11da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 21da177e4SLinus Torvalds# File system configuration 31da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 41da177e4SLinus Torvalds 51da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "File systems" 61da177e4SLinus Torvalds 79361401eSDavid Howellsif BLOCK 89361401eSDavid Howells 91da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT2_FS 101da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Second extended fs support" 111da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 121da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ext2 is a standard Linux file system for hard disks. 131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 141da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 15d23edbd3SJan Engelhardt module will be called ext2. 161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 171da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT2_FS_XATTR 201da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Ext2 extended attributes" 211da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXT2_FS 221da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 231da177e4SLinus Torvalds Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 241da177e4SLinus Torvalds the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 251da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 271da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Ext2 POSIX Access Control Lists" 311da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR 32b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT2_FS_SECURITY 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Ext2 Security Labels" 441da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Security labels support alternative access control models 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds enables an extended attribute handler for file security 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds labels in the ext2 filesystem. 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not using a security module that requires using 521da177e4SLinus Torvalds extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 546d79125bSCarsten Otteconfig EXT2_FS_XIP 556d79125bSCarsten Otte bool "Ext2 execute in place support" 560c426f26SAl Viro depends on EXT2_FS && MMU 576d79125bSCarsten Otte help 586d79125bSCarsten Otte Execute in place can be used on memory-backed block devices. If you 596d79125bSCarsten Otte enable this option, you can select to mount block devices which are 606d79125bSCarsten Otte capable of this feature without using the page cache. 616d79125bSCarsten Otte 626d79125bSCarsten Otte If you do not use a block device that is capable of using this, 636d79125bSCarsten Otte or if unsure, say N. 646d79125bSCarsten Otte 656d79125bSCarsten Otteconfig FS_XIP 666d79125bSCarsten Otte# execute in place 676d79125bSCarsten Otte bool 686d79125bSCarsten Otte depends on EXT2_FS_XIP 696d79125bSCarsten Otte default y 706d79125bSCarsten Otte 711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT3_FS 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Ext3 journalling file system support" 73b4e40a51SMark Fasheh select JBD 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 75cc2e2767SMatt LaPlante This is the journalling version of the Second extended file system 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds (often called ext3), the de facto standard Linux file system 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds (method to organize files on a storage device) for hard disks. 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 79cc2e2767SMatt LaPlante The journalling code included in this driver means you do not have 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds to run e2fsck (file system checker) on your file systems after a 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds crash. The journal keeps track of any changes that were being made 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds at the time the system crashed, and can ensure that your file system 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds is consistent without the need for a lengthy check. 841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 851da177e4SLinus Torvalds Other than adding the journal to the file system, the on-disk format 861da177e4SLinus Torvalds of ext3 is identical to ext2. It is possible to freely switch 871da177e4SLinus Torvalds between using the ext3 driver and the ext2 driver, as long as the 881da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system has been cleanly unmounted, or e2fsck is run on the file 891da177e4SLinus Torvalds system. 901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 911da177e4SLinus Torvalds To add a journal on an existing ext2 file system or change the 921da177e4SLinus Torvalds behavior of ext3 file systems, you can use the tune2fs utility ("man 931da177e4SLinus Torvalds tune2fs"). To modify attributes of files and directories on ext3 941da177e4SLinus Torvalds file systems, use chattr ("man chattr"). You need to be using 951da177e4SLinus Torvalds e2fsprogs version 1.20 or later in order to create ext3 journals 961da177e4SLinus Torvalds (available at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/e2fsprogs/>). 971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 981da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 99d23edbd3SJan Engelhardt module will be called ext3. 1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT3_FS_XATTR 1021da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Ext3 extended attributes" 1031da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXT3_FS 1041da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1051da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 1081da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 1091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1101da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 1111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1121da177e4SLinus Torvalds You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext3. 1131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL 1151da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists" 1161da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR 117b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 1181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 1201da177e4SLinus Torvalds groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 1211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1221da177e4SLinus Torvalds To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 1231da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 1241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 1261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT3_FS_SECURITY 1281da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Ext3 Security Labels" 1291da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR 1301da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1311da177e4SLinus Torvalds Security labels support alternative access control models 1321da177e4SLinus Torvalds implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 1331da177e4SLinus Torvalds enables an extended attribute handler for file security 1341da177e4SLinus Torvalds labels in the ext3 filesystem. 1351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1361da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not using a security module that requires using 1371da177e4SLinus Torvalds extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 1381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13902ea2104SMingming Caoconfig EXT4DEV_FS 14002ea2104SMingming Cao tristate "Ext4dev/ext4 extended fs support development (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14102ea2104SMingming Cao depends on EXPERIMENTAL 142dab291afSMingming Cao select JBD2 14302ea2104SMingming Cao help 14402ea2104SMingming Cao Ext4dev is a predecessor filesystem of the next generation 14502ea2104SMingming Cao extended fs ext4, based on ext3 filesystem code. It will be 14602ea2104SMingming Cao renamed ext4 fs later, once ext4dev is mature and stabilized. 14702ea2104SMingming Cao 14802ea2104SMingming Cao Unlike the change from ext2 filesystem to ext3 filesystem, 14902ea2104SMingming Cao the on-disk format of ext4dev is not the same as ext3 any more: 15002ea2104SMingming Cao it is based on extent maps and it supports 48-bit physical block 15102ea2104SMingming Cao numbers. These combined on-disk format changes will allow 15202ea2104SMingming Cao ext4dev/ext4 to handle more than 16 TB filesystem volumes -- 15302ea2104SMingming Cao a hard limit that ext3 cannot overcome without changing the 15402ea2104SMingming Cao on-disk format. 15502ea2104SMingming Cao 15602ea2104SMingming Cao Other than extent maps and 48-bit block numbers, ext4dev also is 15702ea2104SMingming Cao likely to have other new features such as persistent preallocation, 15802ea2104SMingming Cao high resolution time stamps, and larger file support etc. These 15902ea2104SMingming Cao features will be added to ext4dev gradually. 16002ea2104SMingming Cao 16102ea2104SMingming Cao To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here. The 162d23edbd3SJan Engelhardt module will be called ext4dev. 16302ea2104SMingming Cao 16402ea2104SMingming Cao If unsure, say N. 16502ea2104SMingming Cao 16602ea2104SMingming Caoconfig EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR 16702ea2104SMingming Cao bool "Ext4dev extended attributes" 16802ea2104SMingming Cao depends on EXT4DEV_FS 16902ea2104SMingming Cao default y 17002ea2104SMingming Cao help 17102ea2104SMingming Cao Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 17202ea2104SMingming Cao the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 17302ea2104SMingming Cao <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 17402ea2104SMingming Cao 17502ea2104SMingming Cao If unsure, say N. 17602ea2104SMingming Cao 17702ea2104SMingming Cao You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext4dev/ext4. 17802ea2104SMingming Cao 17902ea2104SMingming Caoconfig EXT4DEV_FS_POSIX_ACL 18002ea2104SMingming Cao bool "Ext4dev POSIX Access Control Lists" 18102ea2104SMingming Cao depends on EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR 18202ea2104SMingming Cao select FS_POSIX_ACL 18302ea2104SMingming Cao help 18402ea2104SMingming Cao POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 18502ea2104SMingming Cao groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 18602ea2104SMingming Cao 18702ea2104SMingming Cao To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for 18802ea2104SMingming Cao Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 18902ea2104SMingming Cao 19002ea2104SMingming Cao If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 19102ea2104SMingming Cao 19202ea2104SMingming Caoconfig EXT4DEV_FS_SECURITY 19302ea2104SMingming Cao bool "Ext4dev Security Labels" 19402ea2104SMingming Cao depends on EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR 19502ea2104SMingming Cao help 19602ea2104SMingming Cao Security labels support alternative access control models 19702ea2104SMingming Cao implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 19802ea2104SMingming Cao enables an extended attribute handler for file security 19902ea2104SMingming Cao labels in the ext4dev/ext4 filesystem. 20002ea2104SMingming Cao 20102ea2104SMingming Cao If you are not using a security module that requires using 20202ea2104SMingming Cao extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 20302ea2104SMingming Cao 2041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JBD 2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 207cc2e2767SMatt LaPlante This is a generic journalling layer for block devices. It is 208b4e40a51SMark Fasheh currently used by the ext3 and OCFS2 file systems, but it could 209b4e40a51SMark Fasheh also be used to add journal support to other file systems or block 210b4e40a51SMark Fasheh devices such as RAID or LVM. 2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 212b4e40a51SMark Fasheh If you are using the ext3 or OCFS2 file systems, you need to 213b4e40a51SMark Fasheh say Y here. If you are not using ext3 OCFS2 then you will probably 214b4e40a51SMark Fasheh want to say N. 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this device as a module, choose M here: the module will be 217b4e40a51SMark Fasheh called jbd. If you are compiling ext3 or OCFS2 into the kernel, 218b4e40a51SMark Fasheh you cannot compile this code as a module. 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JBD_DEBUG 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JBD (ext3) debugging support" 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JBD 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are using the ext3 journaled file system (or potentially any 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds other file system/device using JBD), this option allows you to 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds enable debugging output while the system is running, in order to 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds help track down any problems you are having. By default the 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds debugging output will be turned off. 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds with "echo N > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug", where N is a number between 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1 and 5, the higher the number, the more debugging output is 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds generated. To turn debugging off again, do 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds "echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug". 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 236dab291afSMingming Caoconfig JBD2 237dab291afSMingming Cao tristate 238dab291afSMingming Cao help 239dab291afSMingming Cao This is a generic journaling layer for block devices that support 240dab291afSMingming Cao both 32-bit and 64-bit block numbers. It is currently used by 241dab291afSMingming Cao the ext4dev/ext4 filesystem, but it could also be used to add 242dab291afSMingming Cao journal support to other file systems or block devices such 243dab291afSMingming Cao as RAID or LVM. 244dab291afSMingming Cao 245dab291afSMingming Cao If you are using ext4dev/ext4, you need to say Y here. If you are not 246dab291afSMingming Cao using ext4dev/ext4 then you will probably want to say N. 247dab291afSMingming Cao 248dab291afSMingming Cao To compile this device as a module, choose M here. The module will be 249dab291afSMingming Cao called jbd2. If you are compiling ext4dev/ext4 into the kernel, 250dab291afSMingming Cao you cannot compile this code as a module. 251dab291afSMingming Cao 252dab291afSMingming Caoconfig JBD2_DEBUG 253dab291afSMingming Cao bool "JBD2 (ext4dev/ext4) debugging support" 254dab291afSMingming Cao depends on JBD2 255dab291afSMingming Cao help 256dab291afSMingming Cao If you are using the ext4dev/ext4 journaled file system (or 257dab291afSMingming Cao potentially any other filesystem/device using JBD2), this option 258dab291afSMingming Cao allows you to enable debugging output while the system is running, 259dab291afSMingming Cao in order to help track down any problems you are having. 260dab291afSMingming Cao By default, the debugging output will be turned off. 261dab291afSMingming Cao 262dab291afSMingming Cao If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging 263dab291afSMingming Cao with "echo N > /proc/sys/fs/jbd2-debug", where N is a number between 264dab291afSMingming Cao 1 and 5. The higher the number, the more debugging output is 265dab291afSMingming Cao generated. To turn debugging off again, do 266dab291afSMingming Cao "echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/jbd2-debug". 267dab291afSMingming Cao 2681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FS_MBCACHE 26902ea2104SMingming Cao# Meta block cache for Extended Attributes (ext2/ext3/ext4) 2701da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 27102ea2104SMingming Cao depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR || EXT3_FS_XATTR || EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR 27202ea2104SMingming Cao default y if EXT2_FS=y || EXT3_FS=y || EXT4DEV_FS=y 27302ea2104SMingming Cao default m if EXT2_FS=m || EXT3_FS=m || EXT4DEV_FS=m 2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_FS 2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Reiserfs support" 2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2781da177e4SLinus Torvalds Stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a balanced 279cc2e2767SMatt LaPlante tree. Uses journalling. 2801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds Balanced trees are more efficient than traditional file system 2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds architectural foundations. 2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds In general, ReiserFS is as fast as ext2, but is very efficient with 2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds large directories and small files. Additional patches are needed 2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds for NFS and quotas, please see <http://www.namesys.com/> for links. 2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is more easily extended to have features currently found in 2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds database and keyword search systems than block allocation based file 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds systems are. The next version will be so extended, and will support 2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds plugins consistent with our motto ``It takes more than a license to 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds make source code open.'' 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds Read <http://www.namesys.com/> to learn more about reiserfs. 2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds Sponsored by Threshold Networks, Emusic.com, and Bigstorage.com. 2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you like it, you can pay us to add new features to it that you 2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds need, buy a support contract, or pay us to port it to another OS. 3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_CHECK 3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable reiserfs debug mode" 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on REISERFS_FS 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you set this to Y, then ReiserFS will perform every check it can 3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds possibly imagine of its internal consistency throughout its 3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds operation. It will also go substantially slower. More than once we 3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds have forgotten that this was on, and then gone despondent over the 3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds latest benchmarks.:-) Use of this option allows our team to go all 3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds out in checking for consistency when debugging without fear of its 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds effect on end users. If you are on the verge of sending in a bug 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds report, say Y and you might get a useful error message. Almost 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds everyone should say N. 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_PROC_INFO 3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Stats in /proc/fs/reiserfs" 317880ebdc5SRandy Dunlap depends on REISERFS_FS && PROC_FS 3181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds Create under /proc/fs/reiserfs a hierarchy of files, displaying 3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds various ReiserFS statistics and internal data at the expense of 3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds making your kernel or module slightly larger (+8 KB). This also 3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds increases the amount of kernel memory required for each mount. 3231da177e4SLinus Torvalds Almost everyone but ReiserFS developers and people fine-tuning 3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds reiserfs or tracing problems should say N. 3251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_FS_XATTR 3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "ReiserFS extended attributes" 3281da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on REISERFS_FS 3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3301da177e4SLinus Torvalds Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 3311da177e4SLinus Torvalds the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 3321da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 3331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3341da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 3351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL 3371da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "ReiserFS POSIX Access Control Lists" 3381da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR 339b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 3401da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3411da177e4SLinus Torvalds Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 3421da177e4SLinus Torvalds groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3441da177e4SLinus Torvalds To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 3481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_FS_SECURITY 3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "ReiserFS Security Labels" 3511da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR 3521da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds Security labels support alternative access control models 3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 3551da177e4SLinus Torvalds enables an extended attribute handler for file security 3561da177e4SLinus Torvalds labels in the ReiserFS filesystem. 3571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3581da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not using a security module that requires using 3591da177e4SLinus Torvalds extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 3601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_FS 3621da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "JFS filesystem support" 3631da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 3641da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3651da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a port of IBM's Journaled Filesystem . More information is 3661da177e4SLinus Torvalds available in the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt>. 3671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3681da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you do not intend to use the JFS filesystem, say N. 3691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_POSIX_ACL 3711da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFS POSIX Access Control Lists" 3721da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFS_FS 373b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 3741da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3751da177e4SLinus Torvalds Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 3761da177e4SLinus Torvalds groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 3771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3781da177e4SLinus Torvalds To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 3791da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 3801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3811da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 3821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_SECURITY 3841da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFS Security Labels" 3851da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFS_FS 3861da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3871da177e4SLinus Torvalds Security labels support alternative access control models 3881da177e4SLinus Torvalds implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 3891da177e4SLinus Torvalds enables an extended attribute handler for file security 3901da177e4SLinus Torvalds labels in the jfs filesystem. 3911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3921da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not using a security module that requires using 3931da177e4SLinus Torvalds extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 3941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_DEBUG 3961da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFS debugging" 3971da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFS_FS 3981da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3991da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are experiencing any problems with the JFS filesystem, say 4001da177e4SLinus Torvalds Y here. This will result in additional debugging messages to be 4011da177e4SLinus Torvalds written to the system log. Under normal circumstances, this 4021da177e4SLinus Torvalds results in very little overhead. 4031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_STATISTICS 4051da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFS statistics" 4061da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFS_FS 4071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4081da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will cause statistics from the JFS file system 4091da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jfs/ directory. 4101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FS_POSIX_ACL 4121da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Posix ACL utility routines (for now, only ext2/ext3/jfs/reiserfs) 4131da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 4141da177e4SLinus Torvalds# NOTE: you can implement Posix ACLs without these helpers (XFS does). 4151da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Never use this symbol for ifdefs. 4161da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 4171da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 418b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher default n 4191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4201da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/xfs/Kconfig" 421f7825dcfSDavid Teiglandsource "fs/gfs2/Kconfig" 4221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 423b4e40a51SMark Fashehconfig OCFS2_FS 42402ed8416SMark Fasheh tristate "OCFS2 file system support" 42502ed8416SMark Fasheh depends on NET && SYSFS 426b4e40a51SMark Fasheh select CONFIGFS_FS 427b4e40a51SMark Fasheh select JBD 428b4e40a51SMark Fasheh select CRC32 429b4e40a51SMark Fasheh help 430b4e40a51SMark Fasheh OCFS2 is a general purpose extent based shared disk cluster file 431b4e40a51SMark Fasheh system with many similarities to ext3. It supports 64 bit inode 432b4e40a51SMark Fasheh numbers, and has automatically extending metadata groups which may 433b4e40a51SMark Fasheh also make it attractive for non-clustered use. 434b4e40a51SMark Fasheh 435b4e40a51SMark Fasheh You'll want to install the ocfs2-tools package in order to at least 436b4e40a51SMark Fasheh get "mount.ocfs2". 437b4e40a51SMark Fasheh 438b4e40a51SMark Fasheh Project web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2 439b4e40a51SMark Fasheh Tools web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools 440b4e40a51SMark Fasheh OCFS2 mailing lists: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/mailman/ 441b4e40a51SMark Fasheh 442b4e40a51SMark Fasheh Note: Features which OCFS2 does not support yet: 443b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - extended attributes 444b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - shared writeable mmap 445b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - loopback is supported, but data written will not 446b4e40a51SMark Fasheh be cluster coherent. 447b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - quotas 448b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - cluster aware flock 449b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - Directory change notification (F_NOTIFY) 450b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - Distributed Caching (F_SETLEASE/F_GETLEASE/break_lease) 451b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - POSIX ACLs 452b4e40a51SMark Fasheh - readpages / writepages (not user visible) 453b4e40a51SMark Fasheh 4542b388c67SJoel Beckerconfig OCFS2_DEBUG_MASKLOG 4552b388c67SJoel Becker bool "OCFS2 logging support" 4562b388c67SJoel Becker depends on OCFS2_FS 4572b388c67SJoel Becker default y 4582b388c67SJoel Becker help 4592b388c67SJoel Becker The ocfs2 filesystem has an extensive logging system. The system 4602b388c67SJoel Becker allows selection of events to log via files in /sys/o2cb/logmask/. 4612b388c67SJoel Becker This option will enlarge your kernel, but it allows debugging of 4622b388c67SJoel Becker ocfs2 filesystem issues. 4632b388c67SJoel Becker 4641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MINIX_FS 4651da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Minix fs support" 4661da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4671da177e4SLinus Torvalds Minix is a simple operating system used in many classes about OS's. 4681da177e4SLinus Torvalds The minix file system (method to organize files on a hard disk 4691da177e4SLinus Torvalds partition or a floppy disk) was the original file system for Linux, 4701da177e4SLinus Torvalds but has been superseded by the second extended file system ext2fs. 4711da177e4SLinus Torvalds You don't want to use the minix file system on your hard disk 4721da177e4SLinus Torvalds because of certain built-in restrictions, but it is sometimes found 4731da177e4SLinus Torvalds on older Linux floppy disks. This option will enlarge your kernel 4741da177e4SLinus Torvalds by about 28 KB. If unsure, say N. 4751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4761da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 4771da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called minix. Note that the file system of your root 4781da177e4SLinus Torvalds partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as 4791da177e4SLinus Torvalds a module. 4801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ROMFS_FS 4821da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "ROM file system support" 4831da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4841da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for 4851da177e4SLinus Torvalds initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for 4861da177e4SLinus Torvalds other read-only media as well. Read 4871da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt> for details. 4881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4891da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 4901da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called romfs. Note that the file system of your 4911da177e4SLinus Torvalds root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a 4921da177e4SLinus Torvalds module. 4931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4941da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it: 4951da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer N. 4961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4979361401eSDavid Howellsendif 4989361401eSDavid Howells 4990eeca283SRobert Loveconfig INOTIFY 5000eeca283SRobert Love bool "Inotify file change notification support" 5010eeca283SRobert Love default y 5020eeca283SRobert Love ---help--- 5032d9048e2SAmy Griffis Say Y here to enable inotify support. Inotify is a file change 5042d9048e2SAmy Griffis notification system and a replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes 5052d9048e2SAmy Griffis numerous shortcomings in dnotify and introduces several new features 5062d9048e2SAmy Griffis including multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount 5073de11748SRobert Love notification. 5083de11748SRobert Love 5093de11748SRobert Love For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt 5100eeca283SRobert Love 5110eeca283SRobert Love If unsure, say Y. 5120eeca283SRobert Love 5132d9048e2SAmy Griffisconfig INOTIFY_USER 5142d9048e2SAmy Griffis bool "Inotify support for userspace" 5152d9048e2SAmy Griffis depends on INOTIFY 5162d9048e2SAmy Griffis default y 5172d9048e2SAmy Griffis ---help--- 5182d9048e2SAmy Griffis Say Y here to enable inotify support for userspace, including the 5192d9048e2SAmy Griffis associated system calls. Inotify allows monitoring of both files and 5202d9048e2SAmy Griffis directories via a single open fd. Events are read from the file 5212d9048e2SAmy Griffis descriptor, which is also select()- and poll()-able. 5222d9048e2SAmy Griffis 5232d9048e2SAmy Griffis For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt 5242d9048e2SAmy Griffis 5252d9048e2SAmy Griffis If unsure, say Y. 5262d9048e2SAmy Griffis 5271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QUOTA 5281da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Quota support" 5291da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5301da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to set per user limits for disk 5311da177e4SLinus Torvalds usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works for the 5321da177e4SLinus Torvalds ext2, ext3, and reiserfs file system. ext3 also supports journalled 5331da177e4SLinus Torvalds quotas for which you don't need to run quotacheck(8) after an unclean 534919532a5SAdrian Bunk shutdown. 535919532a5SAdrian Bunk For further details, read the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from 5361da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or the documentation provided 5371da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the quota tools. Probably the quota support is only useful for 5381da177e4SLinus Torvalds multi user systems. If unsure, say N. 5391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QFMT_V1 5411da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Old quota format support" 5421da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on QUOTA 5431da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5441da177e4SLinus Torvalds This quota format was (is) used by kernels earlier than 2.4.22. If 5451da177e4SLinus Torvalds you have quota working and you don't want to convert to new quota 5461da177e4SLinus Torvalds format say Y here. 5471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QFMT_V2 5491da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Quota format v2 support" 5501da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on QUOTA 5511da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5521da177e4SLinus Torvalds This quota format allows using quotas with 32-bit UIDs/GIDs. If you 553919532a5SAdrian Bunk need this functionality say Y here. 5541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QUOTACTL 5561da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 5571da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA 5581da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 5591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DNOTIFY 5611da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Dnotify support" if EMBEDDED 5621da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 5631da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5641da177e4SLinus Torvalds Dnotify is a directory-based per-fd file change notification system 5651da177e4SLinus Torvalds that uses signals to communicate events to user-space. There exist 5661da177e4SLinus Torvalds superior alternatives, but some applications may still rely on 5671da177e4SLinus Torvalds dnotify. 5681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5691da177e4SLinus Torvalds Because of this, if unsure, say Y. 5701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUTOFS_FS 5721da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Kernel automounter support" 5731da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5741da177e4SLinus Torvalds The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems 5751da177e4SLinus Torvalds on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce 5761da177e4SLinus Torvalds overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD 5771da177e4SLinus Torvalds automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. 5781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5791da177e4SLinus Torvalds To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs 5801da177e4SLinus Torvalds package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>. 5811da177e4SLinus Torvalds You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. 5821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5831da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more 5841da177e4SLinus Torvalds features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support", 5851da177e4SLinus Torvalds below. 5861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5871da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be 5881da177e4SLinus Torvalds called autofs. 5891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5901da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you 5911da177e4SLinus Torvalds probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here. 5921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUTOFS4_FS 5941da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)" 5951da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5961da177e4SLinus Torvalds The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems 5971da177e4SLinus Torvalds on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce 5981da177e4SLinus Torvalds overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD 5991da177e4SLinus Torvalds automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. 6001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6011da177e4SLinus Torvalds To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from 6021da177e4SLinus Torvalds <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/>; you also 6031da177e4SLinus Torvalds want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. 6041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6051da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be 6061da177e4SLinus Torvalds called autofs4. You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your 6071da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules configuration file. 6081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6091da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or 6101da177e4SLinus Torvalds don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the 6111da177e4SLinus Torvalds local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say 6121da177e4SLinus Torvalds N here. 6131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 61404578f17SMiklos Szerediconfig FUSE_FS 61504578f17SMiklos Szeredi tristate "Filesystem in Userspace support" 61604578f17SMiklos Szeredi help 61704578f17SMiklos Szeredi With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem 61804578f17SMiklos Szeredi in a userspace program. 61904578f17SMiklos Szeredi 62004578f17SMiklos Szeredi There's also companion library: libfuse. This library along with 62104578f17SMiklos Szeredi utilities is available from the FUSE homepage: 62204578f17SMiklos Szeredi <http://fuse.sourceforge.net/> 62304578f17SMiklos Szeredi 624909021eaSMiklos Szeredi See <file:Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt> for more information. 625909021eaSMiklos Szeredi See <file:Documentation/Changes> for needed library/utility version. 626909021eaSMiklos Szeredi 62704578f17SMiklos Szeredi If you want to develop a userspace FS, or if you want to use 62804578f17SMiklos Szeredi a filesystem based on FUSE, answer Y or M. 62904578f17SMiklos Szeredi 630f2fbc6c2SRandy Dunlapconfig GENERIC_ACL 631f2fbc6c2SRandy Dunlap bool 632f2fbc6c2SRandy Dunlap select FS_POSIX_ACL 633f2fbc6c2SRandy Dunlap 6349361401eSDavid Howellsif BLOCK 6351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems" 6361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ISO9660_FS 6381da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "ISO 9660 CDROM file system support" 6391da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6401da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the standard file system used on CD-ROMs. It was previously 6411da177e4SLinus Torvalds known as "High Sierra File System" and is called "hsfs" on other 6421da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unix systems. The so-called Rock-Ridge extensions which allow for 6431da177e4SLinus Torvalds long Unix filenames and symbolic links are also supported by this 6441da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver. If you have a CD-ROM drive and want to do more with it than 6451da177e4SLinus Torvalds just listen to audio CDs and watch its LEDs, say Y (and read 6461da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt> and the CD-ROM-HOWTO, 6471da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), thereby 6481da177e4SLinus Torvalds enlarging your kernel by about 27 KB; otherwise say N. 6491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6501da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 6511da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called isofs. 6521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JOLIET 6541da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions" 6551da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ISO9660_FS 6561da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 6571da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6581da177e4SLinus Torvalds Joliet is a Microsoft extension for the ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system 6591da177e4SLinus Torvalds which allows for long filenames in unicode format (unicode is the 6601da177e4SLinus Torvalds new 16 bit character code, successor to ASCII, which encodes the 6611da177e4SLinus Torvalds characters of almost all languages of the world; see 6621da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.unicode.org/> for more information). Say Y here if you 6631da177e4SLinus Torvalds want to be able to read Joliet CD-ROMs under Linux. 6641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ZISOFS 6661da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Transparent decompression extension" 6671da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ISO9660_FS 6681da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_INFLATE 6691da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6701da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a Linux-specific extension to RockRidge which lets you store 6711da177e4SLinus Torvalds data in compressed form on a CD-ROM and have it transparently 6721da177e4SLinus Torvalds decompressed when the CD-ROM is accessed. See 6731da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/zisofs/> for the tools 6741da177e4SLinus Torvalds necessary to create such a filesystem. Say Y here if you want to be 6751da177e4SLinus Torvalds able to read such compressed CD-ROMs. 6761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UDF_FS 6781da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "UDF file system support" 6791da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6801da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the new file system used on some CD-ROMs and DVDs. Say Y if 6811da177e4SLinus Torvalds you intend to mount DVD discs or CDRW's written in packet mode, or 6821da177e4SLinus Torvalds if written to by other UDF utilities, such as DirectCD. 6831da177e4SLinus Torvalds Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt>. 6841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6851da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 6861da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called udf. 6871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6881da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 6891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UDF_NLS 6911da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 6921da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 6931da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (UDF_FS=m && NLS) || (UDF_FS=y && NLS=y) 6941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 6969361401eSDavid Howellsendif 6971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6989361401eSDavid Howellsif BLOCK 6991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems" 7001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FAT_FS 7021da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 7031da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 7041da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7051da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to use one of the FAT-based file systems (the MS-DOS and 7061da177e4SLinus Torvalds VFAT (Windows 95) file systems), then you must say Y or M here 7071da177e4SLinus Torvalds to include FAT support. You will then be able to mount partitions or 7081da177e4SLinus Torvalds diskettes with FAT-based file systems and transparently access the 7091da177e4SLinus Torvalds files on them, i.e. MSDOS files will look and behave just like all 7101da177e4SLinus Torvalds other Unix files. 7111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7121da177e4SLinus Torvalds This FAT support is not a file system in itself, it only provides 7131da177e4SLinus Torvalds the foundation for the other file systems. You will have to say Y or 7141da177e4SLinus Torvalds M to at least one of "MSDOS fs support" or "VFAT fs support" in 7151da177e4SLinus Torvalds order to make use of it. 7161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7171da177e4SLinus Torvalds Another way to read and write MSDOS floppies and hard drive 7181da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions from within Linux (but not transparently) is with the 7191da177e4SLinus Torvalds mtools ("man mtools") program suite. You don't need to say Y here in 7201da177e4SLinus Torvalds order to do that. 7211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7221da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you need to move large files on floppies between a DOS and a 7231da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux box, say Y here, mount the floppy under Linux with an MSDOS 7241da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program 7251da177e4SLinus Torvalds available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar"). 7261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7271da177e4SLinus Torvalds The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure, 7281da177e4SLinus Torvalds say Y. 7291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7301da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 7311da177e4SLinus Torvalds fat. Note that if you compile the FAT support as a module, you 7321da177e4SLinus Torvalds cannot compile any of the FAT-based file systems into the kernel 7331da177e4SLinus Torvalds -- they will have to be modules as well. 7341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MSDOS_FS 7361da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "MSDOS fs support" 7371da177e4SLinus Torvalds select FAT_FS 7381da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7391da177e4SLinus Torvalds This allows you to mount MSDOS partitions of your hard drive (unless 7401da177e4SLinus Torvalds they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under 7411da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the 7421da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from 7431da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in 7441da177e4SLinus Torvalds <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you 7451da177e4SLinus Torvalds intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y 7461da177e4SLinus Torvalds here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes 7471da177e4SLinus Torvalds transparent, i.e. the MSDOS files look and behave just like all 7481da177e4SLinus Torvalds other Unix files. 7491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7501da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have Windows 95 or Windows NT installed on your MSDOS 7511da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions, you should use the VFAT file system (say Y to "VFAT fs 7521da177e4SLinus Torvalds support" below), or you will not be able to see the long filenames 7531da177e4SLinus Torvalds generated by Windows 95 / Windows NT. 7541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7551da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will enlarge your kernel by about 7 KB. If unsure, 7561da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer Y. This will only work if you said Y to "DOS FAT fs support" 7571da177e4SLinus Torvalds as well. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will 7581da177e4SLinus Torvalds be called msdos. 7591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig VFAT_FS 7611da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "VFAT (Windows-95) fs support" 7621da177e4SLinus Torvalds select FAT_FS 7631da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7641da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option provides support for normal Windows file systems with 7651da177e4SLinus Torvalds long filenames. That includes non-compressed FAT-based file systems 7661da177e4SLinus Torvalds used by Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and the Unix 7671da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs from the mtools package. 7681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7691da177e4SLinus Torvalds The VFAT support enlarges your kernel by about 10 KB and it only 7701da177e4SLinus Torvalds works if you said Y to the "DOS FAT fs support" above. Please read 7711da177e4SLinus Torvalds the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for details. If 7721da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say Y. 7731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7741da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 7751da177e4SLinus Torvalds vfat. 7761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE 7781da177e4SLinus Torvalds int "Default codepage for FAT" 7791da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MSDOS_FS || VFAT_FS 7801da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 437 7811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7821da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option should be set to the codepage of your FAT filesystems. 7831da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can be overridden with the "codepage" mount option. 7841da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information. 7851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET 7871da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Default iocharset for FAT" 7881da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on VFAT_FS 7891da177e4SLinus Torvalds default "iso8859-1" 7901da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Set this to the default input/output character set you'd 7921da177e4SLinus Torvalds like FAT to use. It should probably match the character set 7931da177e4SLinus Torvalds that most of your FAT filesystems use, and can be overridden 7941da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the "iocharset" mount option for FAT filesystems. 7951da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that "utf8" is not recommended for FAT filesystems. 7961da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here. 7971da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information. 7981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NTFS_FS 8001da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NTFS file system support" 8011da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 8021da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8031da177e4SLinus Torvalds NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003. 8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y or M here enables read support. There is partial, but 8061da177e4SLinus Torvalds safe, write support available. For write support you must also 8071da177e4SLinus Torvalds say Y to "NTFS write support" below. 8081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8091da177e4SLinus Torvalds There are also a number of user-space tools available, called 8101da177e4SLinus Torvalds ntfsprogs. These include ntfsundelete and ntfsresize, that work 8111da177e4SLinus Torvalds without NTFS support enabled in the kernel. 8121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8131da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a rewrite from scratch of Linux NTFS support and replaced 8141da177e4SLinus Torvalds the old NTFS code starting with Linux 2.5.11. A backport to 8151da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Linux 2.4 kernel series is separately available as a patch 8161da177e4SLinus Torvalds from the project web site. 8171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8181da177e4SLinus Torvalds For more information see <file:Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt> 8191da177e4SLinus Torvalds and <http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/>. 8201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8211da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 8221da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called ntfs. 8231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8241da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not using Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 in addition to 8251da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux on your computer it is safe to say N. 8261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NTFS_DEBUG 8281da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "NTFS debugging support" 8291da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NTFS_FS 8301da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8311da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are experiencing any problems with the NTFS file system, say 8321da177e4SLinus Torvalds Y here. This will result in additional consistency checks to be 8331da177e4SLinus Torvalds performed by the driver as well as additional debugging messages to 8341da177e4SLinus Torvalds be written to the system log. Note that debugging messages are 8351da177e4SLinus Torvalds disabled by default. To enable them, supply the option debug_msgs=1 8361da177e4SLinus Torvalds at the kernel command line when booting the kernel or as an option 8371da177e4SLinus Torvalds to insmod when loading the ntfs module. Once the driver is active, 8381da177e4SLinus Torvalds you can enable debugging messages by doing (as root): 8391da177e4SLinus Torvalds echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug 8401da177e4SLinus Torvalds Replacing the "1" with "0" would disable debug messages. 8411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8421da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you leave debugging messages disabled, this results in little 8431da177e4SLinus Torvalds overhead, but enabling debug messages results in very significant 8441da177e4SLinus Torvalds slowdown of the system. 8451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8461da177e4SLinus Torvalds When reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of 8471da177e4SLinus Torvalds debugging messages while the misbehaviour was occurring. 8481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NTFS_RW 8501da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "NTFS write support" 8511da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NTFS_FS 8521da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8531da177e4SLinus Torvalds This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver. 8541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8551da177e4SLinus Torvalds The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without 8561da177e4SLinus Torvalds changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or 8571da177e4SLinus Torvalds renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to 8581da177e4SLinus Torvalds so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot 8591da177e4SLinus Torvalds be written to. 8601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8611da177e4SLinus Torvalds While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have 8621da177e4SLinus Torvalds so far not received a single report where the driver would have 8631da177e4SLinus Torvalds damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use. 8641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8651da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from 8661da177e4SLinus Torvalds scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS 8671da177e4SLinus Torvalds write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997), 8681da177e4SLinus Torvalds is not safe. 8691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8701da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is currently useful with TopologiLinux. TopologiLinux is run 8711da177e4SLinus Torvalds on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your 8721da177e4SLinus Torvalds hard disk. Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not 8731da177e4SLinus Torvalds need its own partition. For more information see 8741da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/> 8751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8761da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is perfectly safe to say N here. 8771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 8799361401eSDavid Howellsendif 8801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Pseudo filesystems" 8821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PROC_FS 88469755652SH. Peter Anvin bool "/proc file system support" if EMBEDDED 88569755652SH. Peter Anvin default y 8861da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8871da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a virtual file system providing information about the status 8881da177e4SLinus Torvalds of the system. "Virtual" means that it doesn't take up any space on 8891da177e4SLinus Torvalds your hard disk: the files are created on the fly by the kernel when 8901da177e4SLinus Torvalds you try to access them. Also, you cannot read the files with older 8911da177e4SLinus Torvalds version of the program less: you need to use more or cat. 8921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8931da177e4SLinus Torvalds It's totally cool; for example, "cat /proc/interrupts" gives 8941da177e4SLinus Torvalds information about what the different IRQs are used for at the moment 8951da177e4SLinus Torvalds (there is a small number of Interrupt ReQuest lines in your computer 8961da177e4SLinus Torvalds that are used by the attached devices to gain the CPU's attention -- 8971da177e4SLinus Torvalds often a source of trouble if two devices are mistakenly configured 8981da177e4SLinus Torvalds to use the same IRQ). The program procinfo to display some 8991da177e4SLinus Torvalds information about your system gathered from the /proc file system. 9001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9011da177e4SLinus Torvalds Before you can use the /proc file system, it has to be mounted, 9021da177e4SLinus Torvalds meaning it has to be given a location in the directory hierarchy. 9031da177e4SLinus Torvalds That location should be /proc. A command such as "mount -t proc proc 9041da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc" or the equivalent line in /etc/fstab does the job. 9051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9061da177e4SLinus Torvalds The /proc file system is explained in the file 9071da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt> and on the proc(5) manpage 9081da177e4SLinus Torvalds ("man 5 proc"). 9091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9101da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will enlarge your kernel by about 67 KB. Several 9111da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs depend on this, so everyone should say Y here. 9121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PROC_KCORE 9141da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "/proc/kcore support" if !ARM 9151da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS && MMU 9161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 917666bfddbSVivek Goyalconfig PROC_VMCORE 918666bfddbSVivek Goyal bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 91905970d47SManeesh Soni depends on PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP 92068250ba5SVivek Goyal default y 921666bfddbSVivek Goyal help 922666bfddbSVivek Goyal Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format. 923666bfddbSVivek Goyal 924b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig PROC_SYSCTL 925b89a8171SEric W. Biederman bool "Sysctl support (/proc/sys)" if EMBEDDED 926b89a8171SEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_FS 927b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 928b89a8171SEric W. Biederman default y 929b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 930b89a8171SEric W. Biederman The sysctl interface provides a means of dynamically changing 931b89a8171SEric W. Biederman certain kernel parameters and variables on the fly without requiring 932b89a8171SEric W. Biederman a recompile of the kernel or reboot of the system. The primary 933b89a8171SEric W. Biederman interface is through /proc/sys. If you say Y here a tree of 934b89a8171SEric W. Biederman modifiable sysctl entries will be generated beneath the 935b89a8171SEric W. Biederman /proc/sys directory. They are explained in the files 936b89a8171SEric W. Biederman in <file:Documentation/sysctl/>. Note that enabling this 937b89a8171SEric W. Biederman option will enlarge the kernel by at least 8 KB. 938b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 939b89a8171SEric W. Biederman As it is generally a good thing, you should say Y here unless 940b89a8171SEric W. Biederman building a kernel for install/rescue disks or your system is very 941b89a8171SEric W. Biederman limited in memory. 942b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 9431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSFS 9441da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "sysfs file system support" if EMBEDDED 9451da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 9461da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9471da177e4SLinus Torvalds The sysfs filesystem is a virtual filesystem that the kernel uses to 9481da177e4SLinus Torvalds export internal kernel objects, their attributes, and their 9491da177e4SLinus Torvalds relationships to one another. 9501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9511da177e4SLinus Torvalds Users can use sysfs to ascertain useful information about the running 9521da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel, such as the devices the kernel has discovered on each bus and 9531da177e4SLinus Torvalds which driver each is bound to. sysfs can also be used to tune devices 9541da177e4SLinus Torvalds and other kernel subsystems. 9551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9561da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some system agents rely on the information in sysfs to operate. 9571da177e4SLinus Torvalds /sbin/hotplug uses device and object attributes in sysfs to assist in 95803a67a46SJan Engelhardt delegating policy decisions, like persistently naming devices. 9591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9601da177e4SLinus Torvalds sysfs is currently used by the block subsystem to mount the root 9611da177e4SLinus Torvalds partition. If sysfs is disabled you must specify the boot device on 9621da177e4SLinus Torvalds the kernel boot command line via its major and minor numbers. For 9631da177e4SLinus Torvalds example, "root=03:01" for /dev/hda1. 9641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9651da177e4SLinus Torvalds Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space. 9661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TMPFS 9681da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)" 9691da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9701da177e4SLinus Torvalds Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory. 9711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9721da177e4SLinus Torvalds Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be 9731da177e4SLinus Torvalds created on your hard drive. The files live in memory and swap 9741da177e4SLinus Torvalds space. If you unmount a tmpfs instance, everything stored therein is 9751da177e4SLinus Torvalds lost. 9761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9771da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> for details. 9781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 97939f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacherconfig TMPFS_POSIX_ACL 98039f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher bool "Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists" 98139f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher depends on TMPFS 98239f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher select GENERIC_ACL 98339f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher help 98439f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 98539f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 98639f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher 98739f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for 98839f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 98939f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher 99039f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N. 99139f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher 9921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HUGETLBFS 9931da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "HugeTLB file system support" 994bef1f402SRobert P. J. Day depends on X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || BROKEN 995dda27d1aSArthur Othieno help 996dda27d1aSArthur Othieno hugetlbfs is a filesystem backing for HugeTLB pages, based on 997dda27d1aSArthur Othieno ramfs. For architectures that support it, say Y here and read 998dda27d1aSArthur Othieno <file:Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt> for details. 999dda27d1aSArthur Othieno 1000dda27d1aSArthur Othieno If unsure, say N. 10011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HUGETLB_PAGE 10031da177e4SLinus Torvalds def_bool HUGETLBFS 10041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig RAMFS 10061da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 10071da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 10081da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 10091da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ramfs is a file system which keeps all files in RAM. It allows 10101da177e4SLinus Torvalds read and write access. 10111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10121da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is more of an programming example than a useable file system. If 10131da177e4SLinus Torvalds you need a file system which lives in RAM with limit checking use 10141da177e4SLinus Torvalds tmpfs. 10151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10161da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 10171da177e4SLinus Torvalds ramfs. 10181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10197063fbf2SJoel Beckerconfig CONFIGFS_FS 10207063fbf2SJoel Becker tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem (EXPERIMENTAL)" 102165714b91SAdrian Bunk depends on SYSFS && EXPERIMENTAL 10227063fbf2SJoel Becker help 10237063fbf2SJoel Becker configfs is a ram-based filesystem that provides the converse 10247063fbf2SJoel Becker of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based 10257063fbf2SJoel Becker view of kernel objects, configfs is a filesystem-based manager 10267063fbf2SJoel Becker of kernel objects, or config_items. 10277063fbf2SJoel Becker 10287063fbf2SJoel Becker Both sysfs and configfs can and should exist together on the 10297063fbf2SJoel Becker same system. One is not a replacement for the other. 10307063fbf2SJoel Becker 10311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 10321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Miscellaneous filesystems" 10341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ADFS_FS 10361da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "ADFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 10379361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 10381da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10391da177e4SLinus Torvalds The Acorn Disc Filing System is the standard file system of the 10401da177e4SLinus Torvalds RiscOS operating system which runs on Acorn's ARM-based Risc PC 10411da177e4SLinus Torvalds systems and the Acorn Archimedes range of machines. If you say Y 10421da177e4SLinus Torvalds here, Linux will be able to read from ADFS partitions on hard drives 10431da177e4SLinus Torvalds and from ADFS-formatted floppy discs. If you also want to be able to 10441da177e4SLinus Torvalds write to those devices, say Y to "ADFS write support" below. 10451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10461da177e4SLinus Torvalds The ADFS partition should be the first partition (i.e., 10471da177e4SLinus Torvalds /dev/[hs]d?1) on each of your drives. Please read the file 10481da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt> for further details. 10491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10501da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be 10511da177e4SLinus Torvalds called adfs. 10521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10531da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 10541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ADFS_FS_RW 10561da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)" 10571da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ADFS_FS 10581da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10591da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to write to ADFS partitions on 10601da177e4SLinus Torvalds hard drives and ADFS-formatted floppy disks. This is experimental 10611da177e4SLinus Torvalds codes, so if you're unsure, say N. 10621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AFFS_FS 10641da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Amiga FFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 10659361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 10661da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10671da177e4SLinus Torvalds The Fast File System (FFS) is the common file system used on hard 10681da177e4SLinus Torvalds disks by Amiga(tm) systems since AmigaOS Version 1.3 (34.20). Say Y 10691da177e4SLinus Torvalds if you want to be able to read and write files from and to an Amiga 10701da177e4SLinus Torvalds FFS partition on your hard drive. Amiga floppies however cannot be 10711da177e4SLinus Torvalds read with this driver due to an incompatibility of the floppy 10721da177e4SLinus Torvalds controller used in an Amiga and the standard floppy controller in 10731da177e4SLinus Torvalds PCs and workstations. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt> 10741da177e4SLinus Torvalds and <file:fs/affs/Changes>. 10751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10761da177e4SLinus Torvalds With this driver you can also mount disk files used by Bernd 10771da177e4SLinus Torvalds Schmidt's Un*X Amiga Emulator 10781da177e4SLinus Torvalds (<http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/>). 10791da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to do this, you will also need to say Y or M to "Loop 10801da177e4SLinus Torvalds device support", above. 10811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10821da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 10831da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called affs. If unsure, say N. 10841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1085237fead6SMichael Halcrowconfig ECRYPT_FS 1086237fead6SMichael Halcrow tristate "eCrypt filesystem layer support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 108788b4a07eSMichael Halcrow depends on EXPERIMENTAL && KEYS && CRYPTO && NET 1088237fead6SMichael Halcrow help 1089237fead6SMichael Halcrow Encrypted filesystem that operates on the VFS layer. See 1090237fead6SMichael Halcrow <file:Documentation/ecryptfs.txt> to learn more about 1091237fead6SMichael Halcrow eCryptfs. Userspace components are required and can be 1092237fead6SMichael Halcrow obtained from <http://ecryptfs.sf.net>. 1093237fead6SMichael Halcrow 1094237fead6SMichael Halcrow To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 1095237fead6SMichael Halcrow module will be called ecryptfs. 1096237fead6SMichael Halcrow 10971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HFS_FS 10981da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 10999361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 1100878129a3SLennert Buytenhek select NLS 11011da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11021da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to mount Macintosh-formatted 11031da177e4SLinus Torvalds floppy disks and hard drive partitions with full read-write access. 11041da177e4SLinus Torvalds Please read <file:fs/hfs/HFS.txt> to learn about the available mount 11051da177e4SLinus Torvalds options. 11061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11071da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 11081da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called hfs. 11091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HFSPLUS_FS 11111da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Apple Extended HFS file system support" 11129361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 11131da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 11141da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS_UTF8 11151da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11161da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to mount extended format 11171da177e4SLinus Torvalds Macintosh-formatted hard drive partitions with full read-write access. 11181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11191da177e4SLinus Torvalds This file system is often called HFS+ and was introduced with 11201da177e4SLinus Torvalds MacOS 8. It includes all Mac specific filesystem data such as 11211da177e4SLinus Torvalds data forks and creator codes, but it also has several UNIX 11221da177e4SLinus Torvalds style features such as file ownership and permissions. 11231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BEFS_FS 11251da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "BeOS file system (BeFS) support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 11269361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 11271da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 11281da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11291da177e4SLinus Torvalds The BeOS File System (BeFS) is the native file system of Be, Inc's 11301da177e4SLinus Torvalds BeOS. Notable features include support for arbitrary attributes 11313cb2fcccSMatt LaPlante on files and directories, and database-like indices on selected 11321da177e4SLinus Torvalds attributes. (Also note that this driver doesn't make those features 11331da177e4SLinus Torvalds available at this time). It is a 64 bit filesystem, so it supports 113444c09201SMatt LaPlante extremely large volumes and files. 11351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11361da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you use this filesystem, you should also say Y to at least one 11371da177e4SLinus Torvalds of the NLS (native language support) options below. 11381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11391da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what this is about, say N. 11401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11411da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 11421da177e4SLinus Torvalds called befs. 11431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BEFS_DEBUG 11451da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Debug BeFS" 11461da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BEFS_FS 11471da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11481da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you can use the 'debug' mount option to enable 11491da177e4SLinus Torvalds debugging output from the driver. 11501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BFS_FS 11521da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 11539361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 11541da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11551da177e4SLinus Torvalds Boot File System (BFS) is a file system used under SCO UnixWare to 11561da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow the bootloader access to the kernel image and other important 11571da177e4SLinus Torvalds files during the boot process. It is usually mounted under /stand 11581da177e4SLinus Torvalds and corresponds to the slice marked as "STAND" in the UnixWare 11591da177e4SLinus Torvalds partition. You should say Y if you want to read or write the files 11601da177e4SLinus Torvalds on your /stand slice from within Linux. You then also need to say Y 11611da177e4SLinus Torvalds to "UnixWare slices support", below. More information about the BFS 11621da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system is contained in the file 11631da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/bfs.txt>. 11641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11651da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what this is about, say N. 11661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11671da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 11681da177e4SLinus Torvalds bfs. Note that the file system of your root partition (the one 11691da177e4SLinus Torvalds containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module. 11701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EFS_FS 11741da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "EFS file system support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 11759361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 11761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11771da177e4SLinus Torvalds EFS is an older file system used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and hard 11781da177e4SLinus Torvalds disk partitions by SGI's IRIX operating system (IRIX 6.0 and newer 11791da177e4SLinus Torvalds uses the XFS file system for hard disk partitions however). 11801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11811da177e4SLinus Torvalds This implementation only offers read-only access. If you don't know 11821da177e4SLinus Torvalds what all this is about, it's safe to say N. For more information 11831da177e4SLinus Torvalds about EFS see its home page at <http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/>. 11841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11851da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the EFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the 11861da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called efs. 11871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_FS 11891da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Journalling Flash File System v2 (JFFS2) support" 11901da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 11911da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MTD 11921da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11931da177e4SLinus Torvalds JFFS2 is the second generation of the Journalling Flash File System 11941da177e4SLinus Torvalds for use on diskless embedded devices. It provides improved wear 11951da177e4SLinus Torvalds levelling, compression and support for hard links. You cannot use 11961da177e4SLinus Torvalds this on normal block devices, only on 'MTD' devices. 11971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11981da177e4SLinus Torvalds Further information on the design and implementation of JFFS2 is 11991da177e4SLinus Torvalds available at <http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2/>. 12001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_FS_DEBUG 12021da177e4SLinus Torvalds int "JFFS2 debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 2 = noisy)" 12031da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 12041da177e4SLinus Torvalds default "0" 12051da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12061da177e4SLinus Torvalds This controls the amount of debugging messages produced by the JFFS2 12071da177e4SLinus Torvalds code. Set it to zero for use in production systems. For evaluation, 12081da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing and debugging, it's advisable to set it to one. This will 12091da177e4SLinus Torvalds enable a few assertions and will print debugging messages at the 12101da177e4SLinus Torvalds KERN_DEBUG loglevel, where they won't normally be visible. Level 2 12111da177e4SLinus Torvalds is unlikely to be useful - it enables extra debugging in certain 12121da177e4SLinus Torvalds areas which at one point needed debugging, but when the bugs were 12131da177e4SLinus Torvalds located and fixed, the detailed messages were relegated to level 2. 12141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12151da177e4SLinus Torvalds If reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of the 12161da177e4SLinus Torvalds messages at debug level 1 while the misbehaviour was occurring. 12171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12182ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouseconfig JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER 12192ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse bool "JFFS2 write-buffering support" 1220aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei depends on JFFS2_FS 12212ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse default y 12222ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse help 12232ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse This enables the write-buffering support in JFFS2. 12242ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse 12252ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse This functionality is required to support JFFS2 on the following 12262ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse types of flash devices: 12272ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse - NAND flash 12282ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse - NOR flash with transparent ECC 12292ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse - DataFlash 12302ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse 1231*a6bc432eSDavid Woodhouseconfig JFFS2_FS_WBUF_VERIFY 1232*a6bc432eSDavid Woodhouse bool "Verify JFFS2 write-buffer reads" 1233*a6bc432eSDavid Woodhouse depends on JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER 1234*a6bc432eSDavid Woodhouse default n 1235*a6bc432eSDavid Woodhouse help 1236*a6bc432eSDavid Woodhouse This causes JFFS2 to read back every page written through the 1237*a6bc432eSDavid Woodhouse write-buffer, and check for errors. 1238*a6bc432eSDavid Woodhouse 12392ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouseconfig JFFS2_SUMMARY 12402ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse bool "JFFS2 summary support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 12412ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 12422ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse default n 12432ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse help 12442ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse This feature makes it possible to use summary information 12452ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse for faster filesystem mount. 12462ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse 12472ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse The summary information can be inserted into a filesystem image 12482ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse by the utility 'sumtool'. 12492ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse 12502ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse If unsure, say 'N'. 12512ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse 12522ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouseconfig JFFS2_FS_XATTR 12532ba72cb7SDavid Woodhouse bool "JFFS2 XATTR support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 125404510deeSKaiGai Kohei depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 1255aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei default n 1256aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei help 1257aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 1258aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 1259aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 1260aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 1261aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei If unsure, say N. 1262aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 1263aa98d7cfSKaiGai Koheiconfig JFFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL 1264aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei bool "JFFS2 POSIX Access Control Lists" 1265aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR 1266aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei default y 1267aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei select FS_POSIX_ACL 1268aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei help 1269aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 1270aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 1271aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 1272aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 1273aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 1274aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 1275aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 1276aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 1277aa98d7cfSKaiGai Koheiconfig JFFS2_FS_SECURITY 1278aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei bool "JFFS2 Security Labels" 1279aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR 1280aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei default y 1281aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei help 1282aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei Security labels support alternative access control models 1283aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 1284aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei enables an extended attribute handler for file security 1285aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei labels in the jffs2 filesystem. 1286aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 1287aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei If you are not using a security module that requires using 1288aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 1289aa98d7cfSKaiGai Kohei 12901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 12911da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Advanced compression options for JFFS2" 12921da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 12931da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 12941da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12951da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this option allows you to explicitly choose which 12961da177e4SLinus Torvalds compression modules, if any, are enabled in JFFS2. Removing 12971da177e4SLinus Torvalds compressors and mean you cannot read existing file systems, 12981da177e4SLinus Torvalds and enabling experimental compressors can mean that you 12991da177e4SLinus Torvalds write a file system which cannot be read by a standard kernel. 13001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13011da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, you should _definitely_ say 'N'. 13021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_ZLIB 13041da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFFS2 ZLIB compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 13051da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_INFLATE 13061da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_DEFLATE 13071da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 13081da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13091da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13101da177e4SLinus Torvalds Zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered, 13111da177e4SLinus Torvalds lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer 13121da177e4SLinus Torvalds hardware and operating system. See <http://www.gzip.org/zlib/> for 13131da177e4SLinus Torvalds further information. 13141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13151da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say 'Y' if unsure. 13161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_RTIME 13181da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFFS2 RTIME compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 13191da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 13201da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 13211da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13221da177e4SLinus Torvalds Rtime does manage to recompress already-compressed data. Say 'Y' if unsure. 13231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_RUBIN 13251da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFFS2 RUBIN compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 13261da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 13271da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 13281da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13291da177e4SLinus Torvalds RUBINMIPS and DYNRUBIN compressors. Say 'N' if unsure. 13301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13311da177e4SLinus Torvaldschoice 13321da177e4SLinus Torvalds prompt "JFFS2 default compression mode" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 13331da177e4SLinus Torvalds default JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY 13341da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 13351da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13361da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can set here the default compression mode of JFFS2 from 13371da177e4SLinus Torvalds the available compression modes. Don't touch if unsure. 13381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_CMODE_NONE 13401da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "no compression" 13411da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13421da177e4SLinus Torvalds Uses no compression. 13431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY 13451da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "priority" 13461da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1347cc2e2767SMatt LaPlante Tries the compressors in a predefined order and chooses the first 13481da177e4SLinus Torvalds successful one. 13491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_CMODE_SIZE 13511da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "size (EXPERIMENTAL)" 13521da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13531da177e4SLinus Torvalds Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest 13541da177e4SLinus Torvalds result. 13551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendchoice 13571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13581da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CRAMFS 13591da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)" 13609361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 13611da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_INFLATE 13621da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13631da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here includes support for CramFs (Compressed ROM File 13641da177e4SLinus Torvalds System). CramFs is designed to be a simple, small, and compressed 13651da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system for ROM based embedded systems. CramFs is read-only, 13661da177e4SLinus Torvalds limited to 256MB file systems (with 16MB files), and doesn't support 13671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16/32 bits uid/gid, hard links and timestamps. 13681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13691da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt> and 13701da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:fs/cramfs/README> for further information. 13711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13721da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 13731da177e4SLinus Torvalds cramfs. Note that the root file system (the one containing the 13741da177e4SLinus Torvalds directory /) cannot be compiled as a module. 13751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13761da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 13771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig VXFS_FS 13791da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "FreeVxFS file system support (VERITAS VxFS(TM) compatible)" 13809361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 13811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13821da177e4SLinus Torvalds FreeVxFS is a file system driver that support the VERITAS VxFS(TM) 13831da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system format. VERITAS VxFS(TM) is the standard file system 13841da177e4SLinus Torvalds of SCO UnixWare (and possibly others) and optionally available 13851da177e4SLinus Torvalds for Sunsoft Solaris, HP-UX and many other operating systems. 13861da177e4SLinus Torvalds Currently only readonly access is supported. 13871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13881da177e4SLinus Torvalds NOTE: the file system type as used by mount(1), mount(2) and 13891da177e4SLinus Torvalds fstab(5) is 'vxfs' as it describes the file system format, not 13901da177e4SLinus Torvalds the actual driver. 13911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13921da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 13931da177e4SLinus Torvalds called freevxfs. If unsure, say N. 13941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HPFS_FS 13971da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "OS/2 HPFS file system support" 13989361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 13991da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14001da177e4SLinus Torvalds OS/2 is IBM's operating system for PC's, the same as Warp, and HPFS 14011da177e4SLinus Torvalds is the file system used for organizing files on OS/2 hard disk 14021da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions. Say Y if you want to be able to read files from and 14031da177e4SLinus Torvalds write files to an OS/2 HPFS partition on your hard drive. OS/2 14041da177e4SLinus Torvalds floppies however are in regular MSDOS format, so you don't need this 14051da177e4SLinus Torvalds option in order to be able to read them. Read 14061da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt>. 14071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14081da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 14091da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called hpfs. If unsure, say N. 14101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QNX4FS_FS 14141da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "QNX4 file system support (read only)" 14159361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 14161da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14171da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the file system used by the real-time operating systems 14181da177e4SLinus Torvalds QNX 4 and QNX 6 (the latter is also called QNX RTP). 14191da177e4SLinus Torvalds Further information is available at <http://www.qnx.com/>. 14201da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y if you intend to mount QNX hard disks or floppies. 14211da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless you say Y to "QNX4FS read-write support" below, you will 14221da177e4SLinus Torvalds only be able to read these file systems. 14231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14241da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 14251da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called qnx4. 14261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14271da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it: 14281da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer N. 14291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QNX4FS_RW 14311da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "QNX4FS write support (DANGEROUS)" 14321da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on QNX4FS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN 14331da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14341da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y if you want to test write support for QNX4 file systems. 14351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14361da177e4SLinus Torvalds It's currently broken, so for now: 14371da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer N. 14381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSV_FS 14421da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support" 14439361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 14441da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14451da177e4SLinus Torvalds SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel 14461da177e4SLinus Torvalds machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y 14471da177e4SLinus Torvalds here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk 14481da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions. 14491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14501da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely 14511da177e4SLinus Torvalds that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order 1452cab00891SMatt LaPlante to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is 14531da177e4SLinus Torvalds a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse, 14541da177e4SLinus Torvalds UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux. It is 14551da177e4SLinus Torvalds available via FTP (user: ftp) from 14561da177e4SLinus Torvalds <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>). 14571da177e4SLinus Torvalds NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems; 14581da177e4SLinus Torvalds PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-) 14591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14601da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the 14611da177e4SLinus Torvalds network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support 14621da177e4SLinus Torvalds (but you need NFS file system support obviously). 14631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14641da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a 14651da177e4SLinus Torvalds good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes 14661da177e4SLinus Torvalds (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man 14671da177e4SLinus Torvalds tar" or preferably "info tar"). Note also that this option has 14681da177e4SLinus Torvalds nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about 14691da177e4SLinus Torvalds the System V file system in 14701da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>. 14711da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB. 14721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14731da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 14741da177e4SLinus Torvalds sysv. 14751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14761da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. 14771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UFS_FS 14811da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "UFS file system support (read only)" 14829361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 14831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14841da177e4SLinus Torvalds BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, 14851da177e4SLinus Torvalds OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a file system called UFS. Some System V 14861da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using 14871da177e4SLinus Torvalds this file system as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from 14881da177e4SLinus Torvalds these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the 14891da177e4SLinus Torvalds experimental "UFS file system write support", below. Please read the 14901da177e4SLinus Torvalds file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt> for more information. 14911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14921da177e4SLinus Torvalds The recently released UFS2 variant (used in FreeBSD 5.x) is 14931da177e4SLinus Torvalds READ-ONLY supported. 14941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14951da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the 14961da177e4SLinus Torvalds network using NFS, you don't need the UFS file system support (but 14971da177e4SLinus Torvalds you need NFS file system support obviously). 14981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14991da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a 15001da177e4SLinus Torvalds good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes 15011da177e4SLinus Torvalds (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man 15021da177e4SLinus Torvalds tar" or preferably "info tar"). 15031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15041da177e4SLinus Torvalds When accessing NeXTstep files, you may need to convert them from the 15051da177e4SLinus Torvalds NeXT character set to the Latin1 character set; use the program 15061da177e4SLinus Torvalds recode ("info recode") for this purpose. 15071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15081da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the UFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the 15091da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called ufs. 15101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15111da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. 15121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UFS_FS_WRITE 15141da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS)" 15155afb3145SEvgeniy Dushistov depends on UFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 15161da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15171da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you want to try writing to UFS partitions. This is 15181da177e4SLinus Torvalds experimental, so you should back up your UFS partitions beforehand. 15191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1520abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistovconfig UFS_DEBUG 1521abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov bool "UFS debugging" 1522abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov depends on UFS_FS 1523abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov help 1524abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov If you are experiencing any problems with the UFS filesystem, say 1525abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov Y here. This will result in _many_ additional debugging messages to be 1526abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov written to the system log. 1527abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov 15281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 15291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Network File Systems" 15311da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET 15321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_FS 15341da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NFS file system support" 15351da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 15361da177e4SLinus Torvalds select LOCKD 15371da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC 1538b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFS_V3_ACL 15391da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15401da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are connected to some other (usually local) Unix computer 15411da177e4SLinus Torvalds (using SLIP, PLIP, PPP or Ethernet) and want to mount files residing 15421da177e4SLinus Torvalds on that computer (the NFS server) using the Network File Sharing 15431da177e4SLinus Torvalds protocol, say Y. "Mounting files" means that the client can access 15441da177e4SLinus Torvalds the files with usual UNIX commands as if they were sitting on the 15451da177e4SLinus Torvalds client's hard disk. For this to work, the server must run the 15461da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs nfsd and mountd (but does not need to have NFS file system 15471da177e4SLinus Torvalds support enabled in its kernel). NFS is explained in the Network 15481da177e4SLinus Torvalds Administrator's Guide, available from 15491da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>, on its man page: "man 15501da177e4SLinus Torvalds nfs", and in the NFS-HOWTO. 15511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15521da177e4SLinus Torvalds A superior but less widely used alternative to NFS is provided by 15531da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Coda file system; see "Coda file system support" below. 15541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15551da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you should have said Y to TCP/IP networking also. 15561da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option would enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB. 15571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15581da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 15591da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called nfs. 15601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15611da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are configuring a diskless machine which will mount its root 15621da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system over NFS at boot time, say Y here and to "Kernel 15631da177e4SLinus Torvalds level IP autoconfiguration" above and to "Root file system on NFS" 15641da177e4SLinus Torvalds below. You cannot compile this driver as a module in this case. 15651da177e4SLinus Torvalds There are two packages designed for booting diskless machines over 15661da177e4SLinus Torvalds the net: netboot, available from 15671da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/netboot/>, and Etherboot, 15681da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/etherboot/>. 15691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15701da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what all this is about, say N. 15711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_V3 15731da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Provide NFSv3 client support" 15741da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFS_FS 15751da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15761da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak version 15771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3 of the NFS protocol. 15781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15791da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 15801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1581b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFS_V3_ACL 1582b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher bool "Provide client support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension" 1583b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFS_V3 1584b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher help 1585b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX 1586b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher Access Control Lists. The server should also be compiled with 1587b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL option. 1588b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher 1589b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher If unsure, say N. 1590b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher 15911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_V4 15921da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Provide NFSv4 client support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 15931da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 15941da177e4SLinus Torvalds select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 15951da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15961da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak the newer 15971da177e4SLinus Torvalds version 4 of the NFS protocol. 15981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15991da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: Requires auxiliary userspace daemons which may be found on 16001da177e4SLinus Torvalds http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ 16011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16021da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 16031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_DIRECTIO 1605026ed5c9SChuck Lever bool "Allow direct I/O on NFS files" 1606026ed5c9SChuck Lever depends on NFS_FS 16071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16081da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables applications to perform uncached I/O on files 16091da177e4SLinus Torvalds in NFS file systems using the O_DIRECT open() flag. When O_DIRECT 16101da177e4SLinus Torvalds is set for a file, its data is not cached in the system's page 16111da177e4SLinus Torvalds cache. Data is moved to and from user-level application buffers 16121da177e4SLinus Torvalds directly. Unlike local disk-based file systems, NFS O_DIRECT has 16131da177e4SLinus Torvalds no alignment restrictions. 16141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16151da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless your program is designed to use O_DIRECT properly, you are 16161da177e4SLinus Torvalds much better off allowing the NFS client to manage data caching for 16171da177e4SLinus Torvalds you. Misusing O_DIRECT can cause poor server performance or network 16181da177e4SLinus Torvalds storms. This kernel build option defaults OFF to avoid exposing 16191da177e4SLinus Torvalds system administrators unwittingly to a potentially hazardous 16201da177e4SLinus Torvalds feature. 16211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16221da177e4SLinus Torvalds For more details on NFS O_DIRECT, see fs/nfs/direct.c. 16231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16241da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. This reduces the size of the NFS client, and 16251da177e4SLinus Torvalds causes open() to return EINVAL if a file residing in NFS is 16261da177e4SLinus Torvalds opened with the O_DIRECT flag. 16271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD 16291da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NFS server support" 16301da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 16311da177e4SLinus Torvalds select LOCKD 16321da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC 16331da177e4SLinus Torvalds select EXPORTFS 1634f05e15b5SHerbert Xu select NFSD_V2_ACL if NFSD_V3_ACL 1635f05e15b5SHerbert Xu select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFSD_V2_ACL 1636f05e15b5SHerbert Xu select NFSD_TCP if NFSD_V4 1637f05e15b5SHerbert Xu select CRYPTO_MD5 if NFSD_V4 1638f05e15b5SHerbert Xu select CRYPTO if NFSD_V4 1639f05e15b5SHerbert Xu select FS_POSIX_ACL if NFSD_V4 16401da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16411da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want your Linux box to act as an NFS *server*, so that other 16421da177e4SLinus Torvalds computers on your local network which support NFS can access certain 16431da177e4SLinus Torvalds directories on your box transparently, you have two options: you can 16441da177e4SLinus Torvalds use the self-contained user space program nfsd, in which case you 16451da177e4SLinus Torvalds should say N here, or you can say Y and use the kernel based NFS 16461da177e4SLinus Torvalds server. The advantage of the kernel based solution is that it is 16471da177e4SLinus Torvalds faster. 16481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16491da177e4SLinus Torvalds In either case, you will need support software; the respective 16501da177e4SLinus Torvalds locations are given in the file <file:Documentation/Changes> in the 16511da177e4SLinus Torvalds NFS section. 16521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16531da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will get support for version 2 of the NFS 16541da177e4SLinus Torvalds protocol (NFSv2). If you also want NFSv3, say Y to the next question 16551da177e4SLinus Torvalds as well. 16561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16571da177e4SLinus Torvalds Please read the NFS-HOWTO, available from 16581da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 16591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16601da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the NFS server support as a module, choose M here: the 16611da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called nfsd. If unsure, say N. 16621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1663a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFSD_V2_ACL 1664a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher bool 1665a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFSD 1666a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 16671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD_V3 16681da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Provide NFSv3 server support" 16691da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFSD 16701da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16711da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you would like to include the NFSv3 server as well as the NFSv2 16721da177e4SLinus Torvalds server, say Y here. If unsure, say Y. 16731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1674a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFSD_V3_ACL 1675a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher bool "Provide server support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension" 1676a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFSD_V3 1677a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher help 1678a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX 1679a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher Access Control Lists on exported file systems. NFS clients should 1680a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher be compiled with the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the 1681a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL option. If unsure, say N. 1682a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 16831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD_V4 16841da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Provide NFSv4 server support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 16851da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFSD_V3 && EXPERIMENTAL 16861da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16871da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you would like to include the NFSv4 server as well as the NFSv2 16881da177e4SLinus Torvalds and NFSv3 servers, say Y here. This feature is experimental, and 16891da177e4SLinus Torvalds should only be used if you are interested in helping to test NFSv4. 16901da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 16911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD_TCP 16931da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Provide NFS server over TCP support" 16941da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFSD 16951da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16961da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16971da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want your NFS server to support TCP connections, say Y here. 16981da177e4SLinus Torvalds TCP connections usually perform better than the default UDP when 16991da177e4SLinus Torvalds the network is lossy or congested. If unsure, say Y. 17001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ROOT_NFS 17021da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Root file system on NFS" 17031da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP 17041da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17051da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the 17061da177e4SLinus Torvalds one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the 17071da177e4SLinus Torvalds net via NFS (presumably because your box doesn't have a hard disk), 17081da177e4SLinus Torvalds say Y. Read <file:Documentation/nfsroot.txt> for details. It is 17091da177e4SLinus Torvalds likely that in this case, you also want to say Y to "Kernel level IP 17101da177e4SLinus Torvalds autoconfiguration" so that your box can discover its network address 17111da177e4SLinus Torvalds at boot time. 17121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Most people say N here. 17141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCKD 17161da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 17171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCKD_V4 17191da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 17201da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFSD_V3 || NFS_V3 17211da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 17221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPORTFS 17241da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 17251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1726a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFS_ACL_SUPPORT 1727a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher tristate 1728a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 1729a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 1730a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFS_COMMON 1731a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher bool 1732a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFSD || NFS_FS 1733a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher default y 1734a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 17351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNRPC 17361da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 17371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNRPC_GSS 17391da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 17401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 174100a6e7bbSChuck Leverconfig SUNRPC_BIND34 174200a6e7bbSChuck Lever bool "Support for rpcbind versions 3 & 4 (EXPERIMENTAL)" 174300a6e7bbSChuck Lever depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL 174400a6e7bbSChuck Lever help 174500a6e7bbSChuck Lever Provides kernel support for querying rpcbind servers via versions 3 174600a6e7bbSChuck Lever and 4 of the rpcbind protocol. The kernel automatically falls back 174700a6e7bbSChuck Lever to version 2 if a remote rpcbind service does not support versions 174800a6e7bbSChuck Lever 3 or 4. 174900a6e7bbSChuck Lever 175000a6e7bbSChuck Lever If unsure, say N to get traditional behavior (version 2 rpcbind 175100a6e7bbSChuck Lever requests only). 175200a6e7bbSChuck Lever 17531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 17541da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)" 17551da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL 17561da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC_GSS 17571da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO 17581da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_MD5 17591da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_DES 1760bcbaecbbSPatrick McHardy select CRYPTO_CBC 17611da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17621da177e4SLinus Torvalds Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api 17631da177e4SLinus Torvalds mechanism based on Kerberos V5. This is required for 17641da177e4SLinus Torvalds NFSv4. 17651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17661da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on 17671da177e4SLinus Torvalds http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ 17681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17691da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 17701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3 17721da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Secure RPC: SPKM3 mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)" 17731da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL 17741da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC_GSS 17751da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO 17761da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_MD5 17771da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_DES 1778df6db302SJ. Bruce Fields select CRYPTO_CAST5 1779bcbaecbbSPatrick McHardy select CRYPTO_CBC 17801da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17811da177e4SLinus Torvalds Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api 17821da177e4SLinus Torvalds mechanism based on the SPKM3 public-key mechanism. 17831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17841da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on 17851da177e4SLinus Torvalds http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ 17861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17871da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 17881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SMB_FS 17901da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SMB file system support (to mount Windows shares etc.)" 17911da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 17921da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 17931da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17941da177e4SLinus Torvalds SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Windows for Workgroups 17951da177e4SLinus Torvalds (WfW), Windows 95/98, Windows NT and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share 17961da177e4SLinus Torvalds files and printers over local networks. Saying Y here allows you to 17971da177e4SLinus Torvalds mount their file systems (often called "shares" in this context) and 17981da177e4SLinus Torvalds access them just like any other Unix directory. Currently, this 17991da177e4SLinus Torvalds works only if the Windows machines use TCP/IP as the underlying 18001da177e4SLinus Torvalds transport protocol, and not NetBEUI. For details, read 18011da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt> and the SMB-HOWTO, 18021da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 18031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18041da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: if you just want your box to act as an SMB *server* and make 18051da177e4SLinus Torvalds files and printing services available to Windows clients (which need 18061da177e4SLinus Torvalds to have a TCP/IP stack), you don't need to say Y here; you can use 18071da177e4SLinus Torvalds the program SAMBA (available from <ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/>) 18081da177e4SLinus Torvalds for that. 18091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18101da177e4SLinus Torvalds General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and 18111da177e4SLinus Torvalds Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>. 18121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18131da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here: the module will 18141da177e4SLinus Torvalds be called smbfs. Most people say N, however. 18151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SMB_NLS_DEFAULT 18171da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use a default NLS" 18181da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SMB_FS 18191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18201da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this will make smbfs use nls translations by default. You 18211da177e4SLinus Torvalds need to specify the local charset (CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT) in the nls 18221da177e4SLinus Torvalds settings and you need to give the default nls for the SMB server as 18231da177e4SLinus Torvalds CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE. 18241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18251da177e4SLinus Torvalds The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount 18261da177e4SLinus Torvalds supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters. 18271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18281da177e4SLinus Torvalds smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this. 18291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SMB_NLS_REMOTE 18311da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Default Remote NLS Option" 18321da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SMB_NLS_DEFAULT 18331da177e4SLinus Torvalds default "cp437" 18341da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18351da177e4SLinus Torvalds This setting allows you to specify a default value for which 18361da177e4SLinus Torvalds codepage the server uses. If this field is left blank no 18371da177e4SLinus Torvalds translations will be done by default. The local codepage/charset 18381da177e4SLinus Torvalds default to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT. 18391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18401da177e4SLinus Torvalds The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount 18411da177e4SLinus Torvalds supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters. 18421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18431da177e4SLinus Torvalds smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this. 18441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS 18461da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem for Samba, Window and other CIFS compliant servers)" 18471da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 18481da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 18491da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18501da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System 18511da177e4SLinus Torvalds (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block 18521da177e4SLinus Torvalds (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early 18531da177e4SLinus Torvalds PC operating systems. The CIFS protocol is fully supported by 18541da177e4SLinus Torvalds file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4 18551da177e4SLinus Torvalds and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS 1856ec58ef03SSteve French server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited 18578af18971SSteve French support for OS/2 and Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well. 18581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18591da177e4SLinus Torvalds The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced 18601da177e4SLinus Torvalds network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers, 18611da177e4SLinus Torvalds including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user 18621da177e4SLinus Torvalds session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional 18638af18971SSteve French packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements. 18648af18971SSteve French If you need to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y. 18651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS_STATS 18671da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "CIFS statistics" 18681da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on CIFS 18691da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18701da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share 18711da177e4SLinus Torvalds mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats 18721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1873ec58ef03SSteve Frenchconfig CIFS_STATS2 18743979877eSSteve French bool "Extended statistics" 1875ec58ef03SSteve French depends on CIFS_STATS 1876ec58ef03SSteve French help 1877ec58ef03SSteve French Enabling this option will allow more detailed statistics on SMB 1878ec58ef03SSteve French request timing to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData and also 1879ec58ef03SSteve French allow optional logging of slow responses to dmesg (depending on the 1880ec58ef03SSteve French value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI, see fs/cifs/README for more details). 1881ec58ef03SSteve French These additional statistics may have a minor effect on performance 1882ec58ef03SSteve French and memory utilization. 1883ec58ef03SSteve French 1884ec58ef03SSteve French Unless you are a developer or are doing network performance analysis 1885ec58ef03SSteve French or tuning, say N. 1886ec58ef03SSteve French 18873979877eSSteve Frenchconfig CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH 18883979877eSSteve French bool "Support legacy servers which use weaker LANMAN security" 18893979877eSSteve French depends on CIFS 18903979877eSSteve French help 18913979877eSSteve French Modern CIFS servers including Samba and most Windows versions 18923979877eSSteve French (since 1997) support stronger NTLM (and even NTLMv2 and Kerberos) 18933979877eSSteve French security mechanisms. These hash the password more securely 18943979877eSSteve French than the mechanisms used in the older LANMAN version of the 18953979877eSSteve French SMB protocol needed to establish sessions with old SMB servers. 18963979877eSSteve French 18973979877eSSteve French Enabling this option allows the cifs module to mount to older 18983979877eSSteve French LANMAN based servers such as OS/2 and Windows 95, but such 18993979877eSSteve French mounts may be less secure than mounts using NTLM or more recent 19003979877eSSteve French security mechanisms if you are on a public network. Unless you 19013979877eSSteve French have a need to access old SMB servers (and are on a private 19023979877eSSteve French network) you probably want to say N. Even if this support 19033979877eSSteve French is enabled in the kernel build, they will not be used 19043979877eSSteve French automatically. At runtime LANMAN mounts are disabled but 19053979877eSSteve French can be set to required (or optional) either in 19063979877eSSteve French /proc/fs/cifs (see fs/cifs/README for more detail) or via an 19073979877eSSteve French option on the mount command. This support is disabled by 19083979877eSSteve French default in order to reduce the possibility of a downgrade 19093979877eSSteve French attack. 19103979877eSSteve French 19113979877eSSteve French If unsure, say N. 19123979877eSSteve French 19131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS_XATTR 1914ec58ef03SSteve French bool "CIFS extended attributes" 19151da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on CIFS 19161da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19171da177e4SLinus Torvalds Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 19181da177e4SLinus Torvalds the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 19191da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). CIFS maps the name of 19201da177e4SLinus Torvalds extended attributes beginning with the user namespace prefix 19211da177e4SLinus Torvalds to SMB/CIFS EAs. EAs are stored on Windows servers without the 19221da177e4SLinus Torvalds user namespace prefix, but their names are seen by Linux cifs clients 19231da177e4SLinus Torvalds prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace 19241da177e4SLinus Torvalds (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at 19251da177e4SLinus Torvalds this time. 19261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19271da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 19281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS_POSIX 1930ec58ef03SSteve French bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions" 19311da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on CIFS_XATTR 19321da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19331da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to 19341da177e4SLinus Torvalds negotiate a newer dialect with servers, such as Samba 3.0.5 19351da177e4SLinus Torvalds or later, that optionally can handle more POSIX like (rather 19361da177e4SLinus Torvalds than Windows like) file behavior. It also enables 19371da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for POSIX ACLs (getfacl and setfacl) to servers 19381da177e4SLinus Torvalds (such as Samba 3.10 and later) which can negotiate 19391da177e4SLinus Torvalds CIFS POSIX ACL support. If unsure, say N. 19401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19413979877eSSteve Frenchconfig CIFS_DEBUG2 19423856a9d4SSteve French bool "Enable additional CIFS debugging routines" 19438ba10ab1SSteve French depends on CIFS 19443979877eSSteve French help 19453979877eSSteve French Enabling this option adds a few more debugging routines 19463979877eSSteve French to the cifs code which slightly increases the size of 19473979877eSSteve French the cifs module and can cause additional logging of debug 19483979877eSSteve French messages in some error paths, slowing performance. This 19493979877eSSteve French option can be turned off unless you are debugging 19503979877eSSteve French cifs problems. If unsure, say N. 19513979877eSSteve French 19521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL 19531da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1954cb9dbff9SSteve French depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL 19551da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1956ec58ef03SSteve French Enables cifs features under testing. These features are 19578af18971SSteve French experimental and currently include DFS support and directory 19588af18971SSteve French change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY), as well as the upcall 19598af18971SSteve French mechanism which will be used for Kerberos session negotiation 19608af18971SSteve French and uid remapping. Some of these features also may depend on 19618af18971SSteve French setting a value of 1 to the pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental 19628af18971SSteve French (which is disabled by default). See the file fs/cifs/README 19638af18971SSteve French for more details. If unsure, say N. 19641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1965a2653ebaSSteve Frenchconfig CIFS_UPCALL 19663979877eSSteve French bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1967a2653ebaSSteve French depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL 1968230a0395SAndrew Morton depends on CONNECTOR 1969a2653ebaSSteve French help 1970a2653ebaSSteve French Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which will be used to contact 1971a2653ebaSSteve French userspace helper utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged Kerberos 1972a2653ebaSSteve French tickets which are needed to mount to certain secure servers 19731b397f4fSSteve French (for which more secure Kerberos authentication is required). If 19741b397f4fSSteve French unsure, say N. 1975a2653ebaSSteve French 19761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NCP_FS 19771da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)" 19781da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IPX!=n || INET 19791da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19801da177e4SLinus Torvalds NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) is a protocol that runs over IPX and is 19811da177e4SLinus Torvalds used by Novell NetWare clients to talk to file servers. It is to 19821da177e4SLinus Torvalds IPX what NFS is to TCP/IP, if that helps. Saying Y here allows you 19831da177e4SLinus Torvalds to mount NetWare file server volumes and to access them just like 19841da177e4SLinus Torvalds any other Unix directory. For details, please read the file 19851da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/ncpfs.txt> in the kernel source and 19861da177e4SLinus Torvalds the IPX-HOWTO from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 19871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19881da177e4SLinus Torvalds You do not have to say Y here if you want your Linux box to act as a 19891da177e4SLinus Torvalds file *server* for Novell NetWare clients. 19901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19911da177e4SLinus Torvalds General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and 19921da177e4SLinus Torvalds Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>. 19931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19941da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 19951da177e4SLinus Torvalds ncpfs. Say N unless you are connected to a Novell network. 19961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19971da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/ncpfs/Kconfig" 19981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CODA_FS 20001da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)" 20011da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 20021da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20031da177e4SLinus Torvalds Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it 20041da177e4SLinus Torvalds enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them 20051da177e4SLinus Torvalds with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard 20061da177e4SLinus Torvalds disk. Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for 20071da177e4SLinus Torvalds disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server 20081da177e4SLinus Torvalds replication, security model for authentication and encryption, 20091da177e4SLinus Torvalds persistent client caches and write back caching. 20101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20111da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda 20121da177e4SLinus Torvalds *client*. You will need user level code as well, both for the 20131da177e4SLinus Torvalds client and server. Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need 20141da177e4SLinus Torvalds no kernel support. Please read 20151da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.txt> and check out the Coda 20161da177e4SLinus Torvalds home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>. 20171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20181da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the 20191da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called coda. 20201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CODA_FS_OLD_API 20221da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use 96-bit Coda file identifiers" 20231da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on CODA_FS 20241da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20251da177e4SLinus Torvalds A new kernel-userspace API had to be introduced for Coda v6.0 20261da177e4SLinus Torvalds to support larger 128-bit file identifiers as needed by the 20271da177e4SLinus Torvalds new realms implementation. 20281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20291da177e4SLinus Torvalds However this new API is not backward compatible with older 20301da177e4SLinus Torvalds clients. If you really need to run the old Coda userspace 20311da177e4SLinus Torvalds cache manager then say Y. 20321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20331da177e4SLinus Torvalds For most cases you probably want to say N. 20341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AFS_FS 203664aaa4f8SDavid Howells tristate "Andrew File System support (AFS) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 20371da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL 203808e0e7c8SDavid Howells select AF_RXRPC 20391da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20401da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will get an experimental Andrew File System 20411da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver. It currently only supports unsecured read-only AFS access. 20421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2043cc2e2767SMatt LaPlante See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information. 20441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20451da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 20461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 204708e0e7c8SDavid Howellsconfig AFS_DEBUG 204808e0e7c8SDavid Howells bool "AFS dynamic debugging" 204908e0e7c8SDavid Howells depends on AFS_FS 205008e0e7c8SDavid Howells help 205108e0e7c8SDavid Howells Say Y here to make runtime controllable debugging messages appear. 205208e0e7c8SDavid Howells 205308e0e7c8SDavid Howells See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information. 205408e0e7c8SDavid Howells 205508e0e7c8SDavid Howells If unsure, say N. 205608e0e7c8SDavid Howells 205793fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergenconfig 9P_FS 205893fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen tristate "Plan 9 Resource Sharing Support (9P2000) (Experimental)" 205993fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL 206093fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen help 206193fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen If you say Y here, you will get experimental support for 206293fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen Plan 9 resource sharing via the 9P2000 protocol. 206393fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen 206493fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen See <http://v9fs.sf.net> for more information. 206593fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen 206693fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen If unsure, say N. 206793fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen 20681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 20691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20709361401eSDavid Howellsif BLOCK 20711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Partition Types" 20721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20731da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/partitions/Kconfig" 20741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 20769361401eSDavid Howellsendif 20771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20781da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/nls/Kconfig" 2079e7fd4179SDavid Teiglandsource "fs/dlm/Kconfig" 20801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 20821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2083