11da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 21da177e4SLinus Torvalds# File system configuration 31da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 41da177e4SLinus Torvalds 51da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "File systems" 61da177e4SLinus Torvalds 79361401eSDavid Howellsif BLOCK 89361401eSDavid Howells 96da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyansource "fs/ext2/Kconfig" 106da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyansource "fs/ext3/Kconfig" 116da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyansource "fs/ext4/Kconfig" 126d79125bSCarsten Otte 136d79125bSCarsten Otteconfig FS_XIP 146d79125bSCarsten Otte# execute in place 156d79125bSCarsten Otte bool 166d79125bSCarsten Otte depends on EXT2_FS_XIP 176d79125bSCarsten Otte default y 186d79125bSCarsten Otte 196da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyansource "fs/jbd/Kconfig" 206da0b38fSAlexey Dobriyansource "fs/jbd2/Kconfig" 21dab291afSMingming Cao 221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FS_MBCACHE 2302ea2104SMingming Cao# Meta block cache for Extended Attributes (ext2/ext3/ext4) 241da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 252c512397SAdrian Bunk default y if EXT2_FS=y && EXT2_FS_XATTR 262c512397SAdrian Bunk default y if EXT3_FS=y && EXT3_FS_XATTR 272c512397SAdrian Bunk default y if EXT4_FS=y && EXT4_FS_XATTR 282c512397SAdrian Bunk default m if EXT2_FS_XATTR || EXT3_FS_XATTR || EXT4_FS_XATTR 291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30b16ecfe2SAlexey Dobriyansource "fs/reiserfs/Kconfig" 31f5c77969SAlexey Dobriyansource "fs/jfs/Kconfig" 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FS_POSIX_ACL 3489206955SChuck Lever# Posix ACL utility routines (for now, only ext2/ext3/jfs/reiserfs/nfs4) 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds# NOTE: you can implement Posix ACLs without these helpers (XFS does). 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Never use this symbol for ifdefs. 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 40b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher default n 411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 42bfcd17a6SThomas Petazzoniconfig FILE_LOCKING 43bfcd17a6SThomas Petazzoni bool "Enable POSIX file locking API" if EMBEDDED 44bfcd17a6SThomas Petazzoni default y 45bfcd17a6SThomas Petazzoni help 46bfcd17a6SThomas Petazzoni This option enables standard file locking support, required 47bfcd17a6SThomas Petazzoni for filesystems like NFS and for the flock() system 48bfcd17a6SThomas Petazzoni call. Disabling this option saves about 11k. 49bfcd17a6SThomas Petazzoni 501da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/xfs/Kconfig" 51f7825dcfSDavid Teiglandsource "fs/gfs2/Kconfig" 522fe4371dSAlexey Dobriyansource "fs/ocfs2/Kconfig" 53335debeeSAlexey Dobriyansource "fs/btrfs/Kconfig" 5460582d1eSChris Mason 5525fad945SRandy Dunlapendif # BLOCK 5625fad945SRandy Dunlap 57272eb014SEric Parissource "fs/notify/Kconfig" 582d9048e2SAmy Griffis 591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QUOTA 601da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Quota support" 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to set per user limits for disk 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works for the 641da177e4SLinus Torvalds ext2, ext3, and reiserfs file system. ext3 also supports journalled 651da177e4SLinus Torvalds quotas for which you don't need to run quotacheck(8) after an unclean 66919532a5SAdrian Bunk shutdown. 67919532a5SAdrian Bunk For further details, read the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or the documentation provided 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the quota tools. Probably the quota support is only useful for 701da177e4SLinus Torvalds multi user systems. If unsure, say N. 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 728e893469SJan Karaconfig QUOTA_NETLINK_INTERFACE 738e893469SJan Kara bool "Report quota messages through netlink interface" 748e893469SJan Kara depends on QUOTA && NET 758e893469SJan Kara help 768e893469SJan Kara If you say Y here, quota warnings (about exceeding softlimit, reaching 778e893469SJan Kara hardlimit, etc.) will be reported through netlink interface. If unsure, 788e893469SJan Kara say Y. 798e893469SJan Kara 808e893469SJan Karaconfig PRINT_QUOTA_WARNING 818e893469SJan Kara bool "Print quota warnings to console (OBSOLETE)" 828e893469SJan Kara depends on QUOTA 838e893469SJan Kara default y 848e893469SJan Kara help 858e893469SJan Kara If you say Y here, quota warnings (about exceeding softlimit, reaching 868e893469SJan Kara hardlimit, etc.) will be printed to the process' controlling terminal. 878e893469SJan Kara Note that this behavior is currently deprecated and may go away in 888e893469SJan Kara future. Please use notification via netlink socket instead. 898e893469SJan Kara 901ccd14b9SJan Kara# Generic support for tree structured quota files. Seleted when needed. 911ccd14b9SJan Karaconfig QUOTA_TREE 921ccd14b9SJan Kara tristate 931ccd14b9SJan Kara 941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QFMT_V1 951da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Old quota format support" 961da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on QUOTA 971da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 981da177e4SLinus Torvalds This quota format was (is) used by kernels earlier than 2.4.22. If 991da177e4SLinus Torvalds you have quota working and you don't want to convert to new quota 1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds format say Y here. 1011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QFMT_V2 1031da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Quota format v2 support" 1041da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on QUOTA 1051ccd14b9SJan Kara select QUOTA_TREE 1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds This quota format allows using quotas with 32-bit UIDs/GIDs. If you 108919532a5SAdrian Bunk need this functionality say Y here. 1091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QUOTACTL 1111da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 1121da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA 1131da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11590ffd467SAlexey Dobriyansource "fs/autofs/Kconfig" 11690ffd467SAlexey Dobriyansource "fs/autofs4/Kconfig" 1173ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyansource "fs/fuse/Kconfig" 11804578f17SMiklos Szeredi 119f2fbc6c2SRandy Dunlapconfig GENERIC_ACL 120f2fbc6c2SRandy Dunlap bool 121f2fbc6c2SRandy Dunlap select FS_POSIX_ACL 122f2fbc6c2SRandy Dunlap 1239361401eSDavid Howellsif BLOCK 1241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems" 1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 126*ddfaccd9SAlexey Dobriyansource "fs/isofs/Kconfig" 127*ddfaccd9SAlexey Dobriyansource "fs/udf/Kconfig" 1281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 13025fad945SRandy Dunlapendif # BLOCK 1311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1329361401eSDavid Howellsif BLOCK 1331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems" 1341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FAT_FS 1361da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 1371da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 1381da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1391da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to use one of the FAT-based file systems (the MS-DOS and 1401da177e4SLinus Torvalds VFAT (Windows 95) file systems), then you must say Y or M here 1411da177e4SLinus Torvalds to include FAT support. You will then be able to mount partitions or 1421da177e4SLinus Torvalds diskettes with FAT-based file systems and transparently access the 1431da177e4SLinus Torvalds files on them, i.e. MSDOS files will look and behave just like all 1441da177e4SLinus Torvalds other Unix files. 1451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1461da177e4SLinus Torvalds This FAT support is not a file system in itself, it only provides 1471da177e4SLinus Torvalds the foundation for the other file systems. You will have to say Y or 1481da177e4SLinus Torvalds M to at least one of "MSDOS fs support" or "VFAT fs support" in 1491da177e4SLinus Torvalds order to make use of it. 1501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1511da177e4SLinus Torvalds Another way to read and write MSDOS floppies and hard drive 1521da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions from within Linux (but not transparently) is with the 1531da177e4SLinus Torvalds mtools ("man mtools") program suite. You don't need to say Y here in 1541da177e4SLinus Torvalds order to do that. 1551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1561da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you need to move large files on floppies between a DOS and a 1571da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux box, say Y here, mount the floppy under Linux with an MSDOS 1581da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program 1591da177e4SLinus Torvalds available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar"). 1601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1611da177e4SLinus Torvalds The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure, 1621da177e4SLinus Torvalds say Y. 1631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1641da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 1651da177e4SLinus Torvalds fat. Note that if you compile the FAT support as a module, you 1661da177e4SLinus Torvalds cannot compile any of the FAT-based file systems into the kernel 1671da177e4SLinus Torvalds -- they will have to be modules as well. 1681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MSDOS_FS 1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "MSDOS fs support" 1711da177e4SLinus Torvalds select FAT_FS 1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1731da177e4SLinus Torvalds This allows you to mount MSDOS partitions of your hard drive (unless 1741da177e4SLinus Torvalds they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under 1751da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the 1761da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from 1771da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in 1781da177e4SLinus Torvalds <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you 1791da177e4SLinus Torvalds intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y 1801da177e4SLinus Torvalds here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes 1811da177e4SLinus Torvalds transparent, i.e. the MSDOS files look and behave just like all 1821da177e4SLinus Torvalds other Unix files. 1831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1841da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have Windows 95 or Windows NT installed on your MSDOS 1851da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions, you should use the VFAT file system (say Y to "VFAT fs 1861da177e4SLinus Torvalds support" below), or you will not be able to see the long filenames 1871da177e4SLinus Torvalds generated by Windows 95 / Windows NT. 1881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1891da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will enlarge your kernel by about 7 KB. If unsure, 1901da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer Y. This will only work if you said Y to "DOS FAT fs support" 1911da177e4SLinus Torvalds as well. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will 1921da177e4SLinus Torvalds be called msdos. 1931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig VFAT_FS 1951da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "VFAT (Windows-95) fs support" 1961da177e4SLinus Torvalds select FAT_FS 1971da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option provides support for normal Windows file systems with 1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds long filenames. That includes non-compressed FAT-based file systems 2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds used by Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and the Unix 2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs from the mtools package. 2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds The VFAT support enlarges your kernel by about 10 KB and it only 2041da177e4SLinus Torvalds works if you said Y to the "DOS FAT fs support" above. Please read 2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for details. If 2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say Y. 2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds vfat. 2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds int "Default codepage for FAT" 2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MSDOS_FS || VFAT_FS 2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 437 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option should be set to the codepage of your FAT filesystems. 2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can be overridden with the "codepage" mount option. 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information. 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Default iocharset for FAT" 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on VFAT_FS 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds default "iso8859-1" 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds Set this to the default input/output character set you'd 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds like FAT to use. It should probably match the character set 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds that most of your FAT filesystems use, and can be overridden 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the "iocharset" mount option for FAT filesystems. 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that "utf8" is not recommended for FAT filesystems. 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here. 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information. 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NTFS_FS 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NTFS file system support" 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003. 2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y or M here enables read support. There is partial, but 2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds safe, write support available. For write support you must also 2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds say Y to "NTFS write support" below. 2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds There are also a number of user-space tools available, called 2441da177e4SLinus Torvalds ntfsprogs. These include ntfsundelete and ntfsresize, that work 2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds without NTFS support enabled in the kernel. 2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a rewrite from scratch of Linux NTFS support and replaced 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds the old NTFS code starting with Linux 2.5.11. A backport to 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Linux 2.4 kernel series is separately available as a patch 2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds from the project web site. 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds For more information see <file:Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt> 253337e2ab5SJess Guerrero and <http://www.linux-ntfs.org/>. 2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called ntfs. 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not using Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 in addition to 2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux on your computer it is safe to say N. 2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NTFS_DEBUG 2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "NTFS debugging support" 2631da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NTFS_FS 2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2651da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are experiencing any problems with the NTFS file system, say 2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds Y here. This will result in additional consistency checks to be 2671da177e4SLinus Torvalds performed by the driver as well as additional debugging messages to 2681da177e4SLinus Torvalds be written to the system log. Note that debugging messages are 2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds disabled by default. To enable them, supply the option debug_msgs=1 2701da177e4SLinus Torvalds at the kernel command line when booting the kernel or as an option 2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds to insmod when loading the ntfs module. Once the driver is active, 2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds you can enable debugging messages by doing (as root): 2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug 2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds Replacing the "1" with "0" would disable debug messages. 2751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you leave debugging messages disabled, this results in little 2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds overhead, but enabling debug messages results in very significant 2781da177e4SLinus Torvalds slowdown of the system. 2791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2801da177e4SLinus Torvalds When reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of 2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds debugging messages while the misbehaviour was occurring. 2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NTFS_RW 2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "NTFS write support" 2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NTFS_FS 2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver. 2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or 2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds be written to. 2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have 2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds so far not received a single report where the driver would have 2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use. 2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from 3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS 3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997), 3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds is not safe. 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is currently useful with TopologiLinux. TopologiLinux is run 3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your 3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds hard disk. Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not 3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds need its own partition. For more information see 3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/> 3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is perfectly safe to say N here. 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 31325fad945SRandy Dunlapendif # BLOCK 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Pseudo filesystems" 3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3176eedf8d3SAlexey Dobriyansource "fs/proc/Kconfig" 318b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 3191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSFS 3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "sysfs file system support" if EMBEDDED 3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3231da177e4SLinus Torvalds The sysfs filesystem is a virtual filesystem that the kernel uses to 3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds export internal kernel objects, their attributes, and their 3251da177e4SLinus Torvalds relationships to one another. 3261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds Users can use sysfs to ascertain useful information about the running 3281da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel, such as the devices the kernel has discovered on each bus and 3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds which driver each is bound to. sysfs can also be used to tune devices 3301da177e4SLinus Torvalds and other kernel subsystems. 3311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3321da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some system agents rely on the information in sysfs to operate. 3331da177e4SLinus Torvalds /sbin/hotplug uses device and object attributes in sysfs to assist in 33403a67a46SJan Engelhardt delegating policy decisions, like persistently naming devices. 3351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3361da177e4SLinus Torvalds sysfs is currently used by the block subsystem to mount the root 3371da177e4SLinus Torvalds partition. If sysfs is disabled you must specify the boot device on 3381da177e4SLinus Torvalds the kernel boot command line via its major and minor numbers. For 3391da177e4SLinus Torvalds example, "root=03:01" for /dev/hda1. 3401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3411da177e4SLinus Torvalds Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space. 3421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TMPFS 3441da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)" 3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory. 3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3481da177e4SLinus Torvalds Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be 3491da177e4SLinus Torvalds created on your hard drive. The files live in memory and swap 3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds space. If you unmount a tmpfs instance, everything stored therein is 3511da177e4SLinus Torvalds lost. 3521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> for details. 3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 35539f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacherconfig TMPFS_POSIX_ACL 35639f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher bool "Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists" 35739f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher depends on TMPFS 35839f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher select GENERIC_ACL 35939f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher help 36039f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 36139f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 36239f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher 36339f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for 36439f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 36539f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher 36639f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N. 36739f0247dSAndreas Gruenbacher 3681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HUGETLBFS 3691da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "HugeTLB file system support" 37053492b1dSGerald Schaefer depends on X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || (SUPERH && MMU) || \ 37153492b1dSGerald Schaefer (S390 && 64BIT) || BROKEN 372dda27d1aSArthur Othieno help 373dda27d1aSArthur Othieno hugetlbfs is a filesystem backing for HugeTLB pages, based on 374dda27d1aSArthur Othieno ramfs. For architectures that support it, say Y here and read 375dda27d1aSArthur Othieno <file:Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt> for details. 376dda27d1aSArthur Othieno 377dda27d1aSArthur Othieno If unsure, say N. 3781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HUGETLB_PAGE 3801da177e4SLinus Torvalds def_bool HUGETLBFS 3811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3827063fbf2SJoel Beckerconfig CONFIGFS_FS 38302ac0499SJoel Becker tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem" 38402ac0499SJoel Becker depends on SYSFS 3857063fbf2SJoel Becker help 3867063fbf2SJoel Becker configfs is a ram-based filesystem that provides the converse 3877063fbf2SJoel Becker of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based 3887063fbf2SJoel Becker view of kernel objects, configfs is a filesystem-based manager 3897063fbf2SJoel Becker of kernel objects, or config_items. 3907063fbf2SJoel Becker 3917063fbf2SJoel Becker Both sysfs and configfs can and should exist together on the 3927063fbf2SJoel Becker same system. One is not a replacement for the other. 3937063fbf2SJoel Becker 3941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 3951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 39667ec7d3aSRandy Dunlapmenuconfig MISC_FILESYSTEMS 39767ec7d3aSRandy Dunlap bool "Miscellaneous filesystems" 39867ec7d3aSRandy Dunlap default y 39967ec7d3aSRandy Dunlap ---help--- 40067ec7d3aSRandy Dunlap Say Y here to get to see options for various miscellaneous 40167ec7d3aSRandy Dunlap filesystems, such as filesystems that came from other 40267ec7d3aSRandy Dunlap operating systems. 40367ec7d3aSRandy Dunlap 40467ec7d3aSRandy Dunlap This option alone does not add any kernel code. 40567ec7d3aSRandy Dunlap 40667ec7d3aSRandy Dunlap If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and 40767ec7d3aSRandy Dunlap disabled; if unsure, say Y here. 40867ec7d3aSRandy Dunlap 40967ec7d3aSRandy Dunlapif MISC_FILESYSTEMS 4101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ADFS_FS 4121da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "ADFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 4139361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 4141da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4151da177e4SLinus Torvalds The Acorn Disc Filing System is the standard file system of the 4161da177e4SLinus Torvalds RiscOS operating system which runs on Acorn's ARM-based Risc PC 4171da177e4SLinus Torvalds systems and the Acorn Archimedes range of machines. If you say Y 4181da177e4SLinus Torvalds here, Linux will be able to read from ADFS partitions on hard drives 4191da177e4SLinus Torvalds and from ADFS-formatted floppy discs. If you also want to be able to 4201da177e4SLinus Torvalds write to those devices, say Y to "ADFS write support" below. 4211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4221da177e4SLinus Torvalds The ADFS partition should be the first partition (i.e., 4231da177e4SLinus Torvalds /dev/[hs]d?1) on each of your drives. Please read the file 4241da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt> for further details. 4251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4261da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be 4271da177e4SLinus Torvalds called adfs. 4281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4291da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 4301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ADFS_FS_RW 4321da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)" 4331da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ADFS_FS 4341da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4351da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to write to ADFS partitions on 4361da177e4SLinus Torvalds hard drives and ADFS-formatted floppy disks. This is experimental 4371da177e4SLinus Torvalds codes, so if you're unsure, say N. 4381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AFFS_FS 4401da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Amiga FFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 4419361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 4421da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4431da177e4SLinus Torvalds The Fast File System (FFS) is the common file system used on hard 4441da177e4SLinus Torvalds disks by Amiga(tm) systems since AmigaOS Version 1.3 (34.20). Say Y 4451da177e4SLinus Torvalds if you want to be able to read and write files from and to an Amiga 4461da177e4SLinus Torvalds FFS partition on your hard drive. Amiga floppies however cannot be 4471da177e4SLinus Torvalds read with this driver due to an incompatibility of the floppy 4481da177e4SLinus Torvalds controller used in an Amiga and the standard floppy controller in 4491da177e4SLinus Torvalds PCs and workstations. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt> 4501da177e4SLinus Torvalds and <file:fs/affs/Changes>. 4511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4521da177e4SLinus Torvalds With this driver you can also mount disk files used by Bernd 4531da177e4SLinus Torvalds Schmidt's Un*X Amiga Emulator 4541da177e4SLinus Torvalds (<http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/>). 4551da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to do this, you will also need to say Y or M to "Loop 4561da177e4SLinus Torvalds device support", above. 4571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4581da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 4591da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called affs. If unsure, say N. 4601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 461237fead6SMichael Halcrowconfig ECRYPT_FS 462237fead6SMichael Halcrow tristate "eCrypt filesystem layer support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 46388b4a07eSMichael Halcrow depends on EXPERIMENTAL && KEYS && CRYPTO && NET 464237fead6SMichael Halcrow help 465237fead6SMichael Halcrow Encrypted filesystem that operates on the VFS layer. See 466e403149cSDirk Hohndel <file:Documentation/filesystems/ecryptfs.txt> to learn more about 467237fead6SMichael Halcrow eCryptfs. Userspace components are required and can be 468237fead6SMichael Halcrow obtained from <http://ecryptfs.sf.net>. 469237fead6SMichael Halcrow 470237fead6SMichael Halcrow To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 471237fead6SMichael Halcrow module will be called ecryptfs. 472237fead6SMichael Halcrow 4731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HFS_FS 4741da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 4759361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 476878129a3SLennert Buytenhek select NLS 4771da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4781da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to mount Macintosh-formatted 4791da177e4SLinus Torvalds floppy disks and hard drive partitions with full read-write access. 480889c94a1SJohann Felix Soden Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/hfs.txt> to learn about 481889c94a1SJohann Felix Soden the available mount options. 4821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4831da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 4841da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called hfs. 4851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HFSPLUS_FS 4871da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Apple Extended HFS file system support" 4889361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 4891da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 4901da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS_UTF8 4911da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4921da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to mount extended format 4931da177e4SLinus Torvalds Macintosh-formatted hard drive partitions with full read-write access. 4941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4951da177e4SLinus Torvalds This file system is often called HFS+ and was introduced with 4961da177e4SLinus Torvalds MacOS 8. It includes all Mac specific filesystem data such as 4971da177e4SLinus Torvalds data forks and creator codes, but it also has several UNIX 4981da177e4SLinus Torvalds style features such as file ownership and permissions. 4991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BEFS_FS 5011da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "BeOS file system (BeFS) support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 5029361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 5031da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 5041da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5051da177e4SLinus Torvalds The BeOS File System (BeFS) is the native file system of Be, Inc's 5061da177e4SLinus Torvalds BeOS. Notable features include support for arbitrary attributes 5073cb2fcccSMatt LaPlante on files and directories, and database-like indices on selected 5081da177e4SLinus Torvalds attributes. (Also note that this driver doesn't make those features 5091da177e4SLinus Torvalds available at this time). It is a 64 bit filesystem, so it supports 51044c09201SMatt LaPlante extremely large volumes and files. 5111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5121da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you use this filesystem, you should also say Y to at least one 5131da177e4SLinus Torvalds of the NLS (native language support) options below. 5141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5151da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what this is about, say N. 5161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5171da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 5181da177e4SLinus Torvalds called befs. 5191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BEFS_DEBUG 5211da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Debug BeFS" 5221da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BEFS_FS 5231da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5241da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you can use the 'debug' mount option to enable 5251da177e4SLinus Torvalds debugging output from the driver. 5261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BFS_FS 5281da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 5299361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 5301da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5311da177e4SLinus Torvalds Boot File System (BFS) is a file system used under SCO UnixWare to 5321da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow the bootloader access to the kernel image and other important 5331da177e4SLinus Torvalds files during the boot process. It is usually mounted under /stand 5341da177e4SLinus Torvalds and corresponds to the slice marked as "STAND" in the UnixWare 5351da177e4SLinus Torvalds partition. You should say Y if you want to read or write the files 5361da177e4SLinus Torvalds on your /stand slice from within Linux. You then also need to say Y 5371da177e4SLinus Torvalds to "UnixWare slices support", below. More information about the BFS 5381da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system is contained in the file 5391da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/bfs.txt>. 5401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5411da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what this is about, say N. 5421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5431da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 5441da177e4SLinus Torvalds bfs. Note that the file system of your root partition (the one 5451da177e4SLinus Torvalds containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module. 5461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EFS_FS 5501da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "EFS file system support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 5519361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 5521da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5531da177e4SLinus Torvalds EFS is an older file system used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and hard 5541da177e4SLinus Torvalds disk partitions by SGI's IRIX operating system (IRIX 6.0 and newer 5551da177e4SLinus Torvalds uses the XFS file system for hard disk partitions however). 5561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5571da177e4SLinus Torvalds This implementation only offers read-only access. If you don't know 5581da177e4SLinus Torvalds what all this is about, it's safe to say N. For more information 5591da177e4SLinus Torvalds about EFS see its home page at <http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/>. 5601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5611da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the EFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the 5621da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called efs. 5631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 56431db6e9eSAlexey Dobriyansource "fs/jffs2/Kconfig" 5650d7eff87SArtem Bityutskiy# UBIFS File system configuration 5660d7eff87SArtem Bityutskiysource "fs/ubifs/Kconfig" 5670d7eff87SArtem Bityutskiy 5681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CRAMFS 5691da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)" 5709361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 5711da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_INFLATE 5721da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5731da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here includes support for CramFs (Compressed ROM File 5741da177e4SLinus Torvalds System). CramFs is designed to be a simple, small, and compressed 5751da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system for ROM based embedded systems. CramFs is read-only, 5761da177e4SLinus Torvalds limited to 256MB file systems (with 16MB files), and doesn't support 5771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16/32 bits uid/gid, hard links and timestamps. 5781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5791da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt> and 5801da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:fs/cramfs/README> for further information. 5811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5821da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 5831da177e4SLinus Torvalds cramfs. Note that the root file system (the one containing the 5841da177e4SLinus Torvalds directory /) cannot be compiled as a module. 5851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5861da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 5871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5886ab5c1caSPhillip Lougherconfig SQUASHFS 5896ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher tristate "SquashFS 4.0 - Squashed file system support" 5906ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher depends on BLOCK 5916ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher select ZLIB_INFLATE 5926ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher help 5936ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher Saying Y here includes support for SquashFS 4.0 (a Compressed 5946ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher Read-Only File System). Squashfs is a highly compressed read-only 5956ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher filesystem for Linux. It uses zlib compression to compress both 5966ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher files, inodes and directories. Inodes in the system are very small 5976ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher and all blocks are packed to minimise data overhead. Block sizes 5986ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher greater than 4K are supported up to a maximum of 1 Mbytes (default 5996ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher block size 128K). SquashFS 4.0 supports 64 bit filesystems and files 6006ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher (larger than 4GB), full uid/gid information, hard links and 6016ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher timestamps. 6026ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher 6036ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher Squashfs is intended for general read-only filesystem use, for 6046ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher archival use (i.e. in cases where a .tar.gz file may be used), and in 6056ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher embedded systems where low overhead is needed. Further information 6066ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher and tools are available from http://squashfs.sourceforge.net. 6076ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher 6086ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher If you want to compile this as a module ( = code which can be 6096ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want), 6106ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>. The module 6116ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher will be called squashfs. Note that the root file system (the one 6126ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module. 6136ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher 6146ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher If unsure, say N. 6156ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher 6166ab5c1caSPhillip Lougherconfig SQUASHFS_EMBEDDED 6176ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher 6186ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher bool "Additional option for memory-constrained systems" 6196ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher depends on SQUASHFS 6206ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher default n 6216ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher help 6226ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher Saying Y here allows you to specify cache size. 6236ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher 6246ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher If unsure, say N. 6256ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher 6266ab5c1caSPhillip Lougherconfig SQUASHFS_FRAGMENT_CACHE_SIZE 6276ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher int "Number of fragments cached" if SQUASHFS_EMBEDDED 6286ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher depends on SQUASHFS 6296ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher default "3" 6306ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher help 6316ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher By default SquashFS caches the last 3 fragments read from 6326ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher the filesystem. Increasing this amount may mean SquashFS 6336ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher has to re-read fragments less often from disk, at the expense 6346ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher of extra system memory. Decreasing this amount will mean 6356ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher SquashFS uses less memory at the expense of extra reads from disk. 6366ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher 6376ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher Note there must be at least one cached fragment. Anything 6386ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher much more than three will probably not make much difference. 6396ab5c1caSPhillip Lougher 6401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig VXFS_FS 6411da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "FreeVxFS file system support (VERITAS VxFS(TM) compatible)" 6429361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 6431da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6441da177e4SLinus Torvalds FreeVxFS is a file system driver that support the VERITAS VxFS(TM) 6451da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system format. VERITAS VxFS(TM) is the standard file system 6461da177e4SLinus Torvalds of SCO UnixWare (and possibly others) and optionally available 6471da177e4SLinus Torvalds for Sunsoft Solaris, HP-UX and many other operating systems. 6481da177e4SLinus Torvalds Currently only readonly access is supported. 6491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6501da177e4SLinus Torvalds NOTE: the file system type as used by mount(1), mount(2) and 6511da177e4SLinus Torvalds fstab(5) is 'vxfs' as it describes the file system format, not 6521da177e4SLinus Torvalds the actual driver. 6531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6541da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 6551da177e4SLinus Torvalds called freevxfs. If unsure, say N. 6561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 65725fad945SRandy Dunlapconfig MINIX_FS 65825fad945SRandy Dunlap tristate "Minix file system support" 65925fad945SRandy Dunlap depends on BLOCK 66025fad945SRandy Dunlap help 66125fad945SRandy Dunlap Minix is a simple operating system used in many classes about OS's. 66225fad945SRandy Dunlap The minix file system (method to organize files on a hard disk 66325fad945SRandy Dunlap partition or a floppy disk) was the original file system for Linux, 66425fad945SRandy Dunlap but has been superseded by the second extended file system ext2fs. 66525fad945SRandy Dunlap You don't want to use the minix file system on your hard disk 66625fad945SRandy Dunlap because of certain built-in restrictions, but it is sometimes found 66725fad945SRandy Dunlap on older Linux floppy disks. This option will enlarge your kernel 66825fad945SRandy Dunlap by about 28 KB. If unsure, say N. 66925fad945SRandy Dunlap 67025fad945SRandy Dunlap To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 67125fad945SRandy Dunlap module will be called minix. Note that the file system of your root 67225fad945SRandy Dunlap partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as 67325fad945SRandy Dunlap a module. 67425fad945SRandy Dunlap 67563ca8ce2SBob Copelandconfig OMFS_FS 67663ca8ce2SBob Copeland tristate "SonicBlue Optimized MPEG File System support" 67763ca8ce2SBob Copeland depends on BLOCK 67863ca8ce2SBob Copeland select CRC_ITU_T 67963ca8ce2SBob Copeland help 68063ca8ce2SBob Copeland This is the proprietary file system used by the Rio Karma music 68163ca8ce2SBob Copeland player and ReplayTV DVR. Despite the name, this filesystem is not 68263ca8ce2SBob Copeland more efficient than a standard FS for MPEG files, in fact likely 68363ca8ce2SBob Copeland the opposite is true. Say Y if you have either of these devices 68463ca8ce2SBob Copeland and wish to mount its disk. 68563ca8ce2SBob Copeland 68663ca8ce2SBob Copeland To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 68763ca8ce2SBob Copeland module will be called omfs. If unsure, say N. 6881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HPFS_FS 6901da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "OS/2 HPFS file system support" 6919361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 6921da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6931da177e4SLinus Torvalds OS/2 is IBM's operating system for PC's, the same as Warp, and HPFS 6941da177e4SLinus Torvalds is the file system used for organizing files on OS/2 hard disk 6951da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions. Say Y if you want to be able to read files from and 6961da177e4SLinus Torvalds write files to an OS/2 HPFS partition on your hard drive. OS/2 6971da177e4SLinus Torvalds floppies however are in regular MSDOS format, so you don't need this 6981da177e4SLinus Torvalds option in order to be able to read them. Read 6991da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt>. 7001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7011da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 7021da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called hpfs. If unsure, say N. 7031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QNX4FS_FS 7061da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "QNX4 file system support (read only)" 7079361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 7081da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7091da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the file system used by the real-time operating systems 7101da177e4SLinus Torvalds QNX 4 and QNX 6 (the latter is also called QNX RTP). 7111da177e4SLinus Torvalds Further information is available at <http://www.qnx.com/>. 7121da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y if you intend to mount QNX hard disks or floppies. 7131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless you say Y to "QNX4FS read-write support" below, you will 7141da177e4SLinus Torvalds only be able to read these file systems. 7151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7161da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 7171da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called qnx4. 7181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7191da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it: 7201da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer N. 7211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QNX4FS_RW 7231da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "QNX4FS write support (DANGEROUS)" 7241da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on QNX4FS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN 7251da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7261da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y if you want to test write support for QNX4 file systems. 7271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7281da177e4SLinus Torvalds It's currently broken, so for now: 7291da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer N. 7301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 73125fad945SRandy Dunlapconfig ROMFS_FS 73225fad945SRandy Dunlap tristate "ROM file system support" 73325fad945SRandy Dunlap depends on BLOCK 73425fad945SRandy Dunlap ---help--- 73525fad945SRandy Dunlap This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for 73625fad945SRandy Dunlap initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for 73725fad945SRandy Dunlap other read-only media as well. Read 73825fad945SRandy Dunlap <file:Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt> for details. 73925fad945SRandy Dunlap 74025fad945SRandy Dunlap To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 74125fad945SRandy Dunlap module will be called romfs. Note that the file system of your 74225fad945SRandy Dunlap root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a 74325fad945SRandy Dunlap module. 74425fad945SRandy Dunlap 74525fad945SRandy Dunlap If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it: 74625fad945SRandy Dunlap answer N. 7471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSV_FS 7501da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support" 7519361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 7521da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7531da177e4SLinus Torvalds SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel 7541da177e4SLinus Torvalds machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y 7551da177e4SLinus Torvalds here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk 7561da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions. 7571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7581da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely 7591da177e4SLinus Torvalds that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order 760cab00891SMatt LaPlante to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is 7611da177e4SLinus Torvalds a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse, 7621da177e4SLinus Torvalds UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux. It is 7631da177e4SLinus Torvalds available via FTP (user: ftp) from 7641da177e4SLinus Torvalds <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>). 7651da177e4SLinus Torvalds NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems; 7661da177e4SLinus Torvalds PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-) 7671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7681da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the 7691da177e4SLinus Torvalds network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support 7701da177e4SLinus Torvalds (but you need NFS file system support obviously). 7711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7721da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a 7731da177e4SLinus Torvalds good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes 7741da177e4SLinus Torvalds (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man 7751da177e4SLinus Torvalds tar" or preferably "info tar"). Note also that this option has 7761da177e4SLinus Torvalds nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about 7771da177e4SLinus Torvalds the System V file system in 7781da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>. 7791da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB. 7801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7811da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 7821da177e4SLinus Torvalds sysv. 7831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7841da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. 7851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UFS_FS 7881da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "UFS file system support (read only)" 7899361401eSDavid Howells depends on BLOCK 7901da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7911da177e4SLinus Torvalds BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, 7921da177e4SLinus Torvalds OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a file system called UFS. Some System V 7931da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using 7941da177e4SLinus Torvalds this file system as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from 7951da177e4SLinus Torvalds these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the 7961da177e4SLinus Torvalds experimental "UFS file system write support", below. Please read the 7971da177e4SLinus Torvalds file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt> for more information. 7981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7991da177e4SLinus Torvalds The recently released UFS2 variant (used in FreeBSD 5.x) is 8001da177e4SLinus Torvalds READ-ONLY supported. 8011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8021da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a 8031da177e4SLinus Torvalds good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes 8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man 8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds tar" or preferably "info tar"). 8061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8071da177e4SLinus Torvalds When accessing NeXTstep files, you may need to convert them from the 8081da177e4SLinus Torvalds NeXT character set to the Latin1 character set; use the program 8091da177e4SLinus Torvalds recode ("info recode") for this purpose. 8101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8111da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the UFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the 8121da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called ufs. 8131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8141da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. 8151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UFS_FS_WRITE 8171da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS)" 8185afb3145SEvgeniy Dushistov depends on UFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 8191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8201da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you want to try writing to UFS partitions. This is 8211da177e4SLinus Torvalds experimental, so you should back up your UFS partitions beforehand. 8221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 823abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistovconfig UFS_DEBUG 824abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov bool "UFS debugging" 825abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov depends on UFS_FS 826abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov help 827abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov If you are experiencing any problems with the UFS filesystem, say 828abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov Y here. This will result in _many_ additional debugging messages to be 829abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov written to the system log. 830abf5d15fSEvgeniy Dushistov 83167ec7d3aSRandy Dunlapendif # MISC_FILESYSTEMS 8321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 833ea0985adSJan Engelhardtmenuconfig NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS 834ea0985adSJan Engelhardt bool "Network File Systems" 835ea0985adSJan Engelhardt default y 8361da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET 837ea0985adSJan Engelhardt ---help--- 838ea0985adSJan Engelhardt Say Y here to get to see options for network filesystems and 839ea0985adSJan Engelhardt filesystem-related networking code, such as NFS daemon and 840ea0985adSJan Engelhardt RPCSEC security modules. 8416fb1bc10SChuck Lever 842ea0985adSJan Engelhardt This option alone does not add any kernel code. 843ea0985adSJan Engelhardt 844ea0985adSJan Engelhardt If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and 845ea0985adSJan Engelhardt disabled; if unsure, say Y here. 846ea0985adSJan Engelhardt 847ea0985adSJan Engelhardtif NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS 8481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_FS 8506fb1bc10SChuck Lever tristate "NFS client support" 8511da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 8521da177e4SLinus Torvalds select LOCKD 8531da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC 854b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFS_V3_ACL 8551da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8566fb1bc10SChuck Lever Choose Y here if you want to access files residing on other 8576fb1bc10SChuck Lever computers using Sun's Network File System protocol. To compile 8586fb1bc10SChuck Lever this file system support as a module, choose M here: the module 8596fb1bc10SChuck Lever will be called nfs. 8601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8616fb1bc10SChuck Lever To mount file systems exported by NFS servers, you also need to 8626fb1bc10SChuck Lever install the user space mount.nfs command which can be found in 8636fb1bc10SChuck Lever the Linux nfs-utils package, available from http://linux-nfs.org/. 8646fb1bc10SChuck Lever Information about using the mount command is available in the 8656fb1bc10SChuck Lever mount(8) man page. More detail about the Linux NFS client 8666fb1bc10SChuck Lever implementation is available via the nfs(5) man page. 8671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8686fb1bc10SChuck Lever Below you can choose which versions of the NFS protocol are 8696fb1bc10SChuck Lever available in the kernel to mount NFS servers. Support for NFS 8706fb1bc10SChuck Lever version 2 (RFC 1094) is always available when NFS_FS is selected. 8711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8726fb1bc10SChuck Lever To configure a system which mounts its root file system via NFS 8736fb1bc10SChuck Lever at boot time, say Y here, select "Kernel level IP 8746fb1bc10SChuck Lever autoconfiguration" in the NETWORK menu, and select "Root file 8756fb1bc10SChuck Lever system on NFS" below. You cannot compile this file system as a 8766fb1bc10SChuck Lever module in this case. 8771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8786fb1bc10SChuck Lever If unsure, say N. 8791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_V3 8816fb1bc10SChuck Lever bool "NFS client support for NFS version 3" 8821da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFS_FS 8831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8846fb1bc10SChuck Lever This option enables support for version 3 of the NFS protocol 8856fb1bc10SChuck Lever (RFC 1813) in the kernel's NFS client. 8861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8871da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 8881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 889b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFS_V3_ACL 8906fb1bc10SChuck Lever bool "NFS client support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension" 891b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFS_V3 892b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher help 8936fb1bc10SChuck Lever Some NFS servers support an auxiliary NFSv3 ACL protocol that 8946fb1bc10SChuck Lever Sun added to Solaris but never became an official part of the 8956fb1bc10SChuck Lever NFS version 3 protocol. This protocol extension allows 8966fb1bc10SChuck Lever applications on NFS clients to manipulate POSIX Access Control 8976fb1bc10SChuck Lever Lists on files residing on NFS servers. NFS servers enforce 8986fb1bc10SChuck Lever ACLs on local files whether this protocol is available or not. 8996fb1bc10SChuck Lever 9006fb1bc10SChuck Lever Choose Y here if your NFS server supports the Solaris NFSv3 ACL 9016fb1bc10SChuck Lever protocol extension and you want your NFS client to allow 9026fb1bc10SChuck Lever applications to access and modify ACLs on files on the server. 9036fb1bc10SChuck Lever 9046fb1bc10SChuck Lever Most NFS servers don't support the Solaris NFSv3 ACL protocol 9056fb1bc10SChuck Lever extension. You can choose N here or specify the "noacl" mount 9066fb1bc10SChuck Lever option to prevent your NFS client from trying to use the NFSv3 9076fb1bc10SChuck Lever ACL protocol. 908b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher 909b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher If unsure, say N. 910b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher 9111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_V4 9126fb1bc10SChuck Lever bool "NFS client support for NFS version 4 (EXPERIMENTAL)" 9131da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 9141da177e4SLinus Torvalds select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 9151da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9166fb1bc10SChuck Lever This option enables support for version 4 of the NFS protocol 9176fb1bc10SChuck Lever (RFC 3530) in the kernel's NFS client. 9181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9196fb1bc10SChuck Lever To mount NFS servers using NFSv4, you also need to install user 9206fb1bc10SChuck Lever space programs which can be found in the Linux nfs-utils package, 9216fb1bc10SChuck Lever available from http://linux-nfs.org/. 9221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9231da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 9241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9256fb1bc10SChuck Leverconfig ROOT_NFS 9266fb1bc10SChuck Lever bool "Root file system on NFS" 9276fb1bc10SChuck Lever depends on NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP 9286fb1bc10SChuck Lever help 9296fb1bc10SChuck Lever If you want your system to mount its root file system via NFS, 9306fb1bc10SChuck Lever choose Y here. This is common practice for managing systems 9316fb1bc10SChuck Lever without local permanent storage. For details, read 9326fb1bc10SChuck Lever <file:Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt>. 9336fb1bc10SChuck Lever 9346fb1bc10SChuck Lever Most people say N here. 9356fb1bc10SChuck Lever 9361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD 9371da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NFS server support" 9381da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 9391da177e4SLinus Torvalds select LOCKD 9401da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC 9411da177e4SLinus Torvalds select EXPORTFS 942f05e15b5SHerbert Xu select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFSD_V2_ACL 9431da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 944d24455b5SChuck Lever Choose Y here if you want to allow other computers to access 945d24455b5SChuck Lever files residing on this system using Sun's Network File System 946d24455b5SChuck Lever protocol. To compile the NFS server support as a module, 947d24455b5SChuck Lever choose M here: the module will be called nfsd. 9481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 949d24455b5SChuck Lever You may choose to use a user-space NFS server instead, in which 950d24455b5SChuck Lever case you can choose N here. 9511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 952d24455b5SChuck Lever To export local file systems using NFS, you also need to install 953d24455b5SChuck Lever user space programs which can be found in the Linux nfs-utils 954d24455b5SChuck Lever package, available from http://linux-nfs.org/. More detail about 955d24455b5SChuck Lever the Linux NFS server implementation is available via the 956d24455b5SChuck Lever exports(5) man page. 9571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 958d24455b5SChuck Lever Below you can choose which versions of the NFS protocol are 959d24455b5SChuck Lever available to clients mounting the NFS server on this system. 960d24455b5SChuck Lever Support for NFS version 2 (RFC 1094) is always available when 961d24455b5SChuck Lever CONFIG_NFSD is selected. 9621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 963d24455b5SChuck Lever If unsure, say N. 9641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 965a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFSD_V2_ACL 966a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher bool 967a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFSD 968a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 9691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD_V3 970d24455b5SChuck Lever bool "NFS server support for NFS version 3" 9711da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFSD 9721da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 973d24455b5SChuck Lever This option enables support in your system's NFS server for 974d24455b5SChuck Lever version 3 of the NFS protocol (RFC 1813). 975d24455b5SChuck Lever 976d24455b5SChuck Lever If unsure, say Y. 9771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 978a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFSD_V3_ACL 979d24455b5SChuck Lever bool "NFS server support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension" 980a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFSD_V3 98178dd0992SChuck Lever select NFSD_V2_ACL 982a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher help 983d24455b5SChuck Lever Solaris NFS servers support an auxiliary NFSv3 ACL protocol that 984d24455b5SChuck Lever never became an official part of the NFS version 3 protocol. 985d24455b5SChuck Lever This protocol extension allows applications on NFS clients to 986d24455b5SChuck Lever manipulate POSIX Access Control Lists on files residing on NFS 987d24455b5SChuck Lever servers. NFS servers enforce POSIX ACLs on local files whether 988d24455b5SChuck Lever this protocol is available or not. 989d24455b5SChuck Lever 990d24455b5SChuck Lever This option enables support in your system's NFS server for the 991d24455b5SChuck Lever NFSv3 ACL protocol extension allowing NFS clients to manipulate 992d24455b5SChuck Lever POSIX ACLs on files exported by your system's NFS server. NFS 993d24455b5SChuck Lever clients which support the Solaris NFSv3 ACL protocol can then 994d24455b5SChuck Lever access and modify ACLs on your NFS server. 995d24455b5SChuck Lever 996d24455b5SChuck Lever To store ACLs on your NFS server, you also need to enable ACL- 997d24455b5SChuck Lever related CONFIG options for your local file systems of choice. 998d24455b5SChuck Lever 999d24455b5SChuck Lever If unsure, say N. 1000a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 10011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD_V4 1002d24455b5SChuck Lever bool "NFS server support for NFS version 4 (EXPERIMENTAL)" 10031a448fdbSChuck Lever depends on NFSD && PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 10041a448fdbSChuck Lever select NFSD_V3 100589206955SChuck Lever select FS_POSIX_ACL 100642ed95c4SJ. Bruce Fields select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 10071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1008d24455b5SChuck Lever This option enables support in your system's NFS server for 1009d24455b5SChuck Lever version 4 of the NFS protocol (RFC 3530). 1010d24455b5SChuck Lever 1011d24455b5SChuck Lever To export files using NFSv4, you need to install additional user 1012d24455b5SChuck Lever space programs which can be found in the Linux nfs-utils package, 1013d24455b5SChuck Lever available from http://linux-nfs.org/. 1014d24455b5SChuck Lever 10151da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 10161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCKD 10181da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 10191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCKD_V4 10211da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 10221da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFSD_V3 || NFS_V3 10231da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 10241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPORTFS 10261da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 10271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1028a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFS_ACL_SUPPORT 1029a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher tristate 1030a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 1031a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 1032a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFS_COMMON 1033a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher bool 1034a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFSD || NFS_FS 1035a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher default y 1036a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 10371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNRPC 10381da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 10391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNRPC_GSS 10411da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 10421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1043c3a57ed7S\"Talpey, Thomas\config SUNRPC_XPRT_RDMA 10443211e4ebSJames Lentini tristate 1045113632d0S\"Talpey, Thomas\ depends on SUNRPC && INFINIBAND && EXPERIMENTAL 10463211e4ebSJames Lentini default SUNRPC && INFINIBAND 1047327a299dSChuck Lever help 1048327a299dSChuck Lever This option enables an RPC client transport capability that 1049327a299dSChuck Lever allows the NFS client to mount servers via an RDMA-enabled 1050327a299dSChuck Lever transport. 1051327a299dSChuck Lever 1052327a299dSChuck Lever To compile RPC client RDMA transport support as a module, 1053327a299dSChuck Lever choose M here: the module will be called xprtrdma. 1054327a299dSChuck Lever 1055327a299dSChuck Lever If unsure, say N. 1056c3a57ed7S\"Talpey, Thomas\ 1057a26cfad6SChuck Leverconfig SUNRPC_REGISTER_V4 1058a26cfad6SChuck Lever bool "Register local RPC services via rpcbind v4 (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1059a26cfad6SChuck Lever depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL 1060a26cfad6SChuck Lever default n 1061a26cfad6SChuck Lever help 1062a26cfad6SChuck Lever Sun added support for registering RPC services at an IPv6 1063a26cfad6SChuck Lever address by creating two new versions of the rpcbind protocol 1064a26cfad6SChuck Lever (RFC 1833). 1065a26cfad6SChuck Lever 1066a26cfad6SChuck Lever This option enables support in the kernel RPC server for 1067a26cfad6SChuck Lever registering kernel RPC services via version 4 of the rpcbind 1068a26cfad6SChuck Lever protocol. If you enable this option, you must run a portmapper 1069a26cfad6SChuck Lever daemon that supports rpcbind protocol version 4. 1070a26cfad6SChuck Lever 1071a26cfad6SChuck Lever Serving NFS over IPv6 from knfsd (the kernel's NFS server) 1072a26cfad6SChuck Lever requires that you enable this option and use a portmapper that 1073a26cfad6SChuck Lever supports rpcbind version 4. 1074a26cfad6SChuck Lever 1075a26cfad6SChuck Lever If unsure, say N to get traditional behavior (register kernel 1076a26cfad6SChuck Lever RPC services using only rpcbind version 2). Distributions 1077a26cfad6SChuck Lever using the legacy Linux portmapper daemon must say N here. 1078a26cfad6SChuck Lever 10791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 10801da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)" 10811da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL 10821da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC_GSS 10831da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO 10841da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_MD5 10851da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_DES 1086bcbaecbbSPatrick McHardy select CRYPTO_CBC 10871da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1088327a299dSChuck Lever Choose Y here to enable Secure RPC using the Kerberos version 5 1089327a299dSChuck Lever GSS-API mechanism (RFC 1964). 10901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1091327a299dSChuck Lever Secure RPC calls with Kerberos require an auxiliary user-space 1092327a299dSChuck Lever daemon which may be found in the Linux nfs-utils package 1093327a299dSChuck Lever available from http://linux-nfs.org/. In addition, user-space 1094327a299dSChuck Lever Kerberos support should be installed. 10951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10961da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 10971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3 10991da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Secure RPC: SPKM3 mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)" 11001da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL 11011da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC_GSS 11021da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO 11031da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_MD5 11041da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_DES 1105df6db302SJ. Bruce Fields select CRYPTO_CAST5 1106bcbaecbbSPatrick McHardy select CRYPTO_CBC 11071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1108327a299dSChuck Lever Choose Y here to enable Secure RPC using the SPKM3 public key 1109327a299dSChuck Lever GSS-API mechansim (RFC 2025). 11101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1111327a299dSChuck Lever Secure RPC calls with SPKM3 require an auxiliary userspace 1112327a299dSChuck Lever daemon which may be found in the Linux nfs-utils package 1113327a299dSChuck Lever available from http://linux-nfs.org/. 11141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11151da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 11161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SMB_FS 1118c7736339SAndrew Morton tristate "SMB file system support (OBSOLETE, please use CIFS)" 11191da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 11201da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 11211da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11221da177e4SLinus Torvalds SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Windows for Workgroups 11231da177e4SLinus Torvalds (WfW), Windows 95/98, Windows NT and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share 11241da177e4SLinus Torvalds files and printers over local networks. Saying Y here allows you to 11251da177e4SLinus Torvalds mount their file systems (often called "shares" in this context) and 11261da177e4SLinus Torvalds access them just like any other Unix directory. Currently, this 11271da177e4SLinus Torvalds works only if the Windows machines use TCP/IP as the underlying 11281da177e4SLinus Torvalds transport protocol, and not NetBEUI. For details, read 11291da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt> and the SMB-HOWTO, 11301da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 11311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11321da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: if you just want your box to act as an SMB *server* and make 11331da177e4SLinus Torvalds files and printing services available to Windows clients (which need 11341da177e4SLinus Torvalds to have a TCP/IP stack), you don't need to say Y here; you can use 11351da177e4SLinus Torvalds the program SAMBA (available from <ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/>) 11361da177e4SLinus Torvalds for that. 11371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11381da177e4SLinus Torvalds General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and 11391da177e4SLinus Torvalds Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>. 11401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1141c7736339SAndrew Morton To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here: 1142c7736339SAndrew Morton the module will be called smbfs. Most people say N, however. 11431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SMB_NLS_DEFAULT 11451da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use a default NLS" 11461da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SMB_FS 11471da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11481da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this will make smbfs use nls translations by default. You 11491da177e4SLinus Torvalds need to specify the local charset (CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT) in the nls 11501da177e4SLinus Torvalds settings and you need to give the default nls for the SMB server as 11511da177e4SLinus Torvalds CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE. 11521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11531da177e4SLinus Torvalds The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount 11541da177e4SLinus Torvalds supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters. 11551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11561da177e4SLinus Torvalds smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this. 11571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11581da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SMB_NLS_REMOTE 11591da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Default Remote NLS Option" 11601da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SMB_NLS_DEFAULT 11611da177e4SLinus Torvalds default "cp437" 11621da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11631da177e4SLinus Torvalds This setting allows you to specify a default value for which 11641da177e4SLinus Torvalds codepage the server uses. If this field is left blank no 11651da177e4SLinus Torvalds translations will be done by default. The local codepage/charset 11661da177e4SLinus Torvalds default to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT. 11671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11681da177e4SLinus Torvalds The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount 11691da177e4SLinus Torvalds supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters. 11701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11711da177e4SLinus Torvalds smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this. 11721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1173bb26b963SAlexey Dobriyansource "fs/cifs/Kconfig" 11746103335dSSteve French 11751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NCP_FS 11761da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)" 11771da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IPX!=n || INET 11781da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11791da177e4SLinus Torvalds NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) is a protocol that runs over IPX and is 11801da177e4SLinus Torvalds used by Novell NetWare clients to talk to file servers. It is to 11811da177e4SLinus Torvalds IPX what NFS is to TCP/IP, if that helps. Saying Y here allows you 11821da177e4SLinus Torvalds to mount NetWare file server volumes and to access them just like 11831da177e4SLinus Torvalds any other Unix directory. For details, please read the file 11841da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/ncpfs.txt> in the kernel source and 11851da177e4SLinus Torvalds the IPX-HOWTO from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 11861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11871da177e4SLinus Torvalds You do not have to say Y here if you want your Linux box to act as a 11881da177e4SLinus Torvalds file *server* for Novell NetWare clients. 11891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11901da177e4SLinus Torvalds General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and 11911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>. 11921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11931da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 11941da177e4SLinus Torvalds ncpfs. Say N unless you are connected to a Novell network. 11951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11961da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/ncpfs/Kconfig" 11971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CODA_FS 11991da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)" 12001da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 12011da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12021da177e4SLinus Torvalds Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it 12031da177e4SLinus Torvalds enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them 12041da177e4SLinus Torvalds with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard 12051da177e4SLinus Torvalds disk. Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for 12061da177e4SLinus Torvalds disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server 12071da177e4SLinus Torvalds replication, security model for authentication and encryption, 12081da177e4SLinus Torvalds persistent client caches and write back caching. 12091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12101da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda 12111da177e4SLinus Torvalds *client*. You will need user level code as well, both for the 12121da177e4SLinus Torvalds client and server. Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need 12131da177e4SLinus Torvalds no kernel support. Please read 12141da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.txt> and check out the Coda 12151da177e4SLinus Torvalds home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>. 12161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12171da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the 12181da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called coda. 12191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AFS_FS 122164aaa4f8SDavid Howells tristate "Andrew File System support (AFS) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 12221da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL 122308e0e7c8SDavid Howells select AF_RXRPC 12241da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12251da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will get an experimental Andrew File System 12261da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver. It currently only supports unsecured read-only AFS access. 12271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1228cc2e2767SMatt LaPlante See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information. 12291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12301da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 12311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 123208e0e7c8SDavid Howellsconfig AFS_DEBUG 123308e0e7c8SDavid Howells bool "AFS dynamic debugging" 123408e0e7c8SDavid Howells depends on AFS_FS 123508e0e7c8SDavid Howells help 123608e0e7c8SDavid Howells Say Y here to make runtime controllable debugging messages appear. 123708e0e7c8SDavid Howells 123808e0e7c8SDavid Howells See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information. 123908e0e7c8SDavid Howells 124008e0e7c8SDavid Howells If unsure, say N. 124108e0e7c8SDavid Howells 124293fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergenconfig 9P_FS 124393fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen tristate "Plan 9 Resource Sharing Support (9P2000) (Experimental)" 1244bd238fb4SLatchesar Ionkov depends on INET && NET_9P && EXPERIMENTAL 124593fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen help 124693fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen If you say Y here, you will get experimental support for 124793fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen Plan 9 resource sharing via the 9P2000 protocol. 124893fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen 124993fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen See <http://v9fs.sf.net> for more information. 125093fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen 125193fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen If unsure, say N. 125293fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen 1253ea0985adSJan Engelhardtendif # NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS 12541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12559361401eSDavid Howellsif BLOCK 12561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Partition Types" 12571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12581da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/partitions/Kconfig" 12591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 12619361401eSDavid Howellsendif 12621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12631da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/nls/Kconfig" 1264e7fd4179SDavid Teiglandsource "fs/dlm/Kconfig" 12651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 1267