11da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 21da177e4SLinus Torvalds# File system configuration 31da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 41da177e4SLinus Torvalds 51da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "File systems" 61da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7*9361401eSDavid Howellsif BLOCK 8*9361401eSDavid 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 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the journaling 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 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds The journaling 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 1431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JBD 1441da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 1451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1461da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a generic journaling layer for block devices. It is 147b4e40a51SMark Fasheh currently used by the ext3 and OCFS2 file systems, but it could 148b4e40a51SMark Fasheh also be used to add journal support to other file systems or block 149b4e40a51SMark Fasheh devices such as RAID or LVM. 1501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 151b4e40a51SMark Fasheh If you are using the ext3 or OCFS2 file systems, you need to 152b4e40a51SMark Fasheh say Y here. If you are not using ext3 OCFS2 then you will probably 153b4e40a51SMark Fasheh want to say N. 1541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1551da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this device as a module, choose M here: the module will be 156b4e40a51SMark Fasheh called jbd. If you are compiling ext3 or OCFS2 into the kernel, 157b4e40a51SMark Fasheh you cannot compile this code as a module. 1581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JBD_DEBUG 1601da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JBD (ext3) debugging support" 1611da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JBD 1621da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1631da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are using the ext3 journaled file system (or potentially any 1641da177e4SLinus Torvalds other file system/device using JBD), this option allows you to 1651da177e4SLinus Torvalds enable debugging output while the system is running, in order to 1661da177e4SLinus Torvalds help track down any problems you are having. By default the 1671da177e4SLinus Torvalds debugging output will be turned off. 1681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1691da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging 1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds with "echo N > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug", where N is a number between 1711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1 and 5, the higher the number, the more debugging output is 1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds generated. To turn debugging off again, do 1731da177e4SLinus Torvalds "echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug". 1741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FS_MBCACHE 1761da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Meta block cache for Extended Attributes (ext2/ext3) 1771da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 1781da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR || EXT3_FS_XATTR 1791da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if EXT2_FS=y || EXT3_FS=y 1801da177e4SLinus Torvalds default m if EXT2_FS=m || EXT3_FS=m 1811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_FS 1831da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Reiserfs support" 1841da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1851da177e4SLinus Torvalds Stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a balanced 1861da177e4SLinus Torvalds tree. Uses journaling. 1871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1881da177e4SLinus Torvalds Balanced trees are more efficient than traditional file system 1891da177e4SLinus Torvalds architectural foundations. 1901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1911da177e4SLinus Torvalds In general, ReiserFS is as fast as ext2, but is very efficient with 1921da177e4SLinus Torvalds large directories and small files. Additional patches are needed 1931da177e4SLinus Torvalds for NFS and quotas, please see <http://www.namesys.com/> for links. 1941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1951da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is more easily extended to have features currently found in 1961da177e4SLinus Torvalds database and keyword search systems than block allocation based file 1971da177e4SLinus Torvalds systems are. The next version will be so extended, and will support 1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds plugins consistent with our motto ``It takes more than a license to 1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds make source code open.'' 2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds Read <http://www.namesys.com/> to learn more about reiserfs. 2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds Sponsored by Threshold Networks, Emusic.com, and Bigstorage.com. 2041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you like it, you can pay us to add new features to it that you 2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds need, buy a support contract, or pay us to port it to another OS. 2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_CHECK 2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable reiserfs debug mode" 2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on REISERFS_FS 2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you set this to Y, then ReiserFS will perform every check it can 2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds possibly imagine of its internal consistency throughout its 2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds operation. It will also go substantially slower. More than once we 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds have forgotten that this was on, and then gone despondent over the 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds latest benchmarks.:-) Use of this option allows our team to go all 2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds out in checking for consistency when debugging without fear of its 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds effect on end users. If you are on the verge of sending in a bug 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds report, say Y and you might get a useful error message. Almost 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds everyone should say N. 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_PROC_INFO 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Stats in /proc/fs/reiserfs" 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on REISERFS_FS 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds Create under /proc/fs/reiserfs a hierarchy of files, displaying 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds various ReiserFS statistics and internal data at the expense of 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds making your kernel or module slightly larger (+8 KB). This also 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds increases the amount of kernel memory required for each mount. 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds Almost everyone but ReiserFS developers and people fine-tuning 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds reiserfs or tracing problems should say N. 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_FS_XATTR 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "ReiserFS extended attributes" 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on REISERFS_FS 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL 2441da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "ReiserFS POSIX Access Control Lists" 2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR 246b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_FS_SECURITY 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "ReiserFS Security Labels" 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR 2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds Security labels support alternative access control models 2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds enables an extended attribute handler for file security 2631da177e4SLinus Torvalds labels in the ReiserFS filesystem. 2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2651da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not using a security module that requires using 2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 2671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_FS 2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "JFS filesystem support" 2701da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a port of IBM's Journaled Filesystem . More information is 2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds available in the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt>. 2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2751da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you do not intend to use the JFS filesystem, say N. 2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_POSIX_ACL 2781da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFS POSIX Access Control Lists" 2791da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFS_FS 280b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_SECURITY 2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFS Security Labels" 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFS_FS 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds Security labels support alternative access control models 2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds enables an extended attribute handler for file security 2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds labels in the jfs filesystem. 2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not using a security module that requires using 3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_DEBUG 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFS debugging" 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFS_FS 3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are experiencing any problems with the JFS filesystem, say 3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds Y here. This will result in additional debugging messages to be 3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds written to the system log. Under normal circumstances, this 3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds results in very little overhead. 3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_STATISTICS 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFS statistics" 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFS_FS 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will cause statistics from the JFS file system 3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jfs/ directory. 3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FS_POSIX_ACL 3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Posix ACL utility routines (for now, only ext2/ext3/jfs/reiserfs) 3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds# NOTE: you can implement Posix ACLs without these helpers (XFS does). 3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Never use this symbol for ifdefs. 3231da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 325b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher default n 3261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3271da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/xfs/Kconfig" 3281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 329b4e40a51SMark Fashehconfig OCFS2_FS 33002ed8416SMark Fasheh tristate "OCFS2 file system support" 33102ed8416SMark Fasheh depends on NET && SYSFS 332b4e40a51SMark Fasheh select CONFIGFS_FS 333b4e40a51SMark Fasheh select JBD 334b4e40a51SMark Fasheh select CRC32 335b4e40a51SMark Fasheh select INET 336b4e40a51SMark Fasheh help 337b4e40a51SMark Fasheh OCFS2 is a general purpose extent based shared disk cluster file 338b4e40a51SMark Fasheh system with many similarities to ext3. It supports 64 bit inode 339b4e40a51SMark Fasheh numbers, and has automatically extending metadata groups which may 340b4e40a51SMark Fasheh also make it attractive for non-clustered use. 341b4e40a51SMark Fasheh 342b4e40a51SMark Fasheh You'll want to install the ocfs2-tools package in order to at least 343b4e40a51SMark Fasheh get "mount.ocfs2". 344b4e40a51SMark Fasheh 345b4e40a51SMark Fasheh Project web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2 346b4e40a51SMark Fasheh Tools web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools 347b4e40a51SMark Fasheh OCFS2 mailing lists: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/mailman/ 348b4e40a51SMark Fasheh 349b4e40a51SMark Fasheh Note: Features which OCFS2 does not support yet: 350b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - extended attributes 351b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - shared writeable mmap 352b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - loopback is supported, but data written will not 353b4e40a51SMark Fasheh be cluster coherent. 354b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - quotas 355b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - cluster aware flock 356b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - Directory change notification (F_NOTIFY) 357b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - Distributed Caching (F_SETLEASE/F_GETLEASE/break_lease) 358b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - POSIX ACLs 359b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - readpages / writepages (not user visible) 360b4e40a51SMark Fasheh 3612b388c67SJoel Beckerconfig OCFS2_DEBUG_MASKLOG 3622b388c67SJoel Becker bool "OCFS2 logging support" 3632b388c67SJoel Becker depends on OCFS2_FS 3642b388c67SJoel Becker default y 3652b388c67SJoel Becker help 3662b388c67SJoel Becker The ocfs2 filesystem has an extensive logging system. The system 3672b388c67SJoel Becker allows selection of events to log via files in /sys/o2cb/logmask/. 3682b388c67SJoel Becker This option will enlarge your kernel, but it allows debugging of 3692b388c67SJoel Becker ocfs2 filesystem issues. 3702b388c67SJoel Becker 3711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MINIX_FS 3721da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Minix fs support" 3731da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3741da177e4SLinus Torvalds Minix is a simple operating system used in many classes about OS's. 3751da177e4SLinus Torvalds The minix file system (method to organize files on a hard disk 3761da177e4SLinus Torvalds partition or a floppy disk) was the original file system for Linux, 3771da177e4SLinus Torvalds but has been superseded by the second extended file system ext2fs. 3781da177e4SLinus Torvalds You don't want to use the minix file system on your hard disk 3791da177e4SLinus Torvalds because of certain built-in restrictions, but it is sometimes found 3801da177e4SLinus Torvalds on older Linux floppy disks. This option will enlarge your kernel 3811da177e4SLinus Torvalds by about 28 KB. If unsure, say N. 3821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3831da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 3841da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called minix. Note that the file system of your root 3851da177e4SLinus Torvalds partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as 3861da177e4SLinus Torvalds a module. 3871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ROMFS_FS 3891da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "ROM file system support" 3901da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3911da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for 3921da177e4SLinus Torvalds initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for 3931da177e4SLinus Torvalds other read-only media as well. Read 3941da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt> for details. 3951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3961da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 3971da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called romfs. Note that the file system of your 3981da177e4SLinus Torvalds root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a 3991da177e4SLinus Torvalds module. 4001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4011da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it: 4021da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer N. 4031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 404*9361401eSDavid Howellsendif 405*9361401eSDavid Howells 4060eeca283SRobert Loveconfig INOTIFY 4070eeca283SRobert Love bool "Inotify file change notification support" 4080eeca283SRobert Love default y 4090eeca283SRobert Love ---help--- 4102d9048e2SAmy Griffis Say Y here to enable inotify support. Inotify is a file change 4112d9048e2SAmy Griffis notification system and a replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes 4122d9048e2SAmy Griffis numerous shortcomings in dnotify and introduces several new features 4132d9048e2SAmy Griffis including multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount 4143de11748SRobert Love notification. 4153de11748SRobert Love 4163de11748SRobert Love For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt 4170eeca283SRobert Love 4180eeca283SRobert Love If unsure, say Y. 4190eeca283SRobert Love 4202d9048e2SAmy Griffisconfig INOTIFY_USER 4212d9048e2SAmy Griffis bool "Inotify support for userspace" 4222d9048e2SAmy Griffis depends on INOTIFY 4232d9048e2SAmy Griffis default y 4242d9048e2SAmy Griffis ---help--- 4252d9048e2SAmy Griffis Say Y here to enable inotify support for userspace, including the 4262d9048e2SAmy Griffis associated system calls. Inotify allows monitoring of both files and 4272d9048e2SAmy Griffis directories via a single open fd. Events are read from the file 4282d9048e2SAmy Griffis descriptor, which is also select()- and poll()-able. 4292d9048e2SAmy Griffis 4302d9048e2SAmy Griffis For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt 4312d9048e2SAmy Griffis 4322d9048e2SAmy Griffis If unsure, say Y. 4332d9048e2SAmy Griffis 4341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QUOTA 4351da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Quota support" 4361da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4371da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to set per user limits for disk 4381da177e4SLinus Torvalds usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works for the 4391da177e4SLinus Torvalds ext2, ext3, and reiserfs file system. ext3 also supports journalled 4401da177e4SLinus Torvalds quotas for which you don't need to run quotacheck(8) after an unclean 441919532a5SAdrian Bunk shutdown. 442919532a5SAdrian Bunk For further details, read the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from 4431da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or the documentation provided 4441da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the quota tools. Probably the quota support is only useful for 4451da177e4SLinus Torvalds multi user systems. If unsure, say N. 4461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QFMT_V1 4481da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Old quota format support" 4491da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on QUOTA 4501da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4511da177e4SLinus Torvalds This quota format was (is) used by kernels earlier than 2.4.22. If 4521da177e4SLinus Torvalds you have quota working and you don't want to convert to new quota 4531da177e4SLinus Torvalds format say Y here. 4541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QFMT_V2 4561da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Quota format v2 support" 4571da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on QUOTA 4581da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4591da177e4SLinus Torvalds This quota format allows using quotas with 32-bit UIDs/GIDs. If you 460919532a5SAdrian Bunk need this functionality say Y here. 4611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QUOTACTL 4631da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 4641da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA 4651da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 4661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DNOTIFY 4681da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Dnotify support" if EMBEDDED 4691da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 4701da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4711da177e4SLinus Torvalds Dnotify is a directory-based per-fd file change notification system 4721da177e4SLinus Torvalds that uses signals to communicate events to user-space. There exist 4731da177e4SLinus Torvalds superior alternatives, but some applications may still rely on 4741da177e4SLinus Torvalds dnotify. 4751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4761da177e4SLinus Torvalds Because of this, if unsure, say Y. 4771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUTOFS_FS 4791da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Kernel automounter support" 4801da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4811da177e4SLinus Torvalds The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems 4821da177e4SLinus Torvalds on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce 4831da177e4SLinus Torvalds overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD 4841da177e4SLinus Torvalds automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. 4851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4861da177e4SLinus Torvalds To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs 4871da177e4SLinus Torvalds package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>. 4881da177e4SLinus Torvalds You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. 4891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4901da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more 4911da177e4SLinus Torvalds features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support", 4921da177e4SLinus Torvalds below. 4931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4941da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be 4951da177e4SLinus Torvalds called autofs. 4961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4971da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you 4981da177e4SLinus Torvalds probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here. 4991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUTOFS4_FS 5011da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)" 5021da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5031da177e4SLinus Torvalds The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems 5041da177e4SLinus Torvalds on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce 5051da177e4SLinus Torvalds overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD 5061da177e4SLinus Torvalds automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. 5071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5081da177e4SLinus Torvalds To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from 5091da177e4SLinus Torvalds <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/>; you also 5101da177e4SLinus Torvalds want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. 5111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5121da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be 5131da177e4SLinus Torvalds called autofs4. You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your 5141da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules configuration file. 5151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5161da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or 5171da177e4SLinus Torvalds don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the 5181da177e4SLinus Torvalds local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say 5191da177e4SLinus Torvalds N here. 5201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 52104578f17SMiklos Szerediconfig FUSE_FS 52204578f17SMiklos Szeredi tristate "Filesystem in Userspace support" 52304578f17SMiklos Szeredi help 52404578f17SMiklos Szeredi With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem 52504578f17SMiklos Szeredi in a userspace program. 52604578f17SMiklos Szeredi 52704578f17SMiklos Szeredi There's also companion library: libfuse. This library along with 52804578f17SMiklos Szeredi utilities is available from the FUSE homepage: 52904578f17SMiklos Szeredi <http://fuse.sourceforge.net/> 53004578f17SMiklos Szeredi 531909021eaSMiklos Szeredi See <file:Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt> for more information. 532909021eaSMiklos Szeredi See <file:Documentation/Changes> for needed library/utility version. 533909021eaSMiklos Szeredi 53404578f17SMiklos Szeredi If you want to develop a userspace FS, or if you want to use 53504578f17SMiklos Szeredi a filesystem based on FUSE, answer Y or M. 53604578f17SMiklos Szeredi 537*9361401eSDavid Howellsif BLOCK 5381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems" 5391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ISO9660_FS 5411da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "ISO 9660 CDROM file system support" 5421da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5431da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the standard file system used on CD-ROMs. It was previously 5441da177e4SLinus Torvalds known as "High Sierra File System" and is called "hsfs" on other 5451da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unix systems. The so-called Rock-Ridge extensions which allow for 5461da177e4SLinus Torvalds long Unix filenames and symbolic links are also supported by this 5471da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver. If you have a CD-ROM drive and want to do more with it than 5481da177e4SLinus Torvalds just listen to audio CDs and watch its LEDs, say Y (and read 5491da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt> and the CD-ROM-HOWTO, 5501da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), thereby 5511da177e4SLinus Torvalds enlarging your kernel by about 27 KB; otherwise say N. 5521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5531da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 5541da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called isofs. 5551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JOLIET 5571da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions" 5581da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ISO9660_FS 5591da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 5601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5611da177e4SLinus Torvalds Joliet is a Microsoft extension for the ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system 5621da177e4SLinus Torvalds which allows for long filenames in unicode format (unicode is the 5631da177e4SLinus Torvalds new 16 bit character code, successor to ASCII, which encodes the 5641da177e4SLinus Torvalds characters of almost all languages of the world; see 5651da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.unicode.org/> for more information). Say Y here if you 5661da177e4SLinus Torvalds want to be able to read Joliet CD-ROMs under Linux. 5671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ZISOFS 5691da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Transparent decompression extension" 5701da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ISO9660_FS 5711da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_INFLATE 5721da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5731da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a Linux-specific extension to RockRidge which lets you store 5741da177e4SLinus Torvalds data in compressed form on a CD-ROM and have it transparently 5751da177e4SLinus Torvalds decompressed when the CD-ROM is accessed. See 5761da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/zisofs/> for the tools 5771da177e4SLinus Torvalds necessary to create such a filesystem. Say Y here if you want to be 5781da177e4SLinus Torvalds able to read such compressed CD-ROMs. 5791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ZISOFS_FS 5811da177e4SLinus Torvalds# for fs/nls/Config.in 5821da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 5831da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ZISOFS 5841da177e4SLinus Torvalds default ISO9660_FS 5851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UDF_FS 5871da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "UDF file system support" 5881da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5891da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the new file system used on some CD-ROMs and DVDs. Say Y if 5901da177e4SLinus Torvalds you intend to mount DVD discs or CDRW's written in packet mode, or 5911da177e4SLinus Torvalds if written to by other UDF utilities, such as DirectCD. 5921da177e4SLinus Torvalds Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt>. 5931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5941da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 5951da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called udf. 5961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5971da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 5981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UDF_NLS 6001da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 6011da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 6021da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (UDF_FS=m && NLS) || (UDF_FS=y && NLS=y) 6031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 605*9361401eSDavid Howellsendif 6061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 607*9361401eSDavid Howellsif BLOCK 6081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems" 6091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FAT_FS 6111da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 6121da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 6131da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6141da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to use one of the FAT-based file systems (the MS-DOS and 6151da177e4SLinus Torvalds VFAT (Windows 95) file systems), then you must say Y or M here 6161da177e4SLinus Torvalds to include FAT support. You will then be able to mount partitions or 6171da177e4SLinus Torvalds diskettes with FAT-based file systems and transparently access the 6181da177e4SLinus Torvalds files on them, i.e. MSDOS files will look and behave just like all 6191da177e4SLinus Torvalds other Unix files. 6201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6211da177e4SLinus Torvalds This FAT support is not a file system in itself, it only provides 6221da177e4SLinus Torvalds the foundation for the other file systems. You will have to say Y or 6231da177e4SLinus Torvalds M to at least one of "MSDOS fs support" or "VFAT fs support" in 6241da177e4SLinus Torvalds order to make use of it. 6251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6261da177e4SLinus Torvalds Another way to read and write MSDOS floppies and hard drive 6271da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions from within Linux (but not transparently) is with the 6281da177e4SLinus Torvalds mtools ("man mtools") program suite. You don't need to say Y here in 6291da177e4SLinus Torvalds order to do that. 6301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6311da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you need to move large files on floppies between a DOS and a 6321da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux box, say Y here, mount the floppy under Linux with an MSDOS 6331da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program 6341da177e4SLinus Torvalds available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar"). 6351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6361da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is now also becoming possible to read and write compressed FAT 6371da177e4SLinus Torvalds file systems; read <file:Documentation/filesystems/fat_cvf.txt> for 6381da177e4SLinus Torvalds details. 6391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6401da177e4SLinus Torvalds The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure, 6411da177e4SLinus Torvalds say Y. 6421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6431da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 6441da177e4SLinus Torvalds fat. Note that if you compile the FAT support as a module, you 6451da177e4SLinus Torvalds cannot compile any of the FAT-based file systems into the kernel 6461da177e4SLinus Torvalds -- they will have to be modules as well. 6471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MSDOS_FS 6491da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "MSDOS fs support" 6501da177e4SLinus Torvalds select FAT_FS 6511da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6521da177e4SLinus Torvalds This allows you to mount MSDOS partitions of your hard drive (unless 6531da177e4SLinus Torvalds they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under 6541da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the 6551da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from 6561da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in 6571da177e4SLinus Torvalds <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you 6581da177e4SLinus Torvalds intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y 6591da177e4SLinus Torvalds here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes 6601da177e4SLinus Torvalds transparent, i.e. the MSDOS files look and behave just like all 6611da177e4SLinus Torvalds other Unix files. 6621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6631da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have Windows 95 or Windows NT installed on your MSDOS 6641da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions, you should use the VFAT file system (say Y to "VFAT fs 6651da177e4SLinus Torvalds support" below), or you will not be able to see the long filenames 6661da177e4SLinus Torvalds generated by Windows 95 / Windows NT. 6671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6681da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will enlarge your kernel by about 7 KB. If unsure, 6691da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer Y. This will only work if you said Y to "DOS FAT fs support" 6701da177e4SLinus Torvalds as well. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will 6711da177e4SLinus Torvalds be called msdos. 6721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig VFAT_FS 6741da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "VFAT (Windows-95) fs support" 6751da177e4SLinus Torvalds select FAT_FS 6761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6771da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option provides support for normal Windows file systems with 6781da177e4SLinus Torvalds long filenames. That includes non-compressed FAT-based file systems 6791da177e4SLinus Torvalds used by Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and the Unix 6801da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs from the mtools package. 6811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6821da177e4SLinus Torvalds The VFAT support enlarges your kernel by about 10 KB and it only 6831da177e4SLinus Torvalds works if you said Y to the "DOS FAT fs support" above. Please read 6841da177e4SLinus Torvalds the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for details. If 6851da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say Y. 6861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6871da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 6881da177e4SLinus Torvalds vfat. 6891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE 6911da177e4SLinus Torvalds int "Default codepage for FAT" 6921da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MSDOS_FS || VFAT_FS 6931da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 437 6941da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6951da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option should be set to the codepage of your FAT filesystems. 6961da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can be overridden with the "codepage" mount option. 6971da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information. 6981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET 7001da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Default iocharset for FAT" 7011da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on VFAT_FS 7021da177e4SLinus Torvalds default "iso8859-1" 7031da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7041da177e4SLinus Torvalds Set this to the default input/output character set you'd 7051da177e4SLinus Torvalds like FAT to use. It should probably match the character set 7061da177e4SLinus Torvalds that most of your FAT filesystems use, and can be overridden 7071da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the "iocharset" mount option for FAT filesystems. 7081da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that "utf8" is not recommended for FAT filesystems. 7091da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here. 7101da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information. 7111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NTFS_FS 7131da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NTFS file system support" 7141da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 7151da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7161da177e4SLinus Torvalds NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003. 7171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7181da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y or M here enables read support. There is partial, but 7191da177e4SLinus Torvalds safe, write support available. For write support you must also 7201da177e4SLinus Torvalds say Y to "NTFS write support" below. 7211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7221da177e4SLinus Torvalds There are also a number of user-space tools available, called 7231da177e4SLinus Torvalds ntfsprogs. These include ntfsundelete and ntfsresize, that work 7241da177e4SLinus Torvalds without NTFS support enabled in the kernel. 7251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7261da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a rewrite from scratch of Linux NTFS support and replaced 7271da177e4SLinus Torvalds the old NTFS code starting with Linux 2.5.11. A backport to 7281da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Linux 2.4 kernel series is separately available as a patch 7291da177e4SLinus Torvalds from the project web site. 7301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7311da177e4SLinus Torvalds For more information see <file:Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt> 7321da177e4SLinus Torvalds and <http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/>. 7331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7341da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 7351da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called ntfs. 7361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7371da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not using Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 in addition to 7381da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux on your computer it is safe to say N. 7391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NTFS_DEBUG 7411da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "NTFS debugging support" 7421da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NTFS_FS 7431da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7441da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are experiencing any problems with the NTFS file system, say 7451da177e4SLinus Torvalds Y here. This will result in additional consistency checks to be 7461da177e4SLinus Torvalds performed by the driver as well as additional debugging messages to 7471da177e4SLinus Torvalds be written to the system log. Note that debugging messages are 7481da177e4SLinus Torvalds disabled by default. To enable them, supply the option debug_msgs=1 7491da177e4SLinus Torvalds at the kernel command line when booting the kernel or as an option 7501da177e4SLinus Torvalds to insmod when loading the ntfs module. Once the driver is active, 7511da177e4SLinus Torvalds you can enable debugging messages by doing (as root): 7521da177e4SLinus Torvalds echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug 7531da177e4SLinus Torvalds Replacing the "1" with "0" would disable debug messages. 7541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7551da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you leave debugging messages disabled, this results in little 7561da177e4SLinus Torvalds overhead, but enabling debug messages results in very significant 7571da177e4SLinus Torvalds slowdown of the system. 7581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7591da177e4SLinus Torvalds When reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of 7601da177e4SLinus Torvalds debugging messages while the misbehaviour was occurring. 7611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NTFS_RW 7631da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "NTFS write support" 7641da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NTFS_FS 7651da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7661da177e4SLinus Torvalds This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver. 7671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7681da177e4SLinus Torvalds The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without 7691da177e4SLinus Torvalds changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or 7701da177e4SLinus Torvalds renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to 7711da177e4SLinus Torvalds so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot 7721da177e4SLinus Torvalds be written to. 7731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7741da177e4SLinus Torvalds While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have 7751da177e4SLinus Torvalds so far not received a single report where the driver would have 7761da177e4SLinus Torvalds damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use. 7771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7781da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from 7791da177e4SLinus Torvalds scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS 7801da177e4SLinus Torvalds write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997), 7811da177e4SLinus Torvalds is not safe. 7821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7831da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is currently useful with TopologiLinux. TopologiLinux is run 7841da177e4SLinus Torvalds on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your 7851da177e4SLinus Torvalds hard disk. Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not 7861da177e4SLinus Torvalds need its own partition. For more information see 7871da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/> 7881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7891da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is perfectly safe to say N here. 7901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 792*9361401eSDavid Howellsendif 7931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Pseudo filesystems" 7951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PROC_FS 79769755652SH. Peter Anvin bool "/proc file system support" if EMBEDDED 79869755652SH. Peter Anvin default y 7991da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8001da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a virtual file system providing information about the status 8011da177e4SLinus Torvalds of the system. "Virtual" means that it doesn't take up any space on 8021da177e4SLinus Torvalds your hard disk: the files are created on the fly by the kernel when 8031da177e4SLinus Torvalds you try to access them. Also, you cannot read the files with older 8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds version of the program less: you need to use more or cat. 8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8061da177e4SLinus Torvalds It's totally cool; for example, "cat /proc/interrupts" gives 8071da177e4SLinus Torvalds information about what the different IRQs are used for at the moment 8081da177e4SLinus Torvalds (there is a small number of Interrupt ReQuest lines in your computer 8091da177e4SLinus Torvalds that are used by the attached devices to gain the CPU's attention -- 8101da177e4SLinus Torvalds often a source of trouble if two devices are mistakenly configured 8111da177e4SLinus Torvalds to use the same IRQ). The program procinfo to display some 8121da177e4SLinus Torvalds information about your system gathered from the /proc file system. 8131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8141da177e4SLinus Torvalds Before you can use the /proc file system, it has to be mounted, 8151da177e4SLinus Torvalds meaning it has to be given a location in the directory hierarchy. 8161da177e4SLinus Torvalds That location should be /proc. A command such as "mount -t proc proc 8171da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc" or the equivalent line in /etc/fstab does the job. 8181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8191da177e4SLinus Torvalds The /proc file system is explained in the file 8201da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt> and on the proc(5) manpage 8211da177e4SLinus Torvalds ("man 5 proc"). 8221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8231da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will enlarge your kernel by about 67 KB. Several 8241da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs depend on this, so everyone should say Y here. 8251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PROC_KCORE 8271da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "/proc/kcore support" if !ARM 8281da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS && MMU 8291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 830666bfddbSVivek Goyalconfig PROC_VMCORE 831666bfddbSVivek Goyal bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 83205970d47SManeesh Soni depends on PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP 83368250ba5SVivek Goyal default y 834666bfddbSVivek Goyal help 835666bfddbSVivek Goyal Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format. 836666bfddbSVivek Goyal 837b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig PROC_SYSCTL 838b89a8171SEric W. Biederman bool "Sysctl support (/proc/sys)" if EMBEDDED 839b89a8171SEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_FS 840b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 841b89a8171SEric W. Biederman default y 842b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 843b89a8171SEric W. Biederman The sysctl interface provides a means of dynamically changing 844b89a8171SEric W. Biederman certain kernel parameters and variables on the fly without requiring 845b89a8171SEric W. Biederman a recompile of the kernel or reboot of the system. The primary 846b89a8171SEric W. Biederman interface is through /proc/sys. If you say Y here a tree of 847b89a8171SEric W. Biederman modifiable sysctl entries will be generated beneath the 848b89a8171SEric W. Biederman /proc/sys directory. They are explained in the files 849b89a8171SEric W. Biederman in <file:Documentation/sysctl/>. Note that enabling this 850b89a8171SEric W. Biederman option will enlarge the kernel by at least 8 KB. 851b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 852b89a8171SEric W. Biederman As it is generally a good thing, you should say Y here unless 853b89a8171SEric W. Biederman building a kernel for install/rescue disks or your system is very 854b89a8171SEric W. Biederman limited in memory. 855b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 8561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSFS 8571da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "sysfs file system support" if EMBEDDED 8581da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 8591da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8601da177e4SLinus Torvalds The sysfs filesystem is a virtual filesystem that the kernel uses to 8611da177e4SLinus Torvalds export internal kernel objects, their attributes, and their 8621da177e4SLinus Torvalds relationships to one another. 8631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8641da177e4SLinus Torvalds Users can use sysfs to ascertain useful information about the running 8651da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel, such as the devices the kernel has discovered on each bus and 8661da177e4SLinus Torvalds which driver each is bound to. sysfs can also be used to tune devices 8671da177e4SLinus Torvalds and other kernel subsystems. 8681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8691da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some system agents rely on the information in sysfs to operate. 8701da177e4SLinus Torvalds /sbin/hotplug uses device and object attributes in sysfs to assist in 8711da177e4SLinus Torvalds delegating policy decisions, like persistantly naming devices. 8721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8731da177e4SLinus Torvalds sysfs is currently used by the block subsystem to mount the root 8741da177e4SLinus Torvalds partition. If sysfs is disabled you must specify the boot device on 8751da177e4SLinus Torvalds the kernel boot command line via its major and minor numbers. For 8761da177e4SLinus Torvalds example, "root=03:01" for /dev/hda1. 8771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8781da177e4SLinus Torvalds Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space. 8791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TMPFS 8811da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)" 8821da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8831da177e4SLinus Torvalds Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory. 8841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8851da177e4SLinus Torvalds Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be 8861da177e4SLinus Torvalds created on your hard drive. The files live in memory and swap 8871da177e4SLinus Torvalds space. If you unmount a tmpfs instance, everything stored therein is 8881da177e4SLinus Torvalds lost. 8891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8901da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> for details. 8911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 89239f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacherconfig TMPFS_POSIX_ACL 89339f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher bool "Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists" 89439f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher depends on TMPFS 89539f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher select GENERIC_ACL 89639f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher help 89739f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 89839f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 89939f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher 90039f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for 90139f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 90239f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher 90339f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N. 90439f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher 9051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HUGETLBFS 9061da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "HugeTLB file system support" 9070d078f6fSBrian Gerst depends X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || BROKEN 908dda27d1aSArthur Othieno help 909dda27d1aSArthur Othieno hugetlbfs is a filesystem backing for HugeTLB pages, based on 910dda27d1aSArthur Othieno ramfs. For architectures that support it, say Y here and read 911dda27d1aSArthur Othieno <file:Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt> for details. 912dda27d1aSArthur Othieno 913dda27d1aSArthur Othieno If unsure, say N. 9141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HUGETLB_PAGE 9161da177e4SLinus Torvalds def_bool HUGETLBFS 9171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig RAMFS 9191da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 9201da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 9211da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 9221da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ramfs is a file system which keeps all files in RAM. It allows 9231da177e4SLinus Torvalds read and write access. 9241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9251da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is more of an programming example than a useable file system. If 9261da177e4SLinus Torvalds you need a file system which lives in RAM with limit checking use 9271da177e4SLinus Torvalds tmpfs. 9281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9291da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 9301da177e4SLinus Torvalds ramfs. 9311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9327063fbf2SJoel Beckerconfig CONFIGFS_FS 9337063fbf2SJoel Becker tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem (EXPERIMENTAL)" 93465714b91SAdrian Bunk depends on SYSFS && EXPERIMENTAL 9357063fbf2SJoel Becker help 9367063fbf2SJoel Becker configfs is a ram-based filesystem that provides the converse 9377063fbf2SJoel Becker of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based 9387063fbf2SJoel Becker view of kernel objects, configfs is a filesystem-based manager 9397063fbf2SJoel Becker of kernel objects, or config_items. 9407063fbf2SJoel Becker 9417063fbf2SJoel Becker Both sysfs and configfs can and should exist together on the 9427063fbf2SJoel Becker same system. One is not a replacement for the other. 9437063fbf2SJoel Becker 9441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 9451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Miscellaneous filesystems" 9471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ADFS_FS 9491da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "ADFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 950*9361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 9511da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9521da177e4SLinus Torvalds The Acorn Disc Filing System is the standard file system of the 9531da177e4SLinus Torvalds RiscOS operating system which runs on Acorn's ARM-based Risc PC 9541da177e4SLinus Torvalds systems and the Acorn Archimedes range of machines. If you say Y 9551da177e4SLinus Torvalds here, Linux will be able to read from ADFS partitions on hard drives 9561da177e4SLinus Torvalds and from ADFS-formatted floppy discs. If you also want to be able to 9571da177e4SLinus Torvalds write to those devices, say Y to "ADFS write support" below. 9581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9591da177e4SLinus Torvalds The ADFS partition should be the first partition (i.e., 9601da177e4SLinus Torvalds /dev/[hs]d?1) on each of your drives. Please read the file 9611da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt> for further details. 9621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9631da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be 9641da177e4SLinus Torvalds called adfs. 9651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9661da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 9671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ADFS_FS_RW 9691da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)" 9701da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ADFS_FS 9711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9721da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to write to ADFS partitions on 9731da177e4SLinus Torvalds hard drives and ADFS-formatted floppy disks. This is experimental 9741da177e4SLinus Torvalds codes, so if you're unsure, say N. 9751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AFFS_FS 9771da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Amiga FFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 978*9361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 9791da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9801da177e4SLinus Torvalds The Fast File System (FFS) is the common file system used on hard 9811da177e4SLinus Torvalds disks by Amiga(tm) systems since AmigaOS Version 1.3 (34.20). Say Y 9821da177e4SLinus Torvalds if you want to be able to read and write files from and to an Amiga 9831da177e4SLinus Torvalds FFS partition on your hard drive. Amiga floppies however cannot be 9841da177e4SLinus Torvalds read with this driver due to an incompatibility of the floppy 9851da177e4SLinus Torvalds controller used in an Amiga and the standard floppy controller in 9861da177e4SLinus Torvalds PCs and workstations. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt> 9871da177e4SLinus Torvalds and <file:fs/affs/Changes>. 9881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9891da177e4SLinus Torvalds With this driver you can also mount disk files used by Bernd 9901da177e4SLinus Torvalds Schmidt's Un*X Amiga Emulator 9911da177e4SLinus Torvalds (<http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/>). 9921da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to do this, you will also need to say Y or M to "Loop 9931da177e4SLinus Torvalds device support", above. 9941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9951da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 9961da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called affs. If unsure, say N. 9971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HFS_FS 9991da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1000*9361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 1001878129a3SLennert Buytenhek select NLS 10021da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10031da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to mount Macintosh-formatted 10041da177e4SLinus Torvalds floppy disks and hard drive partitions with full read-write access. 10051da177e4SLinus Torvalds Please read <file:fs/hfs/HFS.txt> to learn about the available mount 10061da177e4SLinus Torvalds options. 10071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10081da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 10091da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called hfs. 10101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HFSPLUS_FS 10121da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Apple Extended HFS file system support" 1013*9361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 10141da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 10151da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS_UTF8 10161da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10171da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to mount extended format 10181da177e4SLinus Torvalds Macintosh-formatted hard drive partitions with full read-write access. 10191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10201da177e4SLinus Torvalds This file system is often called HFS+ and was introduced with 10211da177e4SLinus Torvalds MacOS 8. It includes all Mac specific filesystem data such as 10221da177e4SLinus Torvalds data forks and creator codes, but it also has several UNIX 10231da177e4SLinus Torvalds style features such as file ownership and permissions. 10241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BEFS_FS 10261da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "BeOS file system (BeFS) support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1027*9361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 10281da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 10291da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10301da177e4SLinus Torvalds The BeOS File System (BeFS) is the native file system of Be, Inc's 10311da177e4SLinus Torvalds BeOS. Notable features include support for arbitrary attributes 10321da177e4SLinus Torvalds on files and directories, and database-like indeces on selected 10331da177e4SLinus Torvalds attributes. (Also note that this driver doesn't make those features 10341da177e4SLinus Torvalds available at this time). It is a 64 bit filesystem, so it supports 10351da177e4SLinus Torvalds extremly large volumes and files. 10361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10371da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you use this filesystem, you should also say Y to at least one 10381da177e4SLinus Torvalds of the NLS (native language support) options below. 10391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10401da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what this is about, say N. 10411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10421da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 10431da177e4SLinus Torvalds called befs. 10441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BEFS_DEBUG 10461da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Debug BeFS" 10471da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BEFS_FS 10481da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10491da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you can use the 'debug' mount option to enable 10501da177e4SLinus Torvalds debugging output from the driver. 10511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BFS_FS 10531da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1054*9361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 10551da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10561da177e4SLinus Torvalds Boot File System (BFS) is a file system used under SCO UnixWare to 10571da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow the bootloader access to the kernel image and other important 10581da177e4SLinus Torvalds files during the boot process. It is usually mounted under /stand 10591da177e4SLinus Torvalds and corresponds to the slice marked as "STAND" in the UnixWare 10601da177e4SLinus Torvalds partition. You should say Y if you want to read or write the files 10611da177e4SLinus Torvalds on your /stand slice from within Linux. You then also need to say Y 10621da177e4SLinus Torvalds to "UnixWare slices support", below. More information about the BFS 10631da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system is contained in the file 10641da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/bfs.txt>. 10651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10661da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what this is about, say N. 10671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10681da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 10691da177e4SLinus Torvalds bfs. Note that the file system of your root partition (the one 10701da177e4SLinus Torvalds containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module. 10711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EFS_FS 10751da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "EFS file system support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1076*9361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 10771da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10781da177e4SLinus Torvalds EFS is an older file system used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and hard 10791da177e4SLinus Torvalds disk partitions by SGI's IRIX operating system (IRIX 6.0 and newer 10801da177e4SLinus Torvalds uses the XFS file system for hard disk partitions however). 10811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10821da177e4SLinus Torvalds This implementation only offers read-only access. If you don't know 10831da177e4SLinus Torvalds what all this is about, it's safe to say N. For more information 10841da177e4SLinus Torvalds about EFS see its home page at <http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/>. 10851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10861da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the EFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the 10871da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called efs. 10881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS_FS 10901da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Journalling Flash File System (JFFS) support" 1091*9361401eSDavid Howells depends on MTD && BLOCK 10921da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10931da177e4SLinus Torvalds JFFS is the Journaling Flash File System developed by Axis 10941da177e4SLinus Torvalds Communications in Sweden, aimed at providing a crash/powerdown-safe 10951da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system for disk-less embedded devices. Further information is 10961da177e4SLinus Torvalds available at (<http://developer.axis.com/software/jffs/>). 10971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS_FS_VERBOSE 10991da177e4SLinus Torvalds int "JFFS debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 3 = noisy)" 11001da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS_FS 11011da177e4SLinus Torvalds default "0" 11021da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11031da177e4SLinus Torvalds Determines the verbosity level of the JFFS debugging messages. 11041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS_PROC_FS 11061da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFFS stats available in /proc filesystem" 11071da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS_FS && PROC_FS 11081da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11091da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will cause statistics from mounted JFFS file systems 11101da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jffs/ directory. 11111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_FS 11131da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Journalling Flash File System v2 (JFFS2) support" 11141da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 11151da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MTD 11161da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11171da177e4SLinus Torvalds JFFS2 is the second generation of the Journalling Flash File System 11181da177e4SLinus Torvalds for use on diskless embedded devices. It provides improved wear 11191da177e4SLinus Torvalds levelling, compression and support for hard links. You cannot use 11201da177e4SLinus Torvalds this on normal block devices, only on 'MTD' devices. 11211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11221da177e4SLinus Torvalds Further information on the design and implementation of JFFS2 is 11231da177e4SLinus Torvalds available at <http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2/>. 11241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_FS_DEBUG 11261da177e4SLinus Torvalds int "JFFS2 debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 2 = noisy)" 11271da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 11281da177e4SLinus Torvalds default "0" 11291da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11301da177e4SLinus Torvalds This controls the amount of debugging messages produced by the JFFS2 11311da177e4SLinus Torvalds code. Set it to zero for use in production systems. For evaluation, 11321da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing and debugging, it's advisable to set it to one. This will 11331da177e4SLinus Torvalds enable a few assertions and will print debugging messages at the 11341da177e4SLinus Torvalds KERN_DEBUG loglevel, where they won't normally be visible. Level 2 11351da177e4SLinus Torvalds is unlikely to be useful - it enables extra debugging in certain 11361da177e4SLinus Torvalds areas which at one point needed debugging, but when the bugs were 11371da177e4SLinus Torvalds located and fixed, the detailed messages were relegated to level 2. 11381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11391da177e4SLinus Torvalds If reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of the 11401da177e4SLinus Torvalds messages at debug level 1 while the misbehaviour was occurring. 11411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11422ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouseconfig JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER 11432ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse bool "JFFS2 write-buffering support" 1144aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei depends on JFFS2_FS 11452ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse default y 11462ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse help 11472ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse This enables the write-buffering support in JFFS2. 11482ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse 11492ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse This functionality is required to support JFFS2 on the following 11502ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse types of flash devices: 11512ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse - NAND flash 11522ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse - NOR flash with transparent ECC 11532ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse - DataFlash 11542ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse 11552ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouseconfig JFFS2_SUMMARY 11562ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse bool "JFFS2 summary support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 11572ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 11582ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse default n 11592ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse help 11602ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse This feature makes it possible to use summary information 11612ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse for faster filesystem mount. 11622ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse 11632ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse The summary information can be inserted into a filesystem image 11642ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse by the utility 'sumtool'. 11652ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse 11662ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse If unsure, say 'N'. 11672ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse 11682ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouseconfig JFFS2_FS_XATTR 11692ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse bool "JFFS2 XATTR support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 117004510deeSKaiGai Kohei depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 1171aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei default n 1172aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei help 1173aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 1174aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 1175aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 1176aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 1177aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei If unsure, say N. 1178aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 1179aa98d7cfSKaiGai Koheiconfig JFFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL 1180aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei bool "JFFS2 POSIX Access Control Lists" 1181aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR 1182aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei default y 1183aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei select FS_POSIX_ACL 1184aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei help 1185aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 1186aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 1187aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 1188aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 1189aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 1190aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 1191aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 1192aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 1193aa98d7cfSKaiGai Koheiconfig JFFS2_FS_SECURITY 1194aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei bool "JFFS2 Security Labels" 1195aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR 1196aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei default y 1197aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei help 1198aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei Security labels support alternative access control models 1199aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 1200aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei enables an extended attribute handler for file security 1201aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei labels in the jffs2 filesystem. 1202aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 1203aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei If you are not using a security module that requires using 1204aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 1205aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 12061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 12071da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Advanced compression options for JFFS2" 12081da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 12091da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 12101da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12111da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this option allows you to explicitly choose which 12121da177e4SLinus Torvalds compression modules, if any, are enabled in JFFS2. Removing 12131da177e4SLinus Torvalds compressors and mean you cannot read existing file systems, 12141da177e4SLinus Torvalds and enabling experimental compressors can mean that you 12151da177e4SLinus Torvalds write a file system which cannot be read by a standard kernel. 12161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12171da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, you should _definitely_ say 'N'. 12181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_ZLIB 12201da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFFS2 ZLIB compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 12211da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_INFLATE 12221da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_DEFLATE 12231da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 12241da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 12251da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12261da177e4SLinus Torvalds Zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered, 12271da177e4SLinus Torvalds lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer 12281da177e4SLinus Torvalds hardware and operating system. See <http://www.gzip.org/zlib/> for 12291da177e4SLinus Torvalds further information. 12301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12311da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say 'Y' if unsure. 12321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_RTIME 12341da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFFS2 RTIME compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 12351da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 12361da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 12371da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12381da177e4SLinus Torvalds Rtime does manage to recompress already-compressed data. Say 'Y' if unsure. 12391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_RUBIN 12411da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFFS2 RUBIN compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 12421da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 12431da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 12441da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12451da177e4SLinus Torvalds RUBINMIPS and DYNRUBIN compressors. Say 'N' if unsure. 12461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12471da177e4SLinus Torvaldschoice 12481da177e4SLinus Torvalds prompt "JFFS2 default compression mode" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 12491da177e4SLinus Torvalds default JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY 12501da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 12511da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12521da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can set here the default compression mode of JFFS2 from 12531da177e4SLinus Torvalds the available compression modes. Don't touch if unsure. 12541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_CMODE_NONE 12561da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "no compression" 12571da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12581da177e4SLinus Torvalds Uses no compression. 12591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY 12611da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "priority" 12621da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12631da177e4SLinus Torvalds Tries the compressors in a predefinied order and chooses the first 12641da177e4SLinus Torvalds successful one. 12651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_CMODE_SIZE 12671da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "size (EXPERIMENTAL)" 12681da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12691da177e4SLinus Torvalds Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest 12701da177e4SLinus Torvalds result. 12711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendchoice 12731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CRAMFS 12751da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)" 1276*9361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 12771da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_INFLATE 12781da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12791da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here includes support for CramFs (Compressed ROM File 12801da177e4SLinus Torvalds System). CramFs is designed to be a simple, small, and compressed 12811da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system for ROM based embedded systems. CramFs is read-only, 12821da177e4SLinus Torvalds limited to 256MB file systems (with 16MB files), and doesn't support 12831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16/32 bits uid/gid, hard links and timestamps. 12841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12851da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt> and 12861da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:fs/cramfs/README> for further information. 12871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12881da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 12891da177e4SLinus Torvalds cramfs. Note that the root file system (the one containing the 12901da177e4SLinus Torvalds directory /) cannot be compiled as a module. 12911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12921da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 12931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig VXFS_FS 12951da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "FreeVxFS file system support (VERITAS VxFS(TM) compatible)" 1296*9361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 12971da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12981da177e4SLinus Torvalds FreeVxFS is a file system driver that support the VERITAS VxFS(TM) 12991da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system format. VERITAS VxFS(TM) is the standard file system 13001da177e4SLinus Torvalds of SCO UnixWare (and possibly others) and optionally available 13011da177e4SLinus Torvalds for Sunsoft Solaris, HP-UX and many other operating systems. 13021da177e4SLinus Torvalds Currently only readonly access is supported. 13031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13041da177e4SLinus Torvalds NOTE: the file system type as used by mount(1), mount(2) and 13051da177e4SLinus Torvalds fstab(5) is 'vxfs' as it describes the file system format, not 13061da177e4SLinus Torvalds the actual driver. 13071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13081da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 13091da177e4SLinus Torvalds called freevxfs. If unsure, say N. 13101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HPFS_FS 13131da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "OS/2 HPFS file system support" 1314*9361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 13151da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13161da177e4SLinus Torvalds OS/2 is IBM's operating system for PC's, the same as Warp, and HPFS 13171da177e4SLinus Torvalds is the file system used for organizing files on OS/2 hard disk 13181da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions. Say Y if you want to be able to read files from and 13191da177e4SLinus Torvalds write files to an OS/2 HPFS partition on your hard drive. OS/2 13201da177e4SLinus Torvalds floppies however are in regular MSDOS format, so you don't need this 13211da177e4SLinus Torvalds option in order to be able to read them. Read 13221da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt>. 13231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13241da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 13251da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called hpfs. If unsure, say N. 13261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QNX4FS_FS 13301da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "QNX4 file system support (read only)" 1331*9361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 13321da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13331da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the file system used by the real-time operating systems 13341da177e4SLinus Torvalds QNX 4 and QNX 6 (the latter is also called QNX RTP). 13351da177e4SLinus Torvalds Further information is available at <http://www.qnx.com/>. 13361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y if you intend to mount QNX hard disks or floppies. 13371da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless you say Y to "QNX4FS read-write support" below, you will 13381da177e4SLinus Torvalds only be able to read these file systems. 13391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13401da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 13411da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called qnx4. 13421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13431da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it: 13441da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer N. 13451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QNX4FS_RW 13471da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "QNX4FS write support (DANGEROUS)" 13481da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on QNX4FS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN 13491da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13501da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y if you want to test write support for QNX4 file systems. 13511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13521da177e4SLinus Torvalds It's currently broken, so for now: 13531da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer N. 13541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSV_FS 13581da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support" 1359*9361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 13601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13611da177e4SLinus Torvalds SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel 13621da177e4SLinus Torvalds machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y 13631da177e4SLinus Torvalds here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk 13641da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions. 13651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13661da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely 13671da177e4SLinus Torvalds that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order 13681da177e4SLinus Torvalds to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is a 13691da177e4SLinus Torvalds a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse, 13701da177e4SLinus Torvalds UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux. It is 13711da177e4SLinus Torvalds available via FTP (user: ftp) from 13721da177e4SLinus Torvalds <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>). 13731da177e4SLinus Torvalds NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems; 13741da177e4SLinus Torvalds PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-) 13751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13761da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the 13771da177e4SLinus Torvalds network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support 13781da177e4SLinus Torvalds (but you need NFS file system support obviously). 13791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13801da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a 13811da177e4SLinus Torvalds good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes 13821da177e4SLinus Torvalds (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man 13831da177e4SLinus Torvalds tar" or preferably "info tar"). Note also that this option has 13841da177e4SLinus Torvalds nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about 13851da177e4SLinus Torvalds the System V file system in 13861da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>. 13871da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB. 13881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13891da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 13901da177e4SLinus Torvalds sysv. 13911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13921da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. 13931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UFS_FS 13971da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "UFS file system support (read only)" 1398*9361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 13991da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14001da177e4SLinus Torvalds BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, 14011da177e4SLinus Torvalds OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a file system called UFS. Some System V 14021da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using 14031da177e4SLinus Torvalds this file system as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from 14041da177e4SLinus Torvalds these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the 14051da177e4SLinus Torvalds experimental "UFS file system write support", below. Please read the 14061da177e4SLinus Torvalds file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt> for more information. 14071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14081da177e4SLinus Torvalds The recently released UFS2 variant (used in FreeBSD 5.x) is 14091da177e4SLinus Torvalds READ-ONLY supported. 14101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14111da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the 14121da177e4SLinus Torvalds network using NFS, you don't need the UFS file system support (but 14131da177e4SLinus Torvalds you need NFS file system support obviously). 14141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14151da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a 14161da177e4SLinus Torvalds good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes 14171da177e4SLinus Torvalds (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man 14181da177e4SLinus Torvalds tar" or preferably "info tar"). 14191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14201da177e4SLinus Torvalds When accessing NeXTstep files, you may need to convert them from the 14211da177e4SLinus Torvalds NeXT character set to the Latin1 character set; use the program 14221da177e4SLinus Torvalds recode ("info recode") for this purpose. 14231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14241da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the UFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the 14251da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called ufs. 14261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14271da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. 14281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UFS_FS_WRITE 14301da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS)" 14315afb3145SEvgeniy Dushistov depends on UFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 14321da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14331da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you want to try writing to UFS partitions. This is 14341da177e4SLinus Torvalds experimental, so you should back up your UFS partitions beforehand. 14351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1436abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistovconfig UFS_DEBUG 1437abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov bool "UFS debugging" 1438abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov depends on UFS_FS 1439abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov help 1440abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov If you are experiencing any problems with the UFS filesystem, say 1441abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov Y here. This will result in _many_ additional debugging messages to be 1442abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov written to the system log. 1443abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov 14441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 14451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Network File Systems" 14471da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET 14481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_FS 14501da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NFS file system support" 14511da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 14521da177e4SLinus Torvalds select LOCKD 14531da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC 1454b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFS_V3_ACL 14551da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14561da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are connected to some other (usually local) Unix computer 14571da177e4SLinus Torvalds (using SLIP, PLIP, PPP or Ethernet) and want to mount files residing 14581da177e4SLinus Torvalds on that computer (the NFS server) using the Network File Sharing 14591da177e4SLinus Torvalds protocol, say Y. "Mounting files" means that the client can access 14601da177e4SLinus Torvalds the files with usual UNIX commands as if they were sitting on the 14611da177e4SLinus Torvalds client's hard disk. For this to work, the server must run the 14621da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs nfsd and mountd (but does not need to have NFS file system 14631da177e4SLinus Torvalds support enabled in its kernel). NFS is explained in the Network 14641da177e4SLinus Torvalds Administrator's Guide, available from 14651da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>, on its man page: "man 14661da177e4SLinus Torvalds nfs", and in the NFS-HOWTO. 14671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14681da177e4SLinus Torvalds A superior but less widely used alternative to NFS is provided by 14691da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Coda file system; see "Coda file system support" below. 14701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14711da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you should have said Y to TCP/IP networking also. 14721da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option would enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB. 14731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14741da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 14751da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called nfs. 14761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14771da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are configuring a diskless machine which will mount its root 14781da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system over NFS at boot time, say Y here and to "Kernel 14791da177e4SLinus Torvalds level IP autoconfiguration" above and to "Root file system on NFS" 14801da177e4SLinus Torvalds below. You cannot compile this driver as a module in this case. 14811da177e4SLinus Torvalds There are two packages designed for booting diskless machines over 14821da177e4SLinus Torvalds the net: netboot, available from 14831da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/netboot/>, and Etherboot, 14841da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/etherboot/>. 14851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14861da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what all this is about, say N. 14871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_V3 14891da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Provide NFSv3 client support" 14901da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFS_FS 14911da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14921da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak version 14931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3 of the NFS protocol. 14941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14951da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 14961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1497b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFS_V3_ACL 1498b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher bool "Provide client support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension" 1499b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFS_V3 1500b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher help 1501b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX 1502b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher Access Control Lists. The server should also be compiled with 1503b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL option. 1504b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher 1505b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher If unsure, say N. 1506b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher 15071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_V4 15081da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Provide NFSv4 client support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 15091da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 15101da177e4SLinus Torvalds select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 15111da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15121da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak the newer 15131da177e4SLinus Torvalds version 4 of the NFS protocol. 15141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15151da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: Requires auxiliary userspace daemons which may be found on 15161da177e4SLinus Torvalds http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ 15171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15181da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 15191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_DIRECTIO 1521026ed5c9SChuck Lever bool "Allow direct I/O on NFS files" 1522026ed5c9SChuck Lever depends on NFS_FS 15231da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15241da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables applications to perform uncached I/O on files 15251da177e4SLinus Torvalds in NFS file systems using the O_DIRECT open() flag. When O_DIRECT 15261da177e4SLinus Torvalds is set for a file, its data is not cached in the system's page 15271da177e4SLinus Torvalds cache. Data is moved to and from user-level application buffers 15281da177e4SLinus Torvalds directly. Unlike local disk-based file systems, NFS O_DIRECT has 15291da177e4SLinus Torvalds no alignment restrictions. 15301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15311da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless your program is designed to use O_DIRECT properly, you are 15321da177e4SLinus Torvalds much better off allowing the NFS client to manage data caching for 15331da177e4SLinus Torvalds you. Misusing O_DIRECT can cause poor server performance or network 15341da177e4SLinus Torvalds storms. This kernel build option defaults OFF to avoid exposing 15351da177e4SLinus Torvalds system administrators unwittingly to a potentially hazardous 15361da177e4SLinus Torvalds feature. 15371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15381da177e4SLinus Torvalds For more details on NFS O_DIRECT, see fs/nfs/direct.c. 15391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15401da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. This reduces the size of the NFS client, and 15411da177e4SLinus Torvalds causes open() to return EINVAL if a file residing in NFS is 15421da177e4SLinus Torvalds opened with the O_DIRECT flag. 15431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD 15451da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NFS server support" 15461da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 15471da177e4SLinus Torvalds select LOCKD 15481da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC 15491da177e4SLinus Torvalds select EXPORTFS 1550f05e15b5SHerbert Xu select NFSD_V2_ACL if NFSD_V3_ACL 1551f05e15b5SHerbert Xu select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFSD_V2_ACL 1552f05e15b5SHerbert Xu select NFSD_TCP if NFSD_V4 1553f05e15b5SHerbert Xu select CRYPTO_MD5 if NFSD_V4 1554f05e15b5SHerbert Xu select CRYPTO if NFSD_V4 1555f05e15b5SHerbert Xu select FS_POSIX_ACL if NFSD_V4 15561da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15571da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want your Linux box to act as an NFS *server*, so that other 15581da177e4SLinus Torvalds computers on your local network which support NFS can access certain 15591da177e4SLinus Torvalds directories on your box transparently, you have two options: you can 15601da177e4SLinus Torvalds use the self-contained user space program nfsd, in which case you 15611da177e4SLinus Torvalds should say N here, or you can say Y and use the kernel based NFS 15621da177e4SLinus Torvalds server. The advantage of the kernel based solution is that it is 15631da177e4SLinus Torvalds faster. 15641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15651da177e4SLinus Torvalds In either case, you will need support software; the respective 15661da177e4SLinus Torvalds locations are given in the file <file:Documentation/Changes> in the 15671da177e4SLinus Torvalds NFS section. 15681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15691da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will get support for version 2 of the NFS 15701da177e4SLinus Torvalds protocol (NFSv2). If you also want NFSv3, say Y to the next question 15711da177e4SLinus Torvalds as well. 15721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15731da177e4SLinus Torvalds Please read the NFS-HOWTO, available from 15741da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 15751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15761da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the NFS server support as a module, choose M here: the 15771da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called nfsd. If unsure, say N. 15781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1579a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFSD_V2_ACL 1580a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher bool 1581a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFSD 1582a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 15831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD_V3 15841da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Provide NFSv3 server support" 15851da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFSD 15861da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15871da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you would like to include the NFSv3 server as well as the NFSv2 15881da177e4SLinus Torvalds server, say Y here. If unsure, say Y. 15891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1590a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFSD_V3_ACL 1591a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher bool "Provide server support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension" 1592a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFSD_V3 1593a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher help 1594a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX 1595a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher Access Control Lists on exported file systems. NFS clients should 1596a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher be compiled with the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the 1597a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL option. If unsure, say N. 1598a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 15991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD_V4 16001da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Provide NFSv4 server support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 16011da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFSD_V3 && EXPERIMENTAL 16021da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16031da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you would like to include the NFSv4 server as well as the NFSv2 16041da177e4SLinus Torvalds and NFSv3 servers, say Y here. This feature is experimental, and 16051da177e4SLinus Torvalds should only be used if you are interested in helping to test NFSv4. 16061da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 16071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD_TCP 16091da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Provide NFS server over TCP support" 16101da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFSD 16111da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16131da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want your NFS server to support TCP connections, say Y here. 16141da177e4SLinus Torvalds TCP connections usually perform better than the default UDP when 16151da177e4SLinus Torvalds the network is lossy or congested. If unsure, say Y. 16161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ROOT_NFS 16181da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Root file system on NFS" 16191da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP 16201da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16211da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the 16221da177e4SLinus Torvalds one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the 16231da177e4SLinus Torvalds net via NFS (presumably because your box doesn't have a hard disk), 16241da177e4SLinus Torvalds say Y. Read <file:Documentation/nfsroot.txt> for details. It is 16251da177e4SLinus Torvalds likely that in this case, you also want to say Y to "Kernel level IP 16261da177e4SLinus Torvalds autoconfiguration" so that your box can discover its network address 16271da177e4SLinus Torvalds at boot time. 16281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16291da177e4SLinus Torvalds Most people say N here. 16301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCKD 16321da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 16331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCKD_V4 16351da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 16361da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFSD_V3 || NFS_V3 16371da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPORTFS 16401da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 16411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1642a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFS_ACL_SUPPORT 1643a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher tristate 1644a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 1645a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 1646a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFS_COMMON 1647a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher bool 1648a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFSD || NFS_FS 1649a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher default y 1650a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 16511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNRPC 16521da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 16531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNRPC_GSS 16551da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 16561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 16581da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)" 16591da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL 16601da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC_GSS 16611da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO 16621da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_MD5 16631da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_DES 16641da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16651da177e4SLinus Torvalds Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api 16661da177e4SLinus Torvalds mechanism based on Kerberos V5. This is required for 16671da177e4SLinus Torvalds NFSv4. 16681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16691da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on 16701da177e4SLinus Torvalds http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ 16711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16721da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 16731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3 16751da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Secure RPC: SPKM3 mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)" 16761da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL 16771da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC_GSS 16781da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO 16791da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_MD5 16801da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_DES 1681df6db302SJ. Bruce Fields select CRYPTO_CAST5 16821da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16831da177e4SLinus Torvalds Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api 16841da177e4SLinus Torvalds mechanism based on the SPKM3 public-key mechanism. 16851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16861da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on 16871da177e4SLinus Torvalds http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ 16881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16891da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 16901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SMB_FS 16921da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SMB file system support (to mount Windows shares etc.)" 16931da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 16941da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 16951da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16961da177e4SLinus Torvalds SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Windows for Workgroups 16971da177e4SLinus Torvalds (WfW), Windows 95/98, Windows NT and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share 16981da177e4SLinus Torvalds files and printers over local networks. Saying Y here allows you to 16991da177e4SLinus Torvalds mount their file systems (often called "shares" in this context) and 17001da177e4SLinus Torvalds access them just like any other Unix directory. Currently, this 17011da177e4SLinus Torvalds works only if the Windows machines use TCP/IP as the underlying 17021da177e4SLinus Torvalds transport protocol, and not NetBEUI. For details, read 17031da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt> and the SMB-HOWTO, 17041da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 17051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17061da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: if you just want your box to act as an SMB *server* and make 17071da177e4SLinus Torvalds files and printing services available to Windows clients (which need 17081da177e4SLinus Torvalds to have a TCP/IP stack), you don't need to say Y here; you can use 17091da177e4SLinus Torvalds the program SAMBA (available from <ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/>) 17101da177e4SLinus Torvalds for that. 17111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17121da177e4SLinus Torvalds General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and 17131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>. 17141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17151da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here: the module will 17161da177e4SLinus Torvalds be called smbfs. Most people say N, however. 17171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SMB_NLS_DEFAULT 17191da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use a default NLS" 17201da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SMB_FS 17211da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17221da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this will make smbfs use nls translations by default. You 17231da177e4SLinus Torvalds need to specify the local charset (CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT) in the nls 17241da177e4SLinus Torvalds settings and you need to give the default nls for the SMB server as 17251da177e4SLinus Torvalds CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE. 17261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17271da177e4SLinus Torvalds The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount 17281da177e4SLinus Torvalds supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters. 17291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17301da177e4SLinus Torvalds smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this. 17311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SMB_NLS_REMOTE 17331da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Default Remote NLS Option" 17341da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SMB_NLS_DEFAULT 17351da177e4SLinus Torvalds default "cp437" 17361da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17371da177e4SLinus Torvalds This setting allows you to specify a default value for which 17381da177e4SLinus Torvalds codepage the server uses. If this field is left blank no 17391da177e4SLinus Torvalds translations will be done by default. The local codepage/charset 17401da177e4SLinus Torvalds default to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT. 17411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17421da177e4SLinus Torvalds The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount 17431da177e4SLinus Torvalds supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters. 17441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17451da177e4SLinus Torvalds smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this. 17461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS 17481da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem for Samba, Window and other CIFS compliant servers)" 17491da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 17501da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 17511da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17521da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System 17531da177e4SLinus Torvalds (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block 17541da177e4SLinus Torvalds (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early 17551da177e4SLinus Torvalds PC operating systems. The CIFS protocol is fully supported by 17561da177e4SLinus Torvalds file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4 17571da177e4SLinus Torvalds and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS 1758ec58ef03SSteve French server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited 1759ec58ef03SSteve French support for Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well. 1760ec58ef03SSteve French You must use the smbfs client filesystem to access older SMB servers 1761ec58ef03SSteve French such as OS/2 and DOS. 17621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17631da177e4SLinus Torvalds The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced 17641da177e4SLinus Torvalds network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers, 17651da177e4SLinus Torvalds including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user 17661da177e4SLinus Torvalds session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional 17671da177e4SLinus Torvalds packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements, 17681da177e4SLinus Torvalds and optional Winbind (nsswitch) integration. You do not need to enable 17691da177e4SLinus Torvalds cifs if running only a (Samba) server. It is possible to enable both 17701da177e4SLinus Torvalds smbfs and cifs (e.g. if you are using CIFS for accessing Windows 2003 17711da177e4SLinus Torvalds and Samba 3 servers, and smbfs for accessing old servers). If you need 1772ec58ef03SSteve French to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y. 17731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS_STATS 17751da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "CIFS statistics" 17761da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on CIFS 17771da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17781da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share 17791da177e4SLinus Torvalds mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats 17801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1781ec58ef03SSteve Frenchconfig CIFS_STATS2 17823979877eSSteve French bool "Extended statistics" 1783ec58ef03SSteve French depends on CIFS_STATS 1784ec58ef03SSteve French help 1785ec58ef03SSteve French Enabling this option will allow more detailed statistics on SMB 1786ec58ef03SSteve French request timing to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData and also 1787ec58ef03SSteve French allow optional logging of slow responses to dmesg (depending on the 1788ec58ef03SSteve French value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI, see fs/cifs/README for more details). 1789ec58ef03SSteve French These additional statistics may have a minor effect on performance 1790ec58ef03SSteve French and memory utilization. 1791ec58ef03SSteve French 1792ec58ef03SSteve French Unless you are a developer or are doing network performance analysis 1793ec58ef03SSteve French or tuning, say N. 1794ec58ef03SSteve French 17953979877eSSteve Frenchconfig CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH 17963979877eSSteve French bool "Support legacy servers which use weaker LANMAN security" 17973979877eSSteve French depends on CIFS 17983979877eSSteve French help 17993979877eSSteve French Modern CIFS servers including Samba and most Windows versions 18003979877eSSteve French (since 1997) support stronger NTLM (and even NTLMv2 and Kerberos) 18013979877eSSteve French security mechanisms. These hash the password more securely 18023979877eSSteve French than the mechanisms used in the older LANMAN version of the 18033979877eSSteve French SMB protocol needed to establish sessions with old SMB servers. 18043979877eSSteve French 18053979877eSSteve French Enabling this option allows the cifs module to mount to older 18063979877eSSteve French LANMAN based servers such as OS/2 and Windows 95, but such 18073979877eSSteve French mounts may be less secure than mounts using NTLM or more recent 18083979877eSSteve French security mechanisms if you are on a public network. Unless you 18093979877eSSteve French have a need to access old SMB servers (and are on a private 18103979877eSSteve French network) you probably want to say N. Even if this support 18113979877eSSteve French is enabled in the kernel build, they will not be used 18123979877eSSteve French automatically. At runtime LANMAN mounts are disabled but 18133979877eSSteve French can be set to required (or optional) either in 18143979877eSSteve French /proc/fs/cifs (see fs/cifs/README for more detail) or via an 18153979877eSSteve French option on the mount command. This support is disabled by 18163979877eSSteve French default in order to reduce the possibility of a downgrade 18173979877eSSteve French attack. 18183979877eSSteve French 18193979877eSSteve French If unsure, say N. 18203979877eSSteve French 18211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS_XATTR 1822ec58ef03SSteve French bool "CIFS extended attributes" 18231da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on CIFS 18241da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18251da177e4SLinus Torvalds Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 18261da177e4SLinus Torvalds the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 18271da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). CIFS maps the name of 18281da177e4SLinus Torvalds extended attributes beginning with the user namespace prefix 18291da177e4SLinus Torvalds to SMB/CIFS EAs. EAs are stored on Windows servers without the 18301da177e4SLinus Torvalds user namespace prefix, but their names are seen by Linux cifs clients 18311da177e4SLinus Torvalds prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace 18321da177e4SLinus Torvalds (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at 18331da177e4SLinus Torvalds this time. 18341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18351da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 18361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS_POSIX 1838ec58ef03SSteve French bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions" 18391da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on CIFS_XATTR 18401da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18411da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to 18421da177e4SLinus Torvalds negotiate a newer dialect with servers, such as Samba 3.0.5 18431da177e4SLinus Torvalds or later, that optionally can handle more POSIX like (rather 18441da177e4SLinus Torvalds than Windows like) file behavior. It also enables 18451da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for POSIX ACLs (getfacl and setfacl) to servers 18461da177e4SLinus Torvalds (such as Samba 3.10 and later) which can negotiate 18471da177e4SLinus Torvalds CIFS POSIX ACL support. If unsure, say N. 18481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18493979877eSSteve Frenchconfig CIFS_DEBUG2 18503856a9d4SSteve French bool "Enable additional CIFS debugging routines" 18518ba10ab1SSteve French depends on CIFS 18523979877eSSteve French help 18533979877eSSteve French Enabling this option adds a few more debugging routines 18543979877eSSteve French to the cifs code which slightly increases the size of 18553979877eSSteve French the cifs module and can cause additional logging of debug 18563979877eSSteve French messages in some error paths, slowing performance. This 18573979877eSSteve French option can be turned off unless you are debugging 18583979877eSSteve French cifs problems. If unsure, say N. 18593979877eSSteve French 18601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL 18611da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1862cb9dbff9SSteve French depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL 18631da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1864ec58ef03SSteve French Enables cifs features under testing. These features are 1865ec58ef03SSteve French experimental and currently include support for writepages 1866ec58ef03SSteve French (multipage writebehind performance improvements) and directory 1867ec58ef03SSteve French change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY) as well as some security 1868ec58ef03SSteve French improvements. Some also depend on setting at runtime the 1869ec58ef03SSteve French pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental (which is disabled by 1870ec58ef03SSteve French default). See the file fs/cifs/README for more details. 1871ec58ef03SSteve French 1872ec58ef03SSteve French If unsure, say N. 18731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1874a2653ebaSSteve Frenchconfig CIFS_UPCALL 18753979877eSSteve French bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1876a2653ebaSSteve French depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL 1877a2653ebaSSteve French select CONNECTOR 1878a2653ebaSSteve French help 1879a2653ebaSSteve French Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which will be used to contact 1880a2653ebaSSteve French userspace helper utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged Kerberos 1881a2653ebaSSteve French tickets which are needed to mount to certain secure servers 18821b397f4fSSteve French (for which more secure Kerberos authentication is required). If 18831b397f4fSSteve French unsure, say N. 1884a2653ebaSSteve French 18851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NCP_FS 18861da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)" 18871da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IPX!=n || INET 18881da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18891da177e4SLinus Torvalds NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) is a protocol that runs over IPX and is 18901da177e4SLinus Torvalds used by Novell NetWare clients to talk to file servers. It is to 18911da177e4SLinus Torvalds IPX what NFS is to TCP/IP, if that helps. Saying Y here allows you 18921da177e4SLinus Torvalds to mount NetWare file server volumes and to access them just like 18931da177e4SLinus Torvalds any other Unix directory. For details, please read the file 18941da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/ncpfs.txt> in the kernel source and 18951da177e4SLinus Torvalds the IPX-HOWTO from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 18961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18971da177e4SLinus Torvalds You do not have to say Y here if you want your Linux box to act as a 18981da177e4SLinus Torvalds file *server* for Novell NetWare clients. 18991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19001da177e4SLinus Torvalds General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and 19011da177e4SLinus Torvalds Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>. 19021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19031da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 19041da177e4SLinus Torvalds ncpfs. Say N unless you are connected to a Novell network. 19051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19061da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/ncpfs/Kconfig" 19071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CODA_FS 19091da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)" 19101da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 19111da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19121da177e4SLinus Torvalds Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it 19131da177e4SLinus Torvalds enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them 19141da177e4SLinus Torvalds with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard 19151da177e4SLinus Torvalds disk. Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for 19161da177e4SLinus Torvalds disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server 19171da177e4SLinus Torvalds replication, security model for authentication and encryption, 19181da177e4SLinus Torvalds persistent client caches and write back caching. 19191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19201da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda 19211da177e4SLinus Torvalds *client*. You will need user level code as well, both for the 19221da177e4SLinus Torvalds client and server. Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need 19231da177e4SLinus Torvalds no kernel support. Please read 19241da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.txt> and check out the Coda 19251da177e4SLinus Torvalds home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>. 19261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19271da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the 19281da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called coda. 19291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CODA_FS_OLD_API 19311da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use 96-bit Coda file identifiers" 19321da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on CODA_FS 19331da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19341da177e4SLinus Torvalds A new kernel-userspace API had to be introduced for Coda v6.0 19351da177e4SLinus Torvalds to support larger 128-bit file identifiers as needed by the 19361da177e4SLinus Torvalds new realms implementation. 19371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19381da177e4SLinus Torvalds However this new API is not backward compatible with older 19391da177e4SLinus Torvalds clients. If you really need to run the old Coda userspace 19401da177e4SLinus Torvalds cache manager then say Y. 19411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19421da177e4SLinus Torvalds For most cases you probably want to say N. 19431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AFS_FS 19451da177e4SLinus Torvalds# for fs/nls/Config.in 19461da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Andrew File System support (AFS) (Experimental)" 19471da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL 19481da177e4SLinus Torvalds select RXRPC 19491da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19501da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will get an experimental Andrew File System 19511da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver. It currently only supports unsecured read-only AFS access. 19521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19531da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more intormation. 19541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19551da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 19561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig RXRPC 19581da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 19591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 196093fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergenconfig 9P_FS 196193fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen tristate "Plan 9 Resource Sharing Support (9P2000) (Experimental)" 196293fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL 196393fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen help 196493fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen If you say Y here, you will get experimental support for 196593fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen Plan 9 resource sharing via the 9P2000 protocol. 196693fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen 196793fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen See <http://v9fs.sf.net> for more information. 196893fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen 196993fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen If unsure, say N. 197093fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen 1971f0c8bd16SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig GENERIC_ACL 1972f0c8bd16SAndreas Gruenbacher bool 1973f0c8bd16SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 1974f0c8bd16SAndreas Gruenbacher 19751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 19761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1977*9361401eSDavid Howellsif BLOCK 19781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Partition Types" 19791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19801da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/partitions/Kconfig" 19811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 1983*9361401eSDavid Howellsendif 19841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19851da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/nls/Kconfig" 19861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 19881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1989