1*a2225d93SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUTOFS4_FS 2*a2225d93SLinus Torvalds tristate "Old Kconfig name for Kernel automounter support" 3*a2225d93SLinus Torvalds select AUTOFS_FS 4*a2225d93SLinus Torvalds help 5*a2225d93SLinus Torvalds This name exists for people to just automatically pick up the 6*a2225d93SLinus Torvalds new name of the autofs Kconfig option. All it does is select 7*a2225d93SLinus Torvalds thenew new option name. 8*a2225d93SLinus Torvalds 9*a2225d93SLinus Torvalds It will go away in a release or two as people have 10*a2225d93SLinus Torvalds transitioned to just plain AUTOFS_FS. 11*a2225d93SLinus Torvalds 122a3ae0a1SIan Kentconfig AUTOFS_FS 132a3ae0a1SIan Kent tristate "Kernel automounter support (supports v3, v4 and v5)" 142a3ae0a1SIan Kent default n 152a3ae0a1SIan Kent help 162a3ae0a1SIan Kent The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems 172a3ae0a1SIan Kent on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce 182a3ae0a1SIan Kent overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD 192a3ae0a1SIan Kent automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. 202a3ae0a1SIan Kent 212a3ae0a1SIan Kent To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from 222a3ae0a1SIan Kent <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/>; you also want 232a3ae0a1SIan Kent to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. 242a3ae0a1SIan Kent 252a3ae0a1SIan Kent To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be 262a3ae0a1SIan Kent called autofs. 272a3ae0a1SIan Kent 282a3ae0a1SIan Kent If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or 292a3ae0a1SIan Kent don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the 302a3ae0a1SIan Kent local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say 312a3ae0a1SIan Kent N here. 32