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 select JBD 74 help 75 This is the journaling version of the Second extended file system 76 (often called ext3), the de facto standard Linux file system 77 (method to organize files on a storage device) for hard disks. 78 79 The journaling code included in this driver means you do not have 80 to run e2fsck (file system checker) on your file systems after a 81 crash. The journal keeps track of any changes that were being made 82 at the time the system crashed, and can ensure that your file system 83 is consistent without the need for a lengthy check. 84 85 Other than adding the journal to the file system, the on-disk format 86 of ext3 is identical to ext2. It is possible to freely switch 87 between using the ext3 driver and the ext2 driver, as long as the 88 file system has been cleanly unmounted, or e2fsck is run on the file 89 system. 90 91 To add a journal on an existing ext2 file system or change the 92 behavior of ext3 file systems, you can use the tune2fs utility ("man 93 tune2fs"). To modify attributes of files and directories on ext3 94 file systems, use chattr ("man chattr"). You need to be using 95 e2fsprogs version 1.20 or later in order to create ext3 journals 96 (available at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/e2fsprogs/>). 97 98 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 99 module will be called ext3. Be aware however that the file system 100 of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot 101 be compiled as a module, and so this may be dangerous. 102 103config EXT3_FS_XATTR 104 bool "Ext3 extended attributes" 105 depends on EXT3_FS 106 default y 107 help 108 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 109 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 110 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 111 112 If unsure, say N. 113 114 You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext3. 115 116config EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL 117 bool "Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists" 118 depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR 119 select FS_POSIX_ACL 120 help 121 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 122 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 123 124 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 125 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 126 127 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 128 129config EXT3_FS_SECURITY 130 bool "Ext3 Security Labels" 131 depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR 132 help 133 Security labels support alternative access control models 134 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 135 enables an extended attribute handler for file security 136 labels in the ext3 filesystem. 137 138 If you are not using a security module that requires using 139 extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 140 141config JBD 142 tristate 143 help 144 This is a generic journaling layer for block devices. It is 145 currently used by the ext3 and OCFS2 file systems, but it could 146 also be used to add journal support to other file systems or block 147 devices such as RAID or LVM. 148 149 If you are using the ext3 or OCFS2 file systems, you need to 150 say Y here. If you are not using ext3 OCFS2 then you will probably 151 want to say N. 152 153 To compile this device as a module, choose M here: the module will be 154 called jbd. If you are compiling ext3 or OCFS2 into the kernel, 155 you cannot compile this code as a module. 156 157config JBD_DEBUG 158 bool "JBD (ext3) debugging support" 159 depends on JBD 160 help 161 If you are using the ext3 journaled file system (or potentially any 162 other file system/device using JBD), this option allows you to 163 enable debugging output while the system is running, in order to 164 help track down any problems you are having. By default the 165 debugging output will be turned off. 166 167 If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging 168 with "echo N > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug", where N is a number between 169 1 and 5, the higher the number, the more debugging output is 170 generated. To turn debugging off again, do 171 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug". 172 173config FS_MBCACHE 174# Meta block cache for Extended Attributes (ext2/ext3) 175 tristate 176 depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR || EXT3_FS_XATTR 177 default y if EXT2_FS=y || EXT3_FS=y 178 default m if EXT2_FS=m || EXT3_FS=m 179 180config REISERFS_FS 181 tristate "Reiserfs support" 182 help 183 Stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a balanced 184 tree. Uses journaling. 185 186 Balanced trees are more efficient than traditional file system 187 architectural foundations. 188 189 In general, ReiserFS is as fast as ext2, but is very efficient with 190 large directories and small files. Additional patches are needed 191 for NFS and quotas, please see <http://www.namesys.com/> for links. 192 193 It is more easily extended to have features currently found in 194 database and keyword search systems than block allocation based file 195 systems are. The next version will be so extended, and will support 196 plugins consistent with our motto ``It takes more than a license to 197 make source code open.'' 198 199 Read <http://www.namesys.com/> to learn more about reiserfs. 200 201 Sponsored by Threshold Networks, Emusic.com, and Bigstorage.com. 202 203 If you like it, you can pay us to add new features to it that you 204 need, buy a support contract, or pay us to port it to another OS. 205 206config REISERFS_CHECK 207 bool "Enable reiserfs debug mode" 208 depends on REISERFS_FS 209 help 210 If you set this to Y, then ReiserFS will perform every check it can 211 possibly imagine of its internal consistency throughout its 212 operation. It will also go substantially slower. More than once we 213 have forgotten that this was on, and then gone despondent over the 214 latest benchmarks.:-) Use of this option allows our team to go all 215 out in checking for consistency when debugging without fear of its 216 effect on end users. If you are on the verge of sending in a bug 217 report, say Y and you might get a useful error message. Almost 218 everyone should say N. 219 220config REISERFS_PROC_INFO 221 bool "Stats in /proc/fs/reiserfs" 222 depends on REISERFS_FS 223 help 224 Create under /proc/fs/reiserfs a hierarchy of files, displaying 225 various ReiserFS statistics and internal data at the expense of 226 making your kernel or module slightly larger (+8 KB). This also 227 increases the amount of kernel memory required for each mount. 228 Almost everyone but ReiserFS developers and people fine-tuning 229 reiserfs or tracing problems should say N. 230 231config REISERFS_FS_XATTR 232 bool "ReiserFS extended attributes" 233 depends on REISERFS_FS 234 help 235 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 236 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 237 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 238 239 If unsure, say N. 240 241config REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL 242 bool "ReiserFS POSIX Access Control Lists" 243 depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR 244 select FS_POSIX_ACL 245 help 246 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 247 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 248 249 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 250 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 251 252 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 253 254config REISERFS_FS_SECURITY 255 bool "ReiserFS Security Labels" 256 depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR 257 help 258 Security labels support alternative access control models 259 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 260 enables an extended attribute handler for file security 261 labels in the ReiserFS filesystem. 262 263 If you are not using a security module that requires using 264 extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 265 266config JFS_FS 267 tristate "JFS filesystem support" 268 select NLS 269 help 270 This is a port of IBM's Journaled Filesystem . More information is 271 available in the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt>. 272 273 If you do not intend to use the JFS filesystem, say N. 274 275config JFS_POSIX_ACL 276 bool "JFS POSIX Access Control Lists" 277 depends on JFS_FS 278 select FS_POSIX_ACL 279 help 280 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 281 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 282 283 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 284 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 285 286 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 287 288config JFS_SECURITY 289 bool "JFS Security Labels" 290 depends on JFS_FS 291 help 292 Security labels support alternative access control models 293 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 294 enables an extended attribute handler for file security 295 labels in the jfs filesystem. 296 297 If you are not using a security module that requires using 298 extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 299 300config JFS_DEBUG 301 bool "JFS debugging" 302 depends on JFS_FS 303 help 304 If you are experiencing any problems with the JFS filesystem, say 305 Y here. This will result in additional debugging messages to be 306 written to the system log. Under normal circumstances, this 307 results in very little overhead. 308 309config JFS_STATISTICS 310 bool "JFS statistics" 311 depends on JFS_FS 312 help 313 Enabling this option will cause statistics from the JFS file system 314 to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jfs/ directory. 315 316config FS_POSIX_ACL 317# Posix ACL utility routines (for now, only ext2/ext3/jfs/reiserfs) 318# 319# NOTE: you can implement Posix ACLs without these helpers (XFS does). 320# Never use this symbol for ifdefs. 321# 322 bool 323 default n 324 325source "fs/xfs/Kconfig" 326 327config OCFS2_FS 328 tristate "OCFS2 file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 329 depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL 330 select CONFIGFS_FS 331 select JBD 332 select CRC32 333 select INET 334 help 335 OCFS2 is a general purpose extent based shared disk cluster file 336 system with many similarities to ext3. It supports 64 bit inode 337 numbers, and has automatically extending metadata groups which may 338 also make it attractive for non-clustered use. 339 340 You'll want to install the ocfs2-tools package in order to at least 341 get "mount.ocfs2". 342 343 Project web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2 344 Tools web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools 345 OCFS2 mailing lists: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/mailman/ 346 347 Note: Features which OCFS2 does not support yet: 348 - extended attributes 349 - shared writeable mmap 350 - loopback is supported, but data written will not 351 be cluster coherent. 352 - quotas 353 - cluster aware flock 354 - Directory change notification (F_NOTIFY) 355 - Distributed Caching (F_SETLEASE/F_GETLEASE/break_lease) 356 - POSIX ACLs 357 - readpages / writepages (not user visible) 358 359config MINIX_FS 360 tristate "Minix fs support" 361 help 362 Minix is a simple operating system used in many classes about OS's. 363 The minix file system (method to organize files on a hard disk 364 partition or a floppy disk) was the original file system for Linux, 365 but has been superseded by the second extended file system ext2fs. 366 You don't want to use the minix file system on your hard disk 367 because of certain built-in restrictions, but it is sometimes found 368 on older Linux floppy disks. This option will enlarge your kernel 369 by about 28 KB. If unsure, say N. 370 371 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 372 module will be called minix. Note that the file system of your root 373 partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as 374 a module. 375 376config ROMFS_FS 377 tristate "ROM file system support" 378 ---help--- 379 This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for 380 initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for 381 other read-only media as well. Read 382 <file:Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt> for details. 383 384 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 385 module will be called romfs. Note that the file system of your 386 root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a 387 module. 388 389 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it: 390 answer N. 391 392config INOTIFY 393 bool "Inotify file change notification support" 394 default y 395 ---help--- 396 Say Y here to enable inotify support and the associated system 397 calls. Inotify is a file change notification system and a 398 replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes numerous shortcomings in 399 dnotify and introduces several new features. It allows monitoring 400 of both files and directories via a single open fd. Other features 401 include multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount 402 notification. 403 404 For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt 405 406 If unsure, say Y. 407 408config QUOTA 409 bool "Quota support" 410 help 411 If you say Y here, you will be able to set per user limits for disk 412 usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works for the 413 ext2, ext3, and reiserfs file system. ext3 also supports journalled 414 quotas for which you don't need to run quotacheck(8) after an unclean 415 shutdown. 416 For further details, read the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from 417 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or the documentation provided 418 with the quota tools. Probably the quota support is only useful for 419 multi user systems. If unsure, say N. 420 421config QFMT_V1 422 tristate "Old quota format support" 423 depends on QUOTA 424 help 425 This quota format was (is) used by kernels earlier than 2.4.22. If 426 you have quota working and you don't want to convert to new quota 427 format say Y here. 428 429config QFMT_V2 430 tristate "Quota format v2 support" 431 depends on QUOTA 432 help 433 This quota format allows using quotas with 32-bit UIDs/GIDs. If you 434 need this functionality say Y here. 435 436config QUOTACTL 437 bool 438 depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA 439 default y 440 441config DNOTIFY 442 bool "Dnotify support" if EMBEDDED 443 default y 444 help 445 Dnotify is a directory-based per-fd file change notification system 446 that uses signals to communicate events to user-space. There exist 447 superior alternatives, but some applications may still rely on 448 dnotify. 449 450 Because of this, if unsure, say Y. 451 452config AUTOFS_FS 453 tristate "Kernel automounter support" 454 help 455 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems 456 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce 457 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD 458 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. 459 460 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs 461 package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>. 462 You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. 463 464 If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more 465 features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support", 466 below. 467 468 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be 469 called autofs. 470 471 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you 472 probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here. 473 474config AUTOFS4_FS 475 tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)" 476 help 477 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems 478 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce 479 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD 480 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. 481 482 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from 483 <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/>; you also 484 want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. 485 486 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be 487 called autofs4. You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your 488 modules configuration file. 489 490 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or 491 don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the 492 local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say 493 N here. 494 495config FUSE_FS 496 tristate "Filesystem in Userspace support" 497 help 498 With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem 499 in a userspace program. 500 501 There's also companion library: libfuse. This library along with 502 utilities is available from the FUSE homepage: 503 <http://fuse.sourceforge.net/> 504 505 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt> for more information. 506 See <file:Documentation/Changes> for needed library/utility version. 507 508 If you want to develop a userspace FS, or if you want to use 509 a filesystem based on FUSE, answer Y or M. 510 511menu "CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems" 512 513config ISO9660_FS 514 tristate "ISO 9660 CDROM file system support" 515 help 516 This is the standard file system used on CD-ROMs. It was previously 517 known as "High Sierra File System" and is called "hsfs" on other 518 Unix systems. The so-called Rock-Ridge extensions which allow for 519 long Unix filenames and symbolic links are also supported by this 520 driver. If you have a CD-ROM drive and want to do more with it than 521 just listen to audio CDs and watch its LEDs, say Y (and read 522 <file:Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt> and the CD-ROM-HOWTO, 523 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), thereby 524 enlarging your kernel by about 27 KB; otherwise say N. 525 526 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 527 module will be called isofs. 528 529config JOLIET 530 bool "Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions" 531 depends on ISO9660_FS 532 select NLS 533 help 534 Joliet is a Microsoft extension for the ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system 535 which allows for long filenames in unicode format (unicode is the 536 new 16 bit character code, successor to ASCII, which encodes the 537 characters of almost all languages of the world; see 538 <http://www.unicode.org/> for more information). Say Y here if you 539 want to be able to read Joliet CD-ROMs under Linux. 540 541config ZISOFS 542 bool "Transparent decompression extension" 543 depends on ISO9660_FS 544 select ZLIB_INFLATE 545 help 546 This is a Linux-specific extension to RockRidge which lets you store 547 data in compressed form on a CD-ROM and have it transparently 548 decompressed when the CD-ROM is accessed. See 549 <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/zisofs/> for the tools 550 necessary to create such a filesystem. Say Y here if you want to be 551 able to read such compressed CD-ROMs. 552 553config ZISOFS_FS 554# for fs/nls/Config.in 555 tristate 556 depends on ZISOFS 557 default ISO9660_FS 558 559config UDF_FS 560 tristate "UDF file system support" 561 help 562 This is the new file system used on some CD-ROMs and DVDs. Say Y if 563 you intend to mount DVD discs or CDRW's written in packet mode, or 564 if written to by other UDF utilities, such as DirectCD. 565 Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt>. 566 567 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 568 module will be called udf. 569 570 If unsure, say N. 571 572config UDF_NLS 573 bool 574 default y 575 depends on (UDF_FS=m && NLS) || (UDF_FS=y && NLS=y) 576 577endmenu 578 579menu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems" 580 581config FAT_FS 582 tristate 583 select NLS 584 help 585 If you want to use one of the FAT-based file systems (the MS-DOS and 586 VFAT (Windows 95) file systems), then you must say Y or M here 587 to include FAT support. You will then be able to mount partitions or 588 diskettes with FAT-based file systems and transparently access the 589 files on them, i.e. MSDOS files will look and behave just like all 590 other Unix files. 591 592 This FAT support is not a file system in itself, it only provides 593 the foundation for the other file systems. You will have to say Y or 594 M to at least one of "MSDOS fs support" or "VFAT fs support" in 595 order to make use of it. 596 597 Another way to read and write MSDOS floppies and hard drive 598 partitions from within Linux (but not transparently) is with the 599 mtools ("man mtools") program suite. You don't need to say Y here in 600 order to do that. 601 602 If you need to move large files on floppies between a DOS and a 603 Linux box, say Y here, mount the floppy under Linux with an MSDOS 604 file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program 605 available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar"). 606 607 It is now also becoming possible to read and write compressed FAT 608 file systems; read <file:Documentation/filesystems/fat_cvf.txt> for 609 details. 610 611 The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure, 612 say Y. 613 614 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 615 fat. Note that if you compile the FAT support as a module, you 616 cannot compile any of the FAT-based file systems into the kernel 617 -- they will have to be modules as well. 618 619config MSDOS_FS 620 tristate "MSDOS fs support" 621 select FAT_FS 622 help 623 This allows you to mount MSDOS partitions of your hard drive (unless 624 they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under 625 Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the 626 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from 627 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in 628 <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you 629 intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y 630 here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes 631 transparent, i.e. the MSDOS files look and behave just like all 632 other Unix files. 633 634 If you have Windows 95 or Windows NT installed on your MSDOS 635 partitions, you should use the VFAT file system (say Y to "VFAT fs 636 support" below), or you will not be able to see the long filenames 637 generated by Windows 95 / Windows NT. 638 639 This option will enlarge your kernel by about 7 KB. If unsure, 640 answer Y. This will only work if you said Y to "DOS FAT fs support" 641 as well. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will 642 be called msdos. 643 644config VFAT_FS 645 tristate "VFAT (Windows-95) fs support" 646 select FAT_FS 647 help 648 This option provides support for normal Windows file systems with 649 long filenames. That includes non-compressed FAT-based file systems 650 used by Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and the Unix 651 programs from the mtools package. 652 653 The VFAT support enlarges your kernel by about 10 KB and it only 654 works if you said Y to the "DOS FAT fs support" above. Please read 655 the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for details. If 656 unsure, say Y. 657 658 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 659 vfat. 660 661config FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE 662 int "Default codepage for FAT" 663 depends on MSDOS_FS || VFAT_FS 664 default 437 665 help 666 This option should be set to the codepage of your FAT filesystems. 667 It can be overridden with the "codepage" mount option. 668 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information. 669 670config FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET 671 string "Default iocharset for FAT" 672 depends on VFAT_FS 673 default "iso8859-1" 674 help 675 Set this to the default input/output character set you'd 676 like FAT to use. It should probably match the character set 677 that most of your FAT filesystems use, and can be overridden 678 with the "iocharset" mount option for FAT filesystems. 679 Note that "utf8" is not recommended for FAT filesystems. 680 If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here. 681 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information. 682 683config NTFS_FS 684 tristate "NTFS file system support" 685 select NLS 686 help 687 NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003. 688 689 Saying Y or M here enables read support. There is partial, but 690 safe, write support available. For write support you must also 691 say Y to "NTFS write support" below. 692 693 There are also a number of user-space tools available, called 694 ntfsprogs. These include ntfsundelete and ntfsresize, that work 695 without NTFS support enabled in the kernel. 696 697 This is a rewrite from scratch of Linux NTFS support and replaced 698 the old NTFS code starting with Linux 2.5.11. A backport to 699 the Linux 2.4 kernel series is separately available as a patch 700 from the project web site. 701 702 For more information see <file:Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt> 703 and <http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/>. 704 705 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 706 module will be called ntfs. 707 708 If you are not using Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 in addition to 709 Linux on your computer it is safe to say N. 710 711config NTFS_DEBUG 712 bool "NTFS debugging support" 713 depends on NTFS_FS 714 help 715 If you are experiencing any problems with the NTFS file system, say 716 Y here. This will result in additional consistency checks to be 717 performed by the driver as well as additional debugging messages to 718 be written to the system log. Note that debugging messages are 719 disabled by default. To enable them, supply the option debug_msgs=1 720 at the kernel command line when booting the kernel or as an option 721 to insmod when loading the ntfs module. Once the driver is active, 722 you can enable debugging messages by doing (as root): 723 echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug 724 Replacing the "1" with "0" would disable debug messages. 725 726 If you leave debugging messages disabled, this results in little 727 overhead, but enabling debug messages results in very significant 728 slowdown of the system. 729 730 When reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of 731 debugging messages while the misbehaviour was occurring. 732 733config NTFS_RW 734 bool "NTFS write support" 735 depends on NTFS_FS 736 help 737 This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver. 738 739 The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without 740 changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or 741 renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to 742 so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot 743 be written to. 744 745 While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have 746 so far not received a single report where the driver would have 747 damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use. 748 749 Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from 750 scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS 751 write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997), 752 is not safe. 753 754 This is currently useful with TopologiLinux. TopologiLinux is run 755 on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your 756 hard disk. Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not 757 need its own partition. For more information see 758 <http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/> 759 760 It is perfectly safe to say N here. 761 762endmenu 763 764menu "Pseudo filesystems" 765 766config PROC_FS 767 bool "/proc file system support" 768 help 769 This is a virtual file system providing information about the status 770 of the system. "Virtual" means that it doesn't take up any space on 771 your hard disk: the files are created on the fly by the kernel when 772 you try to access them. Also, you cannot read the files with older 773 version of the program less: you need to use more or cat. 774 775 It's totally cool; for example, "cat /proc/interrupts" gives 776 information about what the different IRQs are used for at the moment 777 (there is a small number of Interrupt ReQuest lines in your computer 778 that are used by the attached devices to gain the CPU's attention -- 779 often a source of trouble if two devices are mistakenly configured 780 to use the same IRQ). The program procinfo to display some 781 information about your system gathered from the /proc file system. 782 783 Before you can use the /proc file system, it has to be mounted, 784 meaning it has to be given a location in the directory hierarchy. 785 That location should be /proc. A command such as "mount -t proc proc 786 /proc" or the equivalent line in /etc/fstab does the job. 787 788 The /proc file system is explained in the file 789 <file:Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt> and on the proc(5) manpage 790 ("man 5 proc"). 791 792 This option will enlarge your kernel by about 67 KB. Several 793 programs depend on this, so everyone should say Y here. 794 795config PROC_KCORE 796 bool "/proc/kcore support" if !ARM 797 depends on PROC_FS && MMU 798 799config PROC_VMCORE 800 bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 801 depends on PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP 802 help 803 Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format. 804 805config SYSFS 806 bool "sysfs file system support" if EMBEDDED 807 default y 808 help 809 The sysfs filesystem is a virtual filesystem that the kernel uses to 810 export internal kernel objects, their attributes, and their 811 relationships to one another. 812 813 Users can use sysfs to ascertain useful information about the running 814 kernel, such as the devices the kernel has discovered on each bus and 815 which driver each is bound to. sysfs can also be used to tune devices 816 and other kernel subsystems. 817 818 Some system agents rely on the information in sysfs to operate. 819 /sbin/hotplug uses device and object attributes in sysfs to assist in 820 delegating policy decisions, like persistantly naming devices. 821 822 sysfs is currently used by the block subsystem to mount the root 823 partition. If sysfs is disabled you must specify the boot device on 824 the kernel boot command line via its major and minor numbers. For 825 example, "root=03:01" for /dev/hda1. 826 827 Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space. 828 829config TMPFS 830 bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)" 831 help 832 Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory. 833 834 Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be 835 created on your hard drive. The files live in memory and swap 836 space. If you unmount a tmpfs instance, everything stored therein is 837 lost. 838 839 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> for details. 840 841config HUGETLBFS 842 bool "HugeTLB file system support" 843 depends X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || BROKEN 844 845config HUGETLB_PAGE 846 def_bool HUGETLBFS 847 848config RAMFS 849 bool 850 default y 851 ---help--- 852 Ramfs is a file system which keeps all files in RAM. It allows 853 read and write access. 854 855 It is more of an programming example than a useable file system. If 856 you need a file system which lives in RAM with limit checking use 857 tmpfs. 858 859 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 860 ramfs. 861 862config CONFIGFS_FS 863 tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem (EXPERIMENTAL)" 864 depends on SYSFS && EXPERIMENTAL 865 help 866 configfs is a ram-based filesystem that provides the converse 867 of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based 868 view of kernel objects, configfs is a filesystem-based manager 869 of kernel objects, or config_items. 870 871 Both sysfs and configfs can and should exist together on the 872 same system. One is not a replacement for the other. 873 874endmenu 875 876menu "Miscellaneous filesystems" 877 878config ADFS_FS 879 tristate "ADFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 880 depends on EXPERIMENTAL 881 help 882 The Acorn Disc Filing System is the standard file system of the 883 RiscOS operating system which runs on Acorn's ARM-based Risc PC 884 systems and the Acorn Archimedes range of machines. If you say Y 885 here, Linux will be able to read from ADFS partitions on hard drives 886 and from ADFS-formatted floppy discs. If you also want to be able to 887 write to those devices, say Y to "ADFS write support" below. 888 889 The ADFS partition should be the first partition (i.e., 890 /dev/[hs]d?1) on each of your drives. Please read the file 891 <file:Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt> for further details. 892 893 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be 894 called adfs. 895 896 If unsure, say N. 897 898config ADFS_FS_RW 899 bool "ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)" 900 depends on ADFS_FS 901 help 902 If you say Y here, you will be able to write to ADFS partitions on 903 hard drives and ADFS-formatted floppy disks. This is experimental 904 codes, so if you're unsure, say N. 905 906config AFFS_FS 907 tristate "Amiga FFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 908 depends on EXPERIMENTAL 909 help 910 The Fast File System (FFS) is the common file system used on hard 911 disks by Amiga(tm) systems since AmigaOS Version 1.3 (34.20). Say Y 912 if you want to be able to read and write files from and to an Amiga 913 FFS partition on your hard drive. Amiga floppies however cannot be 914 read with this driver due to an incompatibility of the floppy 915 controller used in an Amiga and the standard floppy controller in 916 PCs and workstations. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt> 917 and <file:fs/affs/Changes>. 918 919 With this driver you can also mount disk files used by Bernd 920 Schmidt's Un*X Amiga Emulator 921 (<http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/>). 922 If you want to do this, you will also need to say Y or M to "Loop 923 device support", above. 924 925 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 926 module will be called affs. If unsure, say N. 927 928config HFS_FS 929 tristate "Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 930 depends on EXPERIMENTAL 931 select NLS 932 help 933 If you say Y here, you will be able to mount Macintosh-formatted 934 floppy disks and hard drive partitions with full read-write access. 935 Please read <file:fs/hfs/HFS.txt> to learn about the available mount 936 options. 937 938 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 939 module will be called hfs. 940 941config HFSPLUS_FS 942 tristate "Apple Extended HFS file system support" 943 select NLS 944 select NLS_UTF8 945 help 946 If you say Y here, you will be able to mount extended format 947 Macintosh-formatted hard drive partitions with full read-write access. 948 949 This file system is often called HFS+ and was introduced with 950 MacOS 8. It includes all Mac specific filesystem data such as 951 data forks and creator codes, but it also has several UNIX 952 style features such as file ownership and permissions. 953 954config BEFS_FS 955 tristate "BeOS file system (BeFS) support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 956 depends on EXPERIMENTAL 957 select NLS 958 help 959 The BeOS File System (BeFS) is the native file system of Be, Inc's 960 BeOS. Notable features include support for arbitrary attributes 961 on files and directories, and database-like indeces on selected 962 attributes. (Also note that this driver doesn't make those features 963 available at this time). It is a 64 bit filesystem, so it supports 964 extremly large volumes and files. 965 966 If you use this filesystem, you should also say Y to at least one 967 of the NLS (native language support) options below. 968 969 If you don't know what this is about, say N. 970 971 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 972 called befs. 973 974config BEFS_DEBUG 975 bool "Debug BeFS" 976 depends on BEFS_FS 977 help 978 If you say Y here, you can use the 'debug' mount option to enable 979 debugging output from the driver. 980 981config BFS_FS 982 tristate "BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 983 depends on EXPERIMENTAL 984 help 985 Boot File System (BFS) is a file system used under SCO UnixWare to 986 allow the bootloader access to the kernel image and other important 987 files during the boot process. It is usually mounted under /stand 988 and corresponds to the slice marked as "STAND" in the UnixWare 989 partition. You should say Y if you want to read or write the files 990 on your /stand slice from within Linux. You then also need to say Y 991 to "UnixWare slices support", below. More information about the BFS 992 file system is contained in the file 993 <file:Documentation/filesystems/bfs.txt>. 994 995 If you don't know what this is about, say N. 996 997 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 998 bfs. Note that the file system of your root partition (the one 999 containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module. 1000 1001 1002 1003config EFS_FS 1004 tristate "EFS file system support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1005 depends on EXPERIMENTAL 1006 help 1007 EFS is an older file system used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and hard 1008 disk partitions by SGI's IRIX operating system (IRIX 6.0 and newer 1009 uses the XFS file system for hard disk partitions however). 1010 1011 This implementation only offers read-only access. If you don't know 1012 what all this is about, it's safe to say N. For more information 1013 about EFS see its home page at <http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/>. 1014 1015 To compile the EFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the 1016 module will be called efs. 1017 1018config JFFS_FS 1019 tristate "Journalling Flash File System (JFFS) support" 1020 depends on MTD 1021 help 1022 JFFS is the Journaling Flash File System developed by Axis 1023 Communications in Sweden, aimed at providing a crash/powerdown-safe 1024 file system for disk-less embedded devices. Further information is 1025 available at (<http://developer.axis.com/software/jffs/>). 1026 1027config JFFS_FS_VERBOSE 1028 int "JFFS debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 3 = noisy)" 1029 depends on JFFS_FS 1030 default "0" 1031 help 1032 Determines the verbosity level of the JFFS debugging messages. 1033 1034config JFFS_PROC_FS 1035 bool "JFFS stats available in /proc filesystem" 1036 depends on JFFS_FS && PROC_FS 1037 help 1038 Enabling this option will cause statistics from mounted JFFS file systems 1039 to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jffs/ directory. 1040 1041config JFFS2_FS 1042 tristate "Journalling Flash File System v2 (JFFS2) support" 1043 select CRC32 1044 depends on MTD 1045 help 1046 JFFS2 is the second generation of the Journalling Flash File System 1047 for use on diskless embedded devices. It provides improved wear 1048 levelling, compression and support for hard links. You cannot use 1049 this on normal block devices, only on 'MTD' devices. 1050 1051 Further information on the design and implementation of JFFS2 is 1052 available at <http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2/>. 1053 1054config JFFS2_FS_DEBUG 1055 int "JFFS2 debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 2 = noisy)" 1056 depends on JFFS2_FS 1057 default "0" 1058 help 1059 This controls the amount of debugging messages produced by the JFFS2 1060 code. Set it to zero for use in production systems. For evaluation, 1061 testing and debugging, it's advisable to set it to one. This will 1062 enable a few assertions and will print debugging messages at the 1063 KERN_DEBUG loglevel, where they won't normally be visible. Level 2 1064 is unlikely to be useful - it enables extra debugging in certain 1065 areas which at one point needed debugging, but when the bugs were 1066 located and fixed, the detailed messages were relegated to level 2. 1067 1068 If reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of the 1069 messages at debug level 1 while the misbehaviour was occurring. 1070 1071config JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER 1072 bool "JFFS2 write-buffering support" 1073 depends on JFFS2_FS 1074 default y 1075 help 1076 This enables the write-buffering support in JFFS2. 1077 1078 This functionality is required to support JFFS2 on the following 1079 types of flash devices: 1080 - NAND flash 1081 - NOR flash with transparent ECC 1082 - DataFlash 1083 1084config JFFS2_SUMMARY 1085 bool "JFFS2 summary support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1086 depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 1087 default n 1088 help 1089 This feature makes it possible to use summary information 1090 for faster filesystem mount. 1091 1092 The summary information can be inserted into a filesystem image 1093 by the utility 'sumtool'. 1094 1095 If unsure, say 'N'. 1096 1097config JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 1098 bool "Advanced compression options for JFFS2" 1099 depends on JFFS2_FS 1100 default n 1101 help 1102 Enabling this option allows you to explicitly choose which 1103 compression modules, if any, are enabled in JFFS2. Removing 1104 compressors and mean you cannot read existing file systems, 1105 and enabling experimental compressors can mean that you 1106 write a file system which cannot be read by a standard kernel. 1107 1108 If unsure, you should _definitely_ say 'N'. 1109 1110config JFFS2_ZLIB 1111 bool "JFFS2 ZLIB compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 1112 select ZLIB_INFLATE 1113 select ZLIB_DEFLATE 1114 depends on JFFS2_FS 1115 default y 1116 help 1117 Zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered, 1118 lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer 1119 hardware and operating system. See <http://www.gzip.org/zlib/> for 1120 further information. 1121 1122 Say 'Y' if unsure. 1123 1124config JFFS2_RTIME 1125 bool "JFFS2 RTIME compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 1126 depends on JFFS2_FS 1127 default y 1128 help 1129 Rtime does manage to recompress already-compressed data. Say 'Y' if unsure. 1130 1131config JFFS2_RUBIN 1132 bool "JFFS2 RUBIN compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 1133 depends on JFFS2_FS 1134 default n 1135 help 1136 RUBINMIPS and DYNRUBIN compressors. Say 'N' if unsure. 1137 1138choice 1139 prompt "JFFS2 default compression mode" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 1140 default JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY 1141 depends on JFFS2_FS 1142 help 1143 You can set here the default compression mode of JFFS2 from 1144 the available compression modes. Don't touch if unsure. 1145 1146config JFFS2_CMODE_NONE 1147 bool "no compression" 1148 help 1149 Uses no compression. 1150 1151config JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY 1152 bool "priority" 1153 help 1154 Tries the compressors in a predefinied order and chooses the first 1155 successful one. 1156 1157config JFFS2_CMODE_SIZE 1158 bool "size (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1159 help 1160 Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest 1161 result. 1162 1163endchoice 1164 1165config CRAMFS 1166 tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)" 1167 select ZLIB_INFLATE 1168 help 1169 Saying Y here includes support for CramFs (Compressed ROM File 1170 System). CramFs is designed to be a simple, small, and compressed 1171 file system for ROM based embedded systems. CramFs is read-only, 1172 limited to 256MB file systems (with 16MB files), and doesn't support 1173 16/32 bits uid/gid, hard links and timestamps. 1174 1175 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt> and 1176 <file:fs/cramfs/README> for further information. 1177 1178 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 1179 cramfs. Note that the root file system (the one containing the 1180 directory /) cannot be compiled as a module. 1181 1182 If unsure, say N. 1183 1184config VXFS_FS 1185 tristate "FreeVxFS file system support (VERITAS VxFS(TM) compatible)" 1186 help 1187 FreeVxFS is a file system driver that support the VERITAS VxFS(TM) 1188 file system format. VERITAS VxFS(TM) is the standard file system 1189 of SCO UnixWare (and possibly others) and optionally available 1190 for Sunsoft Solaris, HP-UX and many other operating systems. 1191 Currently only readonly access is supported. 1192 1193 NOTE: the file system type as used by mount(1), mount(2) and 1194 fstab(5) is 'vxfs' as it describes the file system format, not 1195 the actual driver. 1196 1197 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 1198 called freevxfs. If unsure, say N. 1199 1200 1201config HPFS_FS 1202 tristate "OS/2 HPFS file system support" 1203 help 1204 OS/2 is IBM's operating system for PC's, the same as Warp, and HPFS 1205 is the file system used for organizing files on OS/2 hard disk 1206 partitions. Say Y if you want to be able to read files from and 1207 write files to an OS/2 HPFS partition on your hard drive. OS/2 1208 floppies however are in regular MSDOS format, so you don't need this 1209 option in order to be able to read them. Read 1210 <file:Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt>. 1211 1212 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 1213 module will be called hpfs. If unsure, say N. 1214 1215 1216 1217config QNX4FS_FS 1218 tristate "QNX4 file system support (read only)" 1219 help 1220 This is the file system used by the real-time operating systems 1221 QNX 4 and QNX 6 (the latter is also called QNX RTP). 1222 Further information is available at <http://www.qnx.com/>. 1223 Say Y if you intend to mount QNX hard disks or floppies. 1224 Unless you say Y to "QNX4FS read-write support" below, you will 1225 only be able to read these file systems. 1226 1227 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 1228 module will be called qnx4. 1229 1230 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it: 1231 answer N. 1232 1233config QNX4FS_RW 1234 bool "QNX4FS write support (DANGEROUS)" 1235 depends on QNX4FS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN 1236 help 1237 Say Y if you want to test write support for QNX4 file systems. 1238 1239 It's currently broken, so for now: 1240 answer N. 1241 1242 1243 1244config SYSV_FS 1245 tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support" 1246 help 1247 SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel 1248 machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y 1249 here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk 1250 partitions. 1251 1252 If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely 1253 that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order 1254 to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is a 1255 a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse, 1256 UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux. It is 1257 available via FTP (user: ftp) from 1258 <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>). 1259 NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems; 1260 PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-) 1261 1262 If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the 1263 network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support 1264 (but you need NFS file system support obviously). 1265 1266 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a 1267 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes 1268 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man 1269 tar" or preferably "info tar"). Note also that this option has 1270 nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about 1271 the System V file system in 1272 <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>. 1273 Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB. 1274 1275 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 1276 sysv. 1277 1278 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. 1279 1280 1281 1282config UFS_FS 1283 tristate "UFS file system support (read only)" 1284 help 1285 BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, 1286 OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a file system called UFS. Some System V 1287 Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using 1288 this file system as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from 1289 these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the 1290 experimental "UFS file system write support", below. Please read the 1291 file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt> for more information. 1292 1293 The recently released UFS2 variant (used in FreeBSD 5.x) is 1294 READ-ONLY supported. 1295 1296 If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the 1297 network using NFS, you don't need the UFS file system support (but 1298 you need NFS file system support obviously). 1299 1300 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a 1301 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes 1302 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man 1303 tar" or preferably "info tar"). 1304 1305 When accessing NeXTstep files, you may need to convert them from the 1306 NeXT character set to the Latin1 character set; use the program 1307 recode ("info recode") for this purpose. 1308 1309 To compile the UFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the 1310 module will be called ufs. 1311 1312 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. 1313 1314config UFS_FS_WRITE 1315 bool "UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS)" 1316 depends on UFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN 1317 help 1318 Say Y here if you want to try writing to UFS partitions. This is 1319 experimental, so you should back up your UFS partitions beforehand. 1320 1321endmenu 1322 1323menu "Network File Systems" 1324 depends on NET 1325 1326config NFS_FS 1327 tristate "NFS file system support" 1328 depends on INET 1329 select LOCKD 1330 select SUNRPC 1331 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFS_V3_ACL 1332 help 1333 If you are connected to some other (usually local) Unix computer 1334 (using SLIP, PLIP, PPP or Ethernet) and want to mount files residing 1335 on that computer (the NFS server) using the Network File Sharing 1336 protocol, say Y. "Mounting files" means that the client can access 1337 the files with usual UNIX commands as if they were sitting on the 1338 client's hard disk. For this to work, the server must run the 1339 programs nfsd and mountd (but does not need to have NFS file system 1340 support enabled in its kernel). NFS is explained in the Network 1341 Administrator's Guide, available from 1342 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>, on its man page: "man 1343 nfs", and in the NFS-HOWTO. 1344 1345 A superior but less widely used alternative to NFS is provided by 1346 the Coda file system; see "Coda file system support" below. 1347 1348 If you say Y here, you should have said Y to TCP/IP networking also. 1349 This option would enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB. 1350 1351 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 1352 module will be called nfs. 1353 1354 If you are configuring a diskless machine which will mount its root 1355 file system over NFS at boot time, say Y here and to "Kernel 1356 level IP autoconfiguration" above and to "Root file system on NFS" 1357 below. You cannot compile this driver as a module in this case. 1358 There are two packages designed for booting diskless machines over 1359 the net: netboot, available from 1360 <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/netboot/>, and Etherboot, 1361 available from <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/etherboot/>. 1362 1363 If you don't know what all this is about, say N. 1364 1365config NFS_V3 1366 bool "Provide NFSv3 client support" 1367 depends on NFS_FS 1368 help 1369 Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak version 1370 3 of the NFS protocol. 1371 1372 If unsure, say Y. 1373 1374config NFS_V3_ACL 1375 bool "Provide client support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension" 1376 depends on NFS_V3 1377 help 1378 Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX 1379 Access Control Lists. The server should also be compiled with 1380 the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL option. 1381 1382 If unsure, say N. 1383 1384config NFS_V4 1385 bool "Provide NFSv4 client support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1386 depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 1387 select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 1388 help 1389 Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak the newer 1390 version 4 of the NFS protocol. 1391 1392 Note: Requires auxiliary userspace daemons which may be found on 1393 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ 1394 1395 If unsure, say N. 1396 1397config NFS_DIRECTIO 1398 bool "Allow direct I/O on NFS files (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1399 depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 1400 help 1401 This option enables applications to perform uncached I/O on files 1402 in NFS file systems using the O_DIRECT open() flag. When O_DIRECT 1403 is set for a file, its data is not cached in the system's page 1404 cache. Data is moved to and from user-level application buffers 1405 directly. Unlike local disk-based file systems, NFS O_DIRECT has 1406 no alignment restrictions. 1407 1408 Unless your program is designed to use O_DIRECT properly, you are 1409 much better off allowing the NFS client to manage data caching for 1410 you. Misusing O_DIRECT can cause poor server performance or network 1411 storms. This kernel build option defaults OFF to avoid exposing 1412 system administrators unwittingly to a potentially hazardous 1413 feature. 1414 1415 For more details on NFS O_DIRECT, see fs/nfs/direct.c. 1416 1417 If unsure, say N. This reduces the size of the NFS client, and 1418 causes open() to return EINVAL if a file residing in NFS is 1419 opened with the O_DIRECT flag. 1420 1421config NFSD 1422 tristate "NFS server support" 1423 depends on INET 1424 select LOCKD 1425 select SUNRPC 1426 select EXPORTFS 1427 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFSD_V3_ACL || NFSD_V2_ACL 1428 help 1429 If you want your Linux box to act as an NFS *server*, so that other 1430 computers on your local network which support NFS can access certain 1431 directories on your box transparently, you have two options: you can 1432 use the self-contained user space program nfsd, in which case you 1433 should say N here, or you can say Y and use the kernel based NFS 1434 server. The advantage of the kernel based solution is that it is 1435 faster. 1436 1437 In either case, you will need support software; the respective 1438 locations are given in the file <file:Documentation/Changes> in the 1439 NFS section. 1440 1441 If you say Y here, you will get support for version 2 of the NFS 1442 protocol (NFSv2). If you also want NFSv3, say Y to the next question 1443 as well. 1444 1445 Please read the NFS-HOWTO, available from 1446 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1447 1448 To compile the NFS server support as a module, choose M here: the 1449 module will be called nfsd. If unsure, say N. 1450 1451config NFSD_V2_ACL 1452 bool 1453 depends on NFSD 1454 1455config NFSD_V3 1456 bool "Provide NFSv3 server support" 1457 depends on NFSD 1458 help 1459 If you would like to include the NFSv3 server as well as the NFSv2 1460 server, say Y here. If unsure, say Y. 1461 1462config NFSD_V3_ACL 1463 bool "Provide server support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension" 1464 depends on NFSD_V3 1465 select NFSD_V2_ACL 1466 help 1467 Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX 1468 Access Control Lists on exported file systems. NFS clients should 1469 be compiled with the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the 1470 CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL option. If unsure, say N. 1471 1472config NFSD_V4 1473 bool "Provide NFSv4 server support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1474 depends on NFSD_V3 && EXPERIMENTAL 1475 select NFSD_TCP 1476 select CRYPTO_MD5 1477 select CRYPTO 1478 select FS_POSIX_ACL 1479 help 1480 If you would like to include the NFSv4 server as well as the NFSv2 1481 and NFSv3 servers, say Y here. This feature is experimental, and 1482 should only be used if you are interested in helping to test NFSv4. 1483 If unsure, say N. 1484 1485config NFSD_TCP 1486 bool "Provide NFS server over TCP support" 1487 depends on NFSD 1488 default y 1489 help 1490 If you want your NFS server to support TCP connections, say Y here. 1491 TCP connections usually perform better than the default UDP when 1492 the network is lossy or congested. If unsure, say Y. 1493 1494config ROOT_NFS 1495 bool "Root file system on NFS" 1496 depends on NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP 1497 help 1498 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the 1499 one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the 1500 net via NFS (presumably because your box doesn't have a hard disk), 1501 say Y. Read <file:Documentation/nfsroot.txt> for details. It is 1502 likely that in this case, you also want to say Y to "Kernel level IP 1503 autoconfiguration" so that your box can discover its network address 1504 at boot time. 1505 1506 Most people say N here. 1507 1508config LOCKD 1509 tristate 1510 1511config LOCKD_V4 1512 bool 1513 depends on NFSD_V3 || NFS_V3 1514 default y 1515 1516config EXPORTFS 1517 tristate 1518 1519config NFS_ACL_SUPPORT 1520 tristate 1521 select FS_POSIX_ACL 1522 1523config NFS_COMMON 1524 bool 1525 depends on NFSD || NFS_FS 1526 default y 1527 1528config SUNRPC 1529 tristate 1530 1531config SUNRPC_GSS 1532 tristate 1533 1534config RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 1535 tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1536 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL 1537 select SUNRPC_GSS 1538 select CRYPTO 1539 select CRYPTO_MD5 1540 select CRYPTO_DES 1541 help 1542 Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api 1543 mechanism based on Kerberos V5. This is required for 1544 NFSv4. 1545 1546 Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on 1547 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ 1548 1549 If unsure, say N. 1550 1551config RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3 1552 tristate "Secure RPC: SPKM3 mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1553 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL 1554 select SUNRPC_GSS 1555 select CRYPTO 1556 select CRYPTO_MD5 1557 select CRYPTO_DES 1558 select CRYPTO_CAST5 1559 help 1560 Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api 1561 mechanism based on the SPKM3 public-key mechanism. 1562 1563 Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on 1564 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ 1565 1566 If unsure, say N. 1567 1568config SMB_FS 1569 tristate "SMB file system support (to mount Windows shares etc.)" 1570 depends on INET 1571 select NLS 1572 help 1573 SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Windows for Workgroups 1574 (WfW), Windows 95/98, Windows NT and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share 1575 files and printers over local networks. Saying Y here allows you to 1576 mount their file systems (often called "shares" in this context) and 1577 access them just like any other Unix directory. Currently, this 1578 works only if the Windows machines use TCP/IP as the underlying 1579 transport protocol, and not NetBEUI. For details, read 1580 <file:Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt> and the SMB-HOWTO, 1581 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1582 1583 Note: if you just want your box to act as an SMB *server* and make 1584 files and printing services available to Windows clients (which need 1585 to have a TCP/IP stack), you don't need to say Y here; you can use 1586 the program SAMBA (available from <ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/>) 1587 for that. 1588 1589 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and 1590 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>. 1591 1592 To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here: the module will 1593 be called smbfs. Most people say N, however. 1594 1595config SMB_NLS_DEFAULT 1596 bool "Use a default NLS" 1597 depends on SMB_FS 1598 help 1599 Enabling this will make smbfs use nls translations by default. You 1600 need to specify the local charset (CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT) in the nls 1601 settings and you need to give the default nls for the SMB server as 1602 CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE. 1603 1604 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount 1605 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters. 1606 1607 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this. 1608 1609config SMB_NLS_REMOTE 1610 string "Default Remote NLS Option" 1611 depends on SMB_NLS_DEFAULT 1612 default "cp437" 1613 help 1614 This setting allows you to specify a default value for which 1615 codepage the server uses. If this field is left blank no 1616 translations will be done by default. The local codepage/charset 1617 default to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT. 1618 1619 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount 1620 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters. 1621 1622 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this. 1623 1624config CIFS 1625 tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem for Samba, Window and other CIFS compliant servers)" 1626 depends on INET 1627 select NLS 1628 help 1629 This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System 1630 (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block 1631 (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early 1632 PC operating systems. The CIFS protocol is fully supported by 1633 file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4 1634 and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS 1635 server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited 1636 support for Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well. 1637 You must use the smbfs client filesystem to access older SMB servers 1638 such as OS/2 and DOS. 1639 1640 The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced 1641 network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers, 1642 including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user 1643 session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional 1644 packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements, 1645 and optional Winbind (nsswitch) integration. You do not need to enable 1646 cifs if running only a (Samba) server. It is possible to enable both 1647 smbfs and cifs (e.g. if you are using CIFS for accessing Windows 2003 1648 and Samba 3 servers, and smbfs for accessing old servers). If you need 1649 to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y. 1650 1651config CIFS_STATS 1652 bool "CIFS statistics" 1653 depends on CIFS 1654 help 1655 Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share 1656 mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats 1657 1658config CIFS_STATS2 1659 bool "CIFS extended statistics" 1660 depends on CIFS_STATS 1661 help 1662 Enabling this option will allow more detailed statistics on SMB 1663 request timing to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData and also 1664 allow optional logging of slow responses to dmesg (depending on the 1665 value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI, see fs/cifs/README for more details). 1666 These additional statistics may have a minor effect on performance 1667 and memory utilization. 1668 1669 Unless you are a developer or are doing network performance analysis 1670 or tuning, say N. 1671 1672config CIFS_XATTR 1673 bool "CIFS extended attributes" 1674 depends on CIFS 1675 help 1676 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 1677 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 1678 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). CIFS maps the name of 1679 extended attributes beginning with the user namespace prefix 1680 to SMB/CIFS EAs. EAs are stored on Windows servers without the 1681 user namespace prefix, but their names are seen by Linux cifs clients 1682 prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace 1683 (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at 1684 this time. 1685 1686 If unsure, say N. 1687 1688config CIFS_POSIX 1689 bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions" 1690 depends on CIFS_XATTR 1691 help 1692 Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to 1693 negotiate a newer dialect with servers, such as Samba 3.0.5 1694 or later, that optionally can handle more POSIX like (rather 1695 than Windows like) file behavior. It also enables 1696 support for POSIX ACLs (getfacl and setfacl) to servers 1697 (such as Samba 3.10 and later) which can negotiate 1698 CIFS POSIX ACL support. If unsure, say N. 1699 1700config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL 1701 bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1702 depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL 1703 help 1704 Enables cifs features under testing. These features are 1705 experimental and currently include support for writepages 1706 (multipage writebehind performance improvements) and directory 1707 change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY) as well as some security 1708 improvements. Some also depend on setting at runtime the 1709 pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental (which is disabled by 1710 default). See the file fs/cifs/README for more details. 1711 1712 If unsure, say N. 1713 1714config CIFS_UPCALL 1715 bool "CIFS Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1716 depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL 1717 select CONNECTOR 1718 help 1719 Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which will be used to contact 1720 userspace helper utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged Kerberos 1721 tickets which are needed to mount to certain secure servers 1722 (for which more secure Kerberos authentication is required). If 1723 unsure, say N. 1724 1725config NCP_FS 1726 tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)" 1727 depends on IPX!=n || INET 1728 help 1729 NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) is a protocol that runs over IPX and is 1730 used by Novell NetWare clients to talk to file servers. It is to 1731 IPX what NFS is to TCP/IP, if that helps. Saying Y here allows you 1732 to mount NetWare file server volumes and to access them just like 1733 any other Unix directory. For details, please read the file 1734 <file:Documentation/filesystems/ncpfs.txt> in the kernel source and 1735 the IPX-HOWTO from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1736 1737 You do not have to say Y here if you want your Linux box to act as a 1738 file *server* for Novell NetWare clients. 1739 1740 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and 1741 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>. 1742 1743 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 1744 ncpfs. Say N unless you are connected to a Novell network. 1745 1746source "fs/ncpfs/Kconfig" 1747 1748config CODA_FS 1749 tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)" 1750 depends on INET 1751 help 1752 Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it 1753 enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them 1754 with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard 1755 disk. Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for 1756 disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server 1757 replication, security model for authentication and encryption, 1758 persistent client caches and write back caching. 1759 1760 If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda 1761 *client*. You will need user level code as well, both for the 1762 client and server. Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need 1763 no kernel support. Please read 1764 <file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.txt> and check out the Coda 1765 home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>. 1766 1767 To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the 1768 module will be called coda. 1769 1770config CODA_FS_OLD_API 1771 bool "Use 96-bit Coda file identifiers" 1772 depends on CODA_FS 1773 help 1774 A new kernel-userspace API had to be introduced for Coda v6.0 1775 to support larger 128-bit file identifiers as needed by the 1776 new realms implementation. 1777 1778 However this new API is not backward compatible with older 1779 clients. If you really need to run the old Coda userspace 1780 cache manager then say Y. 1781 1782 For most cases you probably want to say N. 1783 1784config AFS_FS 1785# for fs/nls/Config.in 1786 tristate "Andrew File System support (AFS) (Experimental)" 1787 depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL 1788 select RXRPC 1789 help 1790 If you say Y here, you will get an experimental Andrew File System 1791 driver. It currently only supports unsecured read-only AFS access. 1792 1793 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more intormation. 1794 1795 If unsure, say N. 1796 1797config RXRPC 1798 tristate 1799 1800config 9P_FS 1801 tristate "Plan 9 Resource Sharing Support (9P2000) (Experimental)" 1802 depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL 1803 help 1804 If you say Y here, you will get experimental support for 1805 Plan 9 resource sharing via the 9P2000 protocol. 1806 1807 See <http://v9fs.sf.net> for more information. 1808 1809 If unsure, say N. 1810 1811endmenu 1812 1813menu "Partition Types" 1814 1815source "fs/partitions/Kconfig" 1816 1817endmenu 1818 1819source "fs/nls/Kconfig" 1820 1821endmenu 1822 1823