11da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 21da177e4SLinus Torvalds# File system configuration 31da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 41da177e4SLinus Torvalds 51da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "File systems" 61da177e4SLinus Torvalds 79361401eSDavid Howellsif BLOCK 89361401eSDavid Howells 91da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT2_FS 101da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Second extended fs support" 111da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 121da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ext2 is a standard Linux file system for hard disks. 131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 141da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 151da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called ext2. Be aware however that the file system 161da177e4SLinus Torvalds of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot 171da177e4SLinus Torvalds be compiled as a module, and so this could be dangerous. 181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 191da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT2_FS_XATTR 221da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Ext2 extended attributes" 231da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXT2_FS 241da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 251da177e4SLinus Torvalds Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 261da177e4SLinus Torvalds the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 271da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 291da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Ext2 POSIX Access Control Lists" 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR 34b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 421da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT2_FS_SECURITY 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Ext2 Security Labels" 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds Security labels support alternative access control models 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds enables an extended attribute handler for file security 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds labels in the ext2 filesystem. 521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not using a security module that requires using 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 566d79125bSCarsten Otteconfig EXT2_FS_XIP 576d79125bSCarsten Otte bool "Ext2 execute in place support" 580c426f26SAl Viro depends on EXT2_FS && MMU 596d79125bSCarsten Otte help 606d79125bSCarsten Otte Execute in place can be used on memory-backed block devices. If you 616d79125bSCarsten Otte enable this option, you can select to mount block devices which are 626d79125bSCarsten Otte capable of this feature without using the page cache. 636d79125bSCarsten Otte 646d79125bSCarsten Otte If you do not use a block device that is capable of using this, 656d79125bSCarsten Otte or if unsure, say N. 666d79125bSCarsten Otte 676d79125bSCarsten Otteconfig FS_XIP 686d79125bSCarsten Otte# execute in place 696d79125bSCarsten Otte bool 706d79125bSCarsten Otte depends on EXT2_FS_XIP 716d79125bSCarsten Otte default y 726d79125bSCarsten Otte 731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT3_FS 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Ext3 journalling file system support" 75b4e40a51SMark Fasheh select JBD 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 77cc2e2767SMatt LaPlante This is the journalling version of the Second extended file system 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds (often called ext3), the de facto standard Linux file system 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds (method to organize files on a storage device) for hard disks. 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 81cc2e2767SMatt LaPlante The journalling code included in this driver means you do not have 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds to run e2fsck (file system checker) on your file systems after a 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds crash. The journal keeps track of any changes that were being made 841da177e4SLinus Torvalds at the time the system crashed, and can ensure that your file system 851da177e4SLinus Torvalds is consistent without the need for a lengthy check. 861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 871da177e4SLinus Torvalds Other than adding the journal to the file system, the on-disk format 881da177e4SLinus Torvalds of ext3 is identical to ext2. It is possible to freely switch 891da177e4SLinus Torvalds between using the ext3 driver and the ext2 driver, as long as the 901da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system has been cleanly unmounted, or e2fsck is run on the file 911da177e4SLinus Torvalds system. 921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 931da177e4SLinus Torvalds To add a journal on an existing ext2 file system or change the 941da177e4SLinus Torvalds behavior of ext3 file systems, you can use the tune2fs utility ("man 951da177e4SLinus Torvalds tune2fs"). To modify attributes of files and directories on ext3 961da177e4SLinus Torvalds file systems, use chattr ("man chattr"). You need to be using 971da177e4SLinus Torvalds e2fsprogs version 1.20 or later in order to create ext3 journals 981da177e4SLinus Torvalds (available at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/e2fsprogs/>). 991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 1011da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called ext3. Be aware however that the file system 1021da177e4SLinus Torvalds of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot 1031da177e4SLinus Torvalds be compiled as a module, and so this may be dangerous. 1041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT3_FS_XATTR 1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Ext3 extended attributes" 1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXT3_FS 1081da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1091da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1101da177e4SLinus Torvalds Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 1111da177e4SLinus Torvalds the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 1121da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 1131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1141da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 1151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1161da177e4SLinus Torvalds You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext3. 1171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL 1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists" 1201da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR 121b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 1221da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1231da177e4SLinus Torvalds Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 1241da177e4SLinus Torvalds groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1261da177e4SLinus Torvalds To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 1271da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 1281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1291da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 1301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT3_FS_SECURITY 1321da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Ext3 Security Labels" 1331da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR 1341da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1351da177e4SLinus Torvalds Security labels support alternative access control models 1361da177e4SLinus Torvalds implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 1371da177e4SLinus Torvalds enables an extended attribute handler for file security 1381da177e4SLinus Torvalds labels in the ext3 filesystem. 1391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1401da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not using a security module that requires using 1411da177e4SLinus Torvalds extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 1421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14302ea2104SMingming Caoconfig EXT4DEV_FS 14402ea2104SMingming Cao tristate "Ext4dev/ext4 extended fs support development (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14502ea2104SMingming Cao depends on EXPERIMENTAL 146dab291afSMingming Cao select JBD2 14702ea2104SMingming Cao help 14802ea2104SMingming Cao Ext4dev is a predecessor filesystem of the next generation 14902ea2104SMingming Cao extended fs ext4, based on ext3 filesystem code. It will be 15002ea2104SMingming Cao renamed ext4 fs later, once ext4dev is mature and stabilized. 15102ea2104SMingming Cao 15202ea2104SMingming Cao Unlike the change from ext2 filesystem to ext3 filesystem, 15302ea2104SMingming Cao the on-disk format of ext4dev is not the same as ext3 any more: 15402ea2104SMingming Cao it is based on extent maps and it supports 48-bit physical block 15502ea2104SMingming Cao numbers. These combined on-disk format changes will allow 15602ea2104SMingming Cao ext4dev/ext4 to handle more than 16 TB filesystem volumes -- 15702ea2104SMingming Cao a hard limit that ext3 cannot overcome without changing the 15802ea2104SMingming Cao on-disk format. 15902ea2104SMingming Cao 16002ea2104SMingming Cao Other than extent maps and 48-bit block numbers, ext4dev also is 16102ea2104SMingming Cao likely to have other new features such as persistent preallocation, 16202ea2104SMingming Cao high resolution time stamps, and larger file support etc. These 16302ea2104SMingming Cao features will be added to ext4dev gradually. 16402ea2104SMingming Cao 16502ea2104SMingming Cao To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here. The 16602ea2104SMingming Cao module will be called ext4dev. Be aware, however, that the filesystem 16702ea2104SMingming Cao of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot 16802ea2104SMingming Cao be compiled as a module, and so this could be dangerous. 16902ea2104SMingming Cao 17002ea2104SMingming Cao If unsure, say N. 17102ea2104SMingming Cao 17202ea2104SMingming Caoconfig EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR 17302ea2104SMingming Cao bool "Ext4dev extended attributes" 17402ea2104SMingming Cao depends on EXT4DEV_FS 17502ea2104SMingming Cao default y 17602ea2104SMingming Cao help 17702ea2104SMingming Cao Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 17802ea2104SMingming Cao the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 17902ea2104SMingming Cao <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 18002ea2104SMingming Cao 18102ea2104SMingming Cao If unsure, say N. 18202ea2104SMingming Cao 18302ea2104SMingming Cao You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext4dev/ext4. 18402ea2104SMingming Cao 18502ea2104SMingming Caoconfig EXT4DEV_FS_POSIX_ACL 18602ea2104SMingming Cao bool "Ext4dev POSIX Access Control Lists" 18702ea2104SMingming Cao depends on EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR 18802ea2104SMingming Cao select FS_POSIX_ACL 18902ea2104SMingming Cao help 19002ea2104SMingming Cao POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 19102ea2104SMingming Cao groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 19202ea2104SMingming Cao 19302ea2104SMingming Cao To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for 19402ea2104SMingming Cao Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 19502ea2104SMingming Cao 19602ea2104SMingming Cao If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 19702ea2104SMingming Cao 19802ea2104SMingming Caoconfig EXT4DEV_FS_SECURITY 19902ea2104SMingming Cao bool "Ext4dev Security Labels" 20002ea2104SMingming Cao depends on EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR 20102ea2104SMingming Cao help 20202ea2104SMingming Cao Security labels support alternative access control models 20302ea2104SMingming Cao implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 20402ea2104SMingming Cao enables an extended attribute handler for file security 20502ea2104SMingming Cao labels in the ext4dev/ext4 filesystem. 20602ea2104SMingming Cao 20702ea2104SMingming Cao If you are not using a security module that requires using 20802ea2104SMingming Cao extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 20902ea2104SMingming Cao 2101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JBD 2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 213cc2e2767SMatt LaPlante This is a generic journalling layer for block devices. It is 214b4e40a51SMark Fasheh currently used by the ext3 and OCFS2 file systems, but it could 215b4e40a51SMark Fasheh also be used to add journal support to other file systems or block 216b4e40a51SMark Fasheh devices such as RAID or LVM. 2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 218b4e40a51SMark Fasheh If you are using the ext3 or OCFS2 file systems, you need to 219b4e40a51SMark Fasheh say Y here. If you are not using ext3 OCFS2 then you will probably 220b4e40a51SMark Fasheh want to say N. 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this device as a module, choose M here: the module will be 223b4e40a51SMark Fasheh called jbd. If you are compiling ext3 or OCFS2 into the kernel, 224b4e40a51SMark Fasheh you cannot compile this code as a module. 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JBD_DEBUG 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JBD (ext3) debugging support" 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JBD 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are using the ext3 journaled file system (or potentially any 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds other file system/device using JBD), this option allows you to 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds enable debugging output while the system is running, in order to 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds help track down any problems you are having. By default the 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds debugging output will be turned off. 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging 2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds with "echo N > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug", where N is a number between 2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1 and 5, the higher the number, the more debugging output is 2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds generated. To turn debugging off again, do 2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds "echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug". 2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 242dab291afSMingming Caoconfig JBD2 243dab291afSMingming Cao tristate 244dab291afSMingming Cao help 245dab291afSMingming Cao This is a generic journaling layer for block devices that support 246dab291afSMingming Cao both 32-bit and 64-bit block numbers. It is currently used by 247dab291afSMingming Cao the ext4dev/ext4 filesystem, but it could also be used to add 248dab291afSMingming Cao journal support to other file systems or block devices such 249dab291afSMingming Cao as RAID or LVM. 250dab291afSMingming Cao 251dab291afSMingming Cao If you are using ext4dev/ext4, you need to say Y here. If you are not 252dab291afSMingming Cao using ext4dev/ext4 then you will probably want to say N. 253dab291afSMingming Cao 254dab291afSMingming Cao To compile this device as a module, choose M here. The module will be 255dab291afSMingming Cao called jbd2. If you are compiling ext4dev/ext4 into the kernel, 256dab291afSMingming Cao you cannot compile this code as a module. 257dab291afSMingming Cao 258dab291afSMingming Caoconfig JBD2_DEBUG 259dab291afSMingming Cao bool "JBD2 (ext4dev/ext4) debugging support" 260dab291afSMingming Cao depends on JBD2 261dab291afSMingming Cao help 262dab291afSMingming Cao If you are using the ext4dev/ext4 journaled file system (or 263dab291afSMingming Cao potentially any other filesystem/device using JBD2), this option 264dab291afSMingming Cao allows you to enable debugging output while the system is running, 265dab291afSMingming Cao in order to help track down any problems you are having. 266dab291afSMingming Cao By default, the debugging output will be turned off. 267dab291afSMingming Cao 268dab291afSMingming Cao If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging 269dab291afSMingming Cao with "echo N > /proc/sys/fs/jbd2-debug", where N is a number between 270dab291afSMingming Cao 1 and 5. The higher the number, the more debugging output is 271dab291afSMingming Cao generated. To turn debugging off again, do 272dab291afSMingming Cao "echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/jbd2-debug". 273dab291afSMingming Cao 2741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FS_MBCACHE 27502ea2104SMingming Cao# Meta block cache for Extended Attributes (ext2/ext3/ext4) 2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 27702ea2104SMingming Cao depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR || EXT3_FS_XATTR || EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR 27802ea2104SMingming Cao default y if EXT2_FS=y || EXT3_FS=y || EXT4DEV_FS=y 27902ea2104SMingming Cao default m if EXT2_FS=m || EXT3_FS=m || EXT4DEV_FS=m 2801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_FS 2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Reiserfs support" 2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds Stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a balanced 285cc2e2767SMatt LaPlante tree. Uses journalling. 2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds Balanced trees are more efficient than traditional file system 2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds architectural foundations. 2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds In general, ReiserFS is as fast as ext2, but is very efficient with 2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds large directories and small files. Additional patches are needed 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds for NFS and quotas, please see <http://www.namesys.com/> for links. 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is more easily extended to have features currently found in 2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds database and keyword search systems than block allocation based file 2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds systems are. The next version will be so extended, and will support 2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds plugins consistent with our motto ``It takes more than a license to 2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds make source code open.'' 2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds Read <http://www.namesys.com/> to learn more about reiserfs. 3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds Sponsored by Threshold Networks, Emusic.com, and Bigstorage.com. 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you like it, you can pay us to add new features to it that you 3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds need, buy a support contract, or pay us to port it to another OS. 3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_CHECK 3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable reiserfs debug mode" 3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on REISERFS_FS 3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you set this to Y, then ReiserFS will perform every check it can 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds possibly imagine of its internal consistency throughout its 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds operation. It will also go substantially slower. More than once we 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds have forgotten that this was on, and then gone despondent over the 3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds latest benchmarks.:-) Use of this option allows our team to go all 3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds out in checking for consistency when debugging without fear of its 3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds effect on end users. If you are on the verge of sending in a bug 3181da177e4SLinus Torvalds report, say Y and you might get a useful error message. Almost 3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds everyone should say N. 3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_PROC_INFO 3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Stats in /proc/fs/reiserfs" 3231da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on REISERFS_FS 3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3251da177e4SLinus Torvalds Create under /proc/fs/reiserfs a hierarchy of files, displaying 3261da177e4SLinus Torvalds various ReiserFS statistics and internal data at the expense of 3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds making your kernel or module slightly larger (+8 KB). This also 3281da177e4SLinus Torvalds increases the amount of kernel memory required for each mount. 3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds Almost everyone but ReiserFS developers and people fine-tuning 3301da177e4SLinus Torvalds reiserfs or tracing problems should say N. 3311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_FS_XATTR 3331da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "ReiserFS extended attributes" 3341da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on REISERFS_FS 3351da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 3371da177e4SLinus Torvalds the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 3381da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 3391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3401da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 3411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL 3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "ReiserFS POSIX Access Control Lists" 3441da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR 345b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 3481da177e4SLinus Torvalds groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 3491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 3511da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 3521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_FS_SECURITY 3561da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "ReiserFS Security Labels" 3571da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR 3581da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3591da177e4SLinus Torvalds Security labels support alternative access control models 3601da177e4SLinus Torvalds implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 3611da177e4SLinus Torvalds enables an extended attribute handler for file security 3621da177e4SLinus Torvalds labels in the ReiserFS filesystem. 3631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3641da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not using a security module that requires using 3651da177e4SLinus Torvalds extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 3661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_FS 3681da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "JFS filesystem support" 3691da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 3701da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3711da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a port of IBM's Journaled Filesystem . More information is 3721da177e4SLinus Torvalds available in the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt>. 3731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3741da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you do not intend to use the JFS filesystem, say N. 3751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_POSIX_ACL 3771da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFS POSIX Access Control Lists" 3781da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFS_FS 379b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 3801da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3811da177e4SLinus Torvalds Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 3821da177e4SLinus Torvalds groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 3831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3841da177e4SLinus Torvalds To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 3851da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 3861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3871da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 3881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_SECURITY 3901da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFS Security Labels" 3911da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFS_FS 3921da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3931da177e4SLinus Torvalds Security labels support alternative access control models 3941da177e4SLinus Torvalds implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 3951da177e4SLinus Torvalds enables an extended attribute handler for file security 3961da177e4SLinus Torvalds labels in the jfs filesystem. 3971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3981da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not using a security module that requires using 3991da177e4SLinus Torvalds extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 4001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_DEBUG 4021da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFS debugging" 4031da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFS_FS 4041da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4051da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are experiencing any problems with the JFS filesystem, say 4061da177e4SLinus Torvalds Y here. This will result in additional debugging messages to be 4071da177e4SLinus Torvalds written to the system log. Under normal circumstances, this 4081da177e4SLinus Torvalds results in very little overhead. 4091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_STATISTICS 4111da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFS statistics" 4121da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFS_FS 4131da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4141da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will cause statistics from the JFS file system 4151da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jfs/ directory. 4161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FS_POSIX_ACL 4181da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Posix ACL utility routines (for now, only ext2/ext3/jfs/reiserfs) 4191da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 4201da177e4SLinus Torvalds# NOTE: you can implement Posix ACLs without these helpers (XFS does). 4211da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Never use this symbol for ifdefs. 4221da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 4231da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 424b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher default n 4251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4261da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/xfs/Kconfig" 427f7825dcfSDavid Teiglandsource "fs/gfs2/Kconfig" 4281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 429b4e40a51SMark Fashehconfig OCFS2_FS 43002ed8416SMark Fasheh tristate "OCFS2 file system support" 43102ed8416SMark Fasheh depends on NET && SYSFS 432b4e40a51SMark Fasheh select CONFIGFS_FS 433b4e40a51SMark Fasheh select JBD 434b4e40a51SMark Fasheh select CRC32 435b4e40a51SMark Fasheh select INET 436b4e40a51SMark Fasheh help 437b4e40a51SMark Fasheh OCFS2 is a general purpose extent based shared disk cluster file 438b4e40a51SMark Fasheh system with many similarities to ext3. It supports 64 bit inode 439b4e40a51SMark Fasheh numbers, and has automatically extending metadata groups which may 440b4e40a51SMark Fasheh also make it attractive for non-clustered use. 441b4e40a51SMark Fasheh 442b4e40a51SMark Fasheh You'll want to install the ocfs2-tools package in order to at least 443b4e40a51SMark Fasheh get "mount.ocfs2". 444b4e40a51SMark Fasheh 445b4e40a51SMark Fasheh Project web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2 446b4e40a51SMark Fasheh Tools web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools 447b4e40a51SMark Fasheh OCFS2 mailing lists: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/mailman/ 448b4e40a51SMark Fasheh 449b4e40a51SMark Fasheh Note: Features which OCFS2 does not support yet: 450b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - extended attributes 451b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - shared writeable mmap 452b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - loopback is supported, but data written will not 453b4e40a51SMark Fasheh be cluster coherent. 454b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - quotas 455b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - cluster aware flock 456b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - Directory change notification (F_NOTIFY) 457b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - Distributed Caching (F_SETLEASE/F_GETLEASE/break_lease) 458b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - POSIX ACLs 459b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - readpages / writepages (not user visible) 460b4e40a51SMark Fasheh 4612b388c67SJoel Beckerconfig OCFS2_DEBUG_MASKLOG 4622b388c67SJoel Becker bool "OCFS2 logging support" 4632b388c67SJoel Becker depends on OCFS2_FS 4642b388c67SJoel Becker default y 4652b388c67SJoel Becker help 4662b388c67SJoel Becker The ocfs2 filesystem has an extensive logging system. The system 4672b388c67SJoel Becker allows selection of events to log via files in /sys/o2cb/logmask/. 4682b388c67SJoel Becker This option will enlarge your kernel, but it allows debugging of 4692b388c67SJoel Becker ocfs2 filesystem issues. 4702b388c67SJoel Becker 4711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MINIX_FS 4721da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Minix fs support" 4731da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4741da177e4SLinus Torvalds Minix is a simple operating system used in many classes about OS's. 4751da177e4SLinus Torvalds The minix file system (method to organize files on a hard disk 4761da177e4SLinus Torvalds partition or a floppy disk) was the original file system for Linux, 4771da177e4SLinus Torvalds but has been superseded by the second extended file system ext2fs. 4781da177e4SLinus Torvalds You don't want to use the minix file system on your hard disk 4791da177e4SLinus Torvalds because of certain built-in restrictions, but it is sometimes found 4801da177e4SLinus Torvalds on older Linux floppy disks. This option will enlarge your kernel 4811da177e4SLinus Torvalds by about 28 KB. If unsure, say N. 4821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4831da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 4841da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called minix. Note that the file system of your root 4851da177e4SLinus Torvalds partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as 4861da177e4SLinus Torvalds a module. 4871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ROMFS_FS 4891da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "ROM file system support" 4901da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4911da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for 4921da177e4SLinus Torvalds initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for 4931da177e4SLinus Torvalds other read-only media as well. Read 4941da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt> for details. 4951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4961da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 4971da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called romfs. Note that the file system of your 4981da177e4SLinus Torvalds root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a 4991da177e4SLinus Torvalds module. 5001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5011da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it: 5021da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer N. 5031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5049361401eSDavid Howellsendif 5059361401eSDavid Howells 5060eeca283SRobert Loveconfig INOTIFY 5070eeca283SRobert Love bool "Inotify file change notification support" 5080eeca283SRobert Love default y 5090eeca283SRobert Love ---help--- 5102d9048e2SAmy Griffis Say Y here to enable inotify support. Inotify is a file change 5112d9048e2SAmy Griffis notification system and a replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes 5122d9048e2SAmy Griffis numerous shortcomings in dnotify and introduces several new features 5132d9048e2SAmy Griffis including multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount 5143de11748SRobert Love notification. 5153de11748SRobert Love 5163de11748SRobert Love For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt 5170eeca283SRobert Love 5180eeca283SRobert Love If unsure, say Y. 5190eeca283SRobert Love 5202d9048e2SAmy Griffisconfig INOTIFY_USER 5212d9048e2SAmy Griffis bool "Inotify support for userspace" 5222d9048e2SAmy Griffis depends on INOTIFY 5232d9048e2SAmy Griffis default y 5242d9048e2SAmy Griffis ---help--- 5252d9048e2SAmy Griffis Say Y here to enable inotify support for userspace, including the 5262d9048e2SAmy Griffis associated system calls. Inotify allows monitoring of both files and 5272d9048e2SAmy Griffis directories via a single open fd. Events are read from the file 5282d9048e2SAmy Griffis descriptor, which is also select()- and poll()-able. 5292d9048e2SAmy Griffis 5302d9048e2SAmy Griffis For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt 5312d9048e2SAmy Griffis 5322d9048e2SAmy Griffis If unsure, say Y. 5332d9048e2SAmy Griffis 5341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QUOTA 5351da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Quota support" 5361da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5371da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to set per user limits for disk 5381da177e4SLinus Torvalds usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works for the 5391da177e4SLinus Torvalds ext2, ext3, and reiserfs file system. ext3 also supports journalled 5401da177e4SLinus Torvalds quotas for which you don't need to run quotacheck(8) after an unclean 541919532a5SAdrian Bunk shutdown. 542919532a5SAdrian Bunk For further details, read the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from 5431da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or the documentation provided 5441da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the quota tools. Probably the quota support is only useful for 5451da177e4SLinus Torvalds multi user systems. If unsure, say N. 5461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QFMT_V1 5481da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Old quota format support" 5491da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on QUOTA 5501da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5511da177e4SLinus Torvalds This quota format was (is) used by kernels earlier than 2.4.22. If 5521da177e4SLinus Torvalds you have quota working and you don't want to convert to new quota 5531da177e4SLinus Torvalds format say Y here. 5541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QFMT_V2 5561da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Quota format v2 support" 5571da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on QUOTA 5581da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5591da177e4SLinus Torvalds This quota format allows using quotas with 32-bit UIDs/GIDs. If you 560919532a5SAdrian Bunk need this functionality say Y here. 5611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QUOTACTL 5631da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 5641da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA 5651da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 5661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DNOTIFY 5681da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Dnotify support" if EMBEDDED 5691da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 5701da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5711da177e4SLinus Torvalds Dnotify is a directory-based per-fd file change notification system 5721da177e4SLinus Torvalds that uses signals to communicate events to user-space. There exist 5731da177e4SLinus Torvalds superior alternatives, but some applications may still rely on 5741da177e4SLinus Torvalds dnotify. 5751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5761da177e4SLinus Torvalds Because of this, if unsure, say Y. 5771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUTOFS_FS 5791da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Kernel automounter support" 5801da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5811da177e4SLinus Torvalds The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems 5821da177e4SLinus Torvalds on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce 5831da177e4SLinus Torvalds overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD 5841da177e4SLinus Torvalds automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. 5851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5861da177e4SLinus Torvalds To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs 5871da177e4SLinus Torvalds package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>. 5881da177e4SLinus Torvalds You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. 5891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5901da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more 5911da177e4SLinus Torvalds features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support", 5921da177e4SLinus Torvalds below. 5931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5941da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be 5951da177e4SLinus Torvalds called autofs. 5961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5971da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you 5981da177e4SLinus Torvalds probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here. 5991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUTOFS4_FS 6011da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)" 6021da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6031da177e4SLinus Torvalds The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems 6041da177e4SLinus Torvalds on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce 6051da177e4SLinus Torvalds overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD 6061da177e4SLinus Torvalds automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. 6071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6081da177e4SLinus Torvalds To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from 6091da177e4SLinus Torvalds <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/>; you also 6101da177e4SLinus Torvalds want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. 6111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6121da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be 6131da177e4SLinus Torvalds called autofs4. You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your 6141da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules configuration file. 6151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6161da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or 6171da177e4SLinus Torvalds don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the 6181da177e4SLinus Torvalds local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say 6191da177e4SLinus Torvalds N here. 6201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 62104578f17SMiklos Szerediconfig FUSE_FS 62204578f17SMiklos Szeredi tristate "Filesystem in Userspace support" 62304578f17SMiklos Szeredi help 62404578f17SMiklos Szeredi With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem 62504578f17SMiklos Szeredi in a userspace program. 62604578f17SMiklos Szeredi 62704578f17SMiklos Szeredi There's also companion library: libfuse. This library along with 62804578f17SMiklos Szeredi utilities is available from the FUSE homepage: 62904578f17SMiklos Szeredi <http://fuse.sourceforge.net/> 63004578f17SMiklos Szeredi 631909021eaSMiklos Szeredi See <file:Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt> for more information. 632909021eaSMiklos Szeredi See <file:Documentation/Changes> for needed library/utility version. 633909021eaSMiklos Szeredi 63404578f17SMiklos Szeredi If you want to develop a userspace FS, or if you want to use 63504578f17SMiklos Szeredi a filesystem based on FUSE, answer Y or M. 63604578f17SMiklos Szeredi 637f2fbc6c2SRandy Dunlapconfig GENERIC_ACL 638f2fbc6c2SRandy Dunlap bool 639f2fbc6c2SRandy Dunlap select FS_POSIX_ACL 640f2fbc6c2SRandy Dunlap 6419361401eSDavid Howellsif BLOCK 6421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems" 6431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ISO9660_FS 6451da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "ISO 9660 CDROM file system support" 6461da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6471da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the standard file system used on CD-ROMs. It was previously 6481da177e4SLinus Torvalds known as "High Sierra File System" and is called "hsfs" on other 6491da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unix systems. The so-called Rock-Ridge extensions which allow for 6501da177e4SLinus Torvalds long Unix filenames and symbolic links are also supported by this 6511da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver. If you have a CD-ROM drive and want to do more with it than 6521da177e4SLinus Torvalds just listen to audio CDs and watch its LEDs, say Y (and read 6531da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt> and the CD-ROM-HOWTO, 6541da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), thereby 6551da177e4SLinus Torvalds enlarging your kernel by about 27 KB; otherwise say N. 6561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6571da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 6581da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called isofs. 6591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JOLIET 6611da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions" 6621da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ISO9660_FS 6631da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 6641da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6651da177e4SLinus Torvalds Joliet is a Microsoft extension for the ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system 6661da177e4SLinus Torvalds which allows for long filenames in unicode format (unicode is the 6671da177e4SLinus Torvalds new 16 bit character code, successor to ASCII, which encodes the 6681da177e4SLinus Torvalds characters of almost all languages of the world; see 6691da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.unicode.org/> for more information). Say Y here if you 6701da177e4SLinus Torvalds want to be able to read Joliet CD-ROMs under Linux. 6711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ZISOFS 6731da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Transparent decompression extension" 6741da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ISO9660_FS 6751da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_INFLATE 6761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6771da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a Linux-specific extension to RockRidge which lets you store 6781da177e4SLinus Torvalds data in compressed form on a CD-ROM and have it transparently 6791da177e4SLinus Torvalds decompressed when the CD-ROM is accessed. See 6801da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/zisofs/> for the tools 6811da177e4SLinus Torvalds necessary to create such a filesystem. Say Y here if you want to be 6821da177e4SLinus Torvalds able to read such compressed CD-ROMs. 6831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ZISOFS_FS 6851da177e4SLinus Torvalds# for fs/nls/Config.in 6861da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 6871da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ZISOFS 6881da177e4SLinus Torvalds default ISO9660_FS 6891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UDF_FS 6911da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "UDF file system support" 6921da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6931da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the new file system used on some CD-ROMs and DVDs. Say Y if 6941da177e4SLinus Torvalds you intend to mount DVD discs or CDRW's written in packet mode, or 6951da177e4SLinus Torvalds if written to by other UDF utilities, such as DirectCD. 6961da177e4SLinus Torvalds Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt>. 6971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6981da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 6991da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called udf. 7001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7011da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 7021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UDF_NLS 7041da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 7051da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 7061da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (UDF_FS=m && NLS) || (UDF_FS=y && NLS=y) 7071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 7099361401eSDavid Howellsendif 7101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7119361401eSDavid Howellsif BLOCK 7121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems" 7131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FAT_FS 7151da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 7161da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 7171da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7181da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to use one of the FAT-based file systems (the MS-DOS and 7191da177e4SLinus Torvalds VFAT (Windows 95) file systems), then you must say Y or M here 7201da177e4SLinus Torvalds to include FAT support. You will then be able to mount partitions or 7211da177e4SLinus Torvalds diskettes with FAT-based file systems and transparently access the 7221da177e4SLinus Torvalds files on them, i.e. MSDOS files will look and behave just like all 7231da177e4SLinus Torvalds other Unix files. 7241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7251da177e4SLinus Torvalds This FAT support is not a file system in itself, it only provides 7261da177e4SLinus Torvalds the foundation for the other file systems. You will have to say Y or 7271da177e4SLinus Torvalds M to at least one of "MSDOS fs support" or "VFAT fs support" in 7281da177e4SLinus Torvalds order to make use of it. 7291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7301da177e4SLinus Torvalds Another way to read and write MSDOS floppies and hard drive 7311da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions from within Linux (but not transparently) is with the 7321da177e4SLinus Torvalds mtools ("man mtools") program suite. You don't need to say Y here in 7331da177e4SLinus Torvalds order to do that. 7341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7351da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you need to move large files on floppies between a DOS and a 7361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux box, say Y here, mount the floppy under Linux with an MSDOS 7371da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program 7381da177e4SLinus Torvalds available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar"). 7391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7401da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is now also becoming possible to read and write compressed FAT 7411da177e4SLinus Torvalds file systems; read <file:Documentation/filesystems/fat_cvf.txt> for 7421da177e4SLinus Torvalds details. 7431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7441da177e4SLinus Torvalds The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure, 7451da177e4SLinus Torvalds say Y. 7461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7471da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 7481da177e4SLinus Torvalds fat. Note that if you compile the FAT support as a module, you 7491da177e4SLinus Torvalds cannot compile any of the FAT-based file systems into the kernel 7501da177e4SLinus Torvalds -- they will have to be modules as well. 7511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MSDOS_FS 7531da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "MSDOS fs support" 7541da177e4SLinus Torvalds select FAT_FS 7551da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7561da177e4SLinus Torvalds This allows you to mount MSDOS partitions of your hard drive (unless 7571da177e4SLinus Torvalds they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under 7581da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the 7591da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from 7601da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in 7611da177e4SLinus Torvalds <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you 7621da177e4SLinus Torvalds intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y 7631da177e4SLinus Torvalds here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes 7641da177e4SLinus Torvalds transparent, i.e. the MSDOS files look and behave just like all 7651da177e4SLinus Torvalds other Unix files. 7661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7671da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have Windows 95 or Windows NT installed on your MSDOS 7681da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions, you should use the VFAT file system (say Y to "VFAT fs 7691da177e4SLinus Torvalds support" below), or you will not be able to see the long filenames 7701da177e4SLinus Torvalds generated by Windows 95 / Windows NT. 7711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7721da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will enlarge your kernel by about 7 KB. If unsure, 7731da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer Y. This will only work if you said Y to "DOS FAT fs support" 7741da177e4SLinus Torvalds as well. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will 7751da177e4SLinus Torvalds be called msdos. 7761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig VFAT_FS 7781da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "VFAT (Windows-95) fs support" 7791da177e4SLinus Torvalds select FAT_FS 7801da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7811da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option provides support for normal Windows file systems with 7821da177e4SLinus Torvalds long filenames. That includes non-compressed FAT-based file systems 7831da177e4SLinus Torvalds used by Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and the Unix 7841da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs from the mtools package. 7851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7861da177e4SLinus Torvalds The VFAT support enlarges your kernel by about 10 KB and it only 7871da177e4SLinus Torvalds works if you said Y to the "DOS FAT fs support" above. Please read 7881da177e4SLinus Torvalds the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for details. If 7891da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say Y. 7901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7911da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 7921da177e4SLinus Torvalds vfat. 7931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE 7951da177e4SLinus Torvalds int "Default codepage for FAT" 7961da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MSDOS_FS || VFAT_FS 7971da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 437 7981da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7991da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option should be set to the codepage of your FAT filesystems. 8001da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can be overridden with the "codepage" mount option. 8011da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information. 8021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET 8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Default iocharset for FAT" 8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on VFAT_FS 8061da177e4SLinus Torvalds default "iso8859-1" 8071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8081da177e4SLinus Torvalds Set this to the default input/output character set you'd 8091da177e4SLinus Torvalds like FAT to use. It should probably match the character set 8101da177e4SLinus Torvalds that most of your FAT filesystems use, and can be overridden 8111da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the "iocharset" mount option for FAT filesystems. 8121da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that "utf8" is not recommended for FAT filesystems. 8131da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here. 8141da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information. 8151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NTFS_FS 8171da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NTFS file system support" 8181da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 8191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8201da177e4SLinus Torvalds NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003. 8211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8221da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y or M here enables read support. There is partial, but 8231da177e4SLinus Torvalds safe, write support available. For write support you must also 8241da177e4SLinus Torvalds say Y to "NTFS write support" below. 8251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8261da177e4SLinus Torvalds There are also a number of user-space tools available, called 8271da177e4SLinus Torvalds ntfsprogs. These include ntfsundelete and ntfsresize, that work 8281da177e4SLinus Torvalds without NTFS support enabled in the kernel. 8291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8301da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a rewrite from scratch of Linux NTFS support and replaced 8311da177e4SLinus Torvalds the old NTFS code starting with Linux 2.5.11. A backport to 8321da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Linux 2.4 kernel series is separately available as a patch 8331da177e4SLinus Torvalds from the project web site. 8341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8351da177e4SLinus Torvalds For more information see <file:Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt> 8361da177e4SLinus Torvalds and <http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/>. 8371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8381da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 8391da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called ntfs. 8401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8411da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not using Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 in addition to 8421da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux on your computer it is safe to say N. 8431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NTFS_DEBUG 8451da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "NTFS debugging support" 8461da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NTFS_FS 8471da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8481da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are experiencing any problems with the NTFS file system, say 8491da177e4SLinus Torvalds Y here. This will result in additional consistency checks to be 8501da177e4SLinus Torvalds performed by the driver as well as additional debugging messages to 8511da177e4SLinus Torvalds be written to the system log. Note that debugging messages are 8521da177e4SLinus Torvalds disabled by default. To enable them, supply the option debug_msgs=1 8531da177e4SLinus Torvalds at the kernel command line when booting the kernel or as an option 8541da177e4SLinus Torvalds to insmod when loading the ntfs module. Once the driver is active, 8551da177e4SLinus Torvalds you can enable debugging messages by doing (as root): 8561da177e4SLinus Torvalds echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug 8571da177e4SLinus Torvalds Replacing the "1" with "0" would disable debug messages. 8581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8591da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you leave debugging messages disabled, this results in little 8601da177e4SLinus Torvalds overhead, but enabling debug messages results in very significant 8611da177e4SLinus Torvalds slowdown of the system. 8621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8631da177e4SLinus Torvalds When reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of 8641da177e4SLinus Torvalds debugging messages while the misbehaviour was occurring. 8651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NTFS_RW 8671da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "NTFS write support" 8681da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NTFS_FS 8691da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8701da177e4SLinus Torvalds This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver. 8711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8721da177e4SLinus Torvalds The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without 8731da177e4SLinus Torvalds changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or 8741da177e4SLinus Torvalds renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to 8751da177e4SLinus Torvalds so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot 8761da177e4SLinus Torvalds be written to. 8771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8781da177e4SLinus Torvalds While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have 8791da177e4SLinus Torvalds so far not received a single report where the driver would have 8801da177e4SLinus Torvalds damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use. 8811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from 8831da177e4SLinus Torvalds scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS 8841da177e4SLinus Torvalds write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997), 8851da177e4SLinus Torvalds is not safe. 8861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8871da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is currently useful with TopologiLinux. TopologiLinux is run 8881da177e4SLinus Torvalds on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your 8891da177e4SLinus Torvalds hard disk. Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not 8901da177e4SLinus Torvalds need its own partition. For more information see 8911da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/> 8921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8931da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is perfectly safe to say N here. 8941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 8969361401eSDavid Howellsendif 8971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Pseudo filesystems" 8991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PROC_FS 90169755652SH. Peter Anvin bool "/proc file system support" if EMBEDDED 90269755652SH. Peter Anvin default y 9031da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9041da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a virtual file system providing information about the status 9051da177e4SLinus Torvalds of the system. "Virtual" means that it doesn't take up any space on 9061da177e4SLinus Torvalds your hard disk: the files are created on the fly by the kernel when 9071da177e4SLinus Torvalds you try to access them. Also, you cannot read the files with older 9081da177e4SLinus Torvalds version of the program less: you need to use more or cat. 9091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9101da177e4SLinus Torvalds It's totally cool; for example, "cat /proc/interrupts" gives 9111da177e4SLinus Torvalds information about what the different IRQs are used for at the moment 9121da177e4SLinus Torvalds (there is a small number of Interrupt ReQuest lines in your computer 9131da177e4SLinus Torvalds that are used by the attached devices to gain the CPU's attention -- 9141da177e4SLinus Torvalds often a source of trouble if two devices are mistakenly configured 9151da177e4SLinus Torvalds to use the same IRQ). The program procinfo to display some 9161da177e4SLinus Torvalds information about your system gathered from the /proc file system. 9171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9181da177e4SLinus Torvalds Before you can use the /proc file system, it has to be mounted, 9191da177e4SLinus Torvalds meaning it has to be given a location in the directory hierarchy. 9201da177e4SLinus Torvalds That location should be /proc. A command such as "mount -t proc proc 9211da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc" or the equivalent line in /etc/fstab does the job. 9221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9231da177e4SLinus Torvalds The /proc file system is explained in the file 9241da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt> and on the proc(5) manpage 9251da177e4SLinus Torvalds ("man 5 proc"). 9261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9271da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will enlarge your kernel by about 67 KB. Several 9281da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs depend on this, so everyone should say Y here. 9291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PROC_KCORE 9311da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "/proc/kcore support" if !ARM 9321da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS && MMU 9331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 934666bfddbSVivek Goyalconfig PROC_VMCORE 935666bfddbSVivek Goyal bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 93605970d47SManeesh Soni depends on PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP 93768250ba5SVivek Goyal default y 938666bfddbSVivek Goyal help 939666bfddbSVivek Goyal Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format. 940666bfddbSVivek Goyal 941b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig PROC_SYSCTL 942b89a8171SEric W. Biederman bool "Sysctl support (/proc/sys)" if EMBEDDED 943b89a8171SEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_FS 944b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 945b89a8171SEric W. Biederman default y 946b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 947b89a8171SEric W. Biederman The sysctl interface provides a means of dynamically changing 948b89a8171SEric W. Biederman certain kernel parameters and variables on the fly without requiring 949b89a8171SEric W. Biederman a recompile of the kernel or reboot of the system. The primary 950b89a8171SEric W. Biederman interface is through /proc/sys. If you say Y here a tree of 951b89a8171SEric W. Biederman modifiable sysctl entries will be generated beneath the 952b89a8171SEric W. Biederman /proc/sys directory. They are explained in the files 953b89a8171SEric W. Biederman in <file:Documentation/sysctl/>. Note that enabling this 954b89a8171SEric W. Biederman option will enlarge the kernel by at least 8 KB. 955b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 956b89a8171SEric W. Biederman As it is generally a good thing, you should say Y here unless 957b89a8171SEric W. Biederman building a kernel for install/rescue disks or your system is very 958b89a8171SEric W. Biederman limited in memory. 959b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 9601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSFS 9611da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "sysfs file system support" if EMBEDDED 9621da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 9631da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9641da177e4SLinus Torvalds The sysfs filesystem is a virtual filesystem that the kernel uses to 9651da177e4SLinus Torvalds export internal kernel objects, their attributes, and their 9661da177e4SLinus Torvalds relationships to one another. 9671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9681da177e4SLinus Torvalds Users can use sysfs to ascertain useful information about the running 9691da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel, such as the devices the kernel has discovered on each bus and 9701da177e4SLinus Torvalds which driver each is bound to. sysfs can also be used to tune devices 9711da177e4SLinus Torvalds and other kernel subsystems. 9721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9731da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some system agents rely on the information in sysfs to operate. 9741da177e4SLinus Torvalds /sbin/hotplug uses device and object attributes in sysfs to assist in 9751da177e4SLinus Torvalds delegating policy decisions, like persistantly naming devices. 9761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9771da177e4SLinus Torvalds sysfs is currently used by the block subsystem to mount the root 9781da177e4SLinus Torvalds partition. If sysfs is disabled you must specify the boot device on 9791da177e4SLinus Torvalds the kernel boot command line via its major and minor numbers. For 9801da177e4SLinus Torvalds example, "root=03:01" for /dev/hda1. 9811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space. 9831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TMPFS 9851da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)" 9861da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9871da177e4SLinus Torvalds Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory. 9881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9891da177e4SLinus Torvalds Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be 9901da177e4SLinus Torvalds created on your hard drive. The files live in memory and swap 9911da177e4SLinus Torvalds space. If you unmount a tmpfs instance, everything stored therein is 9921da177e4SLinus Torvalds lost. 9931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9941da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> for details. 9951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 99639f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacherconfig TMPFS_POSIX_ACL 99739f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher bool "Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists" 99839f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher depends on TMPFS 99939f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher select GENERIC_ACL 100039f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher help 100139f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 100239f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 100339f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher 100439f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for 100539f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 100639f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher 100739f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N. 100839f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher 10091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HUGETLBFS 10101da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "HugeTLB file system support" 10110d078f6fSBrian Gerst depends X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || BROKEN 1012dda27d1aSArthur Othieno help 1013dda27d1aSArthur Othieno hugetlbfs is a filesystem backing for HugeTLB pages, based on 1014dda27d1aSArthur Othieno ramfs. For architectures that support it, say Y here and read 1015dda27d1aSArthur Othieno <file:Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt> for details. 1016dda27d1aSArthur Othieno 1017dda27d1aSArthur Othieno If unsure, say N. 10181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HUGETLB_PAGE 10201da177e4SLinus Torvalds def_bool HUGETLBFS 10211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig RAMFS 10231da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 10241da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 10251da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 10261da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ramfs is a file system which keeps all files in RAM. It allows 10271da177e4SLinus Torvalds read and write access. 10281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10291da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is more of an programming example than a useable file system. If 10301da177e4SLinus Torvalds you need a file system which lives in RAM with limit checking use 10311da177e4SLinus Torvalds tmpfs. 10321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10331da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 10341da177e4SLinus Torvalds ramfs. 10351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10367063fbf2SJoel Beckerconfig CONFIGFS_FS 10377063fbf2SJoel Becker tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem (EXPERIMENTAL)" 103865714b91SAdrian Bunk depends on SYSFS && EXPERIMENTAL 10397063fbf2SJoel Becker help 10407063fbf2SJoel Becker configfs is a ram-based filesystem that provides the converse 10417063fbf2SJoel Becker of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based 10427063fbf2SJoel Becker view of kernel objects, configfs is a filesystem-based manager 10437063fbf2SJoel Becker of kernel objects, or config_items. 10447063fbf2SJoel Becker 10457063fbf2SJoel Becker Both sysfs and configfs can and should exist together on the 10467063fbf2SJoel Becker same system. One is not a replacement for the other. 10477063fbf2SJoel Becker 10481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 10491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Miscellaneous filesystems" 10511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ADFS_FS 10531da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "ADFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 10549361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 10551da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10561da177e4SLinus Torvalds The Acorn Disc Filing System is the standard file system of the 10571da177e4SLinus Torvalds RiscOS operating system which runs on Acorn's ARM-based Risc PC 10581da177e4SLinus Torvalds systems and the Acorn Archimedes range of machines. If you say Y 10591da177e4SLinus Torvalds here, Linux will be able to read from ADFS partitions on hard drives 10601da177e4SLinus Torvalds and from ADFS-formatted floppy discs. If you also want to be able to 10611da177e4SLinus Torvalds write to those devices, say Y to "ADFS write support" below. 10621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10631da177e4SLinus Torvalds The ADFS partition should be the first partition (i.e., 10641da177e4SLinus Torvalds /dev/[hs]d?1) on each of your drives. Please read the file 10651da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt> for further details. 10661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10671da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be 10681da177e4SLinus Torvalds called adfs. 10691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10701da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 10711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ADFS_FS_RW 10731da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)" 10741da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ADFS_FS 10751da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10761da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to write to ADFS partitions on 10771da177e4SLinus Torvalds hard drives and ADFS-formatted floppy disks. This is experimental 10781da177e4SLinus Torvalds codes, so if you're unsure, say N. 10791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AFFS_FS 10811da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Amiga FFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 10829361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 10831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10841da177e4SLinus Torvalds The Fast File System (FFS) is the common file system used on hard 10851da177e4SLinus Torvalds disks by Amiga(tm) systems since AmigaOS Version 1.3 (34.20). Say Y 10861da177e4SLinus Torvalds if you want to be able to read and write files from and to an Amiga 10871da177e4SLinus Torvalds FFS partition on your hard drive. Amiga floppies however cannot be 10881da177e4SLinus Torvalds read with this driver due to an incompatibility of the floppy 10891da177e4SLinus Torvalds controller used in an Amiga and the standard floppy controller in 10901da177e4SLinus Torvalds PCs and workstations. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt> 10911da177e4SLinus Torvalds and <file:fs/affs/Changes>. 10921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10931da177e4SLinus Torvalds With this driver you can also mount disk files used by Bernd 10941da177e4SLinus Torvalds Schmidt's Un*X Amiga Emulator 10951da177e4SLinus Torvalds (<http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/>). 10961da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to do this, you will also need to say Y or M to "Loop 10971da177e4SLinus Torvalds device support", above. 10981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10991da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 11001da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called affs. If unsure, say N. 11011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1102237fead6SMichael Halcrowconfig ECRYPT_FS 1103237fead6SMichael Halcrow tristate "eCrypt filesystem layer support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1104237fead6SMichael Halcrow depends on EXPERIMENTAL && KEYS && CRYPTO 1105237fead6SMichael Halcrow help 1106237fead6SMichael Halcrow Encrypted filesystem that operates on the VFS layer. See 1107237fead6SMichael Halcrow <file:Documentation/ecryptfs.txt> to learn more about 1108237fead6SMichael Halcrow eCryptfs. Userspace components are required and can be 1109237fead6SMichael Halcrow obtained from <http://ecryptfs.sf.net>. 1110237fead6SMichael Halcrow 1111237fead6SMichael Halcrow To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 1112237fead6SMichael Halcrow module will be called ecryptfs. 1113237fead6SMichael Halcrow 11141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HFS_FS 11151da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 11169361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 1117878129a3SLennert Buytenhek select NLS 11181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11191da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to mount Macintosh-formatted 11201da177e4SLinus Torvalds floppy disks and hard drive partitions with full read-write access. 11211da177e4SLinus Torvalds Please read <file:fs/hfs/HFS.txt> to learn about the available mount 11221da177e4SLinus Torvalds options. 11231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11241da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 11251da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called hfs. 11261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HFSPLUS_FS 11281da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Apple Extended HFS file system support" 11299361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 11301da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 11311da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS_UTF8 11321da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11331da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to mount extended format 11341da177e4SLinus Torvalds Macintosh-formatted hard drive partitions with full read-write access. 11351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11361da177e4SLinus Torvalds This file system is often called HFS+ and was introduced with 11371da177e4SLinus Torvalds MacOS 8. It includes all Mac specific filesystem data such as 11381da177e4SLinus Torvalds data forks and creator codes, but it also has several UNIX 11391da177e4SLinus Torvalds style features such as file ownership and permissions. 11401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BEFS_FS 11421da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "BeOS file system (BeFS) support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 11439361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 11441da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 11451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11461da177e4SLinus Torvalds The BeOS File System (BeFS) is the native file system of Be, Inc's 11471da177e4SLinus Torvalds BeOS. Notable features include support for arbitrary attributes 1148*3cb2fcccSMatt LaPlante on files and directories, and database-like indices on selected 11491da177e4SLinus Torvalds attributes. (Also note that this driver doesn't make those features 11501da177e4SLinus Torvalds available at this time). It is a 64 bit filesystem, so it supports 115144c09201SMatt LaPlante extremely large volumes and files. 11521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11531da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you use this filesystem, you should also say Y to at least one 11541da177e4SLinus Torvalds of the NLS (native language support) options below. 11551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11561da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what this is about, say N. 11571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11581da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 11591da177e4SLinus Torvalds called befs. 11601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BEFS_DEBUG 11621da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Debug BeFS" 11631da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BEFS_FS 11641da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11651da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you can use the 'debug' mount option to enable 11661da177e4SLinus Torvalds debugging output from the driver. 11671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BFS_FS 11691da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 11709361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 11711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11721da177e4SLinus Torvalds Boot File System (BFS) is a file system used under SCO UnixWare to 11731da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow the bootloader access to the kernel image and other important 11741da177e4SLinus Torvalds files during the boot process. It is usually mounted under /stand 11751da177e4SLinus Torvalds and corresponds to the slice marked as "STAND" in the UnixWare 11761da177e4SLinus Torvalds partition. You should say Y if you want to read or write the files 11771da177e4SLinus Torvalds on your /stand slice from within Linux. You then also need to say Y 11781da177e4SLinus Torvalds to "UnixWare slices support", below. More information about the BFS 11791da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system is contained in the file 11801da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/bfs.txt>. 11811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11821da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what this is about, say N. 11831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11841da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 11851da177e4SLinus Torvalds bfs. Note that the file system of your root partition (the one 11861da177e4SLinus Torvalds containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module. 11871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EFS_FS 11911da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "EFS file system support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 11929361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 11931da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11941da177e4SLinus Torvalds EFS is an older file system used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and hard 11951da177e4SLinus Torvalds disk partitions by SGI's IRIX operating system (IRIX 6.0 and newer 11961da177e4SLinus Torvalds uses the XFS file system for hard disk partitions however). 11971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11981da177e4SLinus Torvalds This implementation only offers read-only access. If you don't know 11991da177e4SLinus Torvalds what all this is about, it's safe to say N. For more information 12001da177e4SLinus Torvalds about EFS see its home page at <http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/>. 12011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12021da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the EFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the 12031da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called efs. 12041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS_FS 12061da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Journalling Flash File System (JFFS) support" 12079361401eSDavid Howells depends on MTD && BLOCK 12081da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1209cc2e2767SMatt LaPlante JFFS is the Journalling Flash File System developed by Axis 12101da177e4SLinus Torvalds Communications in Sweden, aimed at providing a crash/powerdown-safe 12111da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system for disk-less embedded devices. Further information is 12121da177e4SLinus Torvalds available at (<http://developer.axis.com/software/jffs/>). 12131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS_FS_VERBOSE 12151da177e4SLinus Torvalds int "JFFS debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 3 = noisy)" 12161da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS_FS 12171da177e4SLinus Torvalds default "0" 12181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12191da177e4SLinus Torvalds Determines the verbosity level of the JFFS debugging messages. 12201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS_PROC_FS 12221da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFFS stats available in /proc filesystem" 12231da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS_FS && PROC_FS 12241da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12251da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will cause statistics from mounted JFFS file systems 12261da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jffs/ directory. 12271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_FS 12291da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Journalling Flash File System v2 (JFFS2) support" 12301da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 12311da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MTD 12321da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12331da177e4SLinus Torvalds JFFS2 is the second generation of the Journalling Flash File System 12341da177e4SLinus Torvalds for use on diskless embedded devices. It provides improved wear 12351da177e4SLinus Torvalds levelling, compression and support for hard links. You cannot use 12361da177e4SLinus Torvalds this on normal block devices, only on 'MTD' devices. 12371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12381da177e4SLinus Torvalds Further information on the design and implementation of JFFS2 is 12391da177e4SLinus Torvalds available at <http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2/>. 12401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_FS_DEBUG 12421da177e4SLinus Torvalds int "JFFS2 debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 2 = noisy)" 12431da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 12441da177e4SLinus Torvalds default "0" 12451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12461da177e4SLinus Torvalds This controls the amount of debugging messages produced by the JFFS2 12471da177e4SLinus Torvalds code. Set it to zero for use in production systems. For evaluation, 12481da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing and debugging, it's advisable to set it to one. This will 12491da177e4SLinus Torvalds enable a few assertions and will print debugging messages at the 12501da177e4SLinus Torvalds KERN_DEBUG loglevel, where they won't normally be visible. Level 2 12511da177e4SLinus Torvalds is unlikely to be useful - it enables extra debugging in certain 12521da177e4SLinus Torvalds areas which at one point needed debugging, but when the bugs were 12531da177e4SLinus Torvalds located and fixed, the detailed messages were relegated to level 2. 12541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12551da177e4SLinus Torvalds If reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of the 12561da177e4SLinus Torvalds messages at debug level 1 while the misbehaviour was occurring. 12571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12582ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouseconfig JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER 12592ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse bool "JFFS2 write-buffering support" 1260aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei depends on JFFS2_FS 12612ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse default y 12622ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse help 12632ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse This enables the write-buffering support in JFFS2. 12642ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse 12652ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse This functionality is required to support JFFS2 on the following 12662ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse types of flash devices: 12672ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse - NAND flash 12682ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse - NOR flash with transparent ECC 12692ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse - DataFlash 12702ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse 12712ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouseconfig JFFS2_SUMMARY 12722ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse bool "JFFS2 summary support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 12732ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 12742ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse default n 12752ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse help 12762ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse This feature makes it possible to use summary information 12772ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse for faster filesystem mount. 12782ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse 12792ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse The summary information can be inserted into a filesystem image 12802ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse by the utility 'sumtool'. 12812ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse 12822ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse If unsure, say 'N'. 12832ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse 12842ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouseconfig JFFS2_FS_XATTR 12852ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse bool "JFFS2 XATTR support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 128604510deeSKaiGai Kohei depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 1287aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei default n 1288aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei help 1289aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 1290aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 1291aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 1292aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 1293aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei If unsure, say N. 1294aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 1295aa98d7cfSKaiGai Koheiconfig JFFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL 1296aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei bool "JFFS2 POSIX Access Control Lists" 1297aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR 1298aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei default y 1299aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei select FS_POSIX_ACL 1300aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei help 1301aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 1302aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 1303aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 1304aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 1305aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 1306aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 1307aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 1308aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 1309aa98d7cfSKaiGai Koheiconfig JFFS2_FS_SECURITY 1310aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei bool "JFFS2 Security Labels" 1311aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR 1312aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei default y 1313aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei help 1314aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei Security labels support alternative access control models 1315aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 1316aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei enables an extended attribute handler for file security 1317aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei labels in the jffs2 filesystem. 1318aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 1319aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei If you are not using a security module that requires using 1320aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 1321aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 13221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 13231da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Advanced compression options for JFFS2" 13241da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 13251da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 13261da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13271da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this option allows you to explicitly choose which 13281da177e4SLinus Torvalds compression modules, if any, are enabled in JFFS2. Removing 13291da177e4SLinus Torvalds compressors and mean you cannot read existing file systems, 13301da177e4SLinus Torvalds and enabling experimental compressors can mean that you 13311da177e4SLinus Torvalds write a file system which cannot be read by a standard kernel. 13321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13331da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, you should _definitely_ say 'N'. 13341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_ZLIB 13361da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFFS2 ZLIB compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 13371da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_INFLATE 13381da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_DEFLATE 13391da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 13401da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13411da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13421da177e4SLinus Torvalds Zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered, 13431da177e4SLinus Torvalds lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer 13441da177e4SLinus Torvalds hardware and operating system. See <http://www.gzip.org/zlib/> for 13451da177e4SLinus Torvalds further information. 13461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13471da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say 'Y' if unsure. 13481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_RTIME 13501da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFFS2 RTIME compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 13511da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 13521da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13531da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13541da177e4SLinus Torvalds Rtime does manage to recompress already-compressed data. Say 'Y' if unsure. 13551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_RUBIN 13571da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFFS2 RUBIN compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 13581da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 13591da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 13601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13611da177e4SLinus Torvalds RUBINMIPS and DYNRUBIN compressors. Say 'N' if unsure. 13621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13631da177e4SLinus Torvaldschoice 13641da177e4SLinus Torvalds prompt "JFFS2 default compression mode" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 13651da177e4SLinus Torvalds default JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY 13661da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 13671da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13681da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can set here the default compression mode of JFFS2 from 13691da177e4SLinus Torvalds the available compression modes. Don't touch if unsure. 13701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_CMODE_NONE 13721da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "no compression" 13731da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13741da177e4SLinus Torvalds Uses no compression. 13751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY 13771da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "priority" 13781da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1379cc2e2767SMatt LaPlante Tries the compressors in a predefined order and chooses the first 13801da177e4SLinus Torvalds successful one. 13811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_CMODE_SIZE 13831da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "size (EXPERIMENTAL)" 13841da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13851da177e4SLinus Torvalds Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest 13861da177e4SLinus Torvalds result. 13871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendchoice 13891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CRAMFS 13911da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)" 13929361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 13931da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_INFLATE 13941da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13951da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here includes support for CramFs (Compressed ROM File 13961da177e4SLinus Torvalds System). CramFs is designed to be a simple, small, and compressed 13971da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system for ROM based embedded systems. CramFs is read-only, 13981da177e4SLinus Torvalds limited to 256MB file systems (with 16MB files), and doesn't support 13991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16/32 bits uid/gid, hard links and timestamps. 14001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14011da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt> and 14021da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:fs/cramfs/README> for further information. 14031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14041da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 14051da177e4SLinus Torvalds cramfs. Note that the root file system (the one containing the 14061da177e4SLinus Torvalds directory /) cannot be compiled as a module. 14071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14081da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 14091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig VXFS_FS 14111da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "FreeVxFS file system support (VERITAS VxFS(TM) compatible)" 14129361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 14131da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14141da177e4SLinus Torvalds FreeVxFS is a file system driver that support the VERITAS VxFS(TM) 14151da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system format. VERITAS VxFS(TM) is the standard file system 14161da177e4SLinus Torvalds of SCO UnixWare (and possibly others) and optionally available 14171da177e4SLinus Torvalds for Sunsoft Solaris, HP-UX and many other operating systems. 14181da177e4SLinus Torvalds Currently only readonly access is supported. 14191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14201da177e4SLinus Torvalds NOTE: the file system type as used by mount(1), mount(2) and 14211da177e4SLinus Torvalds fstab(5) is 'vxfs' as it describes the file system format, not 14221da177e4SLinus Torvalds the actual driver. 14231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14241da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 14251da177e4SLinus Torvalds called freevxfs. If unsure, say N. 14261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HPFS_FS 14291da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "OS/2 HPFS file system support" 14309361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 14311da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14321da177e4SLinus Torvalds OS/2 is IBM's operating system for PC's, the same as Warp, and HPFS 14331da177e4SLinus Torvalds is the file system used for organizing files on OS/2 hard disk 14341da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions. Say Y if you want to be able to read files from and 14351da177e4SLinus Torvalds write files to an OS/2 HPFS partition on your hard drive. OS/2 14361da177e4SLinus Torvalds floppies however are in regular MSDOS format, so you don't need this 14371da177e4SLinus Torvalds option in order to be able to read them. Read 14381da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt>. 14391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14401da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 14411da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called hpfs. If unsure, say N. 14421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QNX4FS_FS 14461da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "QNX4 file system support (read only)" 14479361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 14481da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14491da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the file system used by the real-time operating systems 14501da177e4SLinus Torvalds QNX 4 and QNX 6 (the latter is also called QNX RTP). 14511da177e4SLinus Torvalds Further information is available at <http://www.qnx.com/>. 14521da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y if you intend to mount QNX hard disks or floppies. 14531da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless you say Y to "QNX4FS read-write support" below, you will 14541da177e4SLinus Torvalds only be able to read these file systems. 14551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14561da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 14571da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called qnx4. 14581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14591da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it: 14601da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer N. 14611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QNX4FS_RW 14631da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "QNX4FS write support (DANGEROUS)" 14641da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on QNX4FS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN 14651da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14661da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y if you want to test write support for QNX4 file systems. 14671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14681da177e4SLinus Torvalds It's currently broken, so for now: 14691da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer N. 14701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSV_FS 14741da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support" 14759361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 14761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14771da177e4SLinus Torvalds SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel 14781da177e4SLinus Torvalds machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y 14791da177e4SLinus Torvalds here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk 14801da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions. 14811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14821da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely 14831da177e4SLinus Torvalds that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order 1484cab00891SMatt LaPlante to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is 14851da177e4SLinus Torvalds a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse, 14861da177e4SLinus Torvalds UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux. It is 14871da177e4SLinus Torvalds available via FTP (user: ftp) from 14881da177e4SLinus Torvalds <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>). 14891da177e4SLinus Torvalds NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems; 14901da177e4SLinus Torvalds PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-) 14911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14921da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the 14931da177e4SLinus Torvalds network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support 14941da177e4SLinus Torvalds (but you need NFS file system support obviously). 14951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14961da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a 14971da177e4SLinus Torvalds good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes 14981da177e4SLinus Torvalds (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man 14991da177e4SLinus Torvalds tar" or preferably "info tar"). Note also that this option has 15001da177e4SLinus Torvalds nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about 15011da177e4SLinus Torvalds the System V file system in 15021da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>. 15031da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB. 15041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15051da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 15061da177e4SLinus Torvalds sysv. 15071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15081da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. 15091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UFS_FS 15131da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "UFS file system support (read only)" 15149361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 15151da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15161da177e4SLinus Torvalds BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, 15171da177e4SLinus Torvalds OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a file system called UFS. Some System V 15181da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using 15191da177e4SLinus Torvalds this file system as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from 15201da177e4SLinus Torvalds these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the 15211da177e4SLinus Torvalds experimental "UFS file system write support", below. Please read the 15221da177e4SLinus Torvalds file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt> for more information. 15231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15241da177e4SLinus Torvalds The recently released UFS2 variant (used in FreeBSD 5.x) is 15251da177e4SLinus Torvalds READ-ONLY supported. 15261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15271da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the 15281da177e4SLinus Torvalds network using NFS, you don't need the UFS file system support (but 15291da177e4SLinus Torvalds you need NFS file system support obviously). 15301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15311da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a 15321da177e4SLinus Torvalds good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes 15331da177e4SLinus Torvalds (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man 15341da177e4SLinus Torvalds tar" or preferably "info tar"). 15351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15361da177e4SLinus Torvalds When accessing NeXTstep files, you may need to convert them from the 15371da177e4SLinus Torvalds NeXT character set to the Latin1 character set; use the program 15381da177e4SLinus Torvalds recode ("info recode") for this purpose. 15391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15401da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the UFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the 15411da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called ufs. 15421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15431da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. 15441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UFS_FS_WRITE 15461da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS)" 15475afb3145SEvgeniy Dushistov depends on UFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 15481da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15491da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you want to try writing to UFS partitions. This is 15501da177e4SLinus Torvalds experimental, so you should back up your UFS partitions beforehand. 15511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1552abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistovconfig UFS_DEBUG 1553abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov bool "UFS debugging" 1554abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov depends on UFS_FS 1555abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov help 1556abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov If you are experiencing any problems with the UFS filesystem, say 1557abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov Y here. This will result in _many_ additional debugging messages to be 1558abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov written to the system log. 1559abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov 15601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 15611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Network File Systems" 15631da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET 15641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_FS 15661da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NFS file system support" 15671da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 15681da177e4SLinus Torvalds select LOCKD 15691da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC 1570b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFS_V3_ACL 15711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15721da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are connected to some other (usually local) Unix computer 15731da177e4SLinus Torvalds (using SLIP, PLIP, PPP or Ethernet) and want to mount files residing 15741da177e4SLinus Torvalds on that computer (the NFS server) using the Network File Sharing 15751da177e4SLinus Torvalds protocol, say Y. "Mounting files" means that the client can access 15761da177e4SLinus Torvalds the files with usual UNIX commands as if they were sitting on the 15771da177e4SLinus Torvalds client's hard disk. For this to work, the server must run the 15781da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs nfsd and mountd (but does not need to have NFS file system 15791da177e4SLinus Torvalds support enabled in its kernel). NFS is explained in the Network 15801da177e4SLinus Torvalds Administrator's Guide, available from 15811da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>, on its man page: "man 15821da177e4SLinus Torvalds nfs", and in the NFS-HOWTO. 15831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15841da177e4SLinus Torvalds A superior but less widely used alternative to NFS is provided by 15851da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Coda file system; see "Coda file system support" below. 15861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15871da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you should have said Y to TCP/IP networking also. 15881da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option would enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB. 15891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15901da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 15911da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called nfs. 15921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15931da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are configuring a diskless machine which will mount its root 15941da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system over NFS at boot time, say Y here and to "Kernel 15951da177e4SLinus Torvalds level IP autoconfiguration" above and to "Root file system on NFS" 15961da177e4SLinus Torvalds below. You cannot compile this driver as a module in this case. 15971da177e4SLinus Torvalds There are two packages designed for booting diskless machines over 15981da177e4SLinus Torvalds the net: netboot, available from 15991da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/netboot/>, and Etherboot, 16001da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/etherboot/>. 16011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16021da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what all this is about, say N. 16031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_V3 16051da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Provide NFSv3 client support" 16061da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFS_FS 16071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16081da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak version 16091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3 of the NFS protocol. 16101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16111da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 16121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1613b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFS_V3_ACL 1614b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher bool "Provide client support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension" 1615b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFS_V3 1616b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher help 1617b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX 1618b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher Access Control Lists. The server should also be compiled with 1619b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL option. 1620b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher 1621b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher If unsure, say N. 1622b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher 16231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_V4 16241da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Provide NFSv4 client support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 16251da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 16261da177e4SLinus Torvalds select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 16271da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16281da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak the newer 16291da177e4SLinus Torvalds version 4 of the NFS protocol. 16301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16311da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: Requires auxiliary userspace daemons which may be found on 16321da177e4SLinus Torvalds http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ 16331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16341da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 16351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_DIRECTIO 1637026ed5c9SChuck Lever bool "Allow direct I/O on NFS files" 1638026ed5c9SChuck Lever depends on NFS_FS 16391da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16401da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables applications to perform uncached I/O on files 16411da177e4SLinus Torvalds in NFS file systems using the O_DIRECT open() flag. When O_DIRECT 16421da177e4SLinus Torvalds is set for a file, its data is not cached in the system's page 16431da177e4SLinus Torvalds cache. Data is moved to and from user-level application buffers 16441da177e4SLinus Torvalds directly. Unlike local disk-based file systems, NFS O_DIRECT has 16451da177e4SLinus Torvalds no alignment restrictions. 16461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16471da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless your program is designed to use O_DIRECT properly, you are 16481da177e4SLinus Torvalds much better off allowing the NFS client to manage data caching for 16491da177e4SLinus Torvalds you. Misusing O_DIRECT can cause poor server performance or network 16501da177e4SLinus Torvalds storms. This kernel build option defaults OFF to avoid exposing 16511da177e4SLinus Torvalds system administrators unwittingly to a potentially hazardous 16521da177e4SLinus Torvalds feature. 16531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16541da177e4SLinus Torvalds For more details on NFS O_DIRECT, see fs/nfs/direct.c. 16551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16561da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. This reduces the size of the NFS client, and 16571da177e4SLinus Torvalds causes open() to return EINVAL if a file residing in NFS is 16581da177e4SLinus Torvalds opened with the O_DIRECT flag. 16591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD 16611da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NFS server support" 16621da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 16631da177e4SLinus Torvalds select LOCKD 16641da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC 16651da177e4SLinus Torvalds select EXPORTFS 1666f05e15b5SHerbert Xu select NFSD_V2_ACL if NFSD_V3_ACL 1667f05e15b5SHerbert Xu select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFSD_V2_ACL 1668f05e15b5SHerbert Xu select NFSD_TCP if NFSD_V4 1669f05e15b5SHerbert Xu select CRYPTO_MD5 if NFSD_V4 1670f05e15b5SHerbert Xu select CRYPTO if NFSD_V4 1671f05e15b5SHerbert Xu select FS_POSIX_ACL if NFSD_V4 16721da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16731da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want your Linux box to act as an NFS *server*, so that other 16741da177e4SLinus Torvalds computers on your local network which support NFS can access certain 16751da177e4SLinus Torvalds directories on your box transparently, you have two options: you can 16761da177e4SLinus Torvalds use the self-contained user space program nfsd, in which case you 16771da177e4SLinus Torvalds should say N here, or you can say Y and use the kernel based NFS 16781da177e4SLinus Torvalds server. The advantage of the kernel based solution is that it is 16791da177e4SLinus Torvalds faster. 16801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16811da177e4SLinus Torvalds In either case, you will need support software; the respective 16821da177e4SLinus Torvalds locations are given in the file <file:Documentation/Changes> in the 16831da177e4SLinus Torvalds NFS section. 16841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16851da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will get support for version 2 of the NFS 16861da177e4SLinus Torvalds protocol (NFSv2). If you also want NFSv3, say Y to the next question 16871da177e4SLinus Torvalds as well. 16881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16891da177e4SLinus Torvalds Please read the NFS-HOWTO, available from 16901da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 16911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16921da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the NFS server support as a module, choose M here: the 16931da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called nfsd. If unsure, say N. 16941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1695a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFSD_V2_ACL 1696a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher bool 1697a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFSD 1698a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 16991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD_V3 17001da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Provide NFSv3 server support" 17011da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFSD 17021da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17031da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you would like to include the NFSv3 server as well as the NFSv2 17041da177e4SLinus Torvalds server, say Y here. If unsure, say Y. 17051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1706a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFSD_V3_ACL 1707a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher bool "Provide server support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension" 1708a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFSD_V3 1709a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher help 1710a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX 1711a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher Access Control Lists on exported file systems. NFS clients should 1712a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher be compiled with the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the 1713a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL option. If unsure, say N. 1714a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 17151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD_V4 17161da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Provide NFSv4 server support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 17171da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFSD_V3 && EXPERIMENTAL 17181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17191da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you would like to include the NFSv4 server as well as the NFSv2 17201da177e4SLinus Torvalds and NFSv3 servers, say Y here. This feature is experimental, and 17211da177e4SLinus Torvalds should only be used if you are interested in helping to test NFSv4. 17221da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 17231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD_TCP 17251da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Provide NFS server over TCP support" 17261da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFSD 17271da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 17281da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17291da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want your NFS server to support TCP connections, say Y here. 17301da177e4SLinus Torvalds TCP connections usually perform better than the default UDP when 17311da177e4SLinus Torvalds the network is lossy or congested. If unsure, say Y. 17321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ROOT_NFS 17341da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Root file system on NFS" 17351da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP 17361da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17371da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the 17381da177e4SLinus Torvalds one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the 17391da177e4SLinus Torvalds net via NFS (presumably because your box doesn't have a hard disk), 17401da177e4SLinus Torvalds say Y. Read <file:Documentation/nfsroot.txt> for details. It is 17411da177e4SLinus Torvalds likely that in this case, you also want to say Y to "Kernel level IP 17421da177e4SLinus Torvalds autoconfiguration" so that your box can discover its network address 17431da177e4SLinus Torvalds at boot time. 17441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17451da177e4SLinus Torvalds Most people say N here. 17461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCKD 17481da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 17491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCKD_V4 17511da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 17521da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFSD_V3 || NFS_V3 17531da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 17541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPORTFS 17561da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 17571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1758a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFS_ACL_SUPPORT 1759a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher tristate 1760a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 1761a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 1762a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFS_COMMON 1763a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher bool 1764a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFSD || NFS_FS 1765a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher default y 1766a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 17671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNRPC 17681da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 17691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNRPC_GSS 17711da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 17721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 17741da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)" 17751da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL 17761da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC_GSS 17771da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO 17781da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_MD5 17791da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_DES 1780bcbaecbbSPatrick McHardy select CRYPTO_CBC 17811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api 17831da177e4SLinus Torvalds mechanism based on Kerberos V5. This is required for 17841da177e4SLinus Torvalds NFSv4. 17851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17861da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on 17871da177e4SLinus Torvalds http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ 17881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17891da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 17901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3 17921da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Secure RPC: SPKM3 mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)" 17931da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL 17941da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC_GSS 17951da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO 17961da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_MD5 17971da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_DES 1798df6db302SJ. Bruce Fields select CRYPTO_CAST5 1799bcbaecbbSPatrick McHardy select CRYPTO_CBC 18001da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18011da177e4SLinus Torvalds Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api 18021da177e4SLinus Torvalds mechanism based on the SPKM3 public-key mechanism. 18031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18041da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on 18051da177e4SLinus Torvalds http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ 18061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18071da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 18081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SMB_FS 18101da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SMB file system support (to mount Windows shares etc.)" 18111da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 18121da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 18131da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18141da177e4SLinus Torvalds SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Windows for Workgroups 18151da177e4SLinus Torvalds (WfW), Windows 95/98, Windows NT and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share 18161da177e4SLinus Torvalds files and printers over local networks. Saying Y here allows you to 18171da177e4SLinus Torvalds mount their file systems (often called "shares" in this context) and 18181da177e4SLinus Torvalds access them just like any other Unix directory. Currently, this 18191da177e4SLinus Torvalds works only if the Windows machines use TCP/IP as the underlying 18201da177e4SLinus Torvalds transport protocol, and not NetBEUI. For details, read 18211da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt> and the SMB-HOWTO, 18221da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 18231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: if you just want your box to act as an SMB *server* and make 18251da177e4SLinus Torvalds files and printing services available to Windows clients (which need 18261da177e4SLinus Torvalds to have a TCP/IP stack), you don't need to say Y here; you can use 18271da177e4SLinus Torvalds the program SAMBA (available from <ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/>) 18281da177e4SLinus Torvalds for that. 18291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18301da177e4SLinus Torvalds General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and 18311da177e4SLinus Torvalds Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>. 18321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18331da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here: the module will 18341da177e4SLinus Torvalds be called smbfs. Most people say N, however. 18351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SMB_NLS_DEFAULT 18371da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use a default NLS" 18381da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SMB_FS 18391da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18401da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this will make smbfs use nls translations by default. You 18411da177e4SLinus Torvalds need to specify the local charset (CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT) in the nls 18421da177e4SLinus Torvalds settings and you need to give the default nls for the SMB server as 18431da177e4SLinus Torvalds CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE. 18441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18451da177e4SLinus Torvalds The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount 18461da177e4SLinus Torvalds supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters. 18471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18481da177e4SLinus Torvalds smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this. 18491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SMB_NLS_REMOTE 18511da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Default Remote NLS Option" 18521da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SMB_NLS_DEFAULT 18531da177e4SLinus Torvalds default "cp437" 18541da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18551da177e4SLinus Torvalds This setting allows you to specify a default value for which 18561da177e4SLinus Torvalds codepage the server uses. If this field is left blank no 18571da177e4SLinus Torvalds translations will be done by default. The local codepage/charset 18581da177e4SLinus Torvalds default to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT. 18591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18601da177e4SLinus Torvalds The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount 18611da177e4SLinus Torvalds supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters. 18621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18631da177e4SLinus Torvalds smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this. 18641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS 18661da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem for Samba, Window and other CIFS compliant servers)" 18671da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 18681da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 18691da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18701da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System 18711da177e4SLinus Torvalds (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block 18721da177e4SLinus Torvalds (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early 18731da177e4SLinus Torvalds PC operating systems. The CIFS protocol is fully supported by 18741da177e4SLinus Torvalds file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4 18751da177e4SLinus Torvalds and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS 1876ec58ef03SSteve French server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited 1877ec58ef03SSteve French support for Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well. 1878ec58ef03SSteve French You must use the smbfs client filesystem to access older SMB servers 1879ec58ef03SSteve French such as OS/2 and DOS. 18801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18811da177e4SLinus Torvalds The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced 18821da177e4SLinus Torvalds network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers, 18831da177e4SLinus Torvalds including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user 18841da177e4SLinus Torvalds session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional 18851da177e4SLinus Torvalds packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements, 18861da177e4SLinus Torvalds and optional Winbind (nsswitch) integration. You do not need to enable 18871da177e4SLinus Torvalds cifs if running only a (Samba) server. It is possible to enable both 18881da177e4SLinus Torvalds smbfs and cifs (e.g. if you are using CIFS for accessing Windows 2003 18891da177e4SLinus Torvalds and Samba 3 servers, and smbfs for accessing old servers). If you need 1890ec58ef03SSteve French to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y. 18911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS_STATS 18931da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "CIFS statistics" 18941da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on CIFS 18951da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18961da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share 18971da177e4SLinus Torvalds mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats 18981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1899ec58ef03SSteve Frenchconfig CIFS_STATS2 19003979877eSSteve French bool "Extended statistics" 1901ec58ef03SSteve French depends on CIFS_STATS 1902ec58ef03SSteve French help 1903ec58ef03SSteve French Enabling this option will allow more detailed statistics on SMB 1904ec58ef03SSteve French request timing to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData and also 1905ec58ef03SSteve French allow optional logging of slow responses to dmesg (depending on the 1906ec58ef03SSteve French value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI, see fs/cifs/README for more details). 1907ec58ef03SSteve French These additional statistics may have a minor effect on performance 1908ec58ef03SSteve French and memory utilization. 1909ec58ef03SSteve French 1910ec58ef03SSteve French Unless you are a developer or are doing network performance analysis 1911ec58ef03SSteve French or tuning, say N. 1912ec58ef03SSteve French 19133979877eSSteve Frenchconfig CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH 19143979877eSSteve French bool "Support legacy servers which use weaker LANMAN security" 19153979877eSSteve French depends on CIFS 19163979877eSSteve French help 19173979877eSSteve French Modern CIFS servers including Samba and most Windows versions 19183979877eSSteve French (since 1997) support stronger NTLM (and even NTLMv2 and Kerberos) 19193979877eSSteve French security mechanisms. These hash the password more securely 19203979877eSSteve French than the mechanisms used in the older LANMAN version of the 19213979877eSSteve French SMB protocol needed to establish sessions with old SMB servers. 19223979877eSSteve French 19233979877eSSteve French Enabling this option allows the cifs module to mount to older 19243979877eSSteve French LANMAN based servers such as OS/2 and Windows 95, but such 19253979877eSSteve French mounts may be less secure than mounts using NTLM or more recent 19263979877eSSteve French security mechanisms if you are on a public network. Unless you 19273979877eSSteve French have a need to access old SMB servers (and are on a private 19283979877eSSteve French network) you probably want to say N. Even if this support 19293979877eSSteve French is enabled in the kernel build, they will not be used 19303979877eSSteve French automatically. At runtime LANMAN mounts are disabled but 19313979877eSSteve French can be set to required (or optional) either in 19323979877eSSteve French /proc/fs/cifs (see fs/cifs/README for more detail) or via an 19333979877eSSteve French option on the mount command. This support is disabled by 19343979877eSSteve French default in order to reduce the possibility of a downgrade 19353979877eSSteve French attack. 19363979877eSSteve French 19373979877eSSteve French If unsure, say N. 19383979877eSSteve French 19391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS_XATTR 1940ec58ef03SSteve French bool "CIFS extended attributes" 19411da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on CIFS 19421da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19431da177e4SLinus Torvalds Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 19441da177e4SLinus Torvalds the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 19451da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). CIFS maps the name of 19461da177e4SLinus Torvalds extended attributes beginning with the user namespace prefix 19471da177e4SLinus Torvalds to SMB/CIFS EAs. EAs are stored on Windows servers without the 19481da177e4SLinus Torvalds user namespace prefix, but their names are seen by Linux cifs clients 19491da177e4SLinus Torvalds prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace 19501da177e4SLinus Torvalds (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at 19511da177e4SLinus Torvalds this time. 19521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19531da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 19541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS_POSIX 1956ec58ef03SSteve French bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions" 19571da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on CIFS_XATTR 19581da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19591da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to 19601da177e4SLinus Torvalds negotiate a newer dialect with servers, such as Samba 3.0.5 19611da177e4SLinus Torvalds or later, that optionally can handle more POSIX like (rather 19621da177e4SLinus Torvalds than Windows like) file behavior. It also enables 19631da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for POSIX ACLs (getfacl and setfacl) to servers 19641da177e4SLinus Torvalds (such as Samba 3.10 and later) which can negotiate 19651da177e4SLinus Torvalds CIFS POSIX ACL support. If unsure, say N. 19661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19673979877eSSteve Frenchconfig CIFS_DEBUG2 19683856a9d4SSteve French bool "Enable additional CIFS debugging routines" 19698ba10ab1SSteve French depends on CIFS 19703979877eSSteve French help 19713979877eSSteve French Enabling this option adds a few more debugging routines 19723979877eSSteve French to the cifs code which slightly increases the size of 19733979877eSSteve French the cifs module and can cause additional logging of debug 19743979877eSSteve French messages in some error paths, slowing performance. This 19753979877eSSteve French option can be turned off unless you are debugging 19763979877eSSteve French cifs problems. If unsure, say N. 19773979877eSSteve French 19781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL 19791da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1980cb9dbff9SSteve French depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL 19811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1982ec58ef03SSteve French Enables cifs features under testing. These features are 1983ec58ef03SSteve French experimental and currently include support for writepages 1984ec58ef03SSteve French (multipage writebehind performance improvements) and directory 1985ec58ef03SSteve French change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY) as well as some security 1986ec58ef03SSteve French improvements. Some also depend on setting at runtime the 1987ec58ef03SSteve French pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental (which is disabled by 1988ec58ef03SSteve French default). See the file fs/cifs/README for more details. 1989ec58ef03SSteve French 1990ec58ef03SSteve French If unsure, say N. 19911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1992a2653ebaSSteve Frenchconfig CIFS_UPCALL 19933979877eSSteve French bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1994a2653ebaSSteve French depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL 1995230a0395SAndrew Morton depends on CONNECTOR 1996a2653ebaSSteve French help 1997a2653ebaSSteve French Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which will be used to contact 1998a2653ebaSSteve French userspace helper utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged Kerberos 1999a2653ebaSSteve French tickets which are needed to mount to certain secure servers 20001b397f4fSSteve French (for which more secure Kerberos authentication is required). If 20011b397f4fSSteve French unsure, say N. 2002a2653ebaSSteve French 20031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NCP_FS 20041da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)" 20051da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IPX!=n || INET 20061da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20071da177e4SLinus Torvalds NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) is a protocol that runs over IPX and is 20081da177e4SLinus Torvalds used by Novell NetWare clients to talk to file servers. It is to 20091da177e4SLinus Torvalds IPX what NFS is to TCP/IP, if that helps. Saying Y here allows you 20101da177e4SLinus Torvalds to mount NetWare file server volumes and to access them just like 20111da177e4SLinus Torvalds any other Unix directory. For details, please read the file 20121da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/ncpfs.txt> in the kernel source and 20131da177e4SLinus Torvalds the IPX-HOWTO from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 20141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20151da177e4SLinus Torvalds You do not have to say Y here if you want your Linux box to act as a 20161da177e4SLinus Torvalds file *server* for Novell NetWare clients. 20171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20181da177e4SLinus Torvalds General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and 20191da177e4SLinus Torvalds Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>. 20201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20211da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 20221da177e4SLinus Torvalds ncpfs. Say N unless you are connected to a Novell network. 20231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20241da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/ncpfs/Kconfig" 20251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CODA_FS 20271da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)" 20281da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 20291da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20301da177e4SLinus Torvalds Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it 20311da177e4SLinus Torvalds enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them 20321da177e4SLinus Torvalds with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard 20331da177e4SLinus Torvalds disk. Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for 20341da177e4SLinus Torvalds disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server 20351da177e4SLinus Torvalds replication, security model for authentication and encryption, 20361da177e4SLinus Torvalds persistent client caches and write back caching. 20371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20381da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda 20391da177e4SLinus Torvalds *client*. You will need user level code as well, both for the 20401da177e4SLinus Torvalds client and server. Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need 20411da177e4SLinus Torvalds no kernel support. Please read 20421da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.txt> and check out the Coda 20431da177e4SLinus Torvalds home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>. 20441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20451da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the 20461da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called coda. 20471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CODA_FS_OLD_API 20491da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use 96-bit Coda file identifiers" 20501da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on CODA_FS 20511da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20521da177e4SLinus Torvalds A new kernel-userspace API had to be introduced for Coda v6.0 20531da177e4SLinus Torvalds to support larger 128-bit file identifiers as needed by the 20541da177e4SLinus Torvalds new realms implementation. 20551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20561da177e4SLinus Torvalds However this new API is not backward compatible with older 20571da177e4SLinus Torvalds clients. If you really need to run the old Coda userspace 20581da177e4SLinus Torvalds cache manager then say Y. 20591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20601da177e4SLinus Torvalds For most cases you probably want to say N. 20611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AFS_FS 206364aaa4f8SDavid Howells tristate "Andrew File System support (AFS) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 20641da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL 20651da177e4SLinus Torvalds select RXRPC 20661da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20671da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will get an experimental Andrew File System 20681da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver. It currently only supports unsecured read-only AFS access. 20691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2070cc2e2767SMatt LaPlante See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information. 20711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20721da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 20731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig RXRPC 20751da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 20761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 207793fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergenconfig 9P_FS 207893fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen tristate "Plan 9 Resource Sharing Support (9P2000) (Experimental)" 207993fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL 208093fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen help 208193fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen If you say Y here, you will get experimental support for 208293fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen Plan 9 resource sharing via the 9P2000 protocol. 208393fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen 208493fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen See <http://v9fs.sf.net> for more information. 208593fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen 208693fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen If unsure, say N. 208793fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen 20881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 20891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20909361401eSDavid Howellsif BLOCK 20911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Partition Types" 20921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20931da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/partitions/Kconfig" 20941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 20969361401eSDavid Howellsendif 20971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20981da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/nls/Kconfig" 2099e7fd4179SDavid Teiglandsource "fs/dlm/Kconfig" 21001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 21021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2103