1# 2# File system configuration 3# 4 5menu "File systems" 6 7config EXT2_FS 8 tristate "Second extended fs support" 9 help 10 Ext2 is a standard Linux file system for hard disks. 11 12 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 13 module will be called ext2. Be aware however that the file system 14 of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot 15 be compiled as a module, and so this could be dangerous. 16 17 If unsure, say Y. 18 19config EXT2_FS_XATTR 20 bool "Ext2 extended attributes" 21 depends on EXT2_FS 22 help 23 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 24 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 25 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 26 27 If unsure, say N. 28 29config EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL 30 bool "Ext2 POSIX Access Control Lists" 31 depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR 32 select FS_POSIX_ACL 33 help 34 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 35 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 36 37 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 38 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 39 40 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 41 42config EXT2_FS_SECURITY 43 bool "Ext2 Security Labels" 44 depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR 45 help 46 Security labels support alternative access control models 47 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 48 enables an extended attribute handler for file security 49 labels in the ext2 filesystem. 50 51 If you are not using a security module that requires using 52 extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 53 54config EXT2_FS_XIP 55 bool "Ext2 execute in place support" 56 depends on EXT2_FS 57 help 58 Execute in place can be used on memory-backed block devices. If you 59 enable this option, you can select to mount block devices which are 60 capable of this feature without using the page cache. 61 62 If you do not use a block device that is capable of using this, 63 or if unsure, say N. 64 65config FS_XIP 66# execute in place 67 bool 68 depends on EXT2_FS_XIP 69 default y 70 71config EXT3_FS 72 tristate "Ext3 journalling file system support" 73 help 74 This is the journaling version of the Second extended file system 75 (often called ext3), the de facto standard Linux file system 76 (method to organize files on a storage device) for hard disks. 77 78 The journaling code included in this driver means you do not have 79 to run e2fsck (file system checker) on your file systems after a 80 crash. The journal keeps track of any changes that were being made 81 at the time the system crashed, and can ensure that your file system 82 is consistent without the need for a lengthy check. 83 84 Other than adding the journal to the file system, the on-disk format 85 of ext3 is identical to ext2. It is possible to freely switch 86 between using the ext3 driver and the ext2 driver, as long as the 87 file system has been cleanly unmounted, or e2fsck is run on the file 88 system. 89 90 To add a journal on an existing ext2 file system or change the 91 behavior of ext3 file systems, you can use the tune2fs utility ("man 92 tune2fs"). To modify attributes of files and directories on ext3 93 file systems, use chattr ("man chattr"). You need to be using 94 e2fsprogs version 1.20 or later in order to create ext3 journals 95 (available at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/e2fsprogs/>). 96 97 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 98 module will be called ext3. Be aware however that the file system 99 of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot 100 be compiled as a module, and so this may be dangerous. 101 102config EXT3_FS_XATTR 103 bool "Ext3 extended attributes" 104 depends on EXT3_FS 105 default y 106 help 107 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 108 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 109 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 110 111 If unsure, say N. 112 113 You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext3. 114 115config EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL 116 bool "Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists" 117 depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR 118 select FS_POSIX_ACL 119 help 120 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 121 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 122 123 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 124 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 125 126 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 127 128config EXT3_FS_SECURITY 129 bool "Ext3 Security Labels" 130 depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR 131 help 132 Security labels support alternative access control models 133 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 134 enables an extended attribute handler for file security 135 labels in the ext3 filesystem. 136 137 If you are not using a security module that requires using 138 extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 139 140config JBD 141# CONFIG_JBD could be its own option (even modular), but until there are 142# other users than ext3, we will simply make it be the same as CONFIG_EXT3_FS 143# dep_tristate ' Journal Block Device support (JBD for ext3)' CONFIG_JBD $CONFIG_EXT3_FS 144 tristate 145 default EXT3_FS 146 help 147 This is a generic journaling layer for block devices. It is 148 currently used by the ext3 file system, but it could also be used to 149 add journal support to other file systems or block devices such as 150 RAID or LVM. 151 152 If you are using the ext3 file system, you need to say Y here. If 153 you are not using ext3 then you will probably want to say N. 154 155 To compile this device as a module, choose M here: the module will be 156 called jbd. If you are compiling ext3 into the kernel, you cannot 157 compile this code as a module. 158 159config JBD_DEBUG 160 bool "JBD (ext3) debugging support" 161 depends on JBD 162 help 163 If you are using the ext3 journaled file system (or potentially any 164 other file system/device using JBD), this option allows you to 165 enable debugging output while the system is running, in order to 166 help track down any problems you are having. By default the 167 debugging output will be turned off. 168 169 If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging 170 with "echo N > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug", where N is a number between 171 1 and 5, the higher the number, the more debugging output is 172 generated. To turn debugging off again, do 173 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug". 174 175config FS_MBCACHE 176# Meta block cache for Extended Attributes (ext2/ext3) 177 tristate 178 depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR || EXT3_FS_XATTR 179 default y if EXT2_FS=y || EXT3_FS=y 180 default m if EXT2_FS=m || EXT3_FS=m 181 182config REISERFS_FS 183 tristate "Reiserfs support" 184 help 185 Stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a balanced 186 tree. Uses journaling. 187 188 Balanced trees are more efficient than traditional file system 189 architectural foundations. 190 191 In general, ReiserFS is as fast as ext2, but is very efficient with 192 large directories and small files. Additional patches are needed 193 for NFS and quotas, please see <http://www.namesys.com/> for links. 194 195 It is more easily extended to have features currently found in 196 database and keyword search systems than block allocation based file 197 systems are. The next version will be so extended, and will support 198 plugins consistent with our motto ``It takes more than a license to 199 make source code open.'' 200 201 Read <http://www.namesys.com/> to learn more about reiserfs. 202 203 Sponsored by Threshold Networks, Emusic.com, and Bigstorage.com. 204 205 If you like it, you can pay us to add new features to it that you 206 need, buy a support contract, or pay us to port it to another OS. 207 208config REISERFS_CHECK 209 bool "Enable reiserfs debug mode" 210 depends on REISERFS_FS 211 help 212 If you set this to Y, then ReiserFS will perform every check it can 213 possibly imagine of its internal consistency throughout its 214 operation. It will also go substantially slower. More than once we 215 have forgotten that this was on, and then gone despondent over the 216 latest benchmarks.:-) Use of this option allows our team to go all 217 out in checking for consistency when debugging without fear of its 218 effect on end users. If you are on the verge of sending in a bug 219 report, say Y and you might get a useful error message. Almost 220 everyone should say N. 221 222config REISERFS_PROC_INFO 223 bool "Stats in /proc/fs/reiserfs" 224 depends on REISERFS_FS 225 help 226 Create under /proc/fs/reiserfs a hierarchy of files, displaying 227 various ReiserFS statistics and internal data at the expense of 228 making your kernel or module slightly larger (+8 KB). This also 229 increases the amount of kernel memory required for each mount. 230 Almost everyone but ReiserFS developers and people fine-tuning 231 reiserfs or tracing problems should say N. 232 233config REISERFS_FS_XATTR 234 bool "ReiserFS extended attributes" 235 depends on REISERFS_FS 236 help 237 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 238 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 239 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 240 241 If unsure, say N. 242 243config REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL 244 bool "ReiserFS POSIX Access Control Lists" 245 depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR 246 select FS_POSIX_ACL 247 help 248 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 249 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 250 251 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 252 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 253 254 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 255 256config REISERFS_FS_SECURITY 257 bool "ReiserFS Security Labels" 258 depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR 259 help 260 Security labels support alternative access control models 261 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 262 enables an extended attribute handler for file security 263 labels in the ReiserFS filesystem. 264 265 If you are not using a security module that requires using 266 extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 267 268config JFS_FS 269 tristate "JFS filesystem support" 270 select NLS 271 help 272 This is a port of IBM's Journaled Filesystem . More information is 273 available in the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt>. 274 275 If you do not intend to use the JFS filesystem, say N. 276 277config JFS_POSIX_ACL 278 bool "JFS POSIX Access Control Lists" 279 depends on JFS_FS 280 select FS_POSIX_ACL 281 help 282 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 283 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 284 285 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 286 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 287 288 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 289 290config JFS_SECURITY 291 bool "JFS Security Labels" 292 depends on JFS_FS 293 help 294 Security labels support alternative access control models 295 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 296 enables an extended attribute handler for file security 297 labels in the jfs filesystem. 298 299 If you are not using a security module that requires using 300 extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 301 302config JFS_DEBUG 303 bool "JFS debugging" 304 depends on JFS_FS 305 help 306 If you are experiencing any problems with the JFS filesystem, say 307 Y here. This will result in additional debugging messages to be 308 written to the system log. Under normal circumstances, this 309 results in very little overhead. 310 311config JFS_STATISTICS 312 bool "JFS statistics" 313 depends on JFS_FS 314 help 315 Enabling this option will cause statistics from the JFS file system 316 to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jfs/ directory. 317 318config FS_POSIX_ACL 319# Posix ACL utility routines (for now, only ext2/ext3/jfs/reiserfs) 320# 321# NOTE: you can implement Posix ACLs without these helpers (XFS does). 322# Never use this symbol for ifdefs. 323# 324 bool 325 default n 326 327source "fs/xfs/Kconfig" 328 329config MINIX_FS 330 tristate "Minix fs support" 331 help 332 Minix is a simple operating system used in many classes about OS's. 333 The minix file system (method to organize files on a hard disk 334 partition or a floppy disk) was the original file system for Linux, 335 but has been superseded by the second extended file system ext2fs. 336 You don't want to use the minix file system on your hard disk 337 because of certain built-in restrictions, but it is sometimes found 338 on older Linux floppy disks. This option will enlarge your kernel 339 by about 28 KB. If unsure, say N. 340 341 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 342 module will be called minix. Note that the file system of your root 343 partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as 344 a module. 345 346config ROMFS_FS 347 tristate "ROM file system support" 348 ---help--- 349 This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for 350 initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for 351 other read-only media as well. Read 352 <file:Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt> for details. 353 354 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 355 module will be called romfs. Note that the file system of your 356 root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a 357 module. 358 359 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it: 360 answer N. 361 362config INOTIFY 363 bool "Inotify file change notification support" 364 default y 365 ---help--- 366 Say Y here to enable inotify support and the /dev/inotify character 367 device. Inotify is a file change notification system and a 368 replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes numerous shortcomings in 369 dnotify and introduces several new features. It allows monitoring 370 of both files and directories via a single open fd. Multiple file 371 events are supported. 372 373 If unsure, say Y. 374 375config QUOTA 376 bool "Quota support" 377 help 378 If you say Y here, you will be able to set per user limits for disk 379 usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works for the 380 ext2, ext3, and reiserfs file system. ext3 also supports journalled 381 quotas for which you don't need to run quotacheck(8) after an unclean 382 shutdown. You need additional software in order to use quota support 383 (you can download sources from 384 <http://www.sf.net/projects/linuxquota/>). For further details, read 385 the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from 386 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or the documentation provided 387 with the quota tools. Probably the quota support is only useful for 388 multi user systems. If unsure, say N. 389 390config QFMT_V1 391 tristate "Old quota format support" 392 depends on QUOTA 393 help 394 This quota format was (is) used by kernels earlier than 2.4.22. If 395 you have quota working and you don't want to convert to new quota 396 format say Y here. 397 398config QFMT_V2 399 tristate "Quota format v2 support" 400 depends on QUOTA 401 help 402 This quota format allows using quotas with 32-bit UIDs/GIDs. If you 403 need this functionality say Y here. Note that you will need recent 404 quota utilities (>= 3.01) for new quota format with this kernel. 405 406config QUOTACTL 407 bool 408 depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA 409 default y 410 411config DNOTIFY 412 bool "Dnotify support" if EMBEDDED 413 default y 414 help 415 Dnotify is a directory-based per-fd file change notification system 416 that uses signals to communicate events to user-space. There exist 417 superior alternatives, but some applications may still rely on 418 dnotify. 419 420 Because of this, if unsure, say Y. 421 422config AUTOFS_FS 423 tristate "Kernel automounter support" 424 help 425 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems 426 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce 427 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD 428 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. 429 430 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs 431 package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>. 432 You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. 433 434 If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more 435 features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support", 436 below. 437 438 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be 439 called autofs. 440 441 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you 442 probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here. 443 444config AUTOFS4_FS 445 tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)" 446 help 447 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems 448 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce 449 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD 450 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. 451 452 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from 453 <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/>; you also 454 want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. 455 456 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be 457 called autofs4. You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your 458 modules configuration file. 459 460 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or 461 don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the 462 local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say 463 N here. 464 465menu "CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems" 466 467config ISO9660_FS 468 tristate "ISO 9660 CDROM file system support" 469 help 470 This is the standard file system used on CD-ROMs. It was previously 471 known as "High Sierra File System" and is called "hsfs" on other 472 Unix systems. The so-called Rock-Ridge extensions which allow for 473 long Unix filenames and symbolic links are also supported by this 474 driver. If you have a CD-ROM drive and want to do more with it than 475 just listen to audio CDs and watch its LEDs, say Y (and read 476 <file:Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt> and the CD-ROM-HOWTO, 477 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), thereby 478 enlarging your kernel by about 27 KB; otherwise say N. 479 480 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 481 module will be called isofs. 482 483config JOLIET 484 bool "Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions" 485 depends on ISO9660_FS 486 select NLS 487 help 488 Joliet is a Microsoft extension for the ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system 489 which allows for long filenames in unicode format (unicode is the 490 new 16 bit character code, successor to ASCII, which encodes the 491 characters of almost all languages of the world; see 492 <http://www.unicode.org/> for more information). Say Y here if you 493 want to be able to read Joliet CD-ROMs under Linux. 494 495config ZISOFS 496 bool "Transparent decompression extension" 497 depends on ISO9660_FS 498 select ZLIB_INFLATE 499 help 500 This is a Linux-specific extension to RockRidge which lets you store 501 data in compressed form on a CD-ROM and have it transparently 502 decompressed when the CD-ROM is accessed. See 503 <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/zisofs/> for the tools 504 necessary to create such a filesystem. Say Y here if you want to be 505 able to read such compressed CD-ROMs. 506 507config ZISOFS_FS 508# for fs/nls/Config.in 509 tristate 510 depends on ZISOFS 511 default ISO9660_FS 512 513config UDF_FS 514 tristate "UDF file system support" 515 help 516 This is the new file system used on some CD-ROMs and DVDs. Say Y if 517 you intend to mount DVD discs or CDRW's written in packet mode, or 518 if written to by other UDF utilities, such as DirectCD. 519 Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt>. 520 521 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 522 module will be called udf. 523 524 If unsure, say N. 525 526config UDF_NLS 527 bool 528 default y 529 depends on (UDF_FS=m && NLS) || (UDF_FS=y && NLS=y) 530 531endmenu 532 533menu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems" 534 535config FAT_FS 536 tristate 537 select NLS 538 help 539 If you want to use one of the FAT-based file systems (the MS-DOS and 540 VFAT (Windows 95) file systems), then you must say Y or M here 541 to include FAT support. You will then be able to mount partitions or 542 diskettes with FAT-based file systems and transparently access the 543 files on them, i.e. MSDOS files will look and behave just like all 544 other Unix files. 545 546 This FAT support is not a file system in itself, it only provides 547 the foundation for the other file systems. You will have to say Y or 548 M to at least one of "MSDOS fs support" or "VFAT fs support" in 549 order to make use of it. 550 551 Another way to read and write MSDOS floppies and hard drive 552 partitions from within Linux (but not transparently) is with the 553 mtools ("man mtools") program suite. You don't need to say Y here in 554 order to do that. 555 556 If you need to move large files on floppies between a DOS and a 557 Linux box, say Y here, mount the floppy under Linux with an MSDOS 558 file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program 559 available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar"). 560 561 It is now also becoming possible to read and write compressed FAT 562 file systems; read <file:Documentation/filesystems/fat_cvf.txt> for 563 details. 564 565 The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure, 566 say Y. 567 568 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 569 fat. Note that if you compile the FAT support as a module, you 570 cannot compile any of the FAT-based file systems into the kernel 571 -- they will have to be modules as well. 572 573config MSDOS_FS 574 tristate "MSDOS fs support" 575 select FAT_FS 576 help 577 This allows you to mount MSDOS partitions of your hard drive (unless 578 they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under 579 Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the 580 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from 581 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in 582 <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you 583 intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y 584 here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes 585 transparent, i.e. the MSDOS files look and behave just like all 586 other Unix files. 587 588 If you have Windows 95 or Windows NT installed on your MSDOS 589 partitions, you should use the VFAT file system (say Y to "VFAT fs 590 support" below), or you will not be able to see the long filenames 591 generated by Windows 95 / Windows NT. 592 593 This option will enlarge your kernel by about 7 KB. If unsure, 594 answer Y. This will only work if you said Y to "DOS FAT fs support" 595 as well. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will 596 be called msdos. 597 598config VFAT_FS 599 tristate "VFAT (Windows-95) fs support" 600 select FAT_FS 601 help 602 This option provides support for normal Windows file systems with 603 long filenames. That includes non-compressed FAT-based file systems 604 used by Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and the Unix 605 programs from the mtools package. 606 607 The VFAT support enlarges your kernel by about 10 KB and it only 608 works if you said Y to the "DOS FAT fs support" above. Please read 609 the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for details. If 610 unsure, say Y. 611 612 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 613 vfat. 614 615config FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE 616 int "Default codepage for FAT" 617 depends on MSDOS_FS || VFAT_FS 618 default 437 619 help 620 This option should be set to the codepage of your FAT filesystems. 621 It can be overridden with the "codepage" mount option. 622 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information. 623 624config FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET 625 string "Default iocharset for FAT" 626 depends on VFAT_FS 627 default "iso8859-1" 628 help 629 Set this to the default input/output character set you'd 630 like FAT to use. It should probably match the character set 631 that most of your FAT filesystems use, and can be overridden 632 with the "iocharset" mount option for FAT filesystems. 633 Note that "utf8" is not recommended for FAT filesystems. 634 If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here. 635 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information. 636 637config NTFS_FS 638 tristate "NTFS file system support" 639 select NLS 640 help 641 NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003. 642 643 Saying Y or M here enables read support. There is partial, but 644 safe, write support available. For write support you must also 645 say Y to "NTFS write support" below. 646 647 There are also a number of user-space tools available, called 648 ntfsprogs. These include ntfsundelete and ntfsresize, that work 649 without NTFS support enabled in the kernel. 650 651 This is a rewrite from scratch of Linux NTFS support and replaced 652 the old NTFS code starting with Linux 2.5.11. A backport to 653 the Linux 2.4 kernel series is separately available as a patch 654 from the project web site. 655 656 For more information see <file:Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt> 657 and <http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/>. 658 659 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 660 module will be called ntfs. 661 662 If you are not using Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 in addition to 663 Linux on your computer it is safe to say N. 664 665config NTFS_DEBUG 666 bool "NTFS debugging support" 667 depends on NTFS_FS 668 help 669 If you are experiencing any problems with the NTFS file system, say 670 Y here. This will result in additional consistency checks to be 671 performed by the driver as well as additional debugging messages to 672 be written to the system log. Note that debugging messages are 673 disabled by default. To enable them, supply the option debug_msgs=1 674 at the kernel command line when booting the kernel or as an option 675 to insmod when loading the ntfs module. Once the driver is active, 676 you can enable debugging messages by doing (as root): 677 echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug 678 Replacing the "1" with "0" would disable debug messages. 679 680 If you leave debugging messages disabled, this results in little 681 overhead, but enabling debug messages results in very significant 682 slowdown of the system. 683 684 When reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of 685 debugging messages while the misbehaviour was occurring. 686 687config NTFS_RW 688 bool "NTFS write support" 689 depends on NTFS_FS 690 help 691 This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver. 692 693 The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without 694 changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or 695 renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to 696 so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot 697 be written to. 698 699 While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have 700 so far not received a single report where the driver would have 701 damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use. 702 703 Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from 704 scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS 705 write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997), 706 is not safe. 707 708 This is currently useful with TopologiLinux. TopologiLinux is run 709 on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your 710 hard disk. Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not 711 need its own partition. For more information see 712 <http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/> 713 714 It is perfectly safe to say N here. 715 716endmenu 717 718menu "Pseudo filesystems" 719 720config PROC_FS 721 bool "/proc file system support" 722 help 723 This is a virtual file system providing information about the status 724 of the system. "Virtual" means that it doesn't take up any space on 725 your hard disk: the files are created on the fly by the kernel when 726 you try to access them. Also, you cannot read the files with older 727 version of the program less: you need to use more or cat. 728 729 It's totally cool; for example, "cat /proc/interrupts" gives 730 information about what the different IRQs are used for at the moment 731 (there is a small number of Interrupt ReQuest lines in your computer 732 that are used by the attached devices to gain the CPU's attention -- 733 often a source of trouble if two devices are mistakenly configured 734 to use the same IRQ). The program procinfo to display some 735 information about your system gathered from the /proc file system. 736 737 Before you can use the /proc file system, it has to be mounted, 738 meaning it has to be given a location in the directory hierarchy. 739 That location should be /proc. A command such as "mount -t proc proc 740 /proc" or the equivalent line in /etc/fstab does the job. 741 742 The /proc file system is explained in the file 743 <file:Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt> and on the proc(5) manpage 744 ("man 5 proc"). 745 746 This option will enlarge your kernel by about 67 KB. Several 747 programs depend on this, so everyone should say Y here. 748 749config PROC_KCORE 750 bool "/proc/kcore support" if !ARM 751 depends on PROC_FS && MMU 752 753config PROC_VMCORE 754 bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 755 depends on PROC_FS && EMBEDDED && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP 756 help 757 Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format. 758 759config SYSFS 760 bool "sysfs file system support" if EMBEDDED 761 default y 762 help 763 The sysfs filesystem is a virtual filesystem that the kernel uses to 764 export internal kernel objects, their attributes, and their 765 relationships to one another. 766 767 Users can use sysfs to ascertain useful information about the running 768 kernel, such as the devices the kernel has discovered on each bus and 769 which driver each is bound to. sysfs can also be used to tune devices 770 and other kernel subsystems. 771 772 Some system agents rely on the information in sysfs to operate. 773 /sbin/hotplug uses device and object attributes in sysfs to assist in 774 delegating policy decisions, like persistantly naming devices. 775 776 sysfs is currently used by the block subsystem to mount the root 777 partition. If sysfs is disabled you must specify the boot device on 778 the kernel boot command line via its major and minor numbers. For 779 example, "root=03:01" for /dev/hda1. 780 781 Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space. 782 783config DEVPTS_FS_XATTR 784 bool "/dev/pts Extended Attributes" 785 depends on UNIX98_PTYS 786 help 787 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 788 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 789 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 790 791 If unsure, say N. 792 793config DEVPTS_FS_SECURITY 794 bool "/dev/pts Security Labels" 795 depends on DEVPTS_FS_XATTR 796 help 797 Security labels support alternative access control models 798 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 799 enables an extended attribute handler for file security 800 labels in the /dev/pts filesystem. 801 802 If you are not using a security module that requires using 803 extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 804 805config TMPFS 806 bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)" 807 help 808 Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory. 809 810 Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be 811 created on your hard drive. The files live in memory and swap 812 space. If you unmount a tmpfs instance, everything stored therein is 813 lost. 814 815 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> for details. 816 817config TMPFS_XATTR 818 bool "tmpfs Extended Attributes" 819 depends on TMPFS 820 help 821 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 822 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 823 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 824 825 If unsure, say N. 826 827config TMPFS_SECURITY 828 bool "tmpfs Security Labels" 829 depends on TMPFS_XATTR 830 help 831 Security labels support alternative access control models 832 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 833 enables an extended attribute handler for file security 834 labels in the tmpfs filesystem. 835 If you are not using a security module that requires using 836 extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 837 838config HUGETLBFS 839 bool "HugeTLB file system support" 840 depends X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || X86_64 || BROKEN 841 842config HUGETLB_PAGE 843 def_bool HUGETLBFS 844 845config RAMFS 846 bool 847 default y 848 ---help--- 849 Ramfs is a file system which keeps all files in RAM. It allows 850 read and write access. 851 852 It is more of an programming example than a useable file system. If 853 you need a file system which lives in RAM with limit checking use 854 tmpfs. 855 856 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 857 ramfs. 858 859endmenu 860 861menu "Miscellaneous filesystems" 862 863config ADFS_FS 864 tristate "ADFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 865 depends on EXPERIMENTAL 866 help 867 The Acorn Disc Filing System is the standard file system of the 868 RiscOS operating system which runs on Acorn's ARM-based Risc PC 869 systems and the Acorn Archimedes range of machines. If you say Y 870 here, Linux will be able to read from ADFS partitions on hard drives 871 and from ADFS-formatted floppy discs. If you also want to be able to 872 write to those devices, say Y to "ADFS write support" below. 873 874 The ADFS partition should be the first partition (i.e., 875 /dev/[hs]d?1) on each of your drives. Please read the file 876 <file:Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt> for further details. 877 878 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be 879 called adfs. 880 881 If unsure, say N. 882 883config ADFS_FS_RW 884 bool "ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)" 885 depends on ADFS_FS 886 help 887 If you say Y here, you will be able to write to ADFS partitions on 888 hard drives and ADFS-formatted floppy disks. This is experimental 889 codes, so if you're unsure, say N. 890 891config AFFS_FS 892 tristate "Amiga FFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 893 depends on EXPERIMENTAL 894 help 895 The Fast File System (FFS) is the common file system used on hard 896 disks by Amiga(tm) systems since AmigaOS Version 1.3 (34.20). Say Y 897 if you want to be able to read and write files from and to an Amiga 898 FFS partition on your hard drive. Amiga floppies however cannot be 899 read with this driver due to an incompatibility of the floppy 900 controller used in an Amiga and the standard floppy controller in 901 PCs and workstations. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt> 902 and <file:fs/affs/Changes>. 903 904 With this driver you can also mount disk files used by Bernd 905 Schmidt's Un*X Amiga Emulator 906 (<http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/>). 907 If you want to do this, you will also need to say Y or M to "Loop 908 device support", above. 909 910 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 911 module will be called affs. If unsure, say N. 912 913config HFS_FS 914 tristate "Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 915 depends on EXPERIMENTAL 916 help 917 If you say Y here, you will be able to mount Macintosh-formatted 918 floppy disks and hard drive partitions with full read-write access. 919 Please read <file:fs/hfs/HFS.txt> to learn about the available mount 920 options. 921 922 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 923 module will be called hfs. 924 925config HFSPLUS_FS 926 tristate "Apple Extended HFS file system support" 927 select NLS 928 select NLS_UTF8 929 help 930 If you say Y here, you will be able to mount extended format 931 Macintosh-formatted hard drive partitions with full read-write access. 932 933 This file system is often called HFS+ and was introduced with 934 MacOS 8. It includes all Mac specific filesystem data such as 935 data forks and creator codes, but it also has several UNIX 936 style features such as file ownership and permissions. 937 938config BEFS_FS 939 tristate "BeOS file system (BeFS) support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 940 depends on EXPERIMENTAL 941 select NLS 942 help 943 The BeOS File System (BeFS) is the native file system of Be, Inc's 944 BeOS. Notable features include support for arbitrary attributes 945 on files and directories, and database-like indeces on selected 946 attributes. (Also note that this driver doesn't make those features 947 available at this time). It is a 64 bit filesystem, so it supports 948 extremly large volumes and files. 949 950 If you use this filesystem, you should also say Y to at least one 951 of the NLS (native language support) options below. 952 953 If you don't know what this is about, say N. 954 955 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 956 called befs. 957 958config BEFS_DEBUG 959 bool "Debug BeFS" 960 depends on BEFS_FS 961 help 962 If you say Y here, you can use the 'debug' mount option to enable 963 debugging output from the driver. 964 965config BFS_FS 966 tristate "BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 967 depends on EXPERIMENTAL 968 help 969 Boot File System (BFS) is a file system used under SCO UnixWare to 970 allow the bootloader access to the kernel image and other important 971 files during the boot process. It is usually mounted under /stand 972 and corresponds to the slice marked as "STAND" in the UnixWare 973 partition. You should say Y if you want to read or write the files 974 on your /stand slice from within Linux. You then also need to say Y 975 to "UnixWare slices support", below. More information about the BFS 976 file system is contained in the file 977 <file:Documentation/filesystems/bfs.txt>. 978 979 If you don't know what this is about, say N. 980 981 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 982 bfs. Note that the file system of your root partition (the one 983 containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module. 984 985 986 987config EFS_FS 988 tristate "EFS file system support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 989 depends on EXPERIMENTAL 990 help 991 EFS is an older file system used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and hard 992 disk partitions by SGI's IRIX operating system (IRIX 6.0 and newer 993 uses the XFS file system for hard disk partitions however). 994 995 This implementation only offers read-only access. If you don't know 996 what all this is about, it's safe to say N. For more information 997 about EFS see its home page at <http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/>. 998 999 To compile the EFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the 1000 module will be called efs. 1001 1002config JFFS_FS 1003 tristate "Journalling Flash File System (JFFS) support" 1004 depends on MTD 1005 help 1006 JFFS is the Journaling Flash File System developed by Axis 1007 Communications in Sweden, aimed at providing a crash/powerdown-safe 1008 file system for disk-less embedded devices. Further information is 1009 available at (<http://developer.axis.com/software/jffs/>). 1010 1011config JFFS_FS_VERBOSE 1012 int "JFFS debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 3 = noisy)" 1013 depends on JFFS_FS 1014 default "0" 1015 help 1016 Determines the verbosity level of the JFFS debugging messages. 1017 1018config JFFS_PROC_FS 1019 bool "JFFS stats available in /proc filesystem" 1020 depends on JFFS_FS && PROC_FS 1021 help 1022 Enabling this option will cause statistics from mounted JFFS file systems 1023 to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jffs/ directory. 1024 1025config JFFS2_FS 1026 tristate "Journalling Flash File System v2 (JFFS2) support" 1027 select CRC32 1028 depends on MTD 1029 help 1030 JFFS2 is the second generation of the Journalling Flash File System 1031 for use on diskless embedded devices. It provides improved wear 1032 levelling, compression and support for hard links. You cannot use 1033 this on normal block devices, only on 'MTD' devices. 1034 1035 Further information on the design and implementation of JFFS2 is 1036 available at <http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2/>. 1037 1038config JFFS2_FS_DEBUG 1039 int "JFFS2 debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 2 = noisy)" 1040 depends on JFFS2_FS 1041 default "0" 1042 help 1043 This controls the amount of debugging messages produced by the JFFS2 1044 code. Set it to zero for use in production systems. For evaluation, 1045 testing and debugging, it's advisable to set it to one. This will 1046 enable a few assertions and will print debugging messages at the 1047 KERN_DEBUG loglevel, where they won't normally be visible. Level 2 1048 is unlikely to be useful - it enables extra debugging in certain 1049 areas which at one point needed debugging, but when the bugs were 1050 located and fixed, the detailed messages were relegated to level 2. 1051 1052 If reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of the 1053 messages at debug level 1 while the misbehaviour was occurring. 1054 1055config JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER 1056 bool "JFFS2 write-buffering support" 1057 depends on JFFS2_FS 1058 default y 1059 help 1060 This enables the write-buffering support in JFFS2. 1061 1062 This functionality is required to support JFFS2 on the following 1063 types of flash devices: 1064 - NAND flash 1065 - NOR flash with transparent ECC 1066 - DataFlash 1067 1068config JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 1069 bool "Advanced compression options for JFFS2" 1070 depends on JFFS2_FS 1071 default n 1072 help 1073 Enabling this option allows you to explicitly choose which 1074 compression modules, if any, are enabled in JFFS2. Removing 1075 compressors and mean you cannot read existing file systems, 1076 and enabling experimental compressors can mean that you 1077 write a file system which cannot be read by a standard kernel. 1078 1079 If unsure, you should _definitely_ say 'N'. 1080 1081config JFFS2_ZLIB 1082 bool "JFFS2 ZLIB compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 1083 select ZLIB_INFLATE 1084 select ZLIB_DEFLATE 1085 depends on JFFS2_FS 1086 default y 1087 help 1088 Zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered, 1089 lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer 1090 hardware and operating system. See <http://www.gzip.org/zlib/> for 1091 further information. 1092 1093 Say 'Y' if unsure. 1094 1095config JFFS2_RTIME 1096 bool "JFFS2 RTIME compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 1097 depends on JFFS2_FS 1098 default y 1099 help 1100 Rtime does manage to recompress already-compressed data. Say 'Y' if unsure. 1101 1102config JFFS2_RUBIN 1103 bool "JFFS2 RUBIN compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 1104 depends on JFFS2_FS 1105 default n 1106 help 1107 RUBINMIPS and DYNRUBIN compressors. Say 'N' if unsure. 1108 1109choice 1110 prompt "JFFS2 default compression mode" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 1111 default JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY 1112 depends on JFFS2_FS 1113 help 1114 You can set here the default compression mode of JFFS2 from 1115 the available compression modes. Don't touch if unsure. 1116 1117config JFFS2_CMODE_NONE 1118 bool "no compression" 1119 help 1120 Uses no compression. 1121 1122config JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY 1123 bool "priority" 1124 help 1125 Tries the compressors in a predefinied order and chooses the first 1126 successful one. 1127 1128config JFFS2_CMODE_SIZE 1129 bool "size (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1130 help 1131 Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest 1132 result. 1133 1134endchoice 1135 1136config CRAMFS 1137 tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)" 1138 select ZLIB_INFLATE 1139 help 1140 Saying Y here includes support for CramFs (Compressed ROM File 1141 System). CramFs is designed to be a simple, small, and compressed 1142 file system for ROM based embedded systems. CramFs is read-only, 1143 limited to 256MB file systems (with 16MB files), and doesn't support 1144 16/32 bits uid/gid, hard links and timestamps. 1145 1146 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt> and 1147 <file:fs/cramfs/README> for further information. 1148 1149 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 1150 cramfs. Note that the root file system (the one containing the 1151 directory /) cannot be compiled as a module. 1152 1153 If unsure, say N. 1154 1155config VXFS_FS 1156 tristate "FreeVxFS file system support (VERITAS VxFS(TM) compatible)" 1157 help 1158 FreeVxFS is a file system driver that support the VERITAS VxFS(TM) 1159 file system format. VERITAS VxFS(TM) is the standard file system 1160 of SCO UnixWare (and possibly others) and optionally available 1161 for Sunsoft Solaris, HP-UX and many other operating systems. 1162 Currently only readonly access is supported. 1163 1164 NOTE: the file system type as used by mount(1), mount(2) and 1165 fstab(5) is 'vxfs' as it describes the file system format, not 1166 the actual driver. 1167 1168 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 1169 called freevxfs. If unsure, say N. 1170 1171 1172config HPFS_FS 1173 tristate "OS/2 HPFS file system support" 1174 help 1175 OS/2 is IBM's operating system for PC's, the same as Warp, and HPFS 1176 is the file system used for organizing files on OS/2 hard disk 1177 partitions. Say Y if you want to be able to read files from and 1178 write files to an OS/2 HPFS partition on your hard drive. OS/2 1179 floppies however are in regular MSDOS format, so you don't need this 1180 option in order to be able to read them. Read 1181 <file:Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt>. 1182 1183 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 1184 module will be called hpfs. If unsure, say N. 1185 1186 1187 1188config QNX4FS_FS 1189 tristate "QNX4 file system support (read only)" 1190 help 1191 This is the file system used by the real-time operating systems 1192 QNX 4 and QNX 6 (the latter is also called QNX RTP). 1193 Further information is available at <http://www.qnx.com/>. 1194 Say Y if you intend to mount QNX hard disks or floppies. 1195 Unless you say Y to "QNX4FS read-write support" below, you will 1196 only be able to read these file systems. 1197 1198 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 1199 module will be called qnx4. 1200 1201 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it: 1202 answer N. 1203 1204config QNX4FS_RW 1205 bool "QNX4FS write support (DANGEROUS)" 1206 depends on QNX4FS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN 1207 help 1208 Say Y if you want to test write support for QNX4 file systems. 1209 1210 It's currently broken, so for now: 1211 answer N. 1212 1213 1214 1215config SYSV_FS 1216 tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support" 1217 help 1218 SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel 1219 machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y 1220 here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk 1221 partitions. 1222 1223 If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely 1224 that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order 1225 to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is a 1226 a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse, 1227 UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux. It is 1228 available via FTP (user: ftp) from 1229 <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>). 1230 NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems; 1231 PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-) 1232 1233 If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the 1234 network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support 1235 (but you need NFS file system support obviously). 1236 1237 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a 1238 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes 1239 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man 1240 tar" or preferably "info tar"). Note also that this option has 1241 nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about 1242 the System V file system in 1243 <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>. 1244 Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB. 1245 1246 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 1247 sysv. 1248 1249 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. 1250 1251 1252 1253config UFS_FS 1254 tristate "UFS file system support (read only)" 1255 help 1256 BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, 1257 OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a file system called UFS. Some System V 1258 Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using 1259 this file system as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from 1260 these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the 1261 experimental "UFS file system write support", below. Please read the 1262 file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt> for more information. 1263 1264 The recently released UFS2 variant (used in FreeBSD 5.x) is 1265 READ-ONLY supported. 1266 1267 If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the 1268 network using NFS, you don't need the UFS file system support (but 1269 you need NFS file system support obviously). 1270 1271 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a 1272 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes 1273 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man 1274 tar" or preferably "info tar"). 1275 1276 When accessing NeXTstep files, you may need to convert them from the 1277 NeXT character set to the Latin1 character set; use the program 1278 recode ("info recode") for this purpose. 1279 1280 To compile the UFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the 1281 module will be called ufs. 1282 1283 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. 1284 1285config UFS_FS_WRITE 1286 bool "UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS)" 1287 depends on UFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 1288 help 1289 Say Y here if you want to try writing to UFS partitions. This is 1290 experimental, so you should back up your UFS partitions beforehand. 1291 1292endmenu 1293 1294menu "Network File Systems" 1295 depends on NET 1296 1297config NFS_FS 1298 tristate "NFS file system support" 1299 depends on INET 1300 select LOCKD 1301 select SUNRPC 1302 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFS_V3_ACL 1303 help 1304 If you are connected to some other (usually local) Unix computer 1305 (using SLIP, PLIP, PPP or Ethernet) and want to mount files residing 1306 on that computer (the NFS server) using the Network File Sharing 1307 protocol, say Y. "Mounting files" means that the client can access 1308 the files with usual UNIX commands as if they were sitting on the 1309 client's hard disk. For this to work, the server must run the 1310 programs nfsd and mountd (but does not need to have NFS file system 1311 support enabled in its kernel). NFS is explained in the Network 1312 Administrator's Guide, available from 1313 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>, on its man page: "man 1314 nfs", and in the NFS-HOWTO. 1315 1316 A superior but less widely used alternative to NFS is provided by 1317 the Coda file system; see "Coda file system support" below. 1318 1319 If you say Y here, you should have said Y to TCP/IP networking also. 1320 This option would enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB. 1321 1322 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 1323 module will be called nfs. 1324 1325 If you are configuring a diskless machine which will mount its root 1326 file system over NFS at boot time, say Y here and to "Kernel 1327 level IP autoconfiguration" above and to "Root file system on NFS" 1328 below. You cannot compile this driver as a module in this case. 1329 There are two packages designed for booting diskless machines over 1330 the net: netboot, available from 1331 <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/netboot/>, and Etherboot, 1332 available from <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/etherboot/>. 1333 1334 If you don't know what all this is about, say N. 1335 1336config NFS_V3 1337 bool "Provide NFSv3 client support" 1338 depends on NFS_FS 1339 help 1340 Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak version 1341 3 of the NFS protocol. 1342 1343 If unsure, say Y. 1344 1345config NFS_V3_ACL 1346 bool "Provide client support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension" 1347 depends on NFS_V3 1348 help 1349 Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX 1350 Access Control Lists. The server should also be compiled with 1351 the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL option. 1352 1353 If unsure, say N. 1354 1355config NFS_V4 1356 bool "Provide NFSv4 client support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1357 depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 1358 select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 1359 help 1360 Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak the newer 1361 version 4 of the NFS protocol. 1362 1363 Note: Requires auxiliary userspace daemons which may be found on 1364 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ 1365 1366 If unsure, say N. 1367 1368config NFS_DIRECTIO 1369 bool "Allow direct I/O on NFS files (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1370 depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 1371 help 1372 This option enables applications to perform uncached I/O on files 1373 in NFS file systems using the O_DIRECT open() flag. When O_DIRECT 1374 is set for a file, its data is not cached in the system's page 1375 cache. Data is moved to and from user-level application buffers 1376 directly. Unlike local disk-based file systems, NFS O_DIRECT has 1377 no alignment restrictions. 1378 1379 Unless your program is designed to use O_DIRECT properly, you are 1380 much better off allowing the NFS client to manage data caching for 1381 you. Misusing O_DIRECT can cause poor server performance or network 1382 storms. This kernel build option defaults OFF to avoid exposing 1383 system administrators unwittingly to a potentially hazardous 1384 feature. 1385 1386 For more details on NFS O_DIRECT, see fs/nfs/direct.c. 1387 1388 If unsure, say N. This reduces the size of the NFS client, and 1389 causes open() to return EINVAL if a file residing in NFS is 1390 opened with the O_DIRECT flag. 1391 1392config NFSD 1393 tristate "NFS server support" 1394 depends on INET 1395 select LOCKD 1396 select SUNRPC 1397 select EXPORTFS 1398 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFSD_V3_ACL || NFSD_V2_ACL 1399 help 1400 If you want your Linux box to act as an NFS *server*, so that other 1401 computers on your local network which support NFS can access certain 1402 directories on your box transparently, you have two options: you can 1403 use the self-contained user space program nfsd, in which case you 1404 should say N here, or you can say Y and use the kernel based NFS 1405 server. The advantage of the kernel based solution is that it is 1406 faster. 1407 1408 In either case, you will need support software; the respective 1409 locations are given in the file <file:Documentation/Changes> in the 1410 NFS section. 1411 1412 If you say Y here, you will get support for version 2 of the NFS 1413 protocol (NFSv2). If you also want NFSv3, say Y to the next question 1414 as well. 1415 1416 Please read the NFS-HOWTO, available from 1417 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1418 1419 To compile the NFS server support as a module, choose M here: the 1420 module will be called nfsd. If unsure, say N. 1421 1422config NFSD_V2_ACL 1423 bool 1424 depends on NFSD 1425 1426config NFSD_V3 1427 bool "Provide NFSv3 server support" 1428 depends on NFSD 1429 help 1430 If you would like to include the NFSv3 server as well as the NFSv2 1431 server, say Y here. If unsure, say Y. 1432 1433config NFSD_V3_ACL 1434 bool "Provide server support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension" 1435 depends on NFSD_V3 1436 select NFSD_V2_ACL 1437 help 1438 Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX 1439 Access Control Lists on exported file systems. NFS clients should 1440 be compiled with the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the 1441 CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL option. If unsure, say N. 1442 1443config NFSD_V4 1444 bool "Provide NFSv4 server support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1445 depends on NFSD_V3 && EXPERIMENTAL 1446 select NFSD_TCP 1447 select CRYPTO_MD5 1448 select CRYPTO 1449 select FS_POSIX_ACL 1450 help 1451 If you would like to include the NFSv4 server as well as the NFSv2 1452 and NFSv3 servers, say Y here. This feature is experimental, and 1453 should only be used if you are interested in helping to test NFSv4. 1454 If unsure, say N. 1455 1456config NFSD_TCP 1457 bool "Provide NFS server over TCP support" 1458 depends on NFSD 1459 default y 1460 help 1461 If you want your NFS server to support TCP connections, say Y here. 1462 TCP connections usually perform better than the default UDP when 1463 the network is lossy or congested. If unsure, say Y. 1464 1465config ROOT_NFS 1466 bool "Root file system on NFS" 1467 depends on NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP 1468 help 1469 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the 1470 one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the 1471 net via NFS (presumably because your box doesn't have a hard disk), 1472 say Y. Read <file:Documentation/nfsroot.txt> for details. It is 1473 likely that in this case, you also want to say Y to "Kernel level IP 1474 autoconfiguration" so that your box can discover its network address 1475 at boot time. 1476 1477 Most people say N here. 1478 1479config LOCKD 1480 tristate 1481 1482config LOCKD_V4 1483 bool 1484 depends on NFSD_V3 || NFS_V3 1485 default y 1486 1487config EXPORTFS 1488 tristate 1489 1490config NFS_ACL_SUPPORT 1491 tristate 1492 select FS_POSIX_ACL 1493 1494config NFS_COMMON 1495 bool 1496 depends on NFSD || NFS_FS 1497 default y 1498 1499config SUNRPC 1500 tristate 1501 1502config SUNRPC_GSS 1503 tristate 1504 1505config RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 1506 tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1507 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL 1508 select SUNRPC_GSS 1509 select CRYPTO 1510 select CRYPTO_MD5 1511 select CRYPTO_DES 1512 help 1513 Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api 1514 mechanism based on Kerberos V5. This is required for 1515 NFSv4. 1516 1517 Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on 1518 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ 1519 1520 If unsure, say N. 1521 1522config RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3 1523 tristate "Secure RPC: SPKM3 mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1524 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL 1525 select SUNRPC_GSS 1526 select CRYPTO 1527 select CRYPTO_MD5 1528 select CRYPTO_DES 1529 help 1530 Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api 1531 mechanism based on the SPKM3 public-key mechanism. 1532 1533 Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on 1534 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ 1535 1536 If unsure, say N. 1537 1538config SMB_FS 1539 tristate "SMB file system support (to mount Windows shares etc.)" 1540 depends on INET 1541 select NLS 1542 help 1543 SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Windows for Workgroups 1544 (WfW), Windows 95/98, Windows NT and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share 1545 files and printers over local networks. Saying Y here allows you to 1546 mount their file systems (often called "shares" in this context) and 1547 access them just like any other Unix directory. Currently, this 1548 works only if the Windows machines use TCP/IP as the underlying 1549 transport protocol, and not NetBEUI. For details, read 1550 <file:Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt> and the SMB-HOWTO, 1551 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1552 1553 Note: if you just want your box to act as an SMB *server* and make 1554 files and printing services available to Windows clients (which need 1555 to have a TCP/IP stack), you don't need to say Y here; you can use 1556 the program SAMBA (available from <ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/>) 1557 for that. 1558 1559 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and 1560 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>. 1561 1562 To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here: the module will 1563 be called smbfs. Most people say N, however. 1564 1565config SMB_NLS_DEFAULT 1566 bool "Use a default NLS" 1567 depends on SMB_FS 1568 help 1569 Enabling this will make smbfs use nls translations by default. You 1570 need to specify the local charset (CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT) in the nls 1571 settings and you need to give the default nls for the SMB server as 1572 CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE. 1573 1574 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount 1575 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters. 1576 1577 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this. 1578 1579config SMB_NLS_REMOTE 1580 string "Default Remote NLS Option" 1581 depends on SMB_NLS_DEFAULT 1582 default "cp437" 1583 help 1584 This setting allows you to specify a default value for which 1585 codepage the server uses. If this field is left blank no 1586 translations will be done by default. The local codepage/charset 1587 default to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT. 1588 1589 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount 1590 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters. 1591 1592 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this. 1593 1594config CIFS 1595 tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem for Samba, Window and other CIFS compliant servers)" 1596 depends on INET 1597 select NLS 1598 help 1599 This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System 1600 (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block 1601 (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early 1602 PC operating systems. The CIFS protocol is fully supported by 1603 file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4 1604 and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS 1605 server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Currently 1606 you must use the smbfs client filesystem to access older SMB servers 1607 such as Windows 9x and OS/2. 1608 1609 The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced 1610 network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers, 1611 including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user 1612 session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional 1613 packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements, 1614 and optional Winbind (nsswitch) integration. You do not need to enable 1615 cifs if running only a (Samba) server. It is possible to enable both 1616 smbfs and cifs (e.g. if you are using CIFS for accessing Windows 2003 1617 and Samba 3 servers, and smbfs for accessing old servers). If you need 1618 to mount to Samba or Windows 2003 servers from this machine, say Y. 1619 1620config CIFS_STATS 1621 bool "CIFS statistics" 1622 depends on CIFS 1623 help 1624 Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share 1625 mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats 1626 1627config CIFS_XATTR 1628 bool "CIFS extended attributes (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1629 depends on CIFS 1630 help 1631 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 1632 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 1633 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). CIFS maps the name of 1634 extended attributes beginning with the user namespace prefix 1635 to SMB/CIFS EAs. EAs are stored on Windows servers without the 1636 user namespace prefix, but their names are seen by Linux cifs clients 1637 prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace 1638 (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at 1639 this time. 1640 1641 If unsure, say N. 1642 1643config CIFS_POSIX 1644 bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1645 depends on CIFS_XATTR 1646 help 1647 Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to 1648 negotiate a newer dialect with servers, such as Samba 3.0.5 1649 or later, that optionally can handle more POSIX like (rather 1650 than Windows like) file behavior. It also enables 1651 support for POSIX ACLs (getfacl and setfacl) to servers 1652 (such as Samba 3.10 and later) which can negotiate 1653 CIFS POSIX ACL support. If unsure, say N. 1654 1655config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL 1656 bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1657 depends on CIFS 1658 help 1659 Enables cifs features under testing. These features 1660 are highly experimental. If unsure, say N. 1661 1662config NCP_FS 1663 tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)" 1664 depends on IPX!=n || INET 1665 help 1666 NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) is a protocol that runs over IPX and is 1667 used by Novell NetWare clients to talk to file servers. It is to 1668 IPX what NFS is to TCP/IP, if that helps. Saying Y here allows you 1669 to mount NetWare file server volumes and to access them just like 1670 any other Unix directory. For details, please read the file 1671 <file:Documentation/filesystems/ncpfs.txt> in the kernel source and 1672 the IPX-HOWTO from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1673 1674 You do not have to say Y here if you want your Linux box to act as a 1675 file *server* for Novell NetWare clients. 1676 1677 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and 1678 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>. 1679 1680 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 1681 ncpfs. Say N unless you are connected to a Novell network. 1682 1683source "fs/ncpfs/Kconfig" 1684 1685config CODA_FS 1686 tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)" 1687 depends on INET 1688 help 1689 Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it 1690 enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them 1691 with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard 1692 disk. Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for 1693 disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server 1694 replication, security model for authentication and encryption, 1695 persistent client caches and write back caching. 1696 1697 If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda 1698 *client*. You will need user level code as well, both for the 1699 client and server. Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need 1700 no kernel support. Please read 1701 <file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.txt> and check out the Coda 1702 home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>. 1703 1704 To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the 1705 module will be called coda. 1706 1707config CODA_FS_OLD_API 1708 bool "Use 96-bit Coda file identifiers" 1709 depends on CODA_FS 1710 help 1711 A new kernel-userspace API had to be introduced for Coda v6.0 1712 to support larger 128-bit file identifiers as needed by the 1713 new realms implementation. 1714 1715 However this new API is not backward compatible with older 1716 clients. If you really need to run the old Coda userspace 1717 cache manager then say Y. 1718 1719 For most cases you probably want to say N. 1720 1721config AFS_FS 1722# for fs/nls/Config.in 1723 tristate "Andrew File System support (AFS) (Experimental)" 1724 depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL 1725 select RXRPC 1726 help 1727 If you say Y here, you will get an experimental Andrew File System 1728 driver. It currently only supports unsecured read-only AFS access. 1729 1730 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more intormation. 1731 1732 If unsure, say N. 1733 1734config RXRPC 1735 tristate 1736 1737endmenu 1738 1739menu "Partition Types" 1740 1741source "fs/partitions/Kconfig" 1742 1743endmenu 1744 1745source "fs/nls/Kconfig" 1746 1747endmenu 1748 1749