1# 2# File system configuration 3# 4 5menu "File systems" 6 7if BLOCK 8 9config EXT2_FS 10 tristate "Second extended fs support" 11 help 12 Ext2 is a standard Linux file system for hard disks. 13 14 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 15 module will be called ext2. 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 && MMU 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 journalling 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 journalling 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. 100 101config EXT3_FS_XATTR 102 bool "Ext3 extended attributes" 103 depends on EXT3_FS 104 default y 105 help 106 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 107 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 108 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 109 110 If unsure, say N. 111 112 You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext3. 113 114config EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL 115 bool "Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists" 116 depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR 117 select FS_POSIX_ACL 118 help 119 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 120 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 121 122 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 123 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 124 125 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 126 127config EXT3_FS_SECURITY 128 bool "Ext3 Security Labels" 129 depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR 130 help 131 Security labels support alternative access control models 132 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 133 enables an extended attribute handler for file security 134 labels in the ext3 filesystem. 135 136 If you are not using a security module that requires using 137 extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 138 139config EXT4DEV_FS 140 tristate "Ext4dev/ext4 extended fs support development (EXPERIMENTAL)" 141 depends on EXPERIMENTAL 142 select JBD2 143 select CRC16 144 help 145 Ext4dev is a predecessor filesystem of the next generation 146 extended fs ext4, based on ext3 filesystem code. It will be 147 renamed ext4 fs later, once ext4dev is mature and stabilized. 148 149 Unlike the change from ext2 filesystem to ext3 filesystem, 150 the on-disk format of ext4dev is not the same as ext3 any more: 151 it is based on extent maps and it supports 48-bit physical block 152 numbers. These combined on-disk format changes will allow 153 ext4dev/ext4 to handle more than 16 TB filesystem volumes -- 154 a hard limit that ext3 cannot overcome without changing the 155 on-disk format. 156 157 Other than extent maps and 48-bit block numbers, ext4dev also is 158 likely to have other new features such as persistent preallocation, 159 high resolution time stamps, and larger file support etc. These 160 features will be added to ext4dev gradually. 161 162 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here. The 163 module will be called ext4dev. 164 165 If unsure, say N. 166 167config EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR 168 bool "Ext4dev extended attributes" 169 depends on EXT4DEV_FS 170 default y 171 help 172 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 173 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 174 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 175 176 If unsure, say N. 177 178 You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext4dev/ext4. 179 180config EXT4DEV_FS_POSIX_ACL 181 bool "Ext4dev POSIX Access Control Lists" 182 depends on EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR 183 select FS_POSIX_ACL 184 help 185 POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 186 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 187 188 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for 189 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 190 191 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 192 193config EXT4DEV_FS_SECURITY 194 bool "Ext4dev Security Labels" 195 depends on EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR 196 help 197 Security labels support alternative access control models 198 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 199 enables an extended attribute handler for file security 200 labels in the ext4dev/ext4 filesystem. 201 202 If you are not using a security module that requires using 203 extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 204 205config JBD 206 tristate 207 help 208 This is a generic journalling layer for block devices. It is 209 currently used by the ext3 and OCFS2 file systems, but it could 210 also be used to add journal support to other file systems or block 211 devices such as RAID or LVM. 212 213 If you are using the ext3 or OCFS2 file systems, you need to 214 say Y here. If you are not using ext3 OCFS2 then you will probably 215 want to say N. 216 217 To compile this device as a module, choose M here: the module will be 218 called jbd. If you are compiling ext3 or OCFS2 into the kernel, 219 you cannot compile this code as a module. 220 221config JBD_DEBUG 222 bool "JBD (ext3) debugging support" 223 depends on JBD && DEBUG_FS 224 help 225 If you are using the ext3 journaled file system (or potentially any 226 other file system/device using JBD), this option allows you to 227 enable debugging output while the system is running, in order to 228 help track down any problems you are having. By default the 229 debugging output will be turned off. 230 231 If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging 232 with "echo N > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd/jbd-debug", where N is a 233 number between 1 and 5, the higher the number, the more debugging 234 output is generated. To turn debugging off again, do 235 "echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd/jbd-debug". 236 237config JBD2 238 tristate 239 select CRC32 240 help 241 This is a generic journaling layer for block devices that support 242 both 32-bit and 64-bit block numbers. It is currently used by 243 the ext4dev/ext4 filesystem, but it could also be used to add 244 journal support to other file systems or block devices such 245 as RAID or LVM. 246 247 If you are using ext4dev/ext4, you need to say Y here. If you are not 248 using ext4dev/ext4 then you will probably want to say N. 249 250 To compile this device as a module, choose M here. The module will be 251 called jbd2. If you are compiling ext4dev/ext4 into the kernel, 252 you cannot compile this code as a module. 253 254config JBD2_DEBUG 255 bool "JBD2 (ext4dev/ext4) debugging support" 256 depends on JBD2 && DEBUG_FS 257 help 258 If you are using the ext4dev/ext4 journaled file system (or 259 potentially any other filesystem/device using JBD2), this option 260 allows you to enable debugging output while the system is running, 261 in order to help track down any problems you are having. 262 By default, the debugging output will be turned off. 263 264 If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging 265 with "echo N > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd2/jbd2-debug", where N is a 266 number between 1 and 5. The higher the number, the more debugging 267 output is generated. To turn debugging off again, do 268 "echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd2/jbd2-debug". 269 270config FS_MBCACHE 271# Meta block cache for Extended Attributes (ext2/ext3/ext4) 272 tristate 273 depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR || EXT3_FS_XATTR || EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR 274 default y if EXT2_FS=y || EXT3_FS=y || EXT4DEV_FS=y 275 default m if EXT2_FS=m || EXT3_FS=m || EXT4DEV_FS=m 276 277config REISERFS_FS 278 tristate "Reiserfs support" 279 help 280 Stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a balanced 281 tree. Uses journalling. 282 283 Balanced trees are more efficient than traditional file system 284 architectural foundations. 285 286 In general, ReiserFS is as fast as ext2, but is very efficient with 287 large directories and small files. Additional patches are needed 288 for NFS and quotas, please see <http://www.namesys.com/> for links. 289 290 It is more easily extended to have features currently found in 291 database and keyword search systems than block allocation based file 292 systems are. The next version will be so extended, and will support 293 plugins consistent with our motto ``It takes more than a license to 294 make source code open.'' 295 296 Read <http://www.namesys.com/> to learn more about reiserfs. 297 298 Sponsored by Threshold Networks, Emusic.com, and Bigstorage.com. 299 300 If you like it, you can pay us to add new features to it that you 301 need, buy a support contract, or pay us to port it to another OS. 302 303config REISERFS_CHECK 304 bool "Enable reiserfs debug mode" 305 depends on REISERFS_FS 306 help 307 If you set this to Y, then ReiserFS will perform every check it can 308 possibly imagine of its internal consistency throughout its 309 operation. It will also go substantially slower. More than once we 310 have forgotten that this was on, and then gone despondent over the 311 latest benchmarks.:-) Use of this option allows our team to go all 312 out in checking for consistency when debugging without fear of its 313 effect on end users. If you are on the verge of sending in a bug 314 report, say Y and you might get a useful error message. Almost 315 everyone should say N. 316 317config REISERFS_PROC_INFO 318 bool "Stats in /proc/fs/reiserfs" 319 depends on REISERFS_FS && PROC_FS 320 help 321 Create under /proc/fs/reiserfs a hierarchy of files, displaying 322 various ReiserFS statistics and internal data at the expense of 323 making your kernel or module slightly larger (+8 KB). This also 324 increases the amount of kernel memory required for each mount. 325 Almost everyone but ReiserFS developers and people fine-tuning 326 reiserfs or tracing problems should say N. 327 328config REISERFS_FS_XATTR 329 bool "ReiserFS extended attributes" 330 depends on REISERFS_FS 331 help 332 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 333 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 334 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 335 336 If unsure, say N. 337 338config REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL 339 bool "ReiserFS POSIX Access Control Lists" 340 depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR 341 select FS_POSIX_ACL 342 help 343 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 344 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 345 346 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 347 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 348 349 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 350 351config REISERFS_FS_SECURITY 352 bool "ReiserFS Security Labels" 353 depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR 354 help 355 Security labels support alternative access control models 356 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 357 enables an extended attribute handler for file security 358 labels in the ReiserFS filesystem. 359 360 If you are not using a security module that requires using 361 extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 362 363config JFS_FS 364 tristate "JFS filesystem support" 365 select NLS 366 help 367 This is a port of IBM's Journaled Filesystem . More information is 368 available in the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt>. 369 370 If you do not intend to use the JFS filesystem, say N. 371 372config JFS_POSIX_ACL 373 bool "JFS POSIX Access Control Lists" 374 depends on JFS_FS 375 select FS_POSIX_ACL 376 help 377 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 378 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 379 380 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 381 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 382 383 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 384 385config JFS_SECURITY 386 bool "JFS Security Labels" 387 depends on JFS_FS 388 help 389 Security labels support alternative access control models 390 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 391 enables an extended attribute handler for file security 392 labels in the jfs filesystem. 393 394 If you are not using a security module that requires using 395 extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 396 397config JFS_DEBUG 398 bool "JFS debugging" 399 depends on JFS_FS 400 help 401 If you are experiencing any problems with the JFS filesystem, say 402 Y here. This will result in additional debugging messages to be 403 written to the system log. Under normal circumstances, this 404 results in very little overhead. 405 406config JFS_STATISTICS 407 bool "JFS statistics" 408 depends on JFS_FS 409 help 410 Enabling this option will cause statistics from the JFS file system 411 to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jfs/ directory. 412 413config FS_POSIX_ACL 414# Posix ACL utility routines (for now, only ext2/ext3/jfs/reiserfs/nfs4) 415# 416# NOTE: you can implement Posix ACLs without these helpers (XFS does). 417# Never use this symbol for ifdefs. 418# 419 bool 420 default n 421 422source "fs/xfs/Kconfig" 423source "fs/gfs2/Kconfig" 424 425config OCFS2_FS 426 tristate "OCFS2 file system support" 427 depends on NET && SYSFS 428 select CONFIGFS_FS 429 select JBD 430 select CRC32 431 help 432 OCFS2 is a general purpose extent based shared disk cluster file 433 system with many similarities to ext3. It supports 64 bit inode 434 numbers, and has automatically extending metadata groups which may 435 also make it attractive for non-clustered use. 436 437 You'll want to install the ocfs2-tools package in order to at least 438 get "mount.ocfs2". 439 440 Project web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2 441 Tools web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools 442 OCFS2 mailing lists: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/mailman/ 443 444 For more information on OCFS2, see the file 445 <file:Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt>. 446 447config OCFS2_FS_O2CB 448 tristate "O2CB Kernelspace Clustering" 449 depends on OCFS2_FS 450 default y 451 help 452 OCFS2 includes a simple kernelspace clustering package, the OCFS2 453 Cluster Base. It only requires a very small userspace component 454 to configure it. This comes with the standard ocfs2-tools package. 455 O2CB is limited to maintaining a cluster for OCFS2 file systems. 456 It cannot manage any other cluster applications. 457 458 It is always safe to say Y here, as the clustering method is 459 run-time selectable. 460 461config OCFS2_FS_USERSPACE_CLUSTER 462 tristate "OCFS2 Userspace Clustering" 463 depends on OCFS2_FS && DLM 464 default y 465 help 466 This option will allow OCFS2 to use userspace clustering services 467 in conjunction with the DLM in fs/dlm. If you are using a 468 userspace cluster manager, say Y here. 469 470 It is safe to say Y, as the clustering method is run-time 471 selectable. 472 473config OCFS2_DEBUG_MASKLOG 474 bool "OCFS2 logging support" 475 depends on OCFS2_FS 476 default y 477 help 478 The ocfs2 filesystem has an extensive logging system. The system 479 allows selection of events to log via files in /sys/o2cb/logmask/. 480 This option will enlarge your kernel, but it allows debugging of 481 ocfs2 filesystem issues. 482 483config OCFS2_DEBUG_FS 484 bool "OCFS2 expensive checks" 485 depends on OCFS2_FS 486 default n 487 help 488 This option will enable expensive consistency checks. Enable 489 this option for debugging only as it is likely to decrease 490 performance of the filesystem. 491 492endif # BLOCK 493 494config DNOTIFY 495 bool "Dnotify support" 496 default y 497 help 498 Dnotify is a directory-based per-fd file change notification system 499 that uses signals to communicate events to user-space. There exist 500 superior alternatives, but some applications may still rely on 501 dnotify. 502 503 If unsure, say Y. 504 505config INOTIFY 506 bool "Inotify file change notification support" 507 default y 508 ---help--- 509 Say Y here to enable inotify support. Inotify is a file change 510 notification system and a replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes 511 numerous shortcomings in dnotify and introduces several new features 512 including multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount 513 notification. 514 515 For more information, see <file:Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt> 516 517 If unsure, say Y. 518 519config INOTIFY_USER 520 bool "Inotify support for userspace" 521 depends on INOTIFY 522 default y 523 ---help--- 524 Say Y here to enable inotify support for userspace, including the 525 associated system calls. Inotify allows monitoring of both files and 526 directories via a single open fd. Events are read from the file 527 descriptor, which is also select()- and poll()-able. 528 529 For more information, see <file:Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt> 530 531 If unsure, say Y. 532 533config QUOTA 534 bool "Quota support" 535 help 536 If you say Y here, you will be able to set per user limits for disk 537 usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works for the 538 ext2, ext3, and reiserfs file system. ext3 also supports journalled 539 quotas for which you don't need to run quotacheck(8) after an unclean 540 shutdown. 541 For further details, read the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from 542 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or the documentation provided 543 with the quota tools. Probably the quota support is only useful for 544 multi user systems. If unsure, say N. 545 546config QUOTA_NETLINK_INTERFACE 547 bool "Report quota messages through netlink interface" 548 depends on QUOTA && NET 549 help 550 If you say Y here, quota warnings (about exceeding softlimit, reaching 551 hardlimit, etc.) will be reported through netlink interface. If unsure, 552 say Y. 553 554config PRINT_QUOTA_WARNING 555 bool "Print quota warnings to console (OBSOLETE)" 556 depends on QUOTA 557 default y 558 help 559 If you say Y here, quota warnings (about exceeding softlimit, reaching 560 hardlimit, etc.) will be printed to the process' controlling terminal. 561 Note that this behavior is currently deprecated and may go away in 562 future. Please use notification via netlink socket instead. 563 564config QFMT_V1 565 tristate "Old quota format support" 566 depends on QUOTA 567 help 568 This quota format was (is) used by kernels earlier than 2.4.22. If 569 you have quota working and you don't want to convert to new quota 570 format say Y here. 571 572config QFMT_V2 573 tristate "Quota format v2 support" 574 depends on QUOTA 575 help 576 This quota format allows using quotas with 32-bit UIDs/GIDs. If you 577 need this functionality say Y here. 578 579config QUOTACTL 580 bool 581 depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA 582 default y 583 584config AUTOFS_FS 585 tristate "Kernel automounter support" 586 help 587 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems 588 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce 589 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD 590 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. 591 592 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs 593 package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>. 594 You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. 595 596 If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more 597 features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support", 598 below. 599 600 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be 601 called autofs. 602 603 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you 604 probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here. 605 606config AUTOFS4_FS 607 tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)" 608 help 609 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems 610 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce 611 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD 612 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. 613 614 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from 615 <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/>; you also 616 want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. 617 618 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be 619 called autofs4. You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your 620 modules configuration file. 621 622 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or 623 don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the 624 local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say 625 N here. 626 627config FUSE_FS 628 tristate "Filesystem in Userspace support" 629 help 630 With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem 631 in a userspace program. 632 633 There's also companion library: libfuse. This library along with 634 utilities is available from the FUSE homepage: 635 <http://fuse.sourceforge.net/> 636 637 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt> for more information. 638 See <file:Documentation/Changes> for needed library/utility version. 639 640 If you want to develop a userspace FS, or if you want to use 641 a filesystem based on FUSE, answer Y or M. 642 643config GENERIC_ACL 644 bool 645 select FS_POSIX_ACL 646 647if BLOCK 648menu "CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems" 649 650config ISO9660_FS 651 tristate "ISO 9660 CDROM file system support" 652 help 653 This is the standard file system used on CD-ROMs. It was previously 654 known as "High Sierra File System" and is called "hsfs" on other 655 Unix systems. The so-called Rock-Ridge extensions which allow for 656 long Unix filenames and symbolic links are also supported by this 657 driver. If you have a CD-ROM drive and want to do more with it than 658 just listen to audio CDs and watch its LEDs, say Y (and read 659 <file:Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt> and the CD-ROM-HOWTO, 660 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), thereby 661 enlarging your kernel by about 27 KB; otherwise say N. 662 663 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 664 module will be called isofs. 665 666config JOLIET 667 bool "Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions" 668 depends on ISO9660_FS 669 select NLS 670 help 671 Joliet is a Microsoft extension for the ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system 672 which allows for long filenames in unicode format (unicode is the 673 new 16 bit character code, successor to ASCII, which encodes the 674 characters of almost all languages of the world; see 675 <http://www.unicode.org/> for more information). Say Y here if you 676 want to be able to read Joliet CD-ROMs under Linux. 677 678config ZISOFS 679 bool "Transparent decompression extension" 680 depends on ISO9660_FS 681 select ZLIB_INFLATE 682 help 683 This is a Linux-specific extension to RockRidge which lets you store 684 data in compressed form on a CD-ROM and have it transparently 685 decompressed when the CD-ROM is accessed. See 686 <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/zisofs/> for the tools 687 necessary to create such a filesystem. Say Y here if you want to be 688 able to read such compressed CD-ROMs. 689 690config UDF_FS 691 tristate "UDF file system support" 692 select CRC_ITU_T 693 help 694 This is the new file system used on some CD-ROMs and DVDs. Say Y if 695 you intend to mount DVD discs or CDRW's written in packet mode, or 696 if written to by other UDF utilities, such as DirectCD. 697 Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt>. 698 699 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 700 module will be called udf. 701 702 If unsure, say N. 703 704config UDF_NLS 705 bool 706 default y 707 depends on (UDF_FS=m && NLS) || (UDF_FS=y && NLS=y) 708 709endmenu 710endif # BLOCK 711 712if BLOCK 713menu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems" 714 715config FAT_FS 716 tristate 717 select NLS 718 help 719 If you want to use one of the FAT-based file systems (the MS-DOS and 720 VFAT (Windows 95) file systems), then you must say Y or M here 721 to include FAT support. You will then be able to mount partitions or 722 diskettes with FAT-based file systems and transparently access the 723 files on them, i.e. MSDOS files will look and behave just like all 724 other Unix files. 725 726 This FAT support is not a file system in itself, it only provides 727 the foundation for the other file systems. You will have to say Y or 728 M to at least one of "MSDOS fs support" or "VFAT fs support" in 729 order to make use of it. 730 731 Another way to read and write MSDOS floppies and hard drive 732 partitions from within Linux (but not transparently) is with the 733 mtools ("man mtools") program suite. You don't need to say Y here in 734 order to do that. 735 736 If you need to move large files on floppies between a DOS and a 737 Linux box, say Y here, mount the floppy under Linux with an MSDOS 738 file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program 739 available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar"). 740 741 The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure, 742 say Y. 743 744 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 745 fat. Note that if you compile the FAT support as a module, you 746 cannot compile any of the FAT-based file systems into the kernel 747 -- they will have to be modules as well. 748 749config MSDOS_FS 750 tristate "MSDOS fs support" 751 select FAT_FS 752 help 753 This allows you to mount MSDOS partitions of your hard drive (unless 754 they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under 755 Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the 756 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from 757 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in 758 <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you 759 intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y 760 here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes 761 transparent, i.e. the MSDOS files look and behave just like all 762 other Unix files. 763 764 If you have Windows 95 or Windows NT installed on your MSDOS 765 partitions, you should use the VFAT file system (say Y to "VFAT fs 766 support" below), or you will not be able to see the long filenames 767 generated by Windows 95 / Windows NT. 768 769 This option will enlarge your kernel by about 7 KB. If unsure, 770 answer Y. This will only work if you said Y to "DOS FAT fs support" 771 as well. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will 772 be called msdos. 773 774config VFAT_FS 775 tristate "VFAT (Windows-95) fs support" 776 select FAT_FS 777 help 778 This option provides support for normal Windows file systems with 779 long filenames. That includes non-compressed FAT-based file systems 780 used by Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and the Unix 781 programs from the mtools package. 782 783 The VFAT support enlarges your kernel by about 10 KB and it only 784 works if you said Y to the "DOS FAT fs support" above. Please read 785 the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for details. If 786 unsure, say Y. 787 788 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 789 vfat. 790 791config FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE 792 int "Default codepage for FAT" 793 depends on MSDOS_FS || VFAT_FS 794 default 437 795 help 796 This option should be set to the codepage of your FAT filesystems. 797 It can be overridden with the "codepage" mount option. 798 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information. 799 800config FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET 801 string "Default iocharset for FAT" 802 depends on VFAT_FS 803 default "iso8859-1" 804 help 805 Set this to the default input/output character set you'd 806 like FAT to use. It should probably match the character set 807 that most of your FAT filesystems use, and can be overridden 808 with the "iocharset" mount option for FAT filesystems. 809 Note that "utf8" is not recommended for FAT filesystems. 810 If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here. 811 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information. 812 813config NTFS_FS 814 tristate "NTFS file system support" 815 select NLS 816 help 817 NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003. 818 819 Saying Y or M here enables read support. There is partial, but 820 safe, write support available. For write support you must also 821 say Y to "NTFS write support" below. 822 823 There are also a number of user-space tools available, called 824 ntfsprogs. These include ntfsundelete and ntfsresize, that work 825 without NTFS support enabled in the kernel. 826 827 This is a rewrite from scratch of Linux NTFS support and replaced 828 the old NTFS code starting with Linux 2.5.11. A backport to 829 the Linux 2.4 kernel series is separately available as a patch 830 from the project web site. 831 832 For more information see <file:Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt> 833 and <http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/>. 834 835 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 836 module will be called ntfs. 837 838 If you are not using Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 in addition to 839 Linux on your computer it is safe to say N. 840 841config NTFS_DEBUG 842 bool "NTFS debugging support" 843 depends on NTFS_FS 844 help 845 If you are experiencing any problems with the NTFS file system, say 846 Y here. This will result in additional consistency checks to be 847 performed by the driver as well as additional debugging messages to 848 be written to the system log. Note that debugging messages are 849 disabled by default. To enable them, supply the option debug_msgs=1 850 at the kernel command line when booting the kernel or as an option 851 to insmod when loading the ntfs module. Once the driver is active, 852 you can enable debugging messages by doing (as root): 853 echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug 854 Replacing the "1" with "0" would disable debug messages. 855 856 If you leave debugging messages disabled, this results in little 857 overhead, but enabling debug messages results in very significant 858 slowdown of the system. 859 860 When reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of 861 debugging messages while the misbehaviour was occurring. 862 863config NTFS_RW 864 bool "NTFS write support" 865 depends on NTFS_FS 866 help 867 This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver. 868 869 The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without 870 changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or 871 renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to 872 so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot 873 be written to. 874 875 While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have 876 so far not received a single report where the driver would have 877 damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use. 878 879 Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from 880 scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS 881 write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997), 882 is not safe. 883 884 This is currently useful with TopologiLinux. TopologiLinux is run 885 on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your 886 hard disk. Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not 887 need its own partition. For more information see 888 <http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/> 889 890 It is perfectly safe to say N here. 891 892endmenu 893endif # BLOCK 894 895menu "Pseudo filesystems" 896 897config PROC_FS 898 bool "/proc file system support" if EMBEDDED 899 default y 900 help 901 This is a virtual file system providing information about the status 902 of the system. "Virtual" means that it doesn't take up any space on 903 your hard disk: the files are created on the fly by the kernel when 904 you try to access them. Also, you cannot read the files with older 905 version of the program less: you need to use more or cat. 906 907 It's totally cool; for example, "cat /proc/interrupts" gives 908 information about what the different IRQs are used for at the moment 909 (there is a small number of Interrupt ReQuest lines in your computer 910 that are used by the attached devices to gain the CPU's attention -- 911 often a source of trouble if two devices are mistakenly configured 912 to use the same IRQ). The program procinfo to display some 913 information about your system gathered from the /proc file system. 914 915 Before you can use the /proc file system, it has to be mounted, 916 meaning it has to be given a location in the directory hierarchy. 917 That location should be /proc. A command such as "mount -t proc proc 918 /proc" or the equivalent line in /etc/fstab does the job. 919 920 The /proc file system is explained in the file 921 <file:Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt> and on the proc(5) manpage 922 ("man 5 proc"). 923 924 This option will enlarge your kernel by about 67 KB. Several 925 programs depend on this, so everyone should say Y here. 926 927config PROC_KCORE 928 bool "/proc/kcore support" if !ARM 929 depends on PROC_FS && MMU 930 931config PROC_VMCORE 932 bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 933 depends on PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP 934 default y 935 help 936 Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format. 937 938config PROC_SYSCTL 939 bool "Sysctl support (/proc/sys)" if EMBEDDED 940 depends on PROC_FS 941 select SYSCTL 942 default y 943 ---help--- 944 The sysctl interface provides a means of dynamically changing 945 certain kernel parameters and variables on the fly without requiring 946 a recompile of the kernel or reboot of the system. The primary 947 interface is through /proc/sys. If you say Y here a tree of 948 modifiable sysctl entries will be generated beneath the 949 /proc/sys directory. They are explained in the files 950 in <file:Documentation/sysctl/>. Note that enabling this 951 option will enlarge the kernel by at least 8 KB. 952 953 As it is generally a good thing, you should say Y here unless 954 building a kernel for install/rescue disks or your system is very 955 limited in memory. 956 957config SYSFS 958 bool "sysfs file system support" if EMBEDDED 959 default y 960 help 961 The sysfs filesystem is a virtual filesystem that the kernel uses to 962 export internal kernel objects, their attributes, and their 963 relationships to one another. 964 965 Users can use sysfs to ascertain useful information about the running 966 kernel, such as the devices the kernel has discovered on each bus and 967 which driver each is bound to. sysfs can also be used to tune devices 968 and other kernel subsystems. 969 970 Some system agents rely on the information in sysfs to operate. 971 /sbin/hotplug uses device and object attributes in sysfs to assist in 972 delegating policy decisions, like persistently naming devices. 973 974 sysfs is currently used by the block subsystem to mount the root 975 partition. If sysfs is disabled you must specify the boot device on 976 the kernel boot command line via its major and minor numbers. For 977 example, "root=03:01" for /dev/hda1. 978 979 Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space. 980 981config TMPFS 982 bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)" 983 help 984 Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory. 985 986 Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be 987 created on your hard drive. The files live in memory and swap 988 space. If you unmount a tmpfs instance, everything stored therein is 989 lost. 990 991 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> for details. 992 993config TMPFS_POSIX_ACL 994 bool "Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists" 995 depends on TMPFS 996 select GENERIC_ACL 997 help 998 POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 999 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 1000 1001 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for 1002 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 1003 1004 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N. 1005 1006config HUGETLBFS 1007 bool "HugeTLB file system support" 1008 depends on X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || (SUPERH && MMU) || BROKEN 1009 help 1010 hugetlbfs is a filesystem backing for HugeTLB pages, based on 1011 ramfs. For architectures that support it, say Y here and read 1012 <file:Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt> for details. 1013 1014 If unsure, say N. 1015 1016config HUGETLB_PAGE 1017 def_bool HUGETLBFS 1018 1019config CONFIGFS_FS 1020 tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem" 1021 depends on SYSFS 1022 help 1023 configfs is a ram-based filesystem that provides the converse 1024 of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based 1025 view of kernel objects, configfs is a filesystem-based manager 1026 of kernel objects, or config_items. 1027 1028 Both sysfs and configfs can and should exist together on the 1029 same system. One is not a replacement for the other. 1030 1031endmenu 1032 1033menu "Miscellaneous filesystems" 1034 1035config ADFS_FS 1036 tristate "ADFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1037 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 1038 help 1039 The Acorn Disc Filing System is the standard file system of the 1040 RiscOS operating system which runs on Acorn's ARM-based Risc PC 1041 systems and the Acorn Archimedes range of machines. If you say Y 1042 here, Linux will be able to read from ADFS partitions on hard drives 1043 and from ADFS-formatted floppy discs. If you also want to be able to 1044 write to those devices, say Y to "ADFS write support" below. 1045 1046 The ADFS partition should be the first partition (i.e., 1047 /dev/[hs]d?1) on each of your drives. Please read the file 1048 <file:Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt> for further details. 1049 1050 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be 1051 called adfs. 1052 1053 If unsure, say N. 1054 1055config ADFS_FS_RW 1056 bool "ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)" 1057 depends on ADFS_FS 1058 help 1059 If you say Y here, you will be able to write to ADFS partitions on 1060 hard drives and ADFS-formatted floppy disks. This is experimental 1061 codes, so if you're unsure, say N. 1062 1063config AFFS_FS 1064 tristate "Amiga FFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1065 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 1066 help 1067 The Fast File System (FFS) is the common file system used on hard 1068 disks by Amiga(tm) systems since AmigaOS Version 1.3 (34.20). Say Y 1069 if you want to be able to read and write files from and to an Amiga 1070 FFS partition on your hard drive. Amiga floppies however cannot be 1071 read with this driver due to an incompatibility of the floppy 1072 controller used in an Amiga and the standard floppy controller in 1073 PCs and workstations. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt> 1074 and <file:fs/affs/Changes>. 1075 1076 With this driver you can also mount disk files used by Bernd 1077 Schmidt's Un*X Amiga Emulator 1078 (<http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/>). 1079 If you want to do this, you will also need to say Y or M to "Loop 1080 device support", above. 1081 1082 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 1083 module will be called affs. If unsure, say N. 1084 1085config ECRYPT_FS 1086 tristate "eCrypt filesystem layer support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1087 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && KEYS && CRYPTO && NET 1088 help 1089 Encrypted filesystem that operates on the VFS layer. See 1090 <file:Documentation/filesystems/ecryptfs.txt> to learn more about 1091 eCryptfs. Userspace components are required and can be 1092 obtained from <http://ecryptfs.sf.net>. 1093 1094 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 1095 module will be called ecryptfs. 1096 1097config HFS_FS 1098 tristate "Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1099 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 1100 select NLS 1101 help 1102 If you say Y here, you will be able to mount Macintosh-formatted 1103 floppy disks and hard drive partitions with full read-write access. 1104 Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/hfs.txt> to learn about 1105 the available mount options. 1106 1107 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 1108 module will be called hfs. 1109 1110config HFSPLUS_FS 1111 tristate "Apple Extended HFS file system support" 1112 depends on BLOCK 1113 select NLS 1114 select NLS_UTF8 1115 help 1116 If you say Y here, you will be able to mount extended format 1117 Macintosh-formatted hard drive partitions with full read-write access. 1118 1119 This file system is often called HFS+ and was introduced with 1120 MacOS 8. It includes all Mac specific filesystem data such as 1121 data forks and creator codes, but it also has several UNIX 1122 style features such as file ownership and permissions. 1123 1124config BEFS_FS 1125 tristate "BeOS file system (BeFS) support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1126 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 1127 select NLS 1128 help 1129 The BeOS File System (BeFS) is the native file system of Be, Inc's 1130 BeOS. Notable features include support for arbitrary attributes 1131 on files and directories, and database-like indices on selected 1132 attributes. (Also note that this driver doesn't make those features 1133 available at this time). It is a 64 bit filesystem, so it supports 1134 extremely large volumes and files. 1135 1136 If you use this filesystem, you should also say Y to at least one 1137 of the NLS (native language support) options below. 1138 1139 If you don't know what this is about, say N. 1140 1141 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 1142 called befs. 1143 1144config BEFS_DEBUG 1145 bool "Debug BeFS" 1146 depends on BEFS_FS 1147 help 1148 If you say Y here, you can use the 'debug' mount option to enable 1149 debugging output from the driver. 1150 1151config BFS_FS 1152 tristate "BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1153 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 1154 help 1155 Boot File System (BFS) is a file system used under SCO UnixWare to 1156 allow the bootloader access to the kernel image and other important 1157 files during the boot process. It is usually mounted under /stand 1158 and corresponds to the slice marked as "STAND" in the UnixWare 1159 partition. You should say Y if you want to read or write the files 1160 on your /stand slice from within Linux. You then also need to say Y 1161 to "UnixWare slices support", below. More information about the BFS 1162 file system is contained in the file 1163 <file:Documentation/filesystems/bfs.txt>. 1164 1165 If you don't know what this is about, say N. 1166 1167 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 1168 bfs. Note that the file system of your root partition (the one 1169 containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module. 1170 1171 1172 1173config EFS_FS 1174 tristate "EFS file system support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1175 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL 1176 help 1177 EFS is an older file system used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and hard 1178 disk partitions by SGI's IRIX operating system (IRIX 6.0 and newer 1179 uses the XFS file system for hard disk partitions however). 1180 1181 This implementation only offers read-only access. If you don't know 1182 what all this is about, it's safe to say N. For more information 1183 about EFS see its home page at <http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/>. 1184 1185 To compile the EFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the 1186 module will be called efs. 1187 1188config JFFS2_FS 1189 tristate "Journalling Flash File System v2 (JFFS2) support" 1190 select CRC32 1191 depends on MTD 1192 help 1193 JFFS2 is the second generation of the Journalling Flash File System 1194 for use on diskless embedded devices. It provides improved wear 1195 levelling, compression and support for hard links. You cannot use 1196 this on normal block devices, only on 'MTD' devices. 1197 1198 Further information on the design and implementation of JFFS2 is 1199 available at <http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2/>. 1200 1201config JFFS2_FS_DEBUG 1202 int "JFFS2 debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 2 = noisy)" 1203 depends on JFFS2_FS 1204 default "0" 1205 help 1206 This controls the amount of debugging messages produced by the JFFS2 1207 code. Set it to zero for use in production systems. For evaluation, 1208 testing and debugging, it's advisable to set it to one. This will 1209 enable a few assertions and will print debugging messages at the 1210 KERN_DEBUG loglevel, where they won't normally be visible. Level 2 1211 is unlikely to be useful - it enables extra debugging in certain 1212 areas which at one point needed debugging, but when the bugs were 1213 located and fixed, the detailed messages were relegated to level 2. 1214 1215 If reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of the 1216 messages at debug level 1 while the misbehaviour was occurring. 1217 1218config JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER 1219 bool "JFFS2 write-buffering support" 1220 depends on JFFS2_FS 1221 default y 1222 help 1223 This enables the write-buffering support in JFFS2. 1224 1225 This functionality is required to support JFFS2 on the following 1226 types of flash devices: 1227 - NAND flash 1228 - NOR flash with transparent ECC 1229 - DataFlash 1230 1231config JFFS2_FS_WBUF_VERIFY 1232 bool "Verify JFFS2 write-buffer reads" 1233 depends on JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER 1234 default n 1235 help 1236 This causes JFFS2 to read back every page written through the 1237 write-buffer, and check for errors. 1238 1239config JFFS2_SUMMARY 1240 bool "JFFS2 summary support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1241 depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 1242 default n 1243 help 1244 This feature makes it possible to use summary information 1245 for faster filesystem mount. 1246 1247 The summary information can be inserted into a filesystem image 1248 by the utility 'sumtool'. 1249 1250 If unsure, say 'N'. 1251 1252config JFFS2_FS_XATTR 1253 bool "JFFS2 XATTR support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1254 depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 1255 default n 1256 help 1257 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 1258 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 1259 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 1260 1261 If unsure, say N. 1262 1263config JFFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL 1264 bool "JFFS2 POSIX Access Control Lists" 1265 depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR 1266 default y 1267 select FS_POSIX_ACL 1268 help 1269 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 1270 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 1271 1272 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 1273 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 1274 1275 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 1276 1277config JFFS2_FS_SECURITY 1278 bool "JFFS2 Security Labels" 1279 depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR 1280 default y 1281 help 1282 Security labels support alternative access control models 1283 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 1284 enables an extended attribute handler for file security 1285 labels in the jffs2 filesystem. 1286 1287 If you are not using a security module that requires using 1288 extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 1289 1290config JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 1291 bool "Advanced compression options for JFFS2" 1292 depends on JFFS2_FS 1293 default n 1294 help 1295 Enabling this option allows you to explicitly choose which 1296 compression modules, if any, are enabled in JFFS2. Removing 1297 compressors can mean you cannot read existing file systems, 1298 and enabling experimental compressors can mean that you 1299 write a file system which cannot be read by a standard kernel. 1300 1301 If unsure, you should _definitely_ say 'N'. 1302 1303config JFFS2_ZLIB 1304 bool "JFFS2 ZLIB compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 1305 select ZLIB_INFLATE 1306 select ZLIB_DEFLATE 1307 depends on JFFS2_FS 1308 default y 1309 help 1310 Zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered, 1311 lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer 1312 hardware and operating system. See <http://www.gzip.org/zlib/> for 1313 further information. 1314 1315 Say 'Y' if unsure. 1316 1317config JFFS2_LZO 1318 bool "JFFS2 LZO compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 1319 select LZO_COMPRESS 1320 select LZO_DECOMPRESS 1321 depends on JFFS2_FS 1322 default n 1323 help 1324 minilzo-based compression. Generally works better than Zlib. 1325 1326 This feature was added in July, 2007. Say 'N' if you need 1327 compatibility with older bootloaders or kernels. 1328 1329config JFFS2_RTIME 1330 bool "JFFS2 RTIME compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 1331 depends on JFFS2_FS 1332 default y 1333 help 1334 Rtime does manage to recompress already-compressed data. Say 'Y' if unsure. 1335 1336config JFFS2_RUBIN 1337 bool "JFFS2 RUBIN compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 1338 depends on JFFS2_FS 1339 default n 1340 help 1341 RUBINMIPS and DYNRUBIN compressors. Say 'N' if unsure. 1342 1343choice 1344 prompt "JFFS2 default compression mode" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 1345 default JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY 1346 depends on JFFS2_FS 1347 help 1348 You can set here the default compression mode of JFFS2 from 1349 the available compression modes. Don't touch if unsure. 1350 1351config JFFS2_CMODE_NONE 1352 bool "no compression" 1353 help 1354 Uses no compression. 1355 1356config JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY 1357 bool "priority" 1358 help 1359 Tries the compressors in a predefined order and chooses the first 1360 successful one. 1361 1362config JFFS2_CMODE_SIZE 1363 bool "size (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1364 help 1365 Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest 1366 result. 1367 1368config JFFS2_CMODE_FAVOURLZO 1369 bool "Favour LZO" 1370 help 1371 Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest 1372 result but gives some preference to LZO (which has faster 1373 decompression) at the expense of size. 1374 1375endchoice 1376 1377config CRAMFS 1378 tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)" 1379 depends on BLOCK 1380 select ZLIB_INFLATE 1381 help 1382 Saying Y here includes support for CramFs (Compressed ROM File 1383 System). CramFs is designed to be a simple, small, and compressed 1384 file system for ROM based embedded systems. CramFs is read-only, 1385 limited to 256MB file systems (with 16MB files), and doesn't support 1386 16/32 bits uid/gid, hard links and timestamps. 1387 1388 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt> and 1389 <file:fs/cramfs/README> for further information. 1390 1391 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 1392 cramfs. Note that the root file system (the one containing the 1393 directory /) cannot be compiled as a module. 1394 1395 If unsure, say N. 1396 1397config VXFS_FS 1398 tristate "FreeVxFS file system support (VERITAS VxFS(TM) compatible)" 1399 depends on BLOCK 1400 help 1401 FreeVxFS is a file system driver that support the VERITAS VxFS(TM) 1402 file system format. VERITAS VxFS(TM) is the standard file system 1403 of SCO UnixWare (and possibly others) and optionally available 1404 for Sunsoft Solaris, HP-UX and many other operating systems. 1405 Currently only readonly access is supported. 1406 1407 NOTE: the file system type as used by mount(1), mount(2) and 1408 fstab(5) is 'vxfs' as it describes the file system format, not 1409 the actual driver. 1410 1411 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 1412 called freevxfs. If unsure, say N. 1413 1414config MINIX_FS 1415 tristate "Minix file system support" 1416 depends on BLOCK 1417 help 1418 Minix is a simple operating system used in many classes about OS's. 1419 The minix file system (method to organize files on a hard disk 1420 partition or a floppy disk) was the original file system for Linux, 1421 but has been superseded by the second extended file system ext2fs. 1422 You don't want to use the minix file system on your hard disk 1423 because of certain built-in restrictions, but it is sometimes found 1424 on older Linux floppy disks. This option will enlarge your kernel 1425 by about 28 KB. If unsure, say N. 1426 1427 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 1428 module will be called minix. Note that the file system of your root 1429 partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as 1430 a module. 1431 1432 1433config HPFS_FS 1434 tristate "OS/2 HPFS file system support" 1435 depends on BLOCK 1436 help 1437 OS/2 is IBM's operating system for PC's, the same as Warp, and HPFS 1438 is the file system used for organizing files on OS/2 hard disk 1439 partitions. Say Y if you want to be able to read files from and 1440 write files to an OS/2 HPFS partition on your hard drive. OS/2 1441 floppies however are in regular MSDOS format, so you don't need this 1442 option in order to be able to read them. Read 1443 <file:Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt>. 1444 1445 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 1446 module will be called hpfs. If unsure, say N. 1447 1448 1449config QNX4FS_FS 1450 tristate "QNX4 file system support (read only)" 1451 depends on BLOCK 1452 help 1453 This is the file system used by the real-time operating systems 1454 QNX 4 and QNX 6 (the latter is also called QNX RTP). 1455 Further information is available at <http://www.qnx.com/>. 1456 Say Y if you intend to mount QNX hard disks or floppies. 1457 Unless you say Y to "QNX4FS read-write support" below, you will 1458 only be able to read these file systems. 1459 1460 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 1461 module will be called qnx4. 1462 1463 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it: 1464 answer N. 1465 1466config QNX4FS_RW 1467 bool "QNX4FS write support (DANGEROUS)" 1468 depends on QNX4FS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN 1469 help 1470 Say Y if you want to test write support for QNX4 file systems. 1471 1472 It's currently broken, so for now: 1473 answer N. 1474 1475config ROMFS_FS 1476 tristate "ROM file system support" 1477 depends on BLOCK 1478 ---help--- 1479 This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for 1480 initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for 1481 other read-only media as well. Read 1482 <file:Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt> for details. 1483 1484 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 1485 module will be called romfs. Note that the file system of your 1486 root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a 1487 module. 1488 1489 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it: 1490 answer N. 1491 1492 1493config SYSV_FS 1494 tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support" 1495 depends on BLOCK 1496 help 1497 SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel 1498 machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y 1499 here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk 1500 partitions. 1501 1502 If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely 1503 that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order 1504 to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is 1505 a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse, 1506 UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux. It is 1507 available via FTP (user: ftp) from 1508 <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>). 1509 NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems; 1510 PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-) 1511 1512 If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the 1513 network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support 1514 (but you need NFS file system support obviously). 1515 1516 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a 1517 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes 1518 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man 1519 tar" or preferably "info tar"). Note also that this option has 1520 nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about 1521 the System V file system in 1522 <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>. 1523 Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB. 1524 1525 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 1526 sysv. 1527 1528 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. 1529 1530 1531config UFS_FS 1532 tristate "UFS file system support (read only)" 1533 depends on BLOCK 1534 help 1535 BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, 1536 OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a file system called UFS. Some System V 1537 Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using 1538 this file system as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from 1539 these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the 1540 experimental "UFS file system write support", below. Please read the 1541 file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt> for more information. 1542 1543 The recently released UFS2 variant (used in FreeBSD 5.x) is 1544 READ-ONLY supported. 1545 1546 If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the 1547 network using NFS, you don't need the UFS file system support (but 1548 you need NFS file system support obviously). 1549 1550 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a 1551 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes 1552 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man 1553 tar" or preferably "info tar"). 1554 1555 When accessing NeXTstep files, you may need to convert them from the 1556 NeXT character set to the Latin1 character set; use the program 1557 recode ("info recode") for this purpose. 1558 1559 To compile the UFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the 1560 module will be called ufs. 1561 1562 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. 1563 1564config UFS_FS_WRITE 1565 bool "UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS)" 1566 depends on UFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 1567 help 1568 Say Y here if you want to try writing to UFS partitions. This is 1569 experimental, so you should back up your UFS partitions beforehand. 1570 1571config UFS_DEBUG 1572 bool "UFS debugging" 1573 depends on UFS_FS 1574 help 1575 If you are experiencing any problems with the UFS filesystem, say 1576 Y here. This will result in _many_ additional debugging messages to be 1577 written to the system log. 1578 1579endmenu 1580 1581menuconfig NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS 1582 bool "Network File Systems" 1583 default y 1584 depends on NET 1585 ---help--- 1586 Say Y here to get to see options for network filesystems and 1587 filesystem-related networking code, such as NFS daemon and 1588 RPCSEC security modules. 1589 This option alone does not add any kernel code. 1590 1591 If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and 1592 disabled; if unsure, say Y here. 1593 1594if NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS 1595 1596config NFS_FS 1597 tristate "NFS file system support" 1598 depends on INET 1599 select LOCKD 1600 select SUNRPC 1601 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFS_V3_ACL 1602 help 1603 If you are connected to some other (usually local) Unix computer 1604 (using SLIP, PLIP, PPP or Ethernet) and want to mount files residing 1605 on that computer (the NFS server) using the Network File Sharing 1606 protocol, say Y. "Mounting files" means that the client can access 1607 the files with usual UNIX commands as if they were sitting on the 1608 client's hard disk. For this to work, the server must run the 1609 programs nfsd and mountd (but does not need to have NFS file system 1610 support enabled in its kernel). NFS is explained in the Network 1611 Administrator's Guide, available from 1612 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>, on its man page: "man 1613 nfs", and in the NFS-HOWTO. 1614 1615 A superior but less widely used alternative to NFS is provided by 1616 the Coda file system; see "Coda file system support" below. 1617 1618 If you say Y here, you should have said Y to TCP/IP networking also. 1619 This option would enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB. 1620 1621 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 1622 module will be called nfs. 1623 1624 If you are configuring a diskless machine which will mount its root 1625 file system over NFS at boot time, say Y here and to "Kernel 1626 level IP autoconfiguration" above and to "Root file system on NFS" 1627 below. You cannot compile this driver as a module in this case. 1628 There are two packages designed for booting diskless machines over 1629 the net: netboot, available from 1630 <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/netboot/>, and Etherboot, 1631 available from <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/etherboot/>. 1632 1633 If you don't know what all this is about, say N. 1634 1635config NFS_V3 1636 bool "Provide NFSv3 client support" 1637 depends on NFS_FS 1638 help 1639 Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak version 1640 3 of the NFS protocol. 1641 1642 If unsure, say Y. 1643 1644config NFS_V3_ACL 1645 bool "Provide client support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension" 1646 depends on NFS_V3 1647 help 1648 Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX 1649 Access Control Lists. The server should also be compiled with 1650 the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL option. 1651 1652 If unsure, say N. 1653 1654config NFS_V4 1655 bool "Provide NFSv4 client support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1656 depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 1657 select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 1658 help 1659 Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak the newer 1660 version 4 of the NFS protocol. 1661 1662 Note: Requires auxiliary userspace daemons which may be found on 1663 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ 1664 1665 If unsure, say N. 1666 1667config NFSD 1668 tristate "NFS server support" 1669 depends on INET 1670 select LOCKD 1671 select SUNRPC 1672 select EXPORTFS 1673 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFSD_V2_ACL 1674 help 1675 Choose Y here if you want to allow other computers to access 1676 files residing on this system using Sun's Network File System 1677 protocol. To compile the NFS server support as a module, 1678 choose M here: the module will be called nfsd. 1679 1680 You may choose to use a user-space NFS server instead, in which 1681 case you can choose N here. 1682 1683 To export local file systems using NFS, you also need to install 1684 user space programs which can be found in the Linux nfs-utils 1685 package, available from http://linux-nfs.org/. More detail about 1686 the Linux NFS server implementation is available via the 1687 exports(5) man page. 1688 1689 Below you can choose which versions of the NFS protocol are 1690 available to clients mounting the NFS server on this system. 1691 Support for NFS version 2 (RFC 1094) is always available when 1692 CONFIG_NFSD is selected. 1693 1694 If unsure, say N. 1695 1696config NFSD_V2_ACL 1697 bool 1698 depends on NFSD 1699 1700config NFSD_V3 1701 bool "NFS server support for NFS version 3" 1702 depends on NFSD 1703 help 1704 This option enables support in your system's NFS server for 1705 version 3 of the NFS protocol (RFC 1813). 1706 1707 If unsure, say Y. 1708 1709config NFSD_V3_ACL 1710 bool "NFS server support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension" 1711 depends on NFSD_V3 1712 select NFSD_V2_ACL 1713 help 1714 Solaris NFS servers support an auxiliary NFSv3 ACL protocol that 1715 never became an official part of the NFS version 3 protocol. 1716 This protocol extension allows applications on NFS clients to 1717 manipulate POSIX Access Control Lists on files residing on NFS 1718 servers. NFS servers enforce POSIX ACLs on local files whether 1719 this protocol is available or not. 1720 1721 This option enables support in your system's NFS server for the 1722 NFSv3 ACL protocol extension allowing NFS clients to manipulate 1723 POSIX ACLs on files exported by your system's NFS server. NFS 1724 clients which support the Solaris NFSv3 ACL protocol can then 1725 access and modify ACLs on your NFS server. 1726 1727 To store ACLs on your NFS server, you also need to enable ACL- 1728 related CONFIG options for your local file systems of choice. 1729 1730 If unsure, say N. 1731 1732config NFSD_V4 1733 bool "NFS server support for NFS version 4 (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1734 depends on NFSD && PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 1735 select NFSD_V3 1736 select FS_POSIX_ACL 1737 select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 1738 help 1739 This option enables support in your system's NFS server for 1740 version 4 of the NFS protocol (RFC 3530). 1741 1742 To export files using NFSv4, you need to install additional user 1743 space programs which can be found in the Linux nfs-utils package, 1744 available from http://linux-nfs.org/. 1745 1746 If unsure, say N. 1747 1748config ROOT_NFS 1749 bool "Root file system on NFS" 1750 depends on NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP 1751 help 1752 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the 1753 one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the 1754 net via NFS (presumably because your box doesn't have a hard disk), 1755 say Y. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt> for 1756 details. It is likely that in this case, you also want to say Y to 1757 "Kernel level IP autoconfiguration" so that your box can discover 1758 its network address at boot time. 1759 1760 Most people say N here. 1761 1762config LOCKD 1763 tristate 1764 1765config LOCKD_V4 1766 bool 1767 depends on NFSD_V3 || NFS_V3 1768 default y 1769 1770config EXPORTFS 1771 tristate 1772 1773config NFS_ACL_SUPPORT 1774 tristate 1775 select FS_POSIX_ACL 1776 1777config NFS_COMMON 1778 bool 1779 depends on NFSD || NFS_FS 1780 default y 1781 1782config SUNRPC 1783 tristate 1784 1785config SUNRPC_GSS 1786 tristate 1787 1788config SUNRPC_XPRT_RDMA 1789 tristate 1790 depends on SUNRPC && INFINIBAND && EXPERIMENTAL 1791 default SUNRPC && INFINIBAND 1792 help 1793 This option enables an RPC client transport capability that 1794 allows the NFS client to mount servers via an RDMA-enabled 1795 transport. 1796 1797 To compile RPC client RDMA transport support as a module, 1798 choose M here: the module will be called xprtrdma. 1799 1800 If unsure, say N. 1801 1802config SUNRPC_BIND34 1803 bool "Support for rpcbind versions 3 & 4 (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1804 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL 1805 default n 1806 help 1807 RPC requests over IPv6 networks require support for larger 1808 addresses when performing an RPC bind. Sun added support for 1809 IPv6 addressing by creating two new versions of the rpcbind 1810 protocol (RFC 1833). 1811 1812 This option enables support in the kernel RPC client for 1813 querying rpcbind servers via versions 3 and 4 of the rpcbind 1814 protocol. The kernel automatically falls back to version 2 1815 if a remote rpcbind service does not support versions 3 or 4. 1816 By themselves, these new versions do not provide support for 1817 RPC over IPv6, but the new protocol versions are necessary to 1818 support it. 1819 1820 If unsure, say N to get traditional behavior (version 2 rpcbind 1821 requests only). 1822 1823config RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 1824 tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1825 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL 1826 select SUNRPC_GSS 1827 select CRYPTO 1828 select CRYPTO_MD5 1829 select CRYPTO_DES 1830 select CRYPTO_CBC 1831 help 1832 Choose Y here to enable Secure RPC using the Kerberos version 5 1833 GSS-API mechanism (RFC 1964). 1834 1835 Secure RPC calls with Kerberos require an auxiliary user-space 1836 daemon which may be found in the Linux nfs-utils package 1837 available from http://linux-nfs.org/. In addition, user-space 1838 Kerberos support should be installed. 1839 1840 If unsure, say N. 1841 1842config RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3 1843 tristate "Secure RPC: SPKM3 mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1844 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL 1845 select SUNRPC_GSS 1846 select CRYPTO 1847 select CRYPTO_MD5 1848 select CRYPTO_DES 1849 select CRYPTO_CAST5 1850 select CRYPTO_CBC 1851 help 1852 Choose Y here to enable Secure RPC using the SPKM3 public key 1853 GSS-API mechansim (RFC 2025). 1854 1855 Secure RPC calls with SPKM3 require an auxiliary userspace 1856 daemon which may be found in the Linux nfs-utils package 1857 available from http://linux-nfs.org/. 1858 1859 If unsure, say N. 1860 1861config SMB_FS 1862 tristate "SMB file system support (OBSOLETE, please use CIFS)" 1863 depends on INET 1864 select NLS 1865 help 1866 SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Windows for Workgroups 1867 (WfW), Windows 95/98, Windows NT and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share 1868 files and printers over local networks. Saying Y here allows you to 1869 mount their file systems (often called "shares" in this context) and 1870 access them just like any other Unix directory. Currently, this 1871 works only if the Windows machines use TCP/IP as the underlying 1872 transport protocol, and not NetBEUI. For details, read 1873 <file:Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt> and the SMB-HOWTO, 1874 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1875 1876 Note: if you just want your box to act as an SMB *server* and make 1877 files and printing services available to Windows clients (which need 1878 to have a TCP/IP stack), you don't need to say Y here; you can use 1879 the program SAMBA (available from <ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/>) 1880 for that. 1881 1882 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and 1883 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>. 1884 1885 To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here: 1886 the module will be called smbfs. Most people say N, however. 1887 1888config SMB_NLS_DEFAULT 1889 bool "Use a default NLS" 1890 depends on SMB_FS 1891 help 1892 Enabling this will make smbfs use nls translations by default. You 1893 need to specify the local charset (CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT) in the nls 1894 settings and you need to give the default nls for the SMB server as 1895 CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE. 1896 1897 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount 1898 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters. 1899 1900 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this. 1901 1902config SMB_NLS_REMOTE 1903 string "Default Remote NLS Option" 1904 depends on SMB_NLS_DEFAULT 1905 default "cp437" 1906 help 1907 This setting allows you to specify a default value for which 1908 codepage the server uses. If this field is left blank no 1909 translations will be done by default. The local codepage/charset 1910 default to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT. 1911 1912 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount 1913 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters. 1914 1915 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this. 1916 1917config CIFS 1918 tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem, SMBFS successor)" 1919 depends on INET 1920 select NLS 1921 help 1922 This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System 1923 (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block 1924 (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early 1925 PC operating systems. The CIFS protocol is fully supported by 1926 file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4 1927 and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS 1928 server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited 1929 support for OS/2 and Windows ME and similar servers is provided as 1930 well. 1931 1932 The cifs module provides an advanced network file system 1933 client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers. It includes 1934 support for DFS (hierarchical name space), secure per-user 1935 session establishment via Kerberos or NTLM or NTLMv2, 1936 safe distributed caching (oplock), optional packet 1937 signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements. 1938 If you need to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y. 1939 1940config CIFS_STATS 1941 bool "CIFS statistics" 1942 depends on CIFS 1943 help 1944 Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share 1945 mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats 1946 1947config CIFS_STATS2 1948 bool "Extended statistics" 1949 depends on CIFS_STATS 1950 help 1951 Enabling this option will allow more detailed statistics on SMB 1952 request timing to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData and also 1953 allow optional logging of slow responses to dmesg (depending on the 1954 value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI, see fs/cifs/README for more details). 1955 These additional statistics may have a minor effect on performance 1956 and memory utilization. 1957 1958 Unless you are a developer or are doing network performance analysis 1959 or tuning, say N. 1960 1961config CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH 1962 bool "Support legacy servers which use weaker LANMAN security" 1963 depends on CIFS 1964 help 1965 Modern CIFS servers including Samba and most Windows versions 1966 (since 1997) support stronger NTLM (and even NTLMv2 and Kerberos) 1967 security mechanisms. These hash the password more securely 1968 than the mechanisms used in the older LANMAN version of the 1969 SMB protocol but LANMAN based authentication is needed to 1970 establish sessions with some old SMB servers. 1971 1972 Enabling this option allows the cifs module to mount to older 1973 LANMAN based servers such as OS/2 and Windows 95, but such 1974 mounts may be less secure than mounts using NTLM or more recent 1975 security mechanisms if you are on a public network. Unless you 1976 have a need to access old SMB servers (and are on a private 1977 network) you probably want to say N. Even if this support 1978 is enabled in the kernel build, LANMAN authentication will not be 1979 used automatically. At runtime LANMAN mounts are disabled but 1980 can be set to required (or optional) either in 1981 /proc/fs/cifs (see fs/cifs/README for more detail) or via an 1982 option on the mount command. This support is disabled by 1983 default in order to reduce the possibility of a downgrade 1984 attack. 1985 1986 If unsure, say N. 1987 1988config CIFS_XATTR 1989 bool "CIFS extended attributes" 1990 depends on CIFS 1991 help 1992 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 1993 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 1994 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). CIFS maps the name of 1995 extended attributes beginning with the user namespace prefix 1996 to SMB/CIFS EAs. EAs are stored on Windows servers without the 1997 user namespace prefix, but their names are seen by Linux cifs clients 1998 prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace 1999 (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at 2000 this time. 2001 2002 If unsure, say N. 2003 2004config CIFS_POSIX 2005 bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions" 2006 depends on CIFS_XATTR 2007 help 2008 Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to 2009 negotiate a newer dialect with servers, such as Samba 3.0.5 2010 or later, that optionally can handle more POSIX like (rather 2011 than Windows like) file behavior. It also enables 2012 support for POSIX ACLs (getfacl and setfacl) to servers 2013 (such as Samba 3.10 and later) which can negotiate 2014 CIFS POSIX ACL support. If unsure, say N. 2015 2016config CIFS_DEBUG2 2017 bool "Enable additional CIFS debugging routines" 2018 depends on CIFS 2019 help 2020 Enabling this option adds a few more debugging routines 2021 to the cifs code which slightly increases the size of 2022 the cifs module and can cause additional logging of debug 2023 messages in some error paths, slowing performance. This 2024 option can be turned off unless you are debugging 2025 cifs problems. If unsure, say N. 2026 2027config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL 2028 bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2029 depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL 2030 help 2031 Enables cifs features under testing. These features are 2032 experimental and currently include DFS support and directory 2033 change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY), as well as the upcall 2034 mechanism which will be used for Kerberos session negotiation 2035 and uid remapping. Some of these features also may depend on 2036 setting a value of 1 to the pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental 2037 (which is disabled by default). See the file fs/cifs/README 2038 for more details. If unsure, say N. 2039 2040config CIFS_UPCALL 2041 bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2042 depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL 2043 depends on KEYS 2044 help 2045 Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which accesses 2046 userspace helper utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged (RFC 4178) 2047 Kerberos tickets which are needed to mount to certain secure servers 2048 (for which more secure Kerberos authentication is required). If 2049 unsure, say N. 2050 2051config CIFS_DFS_UPCALL 2052 bool "DFS feature support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2053 depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL 2054 depends on KEYS 2055 help 2056 Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which contacts userspace 2057 helper utilities to provide server name resolution (host names to 2058 IP addresses) which is needed for implicit mounts of DFS junction 2059 points. If unsure, say N. 2060 2061config NCP_FS 2062 tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)" 2063 depends on IPX!=n || INET 2064 help 2065 NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) is a protocol that runs over IPX and is 2066 used by Novell NetWare clients to talk to file servers. It is to 2067 IPX what NFS is to TCP/IP, if that helps. Saying Y here allows you 2068 to mount NetWare file server volumes and to access them just like 2069 any other Unix directory. For details, please read the file 2070 <file:Documentation/filesystems/ncpfs.txt> in the kernel source and 2071 the IPX-HOWTO from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 2072 2073 You do not have to say Y here if you want your Linux box to act as a 2074 file *server* for Novell NetWare clients. 2075 2076 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and 2077 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>. 2078 2079 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 2080 ncpfs. Say N unless you are connected to a Novell network. 2081 2082source "fs/ncpfs/Kconfig" 2083 2084config CODA_FS 2085 tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)" 2086 depends on INET 2087 help 2088 Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it 2089 enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them 2090 with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard 2091 disk. Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for 2092 disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server 2093 replication, security model for authentication and encryption, 2094 persistent client caches and write back caching. 2095 2096 If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda 2097 *client*. You will need user level code as well, both for the 2098 client and server. Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need 2099 no kernel support. Please read 2100 <file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.txt> and check out the Coda 2101 home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>. 2102 2103 To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the 2104 module will be called coda. 2105 2106config CODA_FS_OLD_API 2107 bool "Use 96-bit Coda file identifiers" 2108 depends on CODA_FS 2109 help 2110 A new kernel-userspace API had to be introduced for Coda v6.0 2111 to support larger 128-bit file identifiers as needed by the 2112 new realms implementation. 2113 2114 However this new API is not backward compatible with older 2115 clients. If you really need to run the old Coda userspace 2116 cache manager then say Y. 2117 2118 For most cases you probably want to say N. 2119 2120config AFS_FS 2121 tristate "Andrew File System support (AFS) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2122 depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL 2123 select AF_RXRPC 2124 help 2125 If you say Y here, you will get an experimental Andrew File System 2126 driver. It currently only supports unsecured read-only AFS access. 2127 2128 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information. 2129 2130 If unsure, say N. 2131 2132config AFS_DEBUG 2133 bool "AFS dynamic debugging" 2134 depends on AFS_FS 2135 help 2136 Say Y here to make runtime controllable debugging messages appear. 2137 2138 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information. 2139 2140 If unsure, say N. 2141 2142config 9P_FS 2143 tristate "Plan 9 Resource Sharing Support (9P2000) (Experimental)" 2144 depends on INET && NET_9P && EXPERIMENTAL 2145 help 2146 If you say Y here, you will get experimental support for 2147 Plan 9 resource sharing via the 9P2000 protocol. 2148 2149 See <http://v9fs.sf.net> for more information. 2150 2151 If unsure, say N. 2152 2153endif # NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS 2154 2155if BLOCK 2156menu "Partition Types" 2157 2158source "fs/partitions/Kconfig" 2159 2160endmenu 2161endif 2162 2163source "fs/nls/Kconfig" 2164source "fs/dlm/Kconfig" 2165 2166endmenu 2167