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11da177e4SLinus Torvalds#
21da177e4SLinus Torvalds# File system configuration
31da177e4SLinus Torvalds#
41da177e4SLinus Torvalds
51da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "File systems"
61da177e4SLinus Torvalds
71da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT2_FS
81da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "Second extended fs support"
91da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Ext2 is a standard Linux file system for hard disks.
111da177e4SLinus Torvalds
121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  module will be called ext2.  Be aware however that the file system
141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot
151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be compiled as a module, and so this could be dangerous.
161da177e4SLinus Torvalds
171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
181da177e4SLinus Torvalds
191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT2_FS_XATTR
201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Ext2 extended attributes"
211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on EXT2_FS
221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
261da177e4SLinus Torvalds
271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
281da177e4SLinus Torvalds
291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL
301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Ext2 POSIX Access Control Lists"
311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR
32b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher	select FS_POSIX_ACL
331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
361da177e4SLinus Torvalds
371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
391da177e4SLinus Torvalds
401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
411da177e4SLinus Torvalds
421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT2_FS_SECURITY
431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Ext2 Security Labels"
441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR
451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Security labels support alternative access control models
471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  implemented by security modules like SELinux.  This option
481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  enables an extended attribute handler for file security
491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  labels in the ext2 filesystem.
501da177e4SLinus Torvalds
511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you are not using a security module that requires using
521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
531da177e4SLinus Torvalds
546d79125bSCarsten Otteconfig EXT2_FS_XIP
556d79125bSCarsten Otte	bool "Ext2 execute in place support"
566d79125bSCarsten Otte	depends on EXT2_FS
576d79125bSCarsten Otte	help
586d79125bSCarsten Otte	  Execute in place can be used on memory-backed block devices. If you
596d79125bSCarsten Otte	  enable this option, you can select to mount block devices which are
606d79125bSCarsten Otte	  capable of this feature without using the page cache.
616d79125bSCarsten Otte
626d79125bSCarsten Otte	  If you do not use a block device that is capable of using this,
636d79125bSCarsten Otte	  or if unsure, say N.
646d79125bSCarsten Otte
656d79125bSCarsten Otteconfig FS_XIP
666d79125bSCarsten Otte# execute in place
676d79125bSCarsten Otte	bool
686d79125bSCarsten Otte	depends on EXT2_FS_XIP
696d79125bSCarsten Otte	default y
706d79125bSCarsten Otte
711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT3_FS
721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "Ext3 journalling file system support"
73b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	select JBD
741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This is the journaling version of the Second extended file system
761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  (often called ext3), the de facto standard Linux file system
771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  (method to organize files on a storage device) for hard disks.
781da177e4SLinus Torvalds
791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The journaling code included in this driver means you do not have
801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to run e2fsck (file system checker) on your file systems after a
811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  crash.  The journal keeps track of any changes that were being made
821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  at the time the system crashed, and can ensure that your file system
831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  is consistent without the need for a lengthy check.
841da177e4SLinus Torvalds
851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Other than adding the journal to the file system, the on-disk format
861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of ext3 is identical to ext2.  It is possible to freely switch
871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  between using the ext3 driver and the ext2 driver, as long as the
881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  file system has been cleanly unmounted, or e2fsck is run on the file
891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system.
901da177e4SLinus Torvalds
911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To add a journal on an existing ext2 file system or change the
921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  behavior of ext3 file systems, you can use the tune2fs utility ("man
931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tune2fs").  To modify attributes of files and directories on ext3
941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  file systems, use chattr ("man chattr").  You need to be using
951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  e2fsprogs version 1.20 or later in order to create ext3 journals
961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  (available at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/e2fsprogs/>).
971da177e4SLinus Torvalds
981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  module will be called ext3.  Be aware however that the file system
1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot
1011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be compiled as a module, and so this may be dangerous.
1021da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT3_FS_XATTR
1041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Ext3 extended attributes"
1051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on EXT3_FS
1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
1091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
1101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
1111da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
1131da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext3.
1151da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL
1171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists"
1181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR
119b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher	select FS_POSIX_ACL
1201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
1221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
1231da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
1261da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
1281da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT3_FS_SECURITY
1301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Ext3 Security Labels"
1311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR
1321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Security labels support alternative access control models
1341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  implemented by security modules like SELinux.  This option
1351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  enables an extended attribute handler for file security
1361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  labels in the ext3 filesystem.
1371da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you are not using a security module that requires using
1391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
1401da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JBD
1421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate
1431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This is a generic journaling layer for block devices.  It is
145b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	  currently used by the ext3 and OCFS2 file systems, but it could
146b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	  also be used to add journal support to other file systems or block
147b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	  devices such as RAID or LVM.
1481da177e4SLinus Torvalds
149b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	  If you are using the ext3 or OCFS2 file systems, you need to
150b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	  say Y here. If you are not using ext3 OCFS2 then you will probably
151b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	  want to say N.
1521da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To compile this device as a module, choose M here: the module will be
154b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	  called jbd.  If you are compiling ext3 or OCFS2 into the kernel,
155b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	  you cannot compile this code as a module.
1561da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JBD_DEBUG
1581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "JBD (ext3) debugging support"
1591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on JBD
1601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you are using the ext3 journaled file system (or potentially any
1621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  other file system/device using JBD), this option allows you to
1631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  enable debugging output while the system is running, in order to
1641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  help track down any problems you are having.  By default the
1651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  debugging output will be turned off.
1661da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging
1681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  with "echo N > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug", where N is a number between
1691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  1 and 5, the higher the number, the more debugging output is
1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  generated.  To turn debugging off again, do
1711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  "echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug".
1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FS_MBCACHE
1741da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Meta block cache for Extended Attributes (ext2/ext3)
1751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate
1761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR || EXT3_FS_XATTR
1771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y if EXT2_FS=y || EXT3_FS=y
1781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default m if EXT2_FS=m || EXT3_FS=m
1791da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_FS
1811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "Reiserfs support"
1821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
1831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a balanced
1841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tree.  Uses journaling.
1851da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Balanced trees are more efficient than traditional file system
1871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  architectural foundations.
1881da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  In general, ReiserFS is as fast as ext2, but is very efficient with
1901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  large directories and small files.  Additional patches are needed
1911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for NFS and quotas, please see <http://www.namesys.com/> for links.
1921da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is more easily extended to have features currently found in
1941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  database and keyword search systems than block allocation based file
1951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  systems are.  The next version will be so extended, and will support
1961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  plugins consistent with our motto ``It takes more than a license to
1971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  make source code open.''
1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Read <http://www.namesys.com/> to learn more about reiserfs.
2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Sponsored by Threshold Networks, Emusic.com, and Bigstorage.com.
2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you like it, you can pay us to add new features to it that you
2041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  need, buy a support contract, or pay us to port it to another OS.
2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_CHECK
2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Enable reiserfs debug mode"
2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on REISERFS_FS
2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you set this to Y, then ReiserFS will perform every check it can
2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  possibly imagine of its internal consistency throughout its
2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  operation.  It will also go substantially slower.  More than once we
2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  have forgotten that this was on, and then gone despondent over the
2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  latest benchmarks.:-) Use of this option allows our team to go all
2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  out in checking for consistency when debugging without fear of its
2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  effect on end users.  If you are on the verge of sending in a bug
2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  report, say Y and you might get a useful error message.  Almost
2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  everyone should say N.
2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_PROC_INFO
2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Stats in /proc/fs/reiserfs"
2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on REISERFS_FS
2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Create under /proc/fs/reiserfs a hierarchy of files, displaying
2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  various ReiserFS statistics and internal data at the expense of
2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  making your kernel or module slightly larger (+8 KB). This also
2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  increases the amount of kernel memory required for each mount.
2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Almost everyone but ReiserFS developers and people fine-tuning
2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  reiserfs or tracing problems should say N.
2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_FS_XATTR
2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "ReiserFS extended attributes"
2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on REISERFS_FS
2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL
2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "ReiserFS POSIX Access Control Lists"
2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR
244b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher	select FS_POSIX_ACL
2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_FS_SECURITY
2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "ReiserFS Security Labels"
2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR
2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Security labels support alternative access control models
2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  implemented by security modules like SELinux.  This option
2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  enables an extended attribute handler for file security
2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  labels in the ReiserFS filesystem.
2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you are not using a security module that requires using
2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
2651da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_FS
2671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "JFS filesystem support"
2681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select NLS
2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This is a port of IBM's Journaled Filesystem .  More information is
2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  available in the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt>.
2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you do not intend to use the JFS filesystem, say N.
2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_POSIX_ACL
2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "JFS POSIX Access Control Lists"
2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on JFS_FS
278b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher	select FS_POSIX_ACL
2791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_SECURITY
2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "JFS Security Labels"
2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on JFS_FS
2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Security labels support alternative access control models
2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  implemented by security modules like SELinux.  This option
2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  enables an extended attribute handler for file security
2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  labels in the jfs filesystem.
2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds
2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you are not using a security module that requires using
2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_DEBUG
3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "JFS debugging"
3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on JFS_FS
3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you are experiencing any problems with the JFS filesystem, say
3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Y here.  This will result in additional debugging messages to be
3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  written to the system log.  Under normal circumstances, this
3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  results in very little overhead.
3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_STATISTICS
3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "JFS statistics"
3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on JFS_FS
3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enabling this option will cause statistics from the JFS file system
3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jfs/ directory.
3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FS_POSIX_ACL
3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Posix ACL utility routines (for now, only ext2/ext3/jfs/reiserfs)
3181da177e4SLinus Torvalds#
3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds# NOTE: you can implement Posix ACLs without these helpers (XFS does).
3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 	Never use this symbol for ifdefs.
3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds#
3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
323b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher	default n
3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3251da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/xfs/Kconfig"
326f7825dcfSDavid Teiglandsource "fs/gfs2/Kconfig"
3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds
328b4e40a51SMark Fashehconfig OCFS2_FS
329b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	tristate "OCFS2 file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
330b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
331b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	select CONFIGFS_FS
332b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	select JBD
333b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	select CRC32
334b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	select INET
335b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	help
336b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	  OCFS2 is a general purpose extent based shared disk cluster file
337b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	  system with many similarities to ext3. It supports 64 bit inode
338b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	  numbers, and has automatically extending metadata groups which may
339b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	  also make it attractive for non-clustered use.
340b4e40a51SMark Fasheh
341b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	  You'll want to install the ocfs2-tools package in order to at least
342b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	  get "mount.ocfs2".
343b4e40a51SMark Fasheh
344b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	  Project web page:    http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2
345b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	  Tools web page:      http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools
346b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	  OCFS2 mailing lists: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/mailman/
347b4e40a51SMark Fasheh
348b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	  Note: Features which OCFS2 does not support yet:
349b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	          - extended attributes
350b4e40a51SMark Fasheh		  - shared writeable mmap
351b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	          - loopback is supported, but data written will not
352b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	            be cluster coherent.
353b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	          - quotas
354b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	          - cluster aware flock
355b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	          - Directory change notification (F_NOTIFY)
356b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	          - Distributed Caching (F_SETLEASE/F_GETLEASE/break_lease)
357b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	          - POSIX ACLs
358b4e40a51SMark Fasheh	          - readpages / writepages (not user visible)
359b4e40a51SMark Fasheh
3601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MINIX_FS
3611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "Minix fs support"
3621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
3631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Minix is a simple operating system used in many classes about OS's.
3641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The minix file system (method to organize files on a hard disk
3651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  partition or a floppy disk) was the original file system for Linux,
3661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  but has been superseded by the second extended file system ext2fs.
3671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You don't want to use the minix file system on your hard disk
3681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  because of certain built-in restrictions, but it is sometimes found
3691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on older Linux floppy disks.  This option will enlarge your kernel
3701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  by about 28 KB. If unsure, say N.
3711da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
3731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  module will be called minix.  Note that the file system of your root
3741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as
3751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  a module.
3761da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ROMFS_FS
3781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "ROM file system support"
3791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
3801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for
3811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for
3821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  other read-only media as well.  Read
3831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt> for details.
3841da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
3861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  module will be called romfs.  Note that the file system of your
3871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a
3881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  module.
3891da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
3911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answer N.
3921da177e4SLinus Torvalds
3930eeca283SRobert Loveconfig INOTIFY
3940eeca283SRobert Love	bool "Inotify file change notification support"
3950eeca283SRobert Love	default y
3960eeca283SRobert Love	---help---
3973de11748SRobert Love	  Say Y here to enable inotify support and the associated system
3983de11748SRobert Love	  calls.  Inotify is a file change notification system and a
3990eeca283SRobert Love	  replacement for dnotify.  Inotify fixes numerous shortcomings in
4000eeca283SRobert Love	  dnotify and introduces several new features.  It allows monitoring
4013de11748SRobert Love	  of both files and directories via a single open fd.  Other features
4023de11748SRobert Love	  include multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount
4033de11748SRobert Love	  notification.
4043de11748SRobert Love
4053de11748SRobert Love	  For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt
4060eeca283SRobert Love
4070eeca283SRobert Love	  If unsure, say Y.
4080eeca283SRobert Love
4091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QUOTA
4101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Quota support"
4111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
4121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will be able to set per user limits for disk
4131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works for the
4141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  ext2, ext3, and reiserfs file system. ext3 also supports journalled
4151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  quotas for which you don't need to run quotacheck(8) after an unclean
416919532a5SAdrian Bunk	  shutdown.
417919532a5SAdrian Bunk	  For further details, read the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from
4181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or the documentation provided
4191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  with the quota tools. Probably the quota support is only useful for
4201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  multi user systems. If unsure, say N.
4211da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QFMT_V1
4231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "Old quota format support"
4241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on QUOTA
4251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
4261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This quota format was (is) used by kernels earlier than 2.4.22. If
4271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you have quota working and you don't want to convert to new quota
4281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  format say Y here.
4291da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QFMT_V2
4311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "Quota format v2 support"
4321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on QUOTA
4331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
4341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This quota format allows using quotas with 32-bit UIDs/GIDs. If you
435919532a5SAdrian Bunk	  need this functionality say Y here.
4361da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QUOTACTL
4381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
4391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA
4401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
4411da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DNOTIFY
4431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Dnotify support" if EMBEDDED
4441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
4451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
4461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Dnotify is a directory-based per-fd file change notification system
4471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  that uses signals to communicate events to user-space.  There exist
4481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  superior alternatives, but some applications may still rely on
4491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  dnotify.
4501da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Because of this, if unsure, say Y.
4521da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUTOFS_FS
4541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "Kernel automounter support"
4551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
4561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
4571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
4581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
4591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
4601da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs
4621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>.
4631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
4641da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more
4661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support",
4671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  below.
4681da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
4701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  called autofs.
4711da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you
4731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here.
4741da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUTOFS4_FS
4761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)"
4771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
4781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
4791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
4801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
4811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
4821da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from
4841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/>; you also
4851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
4861da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
4881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  called autofs4.  You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your
4891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  modules configuration file.
4901da177e4SLinus Torvalds
4911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or
4921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the
4931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say
4941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  N here.
4951da177e4SLinus Torvalds
49604578f17SMiklos Szerediconfig FUSE_FS
49704578f17SMiklos Szeredi	tristate "Filesystem in Userspace support"
49804578f17SMiklos Szeredi	help
49904578f17SMiklos Szeredi	  With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem
50004578f17SMiklos Szeredi	  in a userspace program.
50104578f17SMiklos Szeredi
50204578f17SMiklos Szeredi	  There's also companion library: libfuse.  This library along with
50304578f17SMiklos Szeredi	  utilities is available from the FUSE homepage:
50404578f17SMiklos Szeredi	  <http://fuse.sourceforge.net/>
50504578f17SMiklos Szeredi
506909021eaSMiklos Szeredi	  See <file:Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt> for more information.
507909021eaSMiklos Szeredi	  See <file:Documentation/Changes> for needed library/utility version.
508909021eaSMiklos Szeredi
50904578f17SMiklos Szeredi	  If you want to develop a userspace FS, or if you want to use
51004578f17SMiklos Szeredi	  a filesystem based on FUSE, answer Y or M.
51104578f17SMiklos Szeredi
5121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems"
5131da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ISO9660_FS
5151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "ISO 9660 CDROM file system support"
5161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
5171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This is the standard file system used on CD-ROMs.  It was previously
5181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  known as "High Sierra File System" and is called "hsfs" on other
5191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Unix systems.  The so-called Rock-Ridge extensions which allow for
5201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  long Unix filenames and symbolic links are also supported by this
5211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  driver.  If you have a CD-ROM drive and want to do more with it than
5221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  just listen to audio CDs and watch its LEDs, say Y (and read
5231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt> and the CD-ROM-HOWTO,
5241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), thereby
5251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  enlarging your kernel by about 27 KB; otherwise say N.
5261da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
5281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  module will be called isofs.
5291da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JOLIET
5311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions"
5321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on ISO9660_FS
5331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select NLS
5341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
5351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Joliet is a Microsoft extension for the ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system
5361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  which allows for long filenames in unicode format (unicode is the
5371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  new 16 bit character code, successor to ASCII, which encodes the
5381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  characters of almost all languages of the world; see
5391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.unicode.org/> for more information).  Say Y here if you
5401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  want to be able to read Joliet CD-ROMs under Linux.
5411da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ZISOFS
5431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Transparent decompression extension"
5441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on ISO9660_FS
5451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select ZLIB_INFLATE
5461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
5471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This is a Linux-specific extension to RockRidge which lets you store
5481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  data in compressed form on a CD-ROM and have it transparently
5491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  decompressed when the CD-ROM is accessed.  See
5501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/zisofs/> for the tools
5511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  necessary to create such a filesystem.  Say Y here if you want to be
5521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  able to read such compressed CD-ROMs.
5531da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ZISOFS_FS
5551da177e4SLinus Torvalds# for fs/nls/Config.in
5561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate
5571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on ZISOFS
5581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default ISO9660_FS
5591da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UDF_FS
5611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "UDF file system support"
5621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
5631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This is the new file system used on some CD-ROMs and DVDs. Say Y if
5641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you intend to mount DVD discs or CDRW's written in packet mode, or
5651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  if written to by other UDF utilities, such as DirectCD.
5661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt>.
5671da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
5691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  module will be called udf.
5701da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
5721da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UDF_NLS
5741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
5751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
5761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on (UDF_FS=m && NLS) || (UDF_FS=y && NLS=y)
5771da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu
5791da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems"
5811da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FAT_FS
5831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate
5841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select NLS
5851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
5861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you want to use one of the FAT-based file systems (the MS-DOS and
5871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  VFAT (Windows 95) file systems), then you must say Y or M here
5881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to include FAT support. You will then be able to mount partitions or
5891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  diskettes with FAT-based file systems and transparently access the
5901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  files on them, i.e. MSDOS files will look and behave just like all
5911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  other Unix files.
5921da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This FAT support is not a file system in itself, it only provides
5941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the foundation for the other file systems. You will have to say Y or
5951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  M to at least one of "MSDOS fs support" or "VFAT fs support" in
5961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  order to make use of it.
5971da177e4SLinus Torvalds
5981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Another way to read and write MSDOS floppies and hard drive
5991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  partitions from within Linux (but not transparently) is with the
6001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  mtools ("man mtools") program suite. You don't need to say Y here in
6011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  order to do that.
6021da177e4SLinus Torvalds
6031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you need to move large files on floppies between a DOS and a
6041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Linux box, say Y here, mount the floppy under Linux with an MSDOS
6051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program
6061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar").
6071da177e4SLinus Torvalds
6081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is now also becoming possible to read and write compressed FAT
6091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  file systems; read <file:Documentation/filesystems/fat_cvf.txt> for
6101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  details.
6111da177e4SLinus Torvalds
6121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure,
6131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  say Y.
6141da177e4SLinus Torvalds
6151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
6161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  fat.  Note that if you compile the FAT support as a module, you
6171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  cannot compile any of the FAT-based file systems into the kernel
6181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  -- they will have to be modules as well.
6191da177e4SLinus Torvalds
6201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MSDOS_FS
6211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "MSDOS fs support"
6221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select FAT_FS
6231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
6241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This allows you to mount MSDOS partitions of your hard drive (unless
6251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under
6261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the
6271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from
6281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in
6291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you
6301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y
6311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes
6321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  transparent, i.e. the MSDOS files look and behave just like all
6331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  other Unix files.
6341da177e4SLinus Torvalds
6351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you have Windows 95 or Windows NT installed on your MSDOS
6361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  partitions, you should use the VFAT file system (say Y to "VFAT fs
6371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support" below), or you will not be able to see the long filenames
6381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  generated by Windows 95 / Windows NT.
6391da177e4SLinus Torvalds
6401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option will enlarge your kernel by about 7 KB. If unsure,
6411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answer Y. This will only work if you said Y to "DOS FAT fs support"
6421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  as well. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will
6431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be called msdos.
6441da177e4SLinus Torvalds
6451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig VFAT_FS
6461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "VFAT (Windows-95) fs support"
6471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select FAT_FS
6481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
6491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option provides support for normal Windows file systems with
6501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  long filenames.  That includes non-compressed FAT-based file systems
6511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used by Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and the Unix
6521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs from the mtools package.
6531da177e4SLinus Torvalds
6541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The VFAT support enlarges your kernel by about 10 KB and it only
6551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  works if you said Y to the "DOS FAT fs support" above.  Please read
6561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for details.  If
6571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  unsure, say Y.
6581da177e4SLinus Torvalds
6591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
6601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  vfat.
6611da177e4SLinus Torvalds
6621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE
6631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int "Default codepage for FAT"
6641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MSDOS_FS || VFAT_FS
6651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default 437
6661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
6671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option should be set to the codepage of your FAT filesystems.
6681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It can be overridden with the "codepage" mount option.
6691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
6701da177e4SLinus Torvalds
6711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET
6721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Default iocharset for FAT"
6731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on VFAT_FS
6741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default "iso8859-1"
6751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
6761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Set this to the default input/output character set you'd
6771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  like FAT to use. It should probably match the character set
6781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  that most of your FAT filesystems use, and can be overridden
6791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  with the "iocharset" mount option for FAT filesystems.
6801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Note that "utf8" is not recommended for FAT filesystems.
6811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here.
6821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
6831da177e4SLinus Torvalds
6841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NTFS_FS
6851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "NTFS file system support"
6861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select NLS
6871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
6881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003.
6891da177e4SLinus Torvalds
6901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y or M here enables read support.  There is partial, but
6911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  safe, write support available.  For write support you must also
6921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  say Y to "NTFS write support" below.
6931da177e4SLinus Torvalds
6941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  There are also a number of user-space tools available, called
6951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  ntfsprogs.  These include ntfsundelete and ntfsresize, that work
6961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  without NTFS support enabled in the kernel.
6971da177e4SLinus Torvalds
6981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This is a rewrite from scratch of Linux NTFS support and replaced
6991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the old NTFS code starting with Linux 2.5.11.  A backport to
7001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the Linux 2.4 kernel series is separately available as a patch
7011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  from the project web site.
7021da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  For more information see <file:Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt>
7041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and <http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/>.
7051da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
7071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  module will be called ntfs.
7081da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you are not using Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 in addition to
7101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Linux on your computer it is safe to say N.
7111da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NTFS_DEBUG
7131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "NTFS debugging support"
7141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on NTFS_FS
7151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you are experiencing any problems with the NTFS file system, say
7171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Y here.  This will result in additional consistency checks to be
7181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  performed by the driver as well as additional debugging messages to
7191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be written to the system log.  Note that debugging messages are
7201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  disabled by default.  To enable them, supply the option debug_msgs=1
7211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  at the kernel command line when booting the kernel or as an option
7221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to insmod when loading the ntfs module.  Once the driver is active,
7231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you can enable debugging messages by doing (as root):
7241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug
7251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Replacing the "1" with "0" would disable debug messages.
7261da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you leave debugging messages disabled, this results in little
7281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  overhead, but enabling debug messages results in very significant
7291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  slowdown of the system.
7301da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  When reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of
7321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  debugging messages while the misbehaviour was occurring.
7331da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NTFS_RW
7351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "NTFS write support"
7361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on NTFS_FS
7371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver.
7391da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without
7411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  changing the file length.  No file or directory creation, deletion or
7421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  renaming is possible.  Note only non-resident files can be written to
7431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot
7441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be written to.
7451da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have
7471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  so far not received a single report where the driver would have
7481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use.
7491da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Note:  While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from
7511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS
7521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997),
7531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  is not safe.
7541da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This is currently useful with TopologiLinux.  TopologiLinux is run
7561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your
7571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  hard disk.  Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not
7581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  need its own partition.  For more information see
7591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/>
7601da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is perfectly safe to say N here.
7621da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu
7641da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Pseudo filesystems"
7661da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PROC_FS
7681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "/proc file system support"
7691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
7701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This is a virtual file system providing information about the status
7711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of the system. "Virtual" means that it doesn't take up any space on
7721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  your hard disk: the files are created on the fly by the kernel when
7731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you try to access them. Also, you cannot read the files with older
7741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  version of the program less: you need to use more or cat.
7751da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It's totally cool; for example, "cat /proc/interrupts" gives
7771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information about what the different IRQs are used for at the moment
7781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  (there is a small number of Interrupt ReQuest lines in your computer
7791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  that are used by the attached devices to gain the CPU's attention --
7801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  often a source of trouble if two devices are mistakenly configured
7811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to use the same IRQ). The program procinfo to display some
7821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  information about your system gathered from the /proc file system.
7831da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Before you can use the /proc file system, it has to be mounted,
7851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  meaning it has to be given a location in the directory hierarchy.
7861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  That location should be /proc. A command such as "mount -t proc proc
7871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /proc" or the equivalent line in /etc/fstab does the job.
7881da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The /proc file system is explained in the file
7901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt> and on the proc(5) manpage
7911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  ("man 5 proc").
7921da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option will enlarge your kernel by about 67 KB. Several
7941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs depend on this, so everyone should say Y here.
7951da177e4SLinus Torvalds
7961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PROC_KCORE
7971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "/proc/kcore support" if !ARM
7981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on PROC_FS && MMU
7991da177e4SLinus Torvalds
800666bfddbSVivek Goyalconfig PROC_VMCORE
801666bfddbSVivek Goyal        bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
80205970d47SManeesh Soni        depends on PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP
803666bfddbSVivek Goyal        help
804666bfddbSVivek Goyal        Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format.
805666bfddbSVivek Goyal
8061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSFS
8071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "sysfs file system support" if EMBEDDED
8081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
8091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	The sysfs filesystem is a virtual filesystem that the kernel uses to
8111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	export internal kernel objects, their attributes, and their
8121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	relationships to one another.
8131da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	Users can use sysfs to ascertain useful information about the running
8151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	kernel, such as the devices the kernel has discovered on each bus and
8161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	which driver each is bound to. sysfs can also be used to tune devices
8171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	and other kernel subsystems.
8181da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	Some system agents rely on the information in sysfs to operate.
8201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	/sbin/hotplug uses device and object attributes in sysfs to assist in
8211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	delegating policy decisions, like persistantly naming devices.
8221da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	sysfs is currently used by the block subsystem to mount the root
8241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	partition.  If sysfs is disabled you must specify the boot device on
8251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	the kernel boot command line via its major and minor numbers.  For
8261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	example, "root=03:01" for /dev/hda1.
8271da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space.
8291da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TMPFS
8311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)"
8321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory.
8341da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be
8361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  created on your hard drive. The files live in memory and swap
8371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  space. If you unmount a tmpfs instance, everything stored therein is
8381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  lost.
8391da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  See <file:Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> for details.
8411da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HUGETLBFS
8431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "HugeTLB file system support"
8440d078f6fSBrian Gerst	depends X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || BROKEN
8451da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HUGETLB_PAGE
8471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	def_bool HUGETLBFS
8481da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig RAMFS
8501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
8511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
8521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	---help---
8531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Ramfs is a file system which keeps all files in RAM. It allows
8541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  read and write access.
8551da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It is more of an programming example than a useable file system.  If
8571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you need a file system which lives in RAM with limit checking use
8581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tmpfs.
8591da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
8611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  ramfs.
8621da177e4SLinus Torvalds
863e82894f8STom Zanussiconfig RELAYFS_FS
864e82894f8STom Zanussi	tristate "Relayfs file system support"
865e82894f8STom Zanussi	---help---
866e82894f8STom Zanussi	  Relayfs is a high-speed data relay filesystem designed to provide
867e82894f8STom Zanussi	  an efficient mechanism for tools and facilities to relay large
868e82894f8STom Zanussi	  amounts of data from kernel space to user space.
869e82894f8STom Zanussi
870e82894f8STom Zanussi	  To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be
871e82894f8STom Zanussi	  called relayfs.
872e82894f8STom Zanussi
873e82894f8STom Zanussi	  If unsure, say N.
874e82894f8STom Zanussi
8757063fbf2SJoel Beckerconfig CONFIGFS_FS
8767063fbf2SJoel Becker	tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem (EXPERIMENTAL)"
8777063fbf2SJoel Becker	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
8787063fbf2SJoel Becker	help
8797063fbf2SJoel Becker	  configfs is a ram-based filesystem that provides the converse
8807063fbf2SJoel Becker	  of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based
8817063fbf2SJoel Becker	  view of kernel objects, configfs is a filesystem-based manager
8827063fbf2SJoel Becker	  of kernel objects, or config_items.
8837063fbf2SJoel Becker
8847063fbf2SJoel Becker	  Both sysfs and configfs can and should exist together on the
8857063fbf2SJoel Becker	  same system. One is not a replacement for the other.
8867063fbf2SJoel Becker
8877063fbf2SJoel Becker	  If unsure, say N.
8887063fbf2SJoel Becker
8891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu
8901da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Miscellaneous filesystems"
8921da177e4SLinus Torvalds
8931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ADFS_FS
8941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "ADFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
8951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
8961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
8971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The Acorn Disc Filing System is the standard file system of the
8981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  RiscOS operating system which runs on Acorn's ARM-based Risc PC
8991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  systems and the Acorn Archimedes range of machines. If you say Y
9001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  here, Linux will be able to read from ADFS partitions on hard drives
9011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and from ADFS-formatted floppy discs. If you also want to be able to
9021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  write to those devices, say Y to "ADFS write support" below.
9031da177e4SLinus Torvalds
9041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The ADFS partition should be the first partition (i.e.,
9051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  /dev/[hs]d?1) on each of your drives. Please read the file
9061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt> for further details.
9071da177e4SLinus Torvalds
9081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be
9091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  called adfs.
9101da177e4SLinus Torvalds
9111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
9121da177e4SLinus Torvalds
9131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ADFS_FS_RW
9141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)"
9151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on ADFS_FS
9161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
9171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will be able to write to ADFS partitions on
9181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  hard drives and ADFS-formatted floppy disks. This is experimental
9191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  codes, so if you're unsure, say N.
9201da177e4SLinus Torvalds
9211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AFFS_FS
9221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "Amiga FFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
9231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
9241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
9251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The Fast File System (FFS) is the common file system used on hard
9261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  disks by Amiga(tm) systems since AmigaOS Version 1.3 (34.20).  Say Y
9271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  if you want to be able to read and write files from and to an Amiga
9281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  FFS partition on your hard drive.  Amiga floppies however cannot be
9291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  read with this driver due to an incompatibility of the floppy
9301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  controller used in an Amiga and the standard floppy controller in
9311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  PCs and workstations. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt>
9321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and <file:fs/affs/Changes>.
9331da177e4SLinus Torvalds
9341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  With this driver you can also mount disk files used by Bernd
9351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Schmidt's Un*X Amiga Emulator
9361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  (<http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/>).
9371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you want to do this, you will also need to say Y or M to "Loop
9381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  device support", above.
9391da177e4SLinus Torvalds
9401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
9411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  module will be called affs.  If unsure, say N.
9421da177e4SLinus Torvalds
9431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HFS_FS
9441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
9451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
946878129a3SLennert Buytenhek	select NLS
9471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
9481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will be able to mount Macintosh-formatted
9491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  floppy disks and hard drive partitions with full read-write access.
9501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Please read <file:fs/hfs/HFS.txt> to learn about the available mount
9511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  options.
9521da177e4SLinus Torvalds
9531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
9541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  module will be called hfs.
9551da177e4SLinus Torvalds
9561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HFSPLUS_FS
9571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "Apple Extended HFS file system support"
9581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select NLS
9591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select NLS_UTF8
9601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
9611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will be able to mount extended format
9621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Macintosh-formatted hard drive partitions with full read-write access.
9631da177e4SLinus Torvalds
9641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This file system is often called HFS+ and was introduced with
9651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  MacOS 8. It includes all Mac specific filesystem data such as
9661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  data forks and creator codes, but it also has several UNIX
9671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  style features such as file ownership and permissions.
9681da177e4SLinus Torvalds
9691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BEFS_FS
9701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "BeOS file system (BeFS) support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
9711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
9721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select NLS
9731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
9741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The BeOS File System (BeFS) is the native file system of Be, Inc's
9751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  BeOS. Notable features include support for arbitrary attributes
9761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on files and directories, and database-like indeces on selected
9771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  attributes. (Also note that this driver doesn't make those features
9781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  available at this time). It is a 64 bit filesystem, so it supports
9791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  extremly large volumes and files.
9801da177e4SLinus Torvalds
9811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you use this filesystem, you should also say Y to at least one
9821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of the NLS (native language support) options below.
9831da177e4SLinus Torvalds
9841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you don't know what this is about, say N.
9851da177e4SLinus Torvalds
9861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
9871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  called befs.
9881da177e4SLinus Torvalds
9891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BEFS_DEBUG
9901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Debug BeFS"
9911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on BEFS_FS
9921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
9931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you can use the 'debug' mount option to enable
9941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  debugging output from the driver.
9951da177e4SLinus Torvalds
9961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BFS_FS
9971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
9981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
9991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
10001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Boot File System (BFS) is a file system used under SCO UnixWare to
10011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  allow the bootloader access to the kernel image and other important
10021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  files during the boot process.  It is usually mounted under /stand
10031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and corresponds to the slice marked as "STAND" in the UnixWare
10041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  partition.  You should say Y if you want to read or write the files
10051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on your /stand slice from within Linux.  You then also need to say Y
10061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to "UnixWare slices support", below.  More information about the BFS
10071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  file system is contained in the file
10081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:Documentation/filesystems/bfs.txt>.
10091da177e4SLinus Torvalds
10101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you don't know what this is about, say N.
10111da177e4SLinus Torvalds
10121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
10131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  bfs.  Note that the file system of your root partition (the one
10141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
10151da177e4SLinus Torvalds
10161da177e4SLinus Torvalds
10171da177e4SLinus Torvalds
10181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EFS_FS
10191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "EFS file system support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
10201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
10211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
10221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  EFS is an older file system used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and hard
10231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  disk partitions by SGI's IRIX operating system (IRIX 6.0 and newer
10241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  uses the XFS file system for hard disk partitions however).
10251da177e4SLinus Torvalds
10261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This implementation only offers read-only access. If you don't know
10271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  what all this is about, it's safe to say N. For more information
10281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  about EFS see its home page at <http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/>.
10291da177e4SLinus Torvalds
10301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To compile the EFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the
10311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  module will be called efs.
10321da177e4SLinus Torvalds
10331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS_FS
10341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "Journalling Flash File System (JFFS) support"
10351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MTD
10361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
10371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  JFFS is the Journaling Flash File System developed by Axis
10381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Communications in Sweden, aimed at providing a crash/powerdown-safe
10391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  file system for disk-less embedded devices. Further information is
10401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  available at (<http://developer.axis.com/software/jffs/>).
10411da177e4SLinus Torvalds
10421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS_FS_VERBOSE
10431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int "JFFS debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 3 = noisy)"
10441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on JFFS_FS
10451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default "0"
10461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
10471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Determines the verbosity level of the JFFS debugging messages.
10481da177e4SLinus Torvalds
10491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS_PROC_FS
10501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "JFFS stats available in /proc filesystem"
10511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on JFFS_FS && PROC_FS
10521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
10531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enabling this option will cause statistics from mounted JFFS file systems
10541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jffs/ directory.
10551da177e4SLinus Torvalds
10561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_FS
10571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "Journalling Flash File System v2 (JFFS2) support"
10581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select CRC32
10591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on MTD
10601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
10611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  JFFS2 is the second generation of the Journalling Flash File System
10621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for use on diskless embedded devices. It provides improved wear
10631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  levelling, compression and support for hard links. You cannot use
10641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this on normal block devices, only on 'MTD' devices.
10651da177e4SLinus Torvalds
10661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Further information on the design and implementation of JFFS2 is
10671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  available at <http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2/>.
10681da177e4SLinus Torvalds
10691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_FS_DEBUG
10701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	int "JFFS2 debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 2 = noisy)"
10711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on JFFS2_FS
10721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default "0"
10731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
10741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This controls the amount of debugging messages produced by the JFFS2
10751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  code. Set it to zero for use in production systems. For evaluation,
10761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  testing and debugging, it's advisable to set it to one. This will
10771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  enable a few assertions and will print debugging messages at the
10781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  KERN_DEBUG loglevel, where they won't normally be visible. Level 2
10791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  is unlikely to be useful - it enables extra debugging in certain
10801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  areas which at one point needed debugging, but when the bugs were
10811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  located and fixed, the detailed messages were relegated to level 2.
10821da177e4SLinus Torvalds
10831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of the
10841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  messages at debug level 1 while the misbehaviour was occurring.
10851da177e4SLinus Torvalds
10862f82ce1eSAndrew Victorconfig JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER
10872f82ce1eSAndrew Victor	bool "JFFS2 write-buffering support"
10881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on JFFS2_FS
10892f82ce1eSAndrew Victor	default y
10901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
10912f82ce1eSAndrew Victor	  This enables the write-buffering support in JFFS2.
10921da177e4SLinus Torvalds
10932f82ce1eSAndrew Victor	  This functionality is required to support JFFS2 on the following
10942f82ce1eSAndrew Victor	  types of flash devices:
10952f82ce1eSAndrew Victor	    - NAND flash
10962f82ce1eSAndrew Victor	    - NOR flash with transparent ECC
10972f82ce1eSAndrew Victor	    - DataFlash
10981da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1099e631ddbaSFerenc Havasiconfig JFFS2_SUMMARY
1100e631ddbaSFerenc Havasi	bool "JFFS2 summary support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1101e631ddbaSFerenc Havasi	depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1102e631ddbaSFerenc Havasi	default n
1103e631ddbaSFerenc Havasi	help
1104e631ddbaSFerenc Havasi	  This feature makes it possible to use summary information
1105e631ddbaSFerenc Havasi	  for faster filesystem mount.
1106e631ddbaSFerenc Havasi
1107e631ddbaSFerenc Havasi	  The summary information can be inserted into a filesystem image
1108e631ddbaSFerenc Havasi	  by the utility 'sumtool'.
1109e631ddbaSFerenc Havasi
1110e631ddbaSFerenc Havasi	  If unsure, say 'N'.
1111e631ddbaSFerenc Havasi
11121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
11131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Advanced compression options for JFFS2"
11141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on JFFS2_FS
11151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default n
11161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
11171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enabling this option allows you to explicitly choose which
11181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compression modules, if any, are enabled in JFFS2. Removing
11191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  compressors and mean you cannot read existing file systems,
11201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and enabling experimental compressors can mean that you
11211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  write a file system which cannot be read by a standard kernel.
11221da177e4SLinus Torvalds
11231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, you should _definitely_ say 'N'.
11241da177e4SLinus Torvalds
11251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_ZLIB
11261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "JFFS2 ZLIB compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
11271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select ZLIB_INFLATE
11281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select ZLIB_DEFLATE
11291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on JFFS2_FS
11301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
11311da177e4SLinus Torvalds        help
11321da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered,
11331da177e4SLinus Torvalds          lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer
11341da177e4SLinus Torvalds          hardware and operating system. See <http://www.gzip.org/zlib/> for
11351da177e4SLinus Torvalds          further information.
11361da177e4SLinus Torvalds
11371da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Say 'Y' if unsure.
11381da177e4SLinus Torvalds
11391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_RTIME
11401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "JFFS2 RTIME compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
11411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on JFFS2_FS
11421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
11431da177e4SLinus Torvalds        help
11441da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Rtime does manage to recompress already-compressed data. Say 'Y' if unsure.
11451da177e4SLinus Torvalds
11461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_RUBIN
11471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "JFFS2 RUBIN compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
11481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on JFFS2_FS
11491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default n
11501da177e4SLinus Torvalds        help
11511da177e4SLinus Torvalds          RUBINMIPS and DYNRUBIN compressors. Say 'N' if unsure.
11521da177e4SLinus Torvalds
11531da177e4SLinus Torvaldschoice
11541da177e4SLinus Torvalds        prompt "JFFS2 default compression mode" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
11551da177e4SLinus Torvalds        default JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY
11561da177e4SLinus Torvalds        depends on JFFS2_FS
11571da177e4SLinus Torvalds        help
11581da177e4SLinus Torvalds          You can set here the default compression mode of JFFS2 from
11591da177e4SLinus Torvalds          the available compression modes. Don't touch if unsure.
11601da177e4SLinus Torvalds
11611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_CMODE_NONE
11621da177e4SLinus Torvalds        bool "no compression"
11631da177e4SLinus Torvalds        help
11641da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Uses no compression.
11651da177e4SLinus Torvalds
11661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY
11671da177e4SLinus Torvalds        bool "priority"
11681da177e4SLinus Torvalds        help
11691da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Tries the compressors in a predefinied order and chooses the first
11701da177e4SLinus Torvalds          successful one.
11711da177e4SLinus Torvalds
11721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_CMODE_SIZE
11731da177e4SLinus Torvalds        bool "size (EXPERIMENTAL)"
11741da177e4SLinus Torvalds        help
11751da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest
11761da177e4SLinus Torvalds          result.
11771da177e4SLinus Torvalds
11781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendchoice
11791da177e4SLinus Torvalds
11801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CRAMFS
11811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)"
11821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select ZLIB_INFLATE
11831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
11841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here includes support for CramFs (Compressed ROM File
11851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  System).  CramFs is designed to be a simple, small, and compressed
11861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  file system for ROM based embedded systems.  CramFs is read-only,
11871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  limited to 256MB file systems (with 16MB files), and doesn't support
11881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  16/32 bits uid/gid, hard links and timestamps.
11891da177e4SLinus Torvalds
11901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  See <file:Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt> and
11911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:fs/cramfs/README> for further information.
11921da177e4SLinus Torvalds
11931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
11941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  cramfs.  Note that the root file system (the one containing the
11951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
11961da177e4SLinus Torvalds
11971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
11981da177e4SLinus Torvalds
11991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig VXFS_FS
12001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "FreeVxFS file system support (VERITAS VxFS(TM) compatible)"
12011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  FreeVxFS is a file system driver that support the VERITAS VxFS(TM)
12031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  file system format.  VERITAS VxFS(TM) is the standard file system
12041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  of SCO UnixWare (and possibly others) and optionally available
12051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for Sunsoft Solaris, HP-UX and many other operating systems.
12061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Currently only readonly access is supported.
12071da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  NOTE: the file system type as used by mount(1), mount(2) and
12091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  fstab(5) is 'vxfs' as it describes the file system format, not
12101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the actual driver.
12111da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
12131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  called freevxfs.  If unsure, say N.
12141da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12151da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HPFS_FS
12171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "OS/2 HPFS file system support"
12181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  OS/2 is IBM's operating system for PC's, the same as Warp, and HPFS
12201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  is the file system used for organizing files on OS/2 hard disk
12211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  partitions. Say Y if you want to be able to read files from and
12221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  write files to an OS/2 HPFS partition on your hard drive. OS/2
12231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  floppies however are in regular MSDOS format, so you don't need this
12241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  option in order to be able to read them. Read
12251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt>.
12261da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
12281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  module will be called hpfs.  If unsure, say N.
12291da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12301da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12311da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QNX4FS_FS
12331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "QNX4 file system support (read only)"
12341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12351da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This is the file system used by the real-time operating systems
12361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  QNX 4 and QNX 6 (the latter is also called QNX RTP).
12371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Further information is available at <http://www.qnx.com/>.
12381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Say Y if you intend to mount QNX hard disks or floppies.
12391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Unless you say Y to "QNX4FS read-write support" below, you will
12401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  only be able to read these file systems.
12411da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
12431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  module will be called qnx4.
12441da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
12461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answer N.
12471da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QNX4FS_RW
12491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "QNX4FS write support (DANGEROUS)"
12501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on QNX4FS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN
12511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Say Y if you want to test write support for QNX4 file systems.
12531da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  It's currently broken, so for now:
12551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  answer N.
12561da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12571da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12581da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSV_FS
12601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support"
12611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
12621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel
12631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y
12641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk
12651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  partitions.
12661da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely
12681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order
12691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is a
12701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse,
12711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux.  It is
12721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  available via FTP (user: ftp) from
12731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>).
12741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems;
12751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-)
12761da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the
12781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support
12791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  (but you need NFS file system support obviously).
12801da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
12821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
12831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
12841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tar" or preferably "info tar").  Note also that this option has
12851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about
12861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the System V file system in
12871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>.
12881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB.
12891da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
12911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  sysv.
12921da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
12941da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12951da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12961da177e4SLinus Torvalds
12971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UFS_FS
12981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "UFS file system support (read only)"
12991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
13011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a file system called UFS. Some System V
13021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using
13031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  this file system as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from
13041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the
13051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  experimental "UFS file system write support", below. Please read the
13061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt> for more information.
13071da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13081da177e4SLinus Torvalds          The recently released UFS2 variant (used in FreeBSD 5.x) is
13091da177e4SLinus Torvalds          READ-ONLY supported.
13101da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the
13121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  network using NFS, you don't need the UFS file system support (but
13131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you need NFS file system support obviously).
13141da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
13161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
13171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
13181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  tar" or preferably "info tar").
13191da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  When accessing NeXTstep files, you may need to convert them from the
13211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  NeXT character set to the Latin1 character set; use the program
13221da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  recode ("info recode") for this purpose.
13231da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To compile the UFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the
13251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  module will be called ufs.
13261da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
13281da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UFS_FS_WRITE
13301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS)"
13311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on UFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
13321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Say Y here if you want to try writing to UFS partitions. This is
13341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  experimental, so you should back up your UFS partitions beforehand.
13351da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu
13371da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Network File Systems"
13391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on NET
13401da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_FS
13421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "NFS file system support"
13431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on INET
13441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select LOCKD
13451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select SUNRPC
1346b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher	select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFS_V3_ACL
13471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you are connected to some other (usually local) Unix computer
13491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  (using SLIP, PLIP, PPP or Ethernet) and want to mount files residing
13501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  on that computer (the NFS server) using the Network File Sharing
13511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  protocol, say Y. "Mounting files" means that the client can access
13521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the files with usual UNIX commands as if they were sitting on the
13531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  client's hard disk. For this to work, the server must run the
13541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  programs nfsd and mountd (but does not need to have NFS file system
13551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support enabled in its kernel). NFS is explained in the Network
13561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Administrator's Guide, available from
13571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>, on its man page: "man
13581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  nfs", and in the NFS-HOWTO.
13591da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  A superior but less widely used alternative to NFS is provided by
13611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the Coda file system; see "Coda file system support" below.
13621da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you should have said Y to TCP/IP networking also.
13641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option would enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB.
13651da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
13671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  module will be called nfs.
13681da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you are configuring a diskless machine which will mount its root
13701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  file system over NFS at boot time, say Y here and to "Kernel
13711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  level IP autoconfiguration" above and to "Root file system on NFS"
13721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  below. You cannot compile this driver as a module in this case.
13731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  There are two packages designed for booting diskless machines over
13741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the net: netboot, available from
13751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/netboot/>, and Etherboot,
13761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  available from <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/etherboot/>.
13771da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you don't know what all this is about, say N.
13791da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_V3
13811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Provide NFSv3 client support"
13821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on NFS_FS
13831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
13841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak version
13851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  3 of the NFS protocol.
13861da177e4SLinus Torvalds
13871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say Y.
13881da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1389b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFS_V3_ACL
1390b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher	bool "Provide client support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension"
1391b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher	depends on NFS_V3
1392b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher	help
1393b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher	  Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX
1394b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher	  Access Control Lists.  The server should also be compiled with
1395b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher	  the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL option.
1396b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher
1397b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher	  If unsure, say N.
1398b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher
13991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_V4
14001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Provide NFSv4 client support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
14011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
14021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
14031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak the newer
14051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  version 4 of the NFS protocol.
14061da177e4SLinus Torvalds
14071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Note: Requires auxiliary userspace daemons which may be found on
14081da177e4SLinus Torvalds		http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
14091da177e4SLinus Torvalds
14101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
14111da177e4SLinus Torvalds
14121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_DIRECTIO
14131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Allow direct I/O on NFS files (EXPERIMENTAL)"
14141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
14151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This option enables applications to perform uncached I/O on files
14171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  in NFS file systems using the O_DIRECT open() flag.  When O_DIRECT
14181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  is set for a file, its data is not cached in the system's page
14191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  cache.  Data is moved to and from user-level application buffers
14201da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  directly.  Unlike local disk-based file systems, NFS O_DIRECT has
14211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  no alignment restrictions.
14221da177e4SLinus Torvalds
14231da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Unless your program is designed to use O_DIRECT properly, you are
14241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  much better off allowing the NFS client to manage data caching for
14251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  you.  Misusing O_DIRECT can cause poor server performance or network
14261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  storms.  This kernel build option defaults OFF to avoid exposing
14271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  system administrators unwittingly to a potentially hazardous
14281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  feature.
14291da177e4SLinus Torvalds
14301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  For more details on NFS O_DIRECT, see fs/nfs/direct.c.
14311da177e4SLinus Torvalds
14321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.  This reduces the size of the NFS client, and
14331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  causes open() to return EINVAL if a file residing in NFS is
14341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  opened with the O_DIRECT flag.
14351da177e4SLinus Torvalds
14361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD
14371da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "NFS server support"
14381da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on INET
14391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select LOCKD
14401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select SUNRPC
14411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select EXPORTFS
1442a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher	select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFSD_V3_ACL || NFSD_V2_ACL
14431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you want your Linux box to act as an NFS *server*, so that other
14451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  computers on your local network which support NFS can access certain
14461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  directories on your box transparently, you have two options: you can
14471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  use the self-contained user space program nfsd, in which case you
14481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  should say N here, or you can say Y and use the kernel based NFS
14491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  server. The advantage of the kernel based solution is that it is
14501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  faster.
14511da177e4SLinus Torvalds
14521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  In either case, you will need support software; the respective
14531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  locations are given in the file <file:Documentation/Changes> in the
14541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  NFS section.
14551da177e4SLinus Torvalds
14561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will get support for version 2 of the NFS
14571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  protocol (NFSv2). If you also want NFSv3, say Y to the next question
14581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  as well.
14591da177e4SLinus Torvalds
14601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Please read the NFS-HOWTO, available from
14611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
14621da177e4SLinus Torvalds
14631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To compile the NFS server support as a module, choose M here: the
14641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  module will be called nfsd.  If unsure, say N.
14651da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1466a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFSD_V2_ACL
1467a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher	bool
1468a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher	depends on NFSD
1469a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher
14701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD_V3
14711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Provide NFSv3 server support"
14721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on NFSD
14731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you would like to include the NFSv3 server as well as the NFSv2
14751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  server, say Y here.  If unsure, say Y.
14761da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1477a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFSD_V3_ACL
1478a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher	bool "Provide server support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension"
1479a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher	depends on NFSD_V3
1480a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher	select NFSD_V2_ACL
1481a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher	help
1482a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher	  Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX
1483a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher	  Access Control Lists on exported file systems. NFS clients should
1484a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher	  be compiled with the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the
1485a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher	  CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL option.  If unsure, say N.
1486a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher
14871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD_V4
14881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Provide NFSv4 server support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
14891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on NFSD_V3 && EXPERIMENTAL
14901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select NFSD_TCP
1491a55370a3SNeilBrown	select CRYPTO_MD5
1492a55370a3SNeilBrown	select CRYPTO
1493b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher	select FS_POSIX_ACL
14941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
14951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you would like to include the NFSv4 server as well as the NFSv2
14961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and NFSv3 servers, say Y here.  This feature is experimental, and
14971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  should only be used if you are interested in helping to test NFSv4.
14981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
14991da177e4SLinus Torvalds
15001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD_TCP
15011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Provide NFS server over TCP support"
15021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on NFSD
15031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
15041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you want your NFS server to support TCP connections, say Y here.
15061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  TCP connections usually perform better than the default UDP when
15071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the network is lossy or congested.  If unsure, say Y.
15081da177e4SLinus Torvalds
15091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ROOT_NFS
15101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Root file system on NFS"
15111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP
15121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
15141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
15151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  net via NFS (presumably because your box doesn't have a hard disk),
15161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  say Y. Read <file:Documentation/nfsroot.txt> for details. It is
15171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  likely that in this case, you also want to say Y to "Kernel level IP
15181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  autoconfiguration" so that your box can discover its network address
15191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  at boot time.
15201da177e4SLinus Torvalds
15211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Most people say N here.
15221da177e4SLinus Torvalds
15231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCKD
15241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate
15251da177e4SLinus Torvalds
15261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCKD_V4
15271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool
15281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on NFSD_V3 || NFS_V3
15291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default y
15301da177e4SLinus Torvalds
15311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPORTFS
15321da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate
15331da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1534a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFS_ACL_SUPPORT
1535a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher	tristate
1536a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher	select FS_POSIX_ACL
1537a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher
1538a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFS_COMMON
1539a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher	bool
1540a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher	depends on NFSD || NFS_FS
1541a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher	default y
1542a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher
15431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNRPC
15441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate
15451da177e4SLinus Torvalds
15461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNRPC_GSS
15471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate
15481da177e4SLinus Torvalds
15491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
15501da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
15511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
15521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select SUNRPC_GSS
15531da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select CRYPTO
15541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select CRYPTO_MD5
15551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select CRYPTO_DES
15561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api
15581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  mechanism based on Kerberos V5. This is required for
15591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  NFSv4.
15601da177e4SLinus Torvalds
15611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on
15621da177e4SLinus Torvalds		http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
15631da177e4SLinus Torvalds
15641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
15651da177e4SLinus Torvalds
15661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3
15671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "Secure RPC: SPKM3 mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
15681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
15691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select SUNRPC_GSS
15701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select CRYPTO
15711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select CRYPTO_MD5
15721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select CRYPTO_DES
15731da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api
15751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  mechanism based on the SPKM3 public-key mechanism.
15761da177e4SLinus Torvalds
15771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on
15781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  	http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
15791da177e4SLinus Torvalds
15801da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
15811da177e4SLinus Torvalds
15821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SMB_FS
15831da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "SMB file system support (to mount Windows shares etc.)"
15841da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on INET
15851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select NLS
15861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
15871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Windows for Workgroups
15881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  (WfW), Windows 95/98, Windows NT and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share
15891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  files and printers over local networks.  Saying Y here allows you to
15901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  mount their file systems (often called "shares" in this context) and
15911da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  access them just like any other Unix directory.  Currently, this
15921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  works only if the Windows machines use TCP/IP as the underlying
15931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  transport protocol, and not NetBEUI.  For details, read
15941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt> and the SMB-HOWTO,
15951da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
15961da177e4SLinus Torvalds
15971da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Note: if you just want your box to act as an SMB *server* and make
15981da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  files and printing services available to Windows clients (which need
15991da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to have a TCP/IP stack), you don't need to say Y here; you can use
16001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the program SAMBA (available from <ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/>)
16011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  for that.
16021da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
16041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
16051da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16061da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here: the module will
16071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  be called smbfs.  Most people say N, however.
16081da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
16101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Use a default NLS"
16111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on SMB_FS
16121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
16131da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Enabling this will make smbfs use nls translations by default. You
16141da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  need to specify the local charset (CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT) in the nls
16151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  settings and you need to give the default nls for the SMB server as
16161da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE.
16171da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16181da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount
16191da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters.
16201da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16211da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
16221da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SMB_NLS_REMOTE
16241da177e4SLinus Torvalds	string "Default Remote NLS Option"
16251da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
16261da177e4SLinus Torvalds	default "cp437"
16271da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
16281da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This setting allows you to specify a default value for which
16291da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  codepage the server uses. If this field is left blank no
16301da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  translations will be done by default. The local codepage/charset
16311da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  default to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT.
16321da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16331da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount
16341da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters.
16351da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16361da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
16371da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS
16391da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem for Samba, Window and other CIFS compliant servers)"
16401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on INET
16411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select NLS
16421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
16431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System
16441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block
16451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early
16461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  PC operating systems.  The CIFS protocol is fully supported by
16471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4
16481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS
1649ec58ef03SSteve French	  server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited
1650ec58ef03SSteve French	  support for Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well.
1651ec58ef03SSteve French	  You must use the smbfs client filesystem to access older SMB servers
1652ec58ef03SSteve French	  such as OS/2 and DOS.
16531da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced
16551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers,
16561da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user
16571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional
16581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements,
16591da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and optional Winbind (nsswitch) integration. You do not need to enable
16601da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  cifs if running only a (Samba) server. It is possible to enable both
16611da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  smbfs and cifs (e.g. if you are using CIFS for accessing Windows 2003
16621da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  and Samba 3 servers, and smbfs for accessing old servers). If you need
1663ec58ef03SSteve French	  to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y.
16641da177e4SLinus Torvalds
16651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS_STATS
16661da177e4SLinus Torvalds        bool "CIFS statistics"
16671da177e4SLinus Torvalds        depends on CIFS
16681da177e4SLinus Torvalds        help
16691da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share
16701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats
16711da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1672ec58ef03SSteve Frenchconfig CIFS_STATS2
1673ec58ef03SSteve French	bool "CIFS extended statistics"
1674ec58ef03SSteve French	depends on CIFS_STATS
1675ec58ef03SSteve French	help
1676ec58ef03SSteve French	  Enabling this option will allow more detailed statistics on SMB
1677ec58ef03SSteve French	  request timing to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData and also
1678ec58ef03SSteve French	  allow optional logging of slow responses to dmesg (depending on the
1679ec58ef03SSteve French	  value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI, see fs/cifs/README for more details).
1680ec58ef03SSteve French	  These additional statistics may have a minor effect on performance
1681ec58ef03SSteve French	  and memory utilization.
1682ec58ef03SSteve French
1683ec58ef03SSteve French	  Unless you are a developer or are doing network performance analysis
1684ec58ef03SSteve French	  or tuning, say N.
1685ec58ef03SSteve French
16861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS_XATTR
1687ec58ef03SSteve French        bool "CIFS extended attributes"
16881da177e4SLinus Torvalds        depends on CIFS
16891da177e4SLinus Torvalds        help
16901da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
16911da177e4SLinus Torvalds          the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
16921da177e4SLinus Torvalds          <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).  CIFS maps the name of
16931da177e4SLinus Torvalds          extended attributes beginning with the user namespace prefix
16941da177e4SLinus Torvalds          to SMB/CIFS EAs. EAs are stored on Windows servers without the
16951da177e4SLinus Torvalds          user namespace prefix, but their names are seen by Linux cifs clients
16961da177e4SLinus Torvalds          prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace
16971da177e4SLinus Torvalds          (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at
16981da177e4SLinus Torvalds          this time.
16991da177e4SLinus Torvalds
17001da177e4SLinus Torvalds          If unsure, say N.
17011da177e4SLinus Torvalds
17021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS_POSIX
1703ec58ef03SSteve French        bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions"
17041da177e4SLinus Torvalds        depends on CIFS_XATTR
17051da177e4SLinus Torvalds        help
17061da177e4SLinus Torvalds          Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to
17071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  negotiate a newer dialect with servers, such as Samba 3.0.5
17081da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  or later, that optionally can handle more POSIX like (rather
17091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  than Windows like) file behavior.  It also enables
17101da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  support for POSIX ACLs (getfacl and setfacl) to servers
17111da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  (such as Samba 3.10 and later) which can negotiate
17121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  CIFS POSIX ACL support.  If unsure, say N.
17131da177e4SLinus Torvalds
17141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
17151da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1716cb9dbff9SSteve French	  depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL
17171da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  help
1718ec58ef03SSteve French	    Enables cifs features under testing. These features are
1719ec58ef03SSteve French	    experimental and currently include support for writepages
1720ec58ef03SSteve French	    (multipage writebehind performance improvements) and directory
1721ec58ef03SSteve French	    change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY) as well as some security
1722ec58ef03SSteve French	    improvements.  Some also depend on setting at runtime the
1723ec58ef03SSteve French	    pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental (which is disabled by
1724ec58ef03SSteve French	    default). See the file fs/cifs/README for more details.
1725ec58ef03SSteve French
1726ec58ef03SSteve French	    If unsure, say N.
17271da177e4SLinus Torvalds
1728a2653ebaSSteve Frenchconfig CIFS_UPCALL
1729a2653ebaSSteve French	  bool "CIFS Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1730a2653ebaSSteve French	  depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
1731a2653ebaSSteve French	  select CONNECTOR
1732a2653ebaSSteve French	  help
1733a2653ebaSSteve French	    Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which will be used to contact
1734a2653ebaSSteve French	    userspace helper utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged Kerberos
1735a2653ebaSSteve French	    tickets which are needed to mount to certain secure servers
17361b397f4fSSteve French	    (for which more secure Kerberos authentication is required). If
17371b397f4fSSteve French	    unsure, say N.
1738a2653ebaSSteve French
17391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NCP_FS
17401da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)"
17411da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on IPX!=n || INET
17421da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
17431da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) is a protocol that runs over IPX and is
17441da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  used by Novell NetWare clients to talk to file servers.  It is to
17451da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  IPX what NFS is to TCP/IP, if that helps.  Saying Y here allows you
17461da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to mount NetWare file server volumes and to access them just like
17471da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  any other Unix directory.  For details, please read the file
17481da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:Documentation/filesystems/ncpfs.txt> in the kernel source and
17491da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  the IPX-HOWTO from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
17501da177e4SLinus Torvalds
17511da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  You do not have to say Y here if you want your Linux box to act as a
17521da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  file *server* for Novell NetWare clients.
17531da177e4SLinus Torvalds
17541da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
17551da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
17561da177e4SLinus Torvalds
17571da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
17581da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  ncpfs.  Say N unless you are connected to a Novell network.
17591da177e4SLinus Torvalds
17601da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/ncpfs/Kconfig"
17611da177e4SLinus Torvalds
17621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CODA_FS
17631da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)"
17641da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on INET
17651da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
17661da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it
17671da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them
17681da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard
17691da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  disk.  Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for
17701da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server
17711da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  replication, security model for authentication and encryption,
17721da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  persistent client caches and write back caching.
17731da177e4SLinus Torvalds
17741da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda
17751da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  *client*.  You will need user level code as well, both for the
17761da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  client and server.  Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need
17771da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  no kernel support.  Please read
17781da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  <file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.txt> and check out the Coda
17791da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>.
17801da177e4SLinus Torvalds
17811da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the
17821da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  module will be called coda.
17831da177e4SLinus Torvalds
17841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CODA_FS_OLD_API
17851da177e4SLinus Torvalds	bool "Use 96-bit Coda file identifiers"
17861da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on CODA_FS
17871da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
17881da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  A new kernel-userspace API had to be introduced for Coda v6.0
17891da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  to support larger 128-bit file identifiers as needed by the
17901da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  new realms implementation.
17911da177e4SLinus Torvalds
17921da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  However this new API is not backward compatible with older
17931da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  clients. If you really need to run the old Coda userspace
17941da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  cache manager then say Y.
17951da177e4SLinus Torvalds
17961da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  For most cases you probably want to say N.
17971da177e4SLinus Torvalds
17981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AFS_FS
17991da177e4SLinus Torvalds# for fs/nls/Config.in
18001da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate "Andrew File System support (AFS) (Experimental)"
18011da177e4SLinus Torvalds	depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL
18021da177e4SLinus Torvalds	select RXRPC
18031da177e4SLinus Torvalds	help
18041da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If you say Y here, you will get an experimental Andrew File System
18051da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  driver. It currently only supports unsecured read-only AFS access.
18061da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18071da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more intormation.
18081da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18091da177e4SLinus Torvalds	  If unsure, say N.
18101da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig RXRPC
18121da177e4SLinus Torvalds	tristate
18131da177e4SLinus Torvalds
181493fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergenconfig 9P_FS
181593fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen	tristate "Plan 9 Resource Sharing Support (9P2000) (Experimental)"
181693fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen	depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL
181793fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen	help
181893fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen	  If you say Y here, you will get experimental support for
181993fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen	  Plan 9 resource sharing via the 9P2000 protocol.
182093fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen
182193fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen	  See <http://v9fs.sf.net> for more information.
182293fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen
182393fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen	  If unsure, say N.
182493fa58cbSEric Van Hensbergen
18251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu
18261da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Partition Types"
18281da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18291da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/partitions/Kconfig"
18301da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu
18321da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18331da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/nls/Kconfig"
1834*e7fd4179SDavid Teiglandsource "fs/dlm/Kconfig"
18351da177e4SLinus Torvalds
18361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu
18371da177e4SLinus Torvalds
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