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1622 1623 1624 1625 1626 1627 1628 | # # File system configuration # menu "File systems" config EXT2_FS tristate "Second extended fs support" help This is the de facto standard Linux file system (method to organize files on a storage device) for hard disks. You want to say Y here, unless you intend to use Linux exclusively from inside a DOS partition using the UMSDOS file system. The advantage of the latter is that you can get away without repartitioning your hard drive (which often implies backing everything up and restoring afterwards); the disadvantage is that Linux becomes susceptible to DOS viruses and that UMSDOS is somewhat slower than ext2fs. Even if you want to run Linux in this fashion, it might be a good idea to have ext2fs around: it enables you to read more floppy disks and facilitates the transition to a *real* Linux partition later. Another (rare) case which doesn't require ext2fs is a diskless Linux box which mounts all files over the network using NFS (in this case it's sufficient to say Y to "NFS file system support" below). Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 44 KB. The Ext2fs-Undeletion mini-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, gives information about how to retrieve deleted files on ext2fs file systems. To change the behavior of ext2 file systems, you can use the tune2fs utility ("man tune2fs"). To modify attributes of files and directories on ext2 file systems, use chattr ("man chattr"). Ext2fs partitions can be read from within DOS using the ext2tool command line tool package (available from <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/ext2/>) and from within Windows NT using the ext2nt command line tool package from <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/dos/>. Explore2fs is a graphical explorer for ext2fs partitions which runs on Windows 95 and Windows NT and includes experimental write support; it is available from <http://jnewbigin-pc.it.swin.edu.au/Linux/Explore2fs.htm>. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the module will be called ext2. Be aware however that the file system of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module, and so this could be dangerous. Most everyone wants to say Y here. config EXT2_FS_XATTR bool "Ext2 extended attributes" depends on EXT2_FS help Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). If unsure, say N. config EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL bool "Ext2 POSIX Access Control Lists" depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR help Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N config EXT2_FS_SECURITY bool "Ext2 Security Labels" depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR help Security labels support alternative access control models implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option enables an extended attribute handler for file security labels in the ext2 filesystem. If you are not using a security module that requires using extended attributes for file security labels, say N. config EXT3_FS tristate "Ext3 journalling file system support" help This is the journaling version of the Second extended file system (often called ext3), the de facto standard Linux file system (method to organize files on a storage device) for hard disks. The journaling code included in this driver means you do not have to run e2fsck (file system checker) on your file systems after a crash. The journal keeps track of any changes that were being made at the time the system crashed, and can ensure that your file system is consistent without the need for a lengthy check. Other than adding the journal to the file system, the on-disk format of ext3 is identical to ext2. It is possible to freely switch between using the ext3 driver and the ext2 driver, as long as the file system has been cleanly unmounted, or e2fsck is run on the file system. To add a journal on an existing ext2 file system or change the behavior of ext3 file systems, you can use the tune2fs utility ("man tune2fs"). To modify attributes of files and directories on ext3 file systems, use chattr ("man chattr"). You need to be using e2fsprogs version 1.20 or later in order to create ext3 journals (available at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/e2fsprogs/>). To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the module will be called ext3. Be aware however that the file system of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module, and so this may be dangerous. config EXT3_FS_XATTR bool "Ext3 extended attributes" depends on EXT3_FS default y help Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). If unsure, say N. You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext3. config EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL bool "Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists" depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR help Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N config EXT3_FS_SECURITY bool "Ext3 Security Labels" depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR help Security labels support alternative access control models implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option enables an extended attribute handler for file security labels in the ext3 filesystem. If you are not using a security module that requires using extended attributes for file security labels, say N. config JBD # CONFIG_JBD could be its own option (even modular), but until there are # other users than ext3, we will simply make it be the same as CONFIG_EXT3_FS # dep_tristate ' Journal Block Device support (JBD for ext3)' CONFIG_JBD $CONFIG_EXT3_FS tristate default EXT3_FS help This is a generic journaling layer for block devices. It is currently used by the ext3 file system, but it could also be used to add journal support to other file systems or block devices such as RAID or LVM. If you are using the ext3 file system, you need to say Y here. If you are not using ext3 then you will probably want to say N. To compile this device as a module, choose M here: the module will be called jbd. If you are compiling ext3 into the kernel, you cannot compile this code as a module. config JBD_DEBUG bool "JBD (ext3) debugging support" depends on JBD help If you are using the ext3 journaled file system (or potentially any other file system/device using JBD), this option allows you to enable debugging output while the system is running, in order to help track down any problems you are having. By default the debugging output will be turned off. If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging with "echo N > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug", where N is a number between 1 and 5, the higher the number, the more debugging output is generated. To turn debugging off again, do "echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug". config FS_MBCACHE # Meta block cache for Extended Attributes (ext2/ext3) tristate depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR || EXT3_FS_XATTR default y if EXT2_FS=y || EXT3_FS=y default m if EXT2_FS=m || EXT3_FS=m config REISERFS_FS tristate "Reiserfs support" help Stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a balanced tree. Uses journaling. Balanced trees are more efficient than traditional file system architectural foundations. In general, ReiserFS is as fast as ext2, but is very efficient with large directories and small files. Additional patches are needed for NFS and quotas, please see <http://www.namesys.com/> for links. It is more easily extended to have features currently found in database and keyword search systems than block allocation based file systems are. The next version will be so extended, and will support plugins consistent with our motto ``It takes more than a license to make source code open.'' Read <http://www.namesys.com/> to learn more about reiserfs. Sponsored by Threshold Networks, Emusic.com, and Bigstorage.com. If you like it, you can pay us to add new features to it that you need, buy a support contract, or pay us to port it to another OS. config REISERFS_CHECK bool "Enable reiserfs debug mode" depends on REISERFS_FS help If you set this to Y, then ReiserFS will perform every check it can possibly imagine of its internal consistency throughout its operation. It will also go substantially slower. More than once we have forgotten that this was on, and then gone despondent over the latest benchmarks.:-) Use of this option allows our team to go all out in checking for consistency when debugging without fear of its effect on end users. If you are on the verge of sending in a bug report, say Y and you might get a useful error message. Almost everyone should say N. config REISERFS_PROC_INFO bool "Stats in /proc/fs/reiserfs" depends on REISERFS_FS help Create under /proc/fs/reiserfs a hierarchy of files, displaying various ReiserFS statistics and internal data at the expense of making your kernel or module slightly larger (+8 KB). This also increases the amount of kernel memory required for each mount. Almost everyone but ReiserFS developers and people fine-tuning reiserfs or tracing problems should say N. config JFS_FS tristate "JFS filesystem support" select NLS help This is a port of IBM's Journaled Filesystem . More information is available in the file Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt. If you do not intend to use the JFS filesystem, say N. config JFS_POSIX_ACL bool "JFS POSIX Access Control Lists" depends on JFS_FS help Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N config JFS_DEBUG bool "JFS debugging" depends on JFS_FS help If you are experiencing any problems with the JFS filesystem, say Y here. This will result in additional debugging messages to be written to the system log. Under normal circumstances, this results in very little overhead. config JFS_STATISTICS bool "JFS statistics" depends on JFS_FS help Enabling this option will cause statistics from the JFS file system to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jfs/ directory. config FS_POSIX_ACL # Posix ACL utility routines (for now, only ext2/ext3/jfs) # # NOTE: you can implement Posix ACLs without these helpers (XFS does). # Never use this symbol for ifdefs. # bool depends on EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL || EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL || JFS_POSIX_ACL default y config XFS_FS tristate "XFS filesystem support" help XFS is a high performance journaling filesystem which originated on the SGI IRIX platform. It is completely multi-threaded, can support large files and large filesystems, extended attributes, variable block sizes, is extent based, and makes extensive use of Btrees (directories, extents, free space) to aid both performance and scalability. Refer to the documentation at <http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/> for complete details. This implementation is on-disk compatible with the IRIX version of XFS. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the module will be called xfs. Be aware, however, that if the file system of your root partition is compiled as a module, you'll need to use an initial ramdisk (initrd) to boot. config XFS_RT bool "Realtime support (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on XFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL help If you say Y here you will be able to mount and use XFS filesystems which contain a realtime subvolume. The realtime subvolume is a separate area of disk space where only file data is stored. The realtime subvolume is designed to provide very deterministic data rates suitable for media streaming applications. See the xfs man page in section 5 for a bit more information. This feature is unsupported at this time, is not yet fully functional, and may cause serious problems. If unsure, say N. config XFS_QUOTA bool "Quota support" depends on XFS_FS help If you say Y here, you will be able to set limits for disk usage on a per user and/or a per group basis under XFS. XFS considers quota information as filesystem metadata and uses journaling to provide a higher level guarantee of consistency. The on-disk data format for quota is also compatible with the IRIX version of XFS, allowing a filesystem to be migrated between Linux and IRIX without any need for conversion. If unsure, say N. More comprehensive documentation can be found in README.quota in the xfsprogs package. XFS quota can be used either with or without the generic quota support enabled (CONFIG_QUOTA) - they are completely independent subsystems. config XFS_SECURITY bool "Security Label support" depends on XFS_FS help Security labels support alternative access control models implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option enables an extended attribute namespace for inode security labels in the XFS filesystem. If you are not using a security module that requires using extended attributes for inode security labels, say N. config XFS_POSIX_ACL bool "POSIX ACL support" depends on XFS_FS help POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N. config MINIX_FS tristate "Minix fs support" help Minix is a simple operating system used in many classes about OS's. The minix file system (method to organize files on a hard disk partition or a floppy disk) was the original file system for Linux, but has been superseded by the second extended file system ext2fs. You don't want to use the minix file system on your hard disk because of certain built-in restrictions, but it is sometimes found on older Linux floppy disks. This option will enlarge your kernel by about 28 KB. If unsure, say N. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the module will be called minix. Note that the file system of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module. config ROMFS_FS tristate "ROM file system support" ---help--- This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for other read-only media as well. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt> for details. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the module will be called romfs. Note that the file system of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a module. If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it: answer N. config QUOTA bool "Quota support" help If you say Y here, you will be able to set per user limits for disk usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works for the ext2, ext3, and reiserfs file system. You need additional software in order to use quota support (you can download sources from <http://www.sf.net/projects/linuxquota/>). For further details, read the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Probably the quota support is only useful for multi user systems. If unsure, say N. config QFMT_V1 tristate "Old quota format support" depends on QUOTA help This quota format was (is) used by kernels earlier than 2.4.??. If you have quota working and you don't want to convert to new quota format say Y here. config QFMT_V2 tristate "Quota format v2 support" depends on QUOTA help This quota format allows using quotas with 32-bit UIDs/GIDs. If you need this functionality say Y here. Note that you will need latest quota utilities for new quota format with this kernel. config QUOTACTL bool depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA default y config AUTOFS_FS tristate "Kernel automounter support" help The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>. You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support", below. To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be called autofs. If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here. config AUTOFS4_FS tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)" help The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/testing-v4/>; you also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be called autofs4. You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your modules configuration file. If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here. menu "CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems" config ISO9660_FS tristate "ISO 9660 CDROM file system support" help This is the standard file system used on CD-ROMs. It was previously known as "High Sierra File System" and is called "hsfs" on other Unix systems. The so-called Rock-Ridge extensions which allow for long Unix filenames and symbolic links are also supported by this driver. If you have a CD-ROM drive and want to do more with it than just listen to audio CDs and watch its LEDs, say Y (and read <file:Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt> and the CD-ROM-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), thereby enlarging your kernel by about 27 KB; otherwise say N. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the module will be called isofs. config JOLIET bool "Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions" depends on ISO9660_FS select NLS help Joliet is a Microsoft extension for the ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system which allows for long filenames in unicode format (unicode is the new 16 bit character code, successor to ASCII, which encodes the characters of almost all languages of the world; see <http://www.unicode.org/> for more information). Say Y here if you want to be able to read Joliet CD-ROMs under Linux. config ZISOFS bool "Transparent decompression extension" depends on ISO9660_FS select ZLIB_INFLATE help This is a Linux-specific extension to RockRidge which lets you store data in compressed form on a CD-ROM and have it transparently decompressed when the CD-ROM is accessed. See <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/zisofs/> for the tools necessary to create such a filesystem. Say Y here if you want to be able to read such compressed CD-ROMs. config ZISOFS_FS # for fs/nls/Config.in tristate depends on ZISOFS default ISO9660_FS config UDF_FS tristate "UDF file system support" help This is the new file system used on some CD-ROMs and DVDs. Say Y if you intend to mount DVD discs or CDRW's written in packet mode, or if written to by other UDF utilities, such as DirectCD. Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt>. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the module will be called udf. If unsure, say N. endmenu menu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems" config FAT_FS tristate "DOS FAT fs support" select NLS help If you want to use one of the FAT-based file systems (the MS-DOS, VFAT (Windows 95) and UMSDOS (used to run Linux on top of an ordinary DOS partition) file systems), then you must say Y or M here to include FAT support. You will then be able to mount partitions or diskettes with FAT-based file systems and transparently access the files on them, i.e. MSDOS files will look and behave just like all other Unix files. This FAT support is not a file system in itself, it only provides the foundation for the other file systems. You will have to say Y or M to at least one of "MSDOS fs support" or "VFAT fs support" in order to make use of it. Another way to read and write MSDOS floppies and hard drive partitions from within Linux (but not transparently) is with the mtools ("man mtools") program suite. You don't need to say Y here in order to do that. If you need to move large files on floppies between a DOS and a Linux box, say Y here, mount the floppy under Linux with an MSDOS file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar"). It is now also becoming possible to read and write compressed FAT file systems; read <file:Documentation/filesystems/fat_cvf.txt> for details. The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure, say Y. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called fat. Note that if you compile the FAT support as a module, you cannot compile any of the FAT-based file systems into the kernel -- they will have to be modules as well. The file system of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a module, so don't say M here if you intend to use UMSDOS as your root file system. config MSDOS_FS tristate "MSDOS fs support" depends on FAT_FS help This allows you to mount MSDOS partitions of your hard drive (unless they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes transparent, i.e. the MSDOS files look and behave just like all other Unix files. If you want to use UMSDOS, the Unix-like file system on top of a DOS file system, which allows you to run Linux from within a DOS partition without repartitioning, you'll have to say Y or M here. If you have Windows 95 or Windows NT installed on your MSDOS partitions, you should use the VFAT file system (say Y to "VFAT fs support" below), or you will not be able to see the long filenames generated by Windows 95 / Windows NT. This option will enlarge your kernel by about 7 KB. If unsure, answer Y. This will only work if you said Y to "DOS FAT fs support" as well. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called msdos. config VFAT_FS tristate "VFAT (Windows-95) fs support" depends on FAT_FS help This option provides support for normal Windows file systems with long filenames. That includes non-compressed FAT-based file systems used by Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and the Unix programs from the mtools package. You cannot use the VFAT file system for your Linux root partition (the one containing the directory /); use UMSDOS instead if you want to run Linux from within a DOS partition (i.e. say Y to "Unix like fs on top of std MSDOS fs", below). The VFAT support enlarges your kernel by about 10 KB and it only works if you said Y to the "DOS FAT fs support" above. Please read the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for details. If unsure, say Y. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called vfat. config UMSDOS_FS #dep_tristate ' UMSDOS: Unix-like file system on top of standard MSDOS fs' CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS $CONFIG_MSDOS_FS # UMSDOS is temprory broken bool help Say Y here if you want to run Linux from within an existing DOS partition of your hard drive. The advantage of this is that you can get away without repartitioning your hard drive (which often implies backing everything up and restoring afterwards) and hence you're able to quickly try out Linux or show it to your friends; the disadvantage is that Linux becomes susceptible to DOS viruses and that UMSDOS is somewhat slower than ext2fs. Another use of UMSDOS is to write files with long unix filenames to MSDOS floppies; it also allows Unix-style soft-links and owner/permissions of files on MSDOS floppies. You will need a program called umssync in order to make use of UMSDOS; read <file:Documentation/filesystems/umsdos.txt>. To get utilities for initializing/checking UMSDOS file system, or latest patches and/or information, visit the UMSDOS home page at <http://www.voyager.hr/~mnalis/umsdos/>. This option enlarges your kernel by about 28 KB and it only works if you said Y to both "DOS FAT fs support" and "MSDOS fs support" above. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called umsdos. Note that the file system of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a module, so saying M could be dangerous. If unsure, say N. config NTFS_FS tristate "NTFS file system support" select NLS help NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003. Saying Y or M here enables read support. There is partial, but safe, write support available. For write support you must also say Y to "NTFS write support" below. There are also a number of user-space tools available, called ntfsprogs. These include ntfsundelete and ntfsresize, that work without NTFS support enabled in the kernel. This is a rewrite from scratch of Linux NTFS support and replaced the old NTFS code starting with Linux 2.5.11. A backport to the Linux 2.4 kernel series is separately available as a patch from the project web site. For more information see <file:Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt> and <http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/>. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the module will be called ntfs. If you are not using Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 in addition to Linux on your computer it is safe to say N. config NTFS_DEBUG bool "NTFS debugging support" depends on NTFS_FS help If you are experiencing any problems with the NTFS file system, say Y here. This will result in additional consistency checks to be performed by the driver as well as additional debugging messages to be written to the system log. Note that debugging messages are disabled by default. To enable them, supply the option debug_msgs=1 at the kernel command line when booting the kernel or as an option to insmod when loading the ntfs module. Once the driver is active, you can enable debugging messages by doing (as root): echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug Replacing the "1" with "0" would disable debug messages. If you leave debugging messages disabled, this results in little overhead, but enabling debug messages results in very significant slowdown of the system. When reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of debugging messages while the misbehaviour was occurring. config NTFS_RW bool "NTFS write support" depends on NTFS_FS help This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver. The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot be written to. While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have so far not received a single report where the driver would have damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use. Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997), is not safe. This is currently useful with TopologiLinux. TopologiLinux is run on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your hard disk. Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not need its own partition. For more information see <http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/> It is perfectly safe to say N here. endmenu menu "Pseudo filesystems" config PROC_FS bool "/proc file system support" help This is a virtual file system providing information about the status of the system. "Virtual" means that it doesn't take up any space on your hard disk: the files are created on the fly by the kernel when you try to access them. Also, you cannot read the files with older version of the program less: you need to use more or cat. It's totally cool; for example, "cat /proc/interrupts" gives information about what the different IRQs are used for at the moment (there is a small number of Interrupt ReQuest lines in your computer that are used by the attached devices to gain the CPU's attention -- often a source of trouble if two devices are mistakenly configured to use the same IRQ). The program procinfo to display some information about your system gathered from the /proc file system. Before you can use the /proc file system, it has to be mounted, meaning it has to be given a location in the directory hierarchy. That location should be /proc. A command such as "mount -t proc proc /proc" or the equivalent line in /etc/fstab does the job. The /proc file system is explained in the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt> and on the proc(5) manpage ("man 5 proc"). This option will enlarge your kernel by about 67 KB. Several programs depend on this, so everyone should say Y here. config PROC_KCORE bool default y if !ARM config DEVFS_FS bool "/dev file system support (OBSOLETE)" depends on EXPERIMENTAL help This is support for devfs, a virtual file system (like /proc) which provides the file system interface to device drivers, normally found in /dev. Devfs does not depend on major and minor number allocations. Device drivers register entries in /dev which then appear automatically, which means that the system administrator does not have to create character and block special device files in the /dev directory using the mknod command (or MAKEDEV script) anymore. This is work in progress. If you want to use this, you *must* read the material in <file:Documentation/filesystems/devfs/>, especially the file README there. Note that devfs no longer manages /dev/pts! If you are using UNIX98 ptys, you will also need to mount the /dev/pts filesystem (devpts). Note that devfs has been obsoleted by udev, <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/>. It has been stripped down to a bare minimum and is only provided for legacy installations that use its naming scheme which is unfortunately different from the names normal Linux installations use. If unsure, say N. config DEVFS_MOUNT bool "Automatically mount at boot" depends on DEVFS_FS help This option appears if you have CONFIG_DEVFS_FS enabled. Setting this to 'Y' will make the kernel automatically mount devfs onto /dev when the system is booted, before the init thread is started. You can override this with the "devfs=nomount" boot option. If unsure, say N. config DEVFS_DEBUG bool "Debug devfs" depends on DEVFS_FS help If you say Y here, then the /dev file system code will generate debugging messages. See the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/devfs/boot-options> for more details. If unsure, say N. config DEVPTS_FS_XATTR bool "/dev/pts Extended Attributes" depends on UNIX98_PTYS help Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). If unsure, say N. config DEVPTS_FS_SECURITY bool "/dev/pts Security Labels" depends on DEVPTS_FS_XATTR help Security labels support alternative access control models implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option enables an extended attribute handler for file security labels in the /dev/pts filesystem. If you are not using a security module that requires using extended attributes for file security labels, say N. config TMPFS bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)" help Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory. Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be created on your hard drive. The files live in memory and swap space. If you unmount a tmpfs instance, everything stored therein is lost. See <file:Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> for details. config HUGETLBFS bool "HugeTLB file system support" depends X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || X86_64 || BROKEN config HUGETLB_PAGE def_bool HUGETLBFS config RAMFS bool default y ---help--- Ramfs is a file system which keeps all files in RAM. It allows read and write access. It is more of an programming example than a useable file system. If you need a file system which lives in RAM with limit checking use tmpfs. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called ramfs. endmenu menu "Miscellaneous filesystems" config ADFS_FS tristate "ADFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on EXPERIMENTAL help The Acorn Disc Filing System is the standard file system of the RiscOS operating system which runs on Acorn's ARM-based Risc PC systems and the Acorn Archimedes range of machines. If you say Y here, Linux will be able to read from ADFS partitions on hard drives and from ADFS-formatted floppy discs. If you also want to be able to write to those devices, say Y to "ADFS write support" below. The ADFS partition should be the first partition (i.e., /dev/[hs]d?1) on each of your drives. Please read the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt> for further details. To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be called adfs. If unsure, say N. config ADFS_FS_RW bool "ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)" depends on ADFS_FS help If you say Y here, you will be able to write to ADFS partitions on hard drives and ADFS-formatted floppy disks. This is experimental codes, so if you're unsure, say N. config AFFS_FS tristate "Amiga FFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on EXPERIMENTAL help The Fast File System (FFS) is the common file system used on hard disks by Amiga(tm) systems since AmigaOS Version 1.3 (34.20). Say Y if you want to be able to read and write files from and to an Amiga FFS partition on your hard drive. Amiga floppies however cannot be read with this driver due to an incompatibility of the floppy controller used in an Amiga and the standard floppy controller in PCs and workstations. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt> and <file:fs/affs/Changes>. With this driver you can also mount disk files used by Bernd Schmidt's Un*X Amiga Emulator (<http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/>). If you want to do this, you will also need to say Y or M to "Loop device support", above. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the module will be called affs. If unsure, say N. config HFS_FS tristate "Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on EXPERIMENTAL help If you say Y here, you will be able to mount Macintosh-formatted floppy disks and hard drive partitions with full read-write access. Please read <file:fs/hfs/HFS.txt> to learn about the available mount options. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the module will be called hfs. config HFSPLUS_FS tristate "Apple Extended HFS file system support" select NLS help If you say Y here, you will be able to mount extended format Macintosh-formatted hard drive partitions with full read-write access. This file system is often called HFS+ and was introduced with MacOS 8. It includes all Mac specific filesystem data such as data forks and creator codes, but it also has several UNIX style features such as file ownership and permissions. config BEFS_FS tristate "BeOS file systemv(BeFS) support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on EXPERIMENTAL select NLS help The BeOS File System (BeFS) is the native file system of Be, Inc's BeOS. Notable features include support for arbitrary attributes on files and directories, and database-like indices on selected attributes. (Also note that this driver doesn't make those features available at this time). It is a 64 bit filesystem, so it supports extreemly large volumes and files. If you use this filesystem, you should also say Y to at least one of the NLS (native language support) options below. If you don't know what this is about, say N. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called befs. config BEFS_DEBUG bool "Debug BeFS" depends on BEFS_FS help If you say Y here, you can use the 'debug' mount option to enable debugging output from the driver. config BFS_FS tristate "BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on EXPERIMENTAL help Boot File System (BFS) is a file system used under SCO UnixWare to allow the bootloader access to the kernel image and other important files during the boot process. It is usually mounted under /stand and corresponds to the slice marked as "STAND" in the UnixWare partition. You should say Y if you want to read or write the files on your /stand slice from within Linux. You then also need to say Y to "UnixWare slices support", below. More information about the BFS file system is contained in the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/bfs.txt>. If you don't know what this is about, say N. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called bfs. Note that the file system of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module. config EFS_FS tristate "EFS file system support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on EXPERIMENTAL help EFS is an older file system used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and hard disk partitions by SGI's IRIX operating system (IRIX 6.0 and newer uses the XFS file system for hard disk partitions however). This implementation only offers read-only access. If you don't know what all this is about, it's safe to say N. For more information about EFS see its home page at <http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/>. To compile the EFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the module will be called efs. config JFFS_FS tristate "Journalling Flash File System (JFFS) support" depends on MTD help JFFS is the Journaling Flash File System developed by Axis Communications in Sweden, aimed at providing a crash/powerdown-safe file system for disk-less embedded devices. Further information is available at (<http://developer.axis.com/software/jffs/>). config JFFS_FS_VERBOSE int "JFFS debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 3 = noisy)" depends on JFFS_FS default "0" help Determines the verbosity level of the JFFS debugging messages. config JFFS_PROC_FS bool "JFFS stats available in /proc filesystem" depends on JFFS_FS && PROC help Enabling this option will cause statistics from mounted JFFS file systems to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jffs/ directory. config JFFS2_FS tristate "Journalling Flash File System v2 (JFFS2) support" depends on MTD select CRC32 select ZLIB_INFLATE select ZLIB_DEFLATE help JFFS2 is the second generation of the Journalling Flash File System for use on diskless embedded devices. It provides improved wear levelling, compression and support for hard links. You cannot use this on normal block devices, only on 'MTD' devices. Further information on the design and implementation of JFFS2 is available at <http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2/>. config JFFS2_FS_DEBUG int "JFFS2 debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 2 = noisy)" depends on JFFS2_FS default "0" help This controls the amount of debugging messages produced by the JFFS2 code. Set it to zero for use in production systems. For evaluation, testing and debugging, it's advisable to set it to one. This will enable a few assertions and will print debugging messages at the KERN_DEBUG loglevel, where they won't normally be visible. Level 2 is unlikely to be useful - it enables extra debugging in certain areas which at one point needed debugging, but when the bugs were located and fixed, the detailed messages were relegated to level 2. If reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of the messages at debug level 1 while the misbehaviour was occurring. config JFFS2_FS_NAND bool "JFFS2 support for NAND flash (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL default n help This enables the experimental support for NAND flash in JFFS2. NAND is a newer type of flash chip design than the traditional NOR flash, with higher density but a handful of characteristics which make it more interesting for the file system to use. Support for NAND flash is not yet complete and may corrupt data. For further information, including a link to the mailing list where details of the remaining work to be completed for NAND flash support can be found, see the JFFS2 web site at <http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2>. Say 'N' unless you have NAND flash and you are willing to test and develop JFFS2 support for it. config CRAMFS tristate "Compressed ROM file system support" select ZLIB_INFLATE help Saying Y here includes support for CramFs (Compressed ROM File System). CramFs is designed to be a simple, small, and compressed file system for ROM based embedded systems. CramFs is read-only, limited to 256MB file systems (with 16MB files), and doesn't support 16/32 bits uid/gid, hard links and timestamps. See <file:Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt> and <file:fs/cramfs/README> for further information. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called cramfs. Note that the root file system (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module. If unsure, say N. config VXFS_FS tristate "FreeVxFS file system support (VERITAS VxFS(TM) compatible)" help FreeVxFS is a file system driver that support the VERITAS VxFS(TM) file system format. VERITAS VxFS(TM) is the standard file system of SCO UnixWare (and possibly others) and optionally available for Sunsoft Solaris, HP-UX and many other operating systems. Currently only readonly access is supported. NOTE: the file system type as used by mount(1), mount(2) and fstab(5) is 'vxfs' as it describes the file system format, not the actual driver. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called freevxfs. If unsure, say N. config HPFS_FS tristate "OS/2 HPFS file system support" help OS/2 is IBM's operating system for PC's, the same as Warp, and HPFS is the file system used for organizing files on OS/2 hard disk partitions. Say Y if you want to be able to read files from and write files to an OS/2 HPFS partition on your hard drive. OS/2 floppies however are in regular MSDOS format, so you don't need this option in order to be able to read them. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt>. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the module will be called hpfs. If unsure, say N. config QNX4FS_FS tristate "QNX4 file system support (read only)" help This is the file system used by the real-time operating systems QNX 4 and QNX 6 (the latter is also called QNX RTP). Further information is available at <http://www.qnx.com/>. Say Y if you intend to mount QNX hard disks or floppies. Unless you say Y to "QNX4FS read-write support" below, you will only be able to read these file systems. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the module will be called qnx4. If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it: answer N. config QNX4FS_RW bool "QNX4FS write support (DANGEROUS)" depends on QNX4FS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL help Say Y if you want to test write support for QNX4 file systems. It's currently broken, so for now: answer N. config SYSV_FS tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support" help SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk partitions. If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is a a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse, UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux. It is available via FTP (user: ftp) from <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>). NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems; PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-) If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support (but you need NFS file system support obviously). Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man tar" or preferably "info tar"). Note also that this option has nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about the System V file system in <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>. Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called sysv. If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. config UFS_FS tristate "UFS file system support (read only)" help BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a file system called UFS. Some System V Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using this file system as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the experimental "UFS file system write support", below. Please read the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt> for more information. The recently released UFS2 variant (used in FreeBSD 5.x) is READ-ONLY supported. If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the network using NFS, you don't need the UFS file system support (but you need NFS file system support obviously). Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man tar" or preferably "info tar"). When accessing NeXTstep files, you may need to convert them from the NeXT character set to the Latin1 character set; use the program recode ("info recode") for this purpose. To compile the UFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the module will be called ufs. If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. config UFS_FS_WRITE bool "UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS)" depends on UFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL help Say Y here if you want to try writing to UFS partitions. This is experimental, so you should back up your UFS partitions beforehand. endmenu menu "Network File Systems" depends on NET config NFS_FS tristate "NFS file system support" depends on INET select LOCKD select SUNRPC help If you are connected to some other (usually local) Unix computer (using SLIP, PLIP, PPP or Ethernet) and want to mount files residing on that computer (the NFS server) using the Network File Sharing protocol, say Y. "Mounting files" means that the client can access the files with usual UNIX commands as if they were sitting on the client's hard disk. For this to work, the server must run the programs nfsd and mountd (but does not need to have NFS file system support enabled in its kernel). NFS is explained in the Network Administrator's Guide, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>, on its man page: "man nfs", and in the NFS-HOWTO. A superior but less widely used alternative to NFS is provided by the Coda file system; see "Coda file system support" below. If you say Y here, you should have said Y to TCP/IP networking also. This option would enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the module will be called nfs. If you are configuring a diskless machine which will mount its root file system over NFS at boot time, say Y here and to "Kernel level IP autoconfiguration" above and to "Root file system on NFS" below. You cannot compile this driver as a module in this case. There are two packages designed for booting diskless machines over the net: netboot, available from <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/netboot/>, and Etherboot, available from <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/etherboot/>. If you don't know what all this is about, say N. config NFS_V3 bool "Provide NFSv3 client support" depends on NFS_FS help Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak the newer version 3 of the NFS protocol. If unsure, say Y. config NFS_V4 bool "Provide NFSv4 client support (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 help Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak the newer version 4 of the NFS protocol. Note: Requires auxiliary userspace daemons which may be found on http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ If unsure, say N. config NFS_DIRECTIO bool "Allow direct I/O on NFS files (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL help This option enables applications to perform uncached I/O on files in NFS file systems using the O_DIRECT open() flag. When O_DIRECT is set for a file, its data is not cached in the system's page cache. Data is moved to and from user-level application buffers directly. Unlike local disk-based file systems, NFS O_DIRECT has no alignment restrictions. Unless your program is designed to use O_DIRECT properly, you are much better off allowing the NFS client to manage data caching for you. Misusing O_DIRECT can cause poor server performance or network storms. This kernel build option defaults OFF to avoid exposing system administrators unwittingly to a potentially hazardous feature. For more details on NFS O_DIRECT, see fs/nfs/direct.c. If unsure, say N. This reduces the size of the NFS client, and causes open() to return EINVAL if a file residing in NFS is opened with the O_DIRECT flag. config NFSD tristate "NFS server support" depends on INET select LOCKD select SUNRPC help If you want your Linux box to act as an NFS *server*, so that other computers on your local network which support NFS can access certain directories on your box transparently, you have two options: you can use the self-contained user space program nfsd, in which case you should say N here, or you can say Y and use the kernel based NFS server. The advantage of the kernel based solution is that it is faster. In either case, you will need support software; the respective locations are given in the file <file:Documentation/Changes> in the NFS section. If you say Y here, you will get support for version 2 of the NFS protocol (NFSv2). If you also want NFSv3, say Y to the next question as well. Please read the NFS-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. To compile the NFS server support as a module, choose M here: the module will be called nfsd. If unsure, say N. config NFSD_V3 bool "Provide NFSv3 server support" depends on NFSD help If you would like to include the NFSv3 server as well as the NFSv2 server, say Y here. If unsure, say Y. config NFSD_V4 bool "Provide NFSv4 server support (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on NFSD_V3 && EXPERIMENTAL help If you would like to include the NFSv4 server as well as the NFSv2 and NFSv3 servers, say Y here. This feature is experimental, and should only be used if you are interested in helping to test NFSv4. If unsure, say N. config NFSD_TCP bool "Provide NFS server over TCP support (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on NFSD && EXPERIMENTAL help Enable NFS service over TCP connections. This the officially still experimental, but seems to work well. config ROOT_NFS bool "Root file system on NFS" depends on NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP help If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the net via NFS (presumably because your box doesn't have a hard disk), say Y. Read <file:Documentation/nfsroot.txt> for details. It is likely that in this case, you also want to say Y to "Kernel level IP autoconfiguration" so that your box can discover its network address at boot time. Most people say N here. config LOCKD tristate config LOCKD_V4 bool depends on NFSD_V3 || NFS_V3 default y config EXPORTFS tristate default NFSD config SUNRPC tristate config SUNRPC_GSS tristate config RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL select SUNRPC_GSS select CRYPTO select CRYPTO_MD5 select CRYPTO_DES help Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api mechanism based on Kerberos V5. This is required for NFSv4. Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ If unsure, say N. config SMB_FS tristate "SMB file system support (to mount Windows shares etc.)" depends on INET select NLS help SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Windows for Workgroups (WfW), Windows 95/98, Windows NT and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share files and printers over local networks. Saying Y here allows you to mount their file systems (often called "shares" in this context) and access them just like any other Unix directory. Currently, this works only if the Windows machines use TCP/IP as the underlying transport protocol, and not NetBEUI. For details, read <file:Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt> and the SMB-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Note: if you just want your box to act as an SMB *server* and make files and printing services available to Windows clients (which need to have a TCP/IP stack), you don't need to say Y here; you can use the program SAMBA (available from <ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/>) for that. General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>. To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here: the module will be called smbfs. Most people say N, however. config SMB_NLS_DEFAULT bool "Use a default NLS" depends on SMB_FS help Enabling this will make smbfs use nls translations by default. You need to specify the local charset (CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT) in the nls settings and you need to give the default nls for the SMB server as CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE. The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters. smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this. config SMB_NLS_REMOTE string "Default Remote NLS Option" depends on SMB_NLS_DEFAULT default "cp437" help This setting allows you to specify a default value for which codepage the server uses. If this field is left blank no translations will be done by default. The local codepage/charset default to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT. The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters. smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this. config CIFS tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem for Samba, Window and other CIFS compliant servers)(EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on INET select NLS help This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early PC operating systems. CIFS is fully supported by current network file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows NT version 4 and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS server support for Linux and many other operating systems). For production systems the smbfs module may be used instead of this cifs module since smbfs is currently more stable and provides support for older servers. The intent of this module is to provide the most advanced network file system function for CIFS compliant servers, including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements, and optional Winbind (nsswitch) integration. This module is in an early development stage, so unless you are specifically interested in this filesystem, just say N. config NCP_FS tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)" depends on IPX!=n || INET help NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) is a protocol that runs over IPX and is used by Novell NetWare clients to talk to file servers. It is to IPX what NFS is to TCP/IP, if that helps. Saying Y here allows you to mount NetWare file server volumes and to access them just like any other Unix directory. For details, please read the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ncpfs.txt> in the kernel source and the IPX-HOWTO from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. You do not have to say Y here if you want your Linux box to act as a file *server* for Novell NetWare clients. General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called ncpfs. Say N unless you are connected to a Novell network. source "fs/ncpfs/Kconfig" config CODA_FS tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)" depends on INET help Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard disk. Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server replication, security model for authentication and encryption, persistent client caches and write back caching. If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda *client*. You will need user level code as well, both for the client and server. Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need no kernel support. Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.txt> and check out the Coda home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>. To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the module will be called coda. config CODA_FS_OLD_API bool "Use 96-bit Coda file identifiers" depends on CODA_FS help A new kernel-userspace API had to be introduced for Coda v6.0 to support larger 128-bit file identifiers as needed by the new realms implementation. However this new API is not backward compatible with older clients. If you really need to run the old Coda userspace cache manager then say Y. For most cases you probably want to say N. # # Intermezzo broke when we added the expanded NGROUPS patches # config INTERMEZZO_FS tristate "InterMezzo file system support (replicating fs) (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN help InterMezzo is a networked file system with disconnected operation and kernel level write back caching. It is most often used for replicating potentially large trees or keeping laptop/desktop copies in sync. If you say Y or M your kernel or module will provide InterMezzo support. You will also need a file server daemon, which you can get from <http://www.inter-mezzo.org/>. config AFS_FS # for fs/nls/Config.in tristate "Andrew File System support (AFS) (Experimental)" depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL select RXRPC help If you say Y here, you will get an experimental Andrew File System driver. It currently only supports unsecured read-only AFS access. See Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt for more intormation. If unsure, say N. config RXRPC tristate endmenu menu "Partition Types" source "fs/partitions/Kconfig" endmenu source "fs/nls/Kconfig" endmenu |