unix directory. Currently, this 16861da177e4SLinus Torvalds works only if the Windows machines use TCP/IP as the underlying 16871da177e4SLinus Torvalds transport protocol, and not NetBEUI. For details, read 16881da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt> and the SMB-HOWTO, 16891da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 16901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: if you just want your box to act as an SMB *server* and make 16921da177e4SLinus Torvalds files and printing services available to Windows clients (which need 16931da177e4SLinus Torvalds to have a TCP/IP stack), you don't need to say Y here; you can use 16941da177e4SLinus Torvalds the program SAMBA (available from <ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/>) 16951da177e4SLinus Torvalds for that. 16961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16971da177e4SLinus Torvalds General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and 16981da177e4SLinus Torvalds Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>. 16991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17001da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here: the module will 17011da177e4SLinus Torvalds be called smbfs. Most people say N, however. 17021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SMB_NLS_DEFAULT 17041da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use a default NLS" 17051da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SMB_FS 17061da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17071da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this will make smbfs use nls translations by default. You 17081da177e4SLinus Torvalds need to specify the local charset (CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT) in the nls 17091da177e4SLinus Torvalds settings and you need to give the default nls for the SMB server as 17101da177e4SLinus Torvalds CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE. 17111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17121da177e4SLinus Torvalds The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount 17131da177e4SLinus Torvalds supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters. 17141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17151da177e4SLinus Torvalds smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this. 17161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SMB_NLS_REMOTE 17181da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Default Remote NLS Option" 17191da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SMB_NLS_DEFAULT 17201da177e4SLinus Torvalds default "cp437" 17211da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17221da177e4SLinus Torvalds This setting allows you to specify a default value for which 17231da177e4SLinus Torvalds codepage the server uses. If this field is left blank no 17241da177e4SLinus Torvalds translations will be done by default. The local codepage/charset 17251da177e4SLinus Torvalds default to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT. 17261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17271da177e4SLinus Torvalds The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount 17281da177e4SLinus Torvalds supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters. 17291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17301da177e4SLinus Torvalds smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this. 17311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS 17331da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem for Samba, Window and other CIFS compliant servers)" 17341da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 17351da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 17361da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17371da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System 17381da177e4SLinus Torvalds (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block 17391da177e4SLinus Torvalds (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early 17401da177e4SLinus Torvalds PC operating systems. The CIFS protocol is fully supported by 17411da177e4SLinus Torvalds file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4 17421da177e4SLinus Torvalds and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS 1743ec58ef03SSteve French server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited 1744ec58ef03SSteve French support for Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well. 1745ec58ef03SSteve French You must use the smbfs client filesystem to access older SMB servers 1746ec58ef03SSteve French such as OS/2 and DOS. 17471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17481da177e4SLinus Torvalds The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced 17491da177e4SLinus Torvalds network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers, 17501da177e4SLinus Torvalds including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user 17511da177e4SLinus Torvalds session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional 17521da177e4SLinus Torvalds packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements, 17531da177e4SLinus Torvalds and optional Winbind (nsswitch) integration. You do not need to enable 17541da177e4SLinus Torvalds cifs if running only a (Samba) server. It is possible to enable both 17551da177e4SLinus Torvalds smbfs and cifs (e.g. if you are using CIFS for accessing Windows 2003 17561da177e4SLinus Torvalds and Samba 3 servers, and smbfs for accessing old servers). If you need 1757ec58ef03SSteve French to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y. 17581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS_STATS 17601da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "CIFS statistics" 17611da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on CIFS 17621da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17631da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share 17641da177e4SLinus Torvalds mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats 17651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1766ec58ef03SSteve Frenchconfig CIFS_STATS2 17673979877eSSteve French bool "Extended statistics" 1768ec58ef03SSteve French depends on CIFS_STATS 1769ec58ef03SSteve French help 1770ec58ef03SSteve French Enabling this option will allow more detailed statistics on SMB 1771ec58ef03SSteve French request timing to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData and also 1772ec58ef03SSteve French allow optional logging of slow responses to dmesg (depending on the 1773ec58ef03SSteve French value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI, see fs/cifs/README for more details). 1774ec58ef03SSteve French These additional statistics may have a minor effect on performance 1775ec58ef03SSteve French and memory utilization. 1776ec58ef03SSteve French 1777ec58ef03SSteve French Unless you are a developer or are doing network performance analysis 1778ec58ef03SSteve French or tuning, say N. 1779ec58ef03SSteve French 17803979877eSSteve Frenchconfig CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH 17813979877eSSteve French bool "Support legacy servers which use weaker LANMAN security" 17823979877eSSteve French depends on CIFS 17833979877eSSteve French help 17843979877eSSteve French Modern CIFS servers including Samba and most Windows versions 17853979877eSSteve French (since 1997) support stronger NTLM (and even NTLMv2 and Kerberos) 17863979877eSSteve French security mechanisms. These hash the password more securely 17873979877eSSteve French than the mechanisms used in the older LANMAN version of the 17883979877eSSteve French SMB protocol needed to establish sessions with old SMB servers. 17893979877eSSteve French 17903979877eSSteve French Enabling this option allows the cifs module to mount to older 17913979877eSSteve French LANMAN based servers such as OS/2 and Windows 95, but such 17923979877eSSteve French mounts may be less secure than mounts using NTLM or more recent 17933979877eSSteve French security mechanisms if you are on a public network. Unless you 17943979877eSSteve French have a need to access old SMB servers (and are on a private 17953979877eSSteve French network) you probably want to say N. Even if this support 17963979877eSSteve French is enabled in the kernel build, they will not be used 17973979877eSSteve French automatically. At runtime LANMAN mounts are disabled but 17983979877eSSteve French can be set to required (or optional) either in 17993979877eSSteve French /proc/fs/cifs (see fs/cifs/README for more detail) or via an 18003979877eSSteve French option on the mount command. This support is disabled by 18013979877eSSteve French default in order to reduce the possibility of a downgrade 18023979877eSSteve French attack. 18033979877eSSteve French 18043979877eSSteve French If unsure, say N. 18053979877eSSteve French 18061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS_XATTR 1807ec58ef03SSteve French bool "CIFS extended attributes" 18081da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on CIFS 18091da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18101da177e4SLinus Torvalds Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 18111da177e4SLinus Torvalds the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 18121da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). CIFS maps the name of 18131da177e4SLinus Torvalds extended attributes beginning with the user namespace prefix 18141da177e4SLinus Torvalds to SMB/CIFS EAs. EAs are stored on Windows servers without the 18151da177e4SLinus Torvalds user namespace prefix, but their names are seen by Linux cifs clients 18161da177e4SLinus Torvalds prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace 18171da177e4SLinus Torvalds (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at 18181da177e4SLinus Torvalds this time. 18191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18201da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 18211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS_POSIX 1823ec58ef03SSteve French bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions" 18241da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on CIFS_XATTR 18251da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18261da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to 18271da177e4SLinus Torvalds negotiate a newer dialect with servers, such as Samba 3.0.5 18281da177e4SLinus Torvalds or later, that optionally can handle more POSIX like (rather 18291da177e4SLinus Torvalds than Windows like) file behavior. It also enables 18301da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for POSIX ACLs (getfacl and setfacl) to servers 18311da177e4SLinus Torvalds (such as Samba 3.10 and later) which can negotiate 18321da177e4SLinus Torvalds CIFS POSIX ACL support. If unsure, say N. 18331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18343979877eSSteve Frenchconfig CIFS_DEBUG2 18353856a9d4SSteve French bool "Enable additional CIFS debugging routines" 18368ba10ab1SSteve French depends on CIFS 18373979877eSSteve French help 18383979877eSSteve French Enabling this option adds a few more debugging routines 18393979877eSSteve French to the cifs code which slightly increases the size of 18403979877eSSteve French the cifs module and can cause additional logging of debug 18413979877eSSteve French messages in some error paths, slowing performance. This 18423979877eSSteve French option can be turned off unless you are debugging 18433979877eSSteve French cifs problems. If unsure, say N. 18443979877eSSteve French 18451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL 18461da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1847cb9dbff9SSteve French depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL 18481da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1849ec58ef03SSteve French Enables cifs features under testing. These features are 1850ec58ef03SSteve French experimental and currently include support for writepages 1851ec58ef03SSteve French (multipage writebehind performance improvements) and directory 1852ec58ef03SSteve French change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY) as well as some security 1853ec58ef03SSteve French improvements. Some also depend on setting at runtime the 1854ec58ef03SSteve French pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental (which is disabled by 1855ec58ef03SSteve French default). See the file fs/cifs/README for more details. 1856ec58ef03SSteve French 1857ec58ef03SSteve French If unsure, say N. 18581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1859a2653ebaSSteve Frenchconfig CIFS_UPCALL 18603979877eSSteve French bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1861a2653ebaSSteve French depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL 1862a2653ebaSSteve French select CONNECTOR 1863a2653ebaSSteve French help 1864a2653ebaSSteve French Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which will be used to contact 1865a2653ebaSSteve French userspace helper utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged Kerberos 1866a2653ebaSSteve French tickets which are needed to mount to certain secure servers 18671b397f4fSSteve French (for which more secure Kerberos authentication is required). If 18681b397f4fSSteve French unsure, say N. 1869a2653ebaSSteve French 18701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NCP_FS 18711da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)" 18721da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IPX!=n || INET 18731da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18741da177e4SLinus Torvalds NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) is a protocol that runs over IPX and is 18751da177e4SLinus Torvalds used by Novell NetWare clients to talk to file servers. It is to 18761da177e4SLinus Torvalds IPX what NFS is to TCP/IP, if that helps. Saying Y here allows you 18771da177e4SLinus Torvalds to mount NetWare file server volumes and to access them just like 18781da177e4SLinus Torvalds any other Unix directory. For details, please read the file 18791da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/ncpfs.txt> in the kernel source and 18801da177e4SLinus Torvalds the IPX-HOWTO from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 18811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18821da177e4SLinus Torvalds You do not have to say Y here if you want your Linux box to act as a 18831da177e4SLinus Torvalds file *server* for Novell NetWare clients. 18841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18851da177e4SLinus Torvalds General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and 18861da177e4SLinus Torvalds Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>. 18871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18881da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 18891da177e4SLinus Torvalds ncpfs. Say N unless you are connected to a Novell network. 18901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18911da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/ncpfs/Kconfig" 18921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CODA_FS 18941da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)" 18951da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 18961da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18971da177e4SLinus Torvalds Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it 18981da177e4SLinus Torvalds enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them 18991da177e4SLinus Torvalds with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard 19001da177e4SLinus Torvalds disk. Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for 19011da177e4SLinus Torvalds disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server 19021da177e4SLinus Torvalds replication, security model for authentication and encryption, 19031da177e4SLinus Torvalds persistent client caches and write back caching. 19041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19051da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda 19061da177e4SLinus Torvalds *client*. You will need user level code as well, both for the 19071da177e4SLinus Torvalds client and server. Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need 19081da177e4SLinus Torvalds no kernel support. Please read 19091da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.txt> and check out the Coda 19101da177e4SLinus Torvalds home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>. 19111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19121da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the 19131da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called coda. 19141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CODA_FS_OLD_API 19161da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use 96-bit Coda file identifiers" 19171da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on CODA_FS 19181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19191da177e4SLinus Torvalds A new kernel-userspace API had to be introduced for Coda v6.0 19201da177e4SLinus Torvalds to support larger 128-bit file identifiers as needed by the 19211da177e4SLinus Torvalds new realms implementation. 19221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19231da177e4SLinus Torvalds However this new API is not backward compatible with older 19241da177e4SLinus Torvalds clients. If you really need to run the old Coda userspace 19251da177e4SLinus Torvalds cache manager then say Y. 19261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19271da177e4SLinus Torvalds For most cases you probably want to say N. 19281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AFS_FS 19301da177e4SLinus Torvalds# for fs/nls/Config.in 19311da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Andrew File System support (AFS) (Experimental)" 19321da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL 19331da177e4SLinus Torvalds select RXRPC 19341da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19351da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will get an experimental Andrew File System 19361da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver. It currently only supports unsecured read-only AFS access. 19371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19381da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more intormation. 19391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19401da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 19411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig RXRPC 19431da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 19441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 194593fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergenconfig 9P_FS 194693fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen tristate "Plan 9 Resource Sharing Support (9P2000) (Experimental)" 194793fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL 194893fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen help 194993fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen If you say Y here, you will get experimental support for 195093fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen Plan 9 resource sharing via the 9P2000 protocol. 195193fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen 195293fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen See <http://v9fs.sf.net> for more information. 195393fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen 195493fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen If unsure, say N. 195593fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen 1956f0c8bd16SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig GENERIC_ACL 1957f0c8bd16SAndreas Gruenbacher bool 1958f0c8bd16SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 1959f0c8bd16SAndreas Gruenbacher 19601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 19611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Partition Types" 19631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19641da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/partitions/Kconfig" 19651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 19671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19681da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/nls/Kconfig" 19691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 19711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1972