2 # File system configuration
10 tristate "Second extended fs support"
12 Ext2 is a standard Linux file system for hard disks.
14 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
15 module will be called ext2.
20 bool "Ext2 extended attributes"
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).
29 config EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL
30 bool "Ext2 POSIX Access Control Lists"
31 depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR
34 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
35 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
37 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
38 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
40 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
42 config EXT2_FS_SECURITY
43 bool "Ext2 Security Labels"
44 depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR
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.
51 If you are not using a security module that requires using
52 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
55 bool "Ext2 execute in place support"
56 depends on EXT2_FS && MMU
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.
62 If you do not use a block device that is capable of using this,
68 depends on EXT2_FS_XIP
72 tristate "Ext3 journalling file system support"
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.
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.
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
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/>).
98 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
99 module will be called ext3.
102 bool "Ext3 extended attributes"
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).
112 You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext3.
114 config EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL
115 bool "Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists"
116 depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR
119 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
120 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
122 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
123 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
125 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
127 config EXT3_FS_SECURITY
128 bool "Ext3 Security Labels"
129 depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR
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.
136 If you are not using a security module that requires using
137 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
140 tristate "Ext4dev/ext4 extended fs support development (EXPERIMENTAL)"
141 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
144 Ext4dev is a predecessor filesystem of the next generation
145 extended fs ext4, based on ext3 filesystem code. It will be
146 renamed ext4 fs later, once ext4dev is mature and stabilized.
148 Unlike the change from ext2 filesystem to ext3 filesystem,
149 the on-disk format of ext4dev is not the same as ext3 any more:
150 it is based on extent maps and it supports 48-bit physical block
151 numbers. These combined on-disk format changes will allow
152 ext4dev/ext4 to handle more than 16 TB filesystem volumes --
153 a hard limit that ext3 cannot overcome without changing the
156 Other than extent maps and 48-bit block numbers, ext4dev also is
157 likely to have other new features such as persistent preallocation,
158 high resolution time stamps, and larger file support etc. These
159 features will be added to ext4dev gradually.
161 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here. The
162 module will be called ext4dev.
166 config EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
167 bool "Ext4dev extended attributes"
168 depends on EXT4DEV_FS
171 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
172 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
173 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
177 You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext4dev/ext4.
179 config EXT4DEV_FS_POSIX_ACL
180 bool "Ext4dev POSIX Access Control Lists"
181 depends on EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
184 POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
185 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
187 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for
188 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
190 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
192 config EXT4DEV_FS_SECURITY
193 bool "Ext4dev Security Labels"
194 depends on EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
196 Security labels support alternative access control models
197 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
198 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
199 labels in the ext4dev/ext4 filesystem.
201 If you are not using a security module that requires using
202 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
207 This is a generic journalling layer for block devices. It is
208 currently used by the ext3 and OCFS2 file systems, but it could
209 also be used to add journal support to other file systems or block
210 devices such as RAID or LVM.
212 If you are using the ext3 or OCFS2 file systems, you need to
213 say Y here. If you are not using ext3 OCFS2 then you will probably
216 To compile this device as a module, choose M here: the module will be
217 called jbd. If you are compiling ext3 or OCFS2 into the kernel,
218 you cannot compile this code as a module.
221 bool "JBD (ext3) debugging support"
224 If you are using the ext3 journaled file system (or potentially any
225 other file system/device using JBD), this option allows you to
226 enable debugging output while the system is running, in order to
227 help track down any problems you are having. By default the
228 debugging output will be turned off.
230 If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging
231 with "echo N > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug", where N is a number between
232 1 and 5, the higher the number, the more debugging output is
233 generated. To turn debugging off again, do
234 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug".
239 This is a generic journaling layer for block devices that support
240 both 32-bit and 64-bit block numbers. It is currently used by
241 the ext4dev/ext4 filesystem, but it could also be used to add
242 journal support to other file systems or block devices such
245 If you are using ext4dev/ext4, you need to say Y here. If you are not
246 using ext4dev/ext4 then you will probably want to say N.
248 To compile this device as a module, choose M here. The module will be
249 called jbd2. If you are compiling ext4dev/ext4 into the kernel,
250 you cannot compile this code as a module.
253 bool "JBD2 (ext4dev/ext4) debugging support"
254 depends on JBD2 && DEBUG_FS
256 If you are using the ext4dev/ext4 journaled file system (or
257 potentially any other filesystem/device using JBD2), this option
258 allows you to enable debugging output while the system is running,
259 in order to help track down any problems you are having.
260 By default, the debugging output will be turned off.
262 If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging
263 with "echo N > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd2/jbd2-debug", where N is a
264 number between 1 and 5. The higher the number, the more debugging
265 output is generated. To turn debugging off again, do
266 "echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd2/jbd2-debug".
269 # Meta block cache for Extended Attributes (ext2/ext3/ext4)
271 depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR || EXT3_FS_XATTR || EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
272 default y if EXT2_FS=y || EXT3_FS=y || EXT4DEV_FS=y
273 default m if EXT2_FS=m || EXT3_FS=m || EXT4DEV_FS=m
276 tristate "Reiserfs support"
278 Stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a balanced
279 tree. Uses journalling.
281 Balanced trees are more efficient than traditional file system
282 architectural foundations.
284 In general, ReiserFS is as fast as ext2, but is very efficient with
285 large directories and small files. Additional patches are needed
286 for NFS and quotas, please see <http://www.namesys.com/> for links.
288 It is more easily extended to have features currently found in
289 database and keyword search systems than block allocation based file
290 systems are. The next version will be so extended, and will support
291 plugins consistent with our motto ``It takes more than a license to
292 make source code open.''
294 Read <http://www.namesys.com/> to learn more about reiserfs.
296 Sponsored by Threshold Networks, Emusic.com, and Bigstorage.com.
298 If you like it, you can pay us to add new features to it that you
299 need, buy a support contract, or pay us to port it to another OS.
301 config REISERFS_CHECK
302 bool "Enable reiserfs debug mode"
303 depends on REISERFS_FS
305 If you set this to Y, then ReiserFS will perform every check it can
306 possibly imagine of its internal consistency throughout its
307 operation. It will also go substantially slower. More than once we
308 have forgotten that this was on, and then gone despondent over the
309 latest benchmarks.:-) Use of this option allows our team to go all
310 out in checking for consistency when debugging without fear of its
311 effect on end users. If you are on the verge of sending in a bug
312 report, say Y and you might get a useful error message. Almost
313 everyone should say N.
315 config REISERFS_PROC_INFO
316 bool "Stats in /proc/fs/reiserfs"
317 depends on REISERFS_FS && PROC_FS
319 Create under /proc/fs/reiserfs a hierarchy of files, displaying
320 various ReiserFS statistics and internal data at the expense of
321 making your kernel or module slightly larger (+8 KB). This also
322 increases the amount of kernel memory required for each mount.
323 Almost everyone but ReiserFS developers and people fine-tuning
324 reiserfs or tracing problems should say N.
326 config REISERFS_FS_XATTR
327 bool "ReiserFS extended attributes"
328 depends on REISERFS_FS
330 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
331 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
332 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
336 config REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL
337 bool "ReiserFS POSIX Access Control Lists"
338 depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR
341 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
342 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
344 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
345 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
347 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
349 config REISERFS_FS_SECURITY
350 bool "ReiserFS Security Labels"
351 depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR
353 Security labels support alternative access control models
354 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
355 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
356 labels in the ReiserFS filesystem.
358 If you are not using a security module that requires using
359 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
362 tristate "JFS filesystem support"
365 This is a port of IBM's Journaled Filesystem . More information is
366 available in the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt>.
368 If you do not intend to use the JFS filesystem, say N.
371 bool "JFS POSIX Access Control Lists"
375 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
376 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
378 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
379 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
381 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
384 bool "JFS Security Labels"
387 Security labels support alternative access control models
388 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
389 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
390 labels in the jfs filesystem.
392 If you are not using a security module that requires using
393 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
399 If you are experiencing any problems with the JFS filesystem, say
400 Y here. This will result in additional debugging messages to be
401 written to the system log. Under normal circumstances, this
402 results in very little overhead.
404 config JFS_STATISTICS
405 bool "JFS statistics"
408 Enabling this option will cause statistics from the JFS file system
409 to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jfs/ directory.
412 # Posix ACL utility routines (for now, only ext2/ext3/jfs/reiserfs)
414 # NOTE: you can implement Posix ACLs without these helpers (XFS does).
415 # Never use this symbol for ifdefs.
420 source "fs/xfs/Kconfig"
421 source "fs/gfs2/Kconfig"
424 tristate "OCFS2 file system support"
425 depends on NET && SYSFS
430 OCFS2 is a general purpose extent based shared disk cluster file
431 system with many similarities to ext3. It supports 64 bit inode
432 numbers, and has automatically extending metadata groups which may
433 also make it attractive for non-clustered use.
435 You'll want to install the ocfs2-tools package in order to at least
438 Project web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2
439 Tools web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools
440 OCFS2 mailing lists: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/mailman/
442 Note: Features which OCFS2 does not support yet:
443 - extended attributes
445 - cluster aware flock
446 - Directory change notification (F_NOTIFY)
447 - Distributed Caching (F_SETLEASE/F_GETLEASE/break_lease)
449 - readpages / writepages (not user visible)
451 config OCFS2_DEBUG_MASKLOG
452 bool "OCFS2 logging support"
456 The ocfs2 filesystem has an extensive logging system. The system
457 allows selection of events to log via files in /sys/o2cb/logmask/.
458 This option will enlarge your kernel, but it allows debugging of
459 ocfs2 filesystem issues.
462 tristate "Minix fs support"
464 Minix is a simple operating system used in many classes about OS's.
465 The minix file system (method to organize files on a hard disk
466 partition or a floppy disk) was the original file system for Linux,
467 but has been superseded by the second extended file system ext2fs.
468 You don't want to use the minix file system on your hard disk
469 because of certain built-in restrictions, but it is sometimes found
470 on older Linux floppy disks. This option will enlarge your kernel
471 by about 28 KB. If unsure, say N.
473 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
474 module will be called minix. Note that the file system of your root
475 partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as
479 tristate "ROM file system support"
481 This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for
482 initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for
483 other read-only media as well. Read
484 <file:Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt> for details.
486 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
487 module will be called romfs. Note that the file system of your
488 root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a
491 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
497 bool "Inotify file change notification support"
500 Say Y here to enable inotify support. Inotify is a file change
501 notification system and a replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes
502 numerous shortcomings in dnotify and introduces several new features
503 including multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount
506 For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt
511 bool "Inotify support for userspace"
515 Say Y here to enable inotify support for userspace, including the
516 associated system calls. Inotify allows monitoring of both files and
517 directories via a single open fd. Events are read from the file
518 descriptor, which is also select()- and poll()-able.
520 For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt
527 If you say Y here, you will be able to set per user limits for disk
528 usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works for the
529 ext2, ext3, and reiserfs file system. ext3 also supports journalled
530 quotas for which you don't need to run quotacheck(8) after an unclean
532 For further details, read the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from
533 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or the documentation provided
534 with the quota tools. Probably the quota support is only useful for
535 multi user systems. If unsure, say N.
537 config QUOTA_NETLINK_INTERFACE
538 bool "Report quota messages through netlink interface"
539 depends on QUOTA && NET
541 If you say Y here, quota warnings (about exceeding softlimit, reaching
542 hardlimit, etc.) will be reported through netlink interface. If unsure,
545 config PRINT_QUOTA_WARNING
546 bool "Print quota warnings to console (OBSOLETE)"
550 If you say Y here, quota warnings (about exceeding softlimit, reaching
551 hardlimit, etc.) will be printed to the process' controlling terminal.
552 Note that this behavior is currently deprecated and may go away in
553 future. Please use notification via netlink socket instead.
556 tristate "Old quota format support"
559 This quota format was (is) used by kernels earlier than 2.4.22. If
560 you have quota working and you don't want to convert to new quota
564 tristate "Quota format v2 support"
567 This quota format allows using quotas with 32-bit UIDs/GIDs. If you
568 need this functionality say Y here.
572 depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA
576 bool "Dnotify support"
579 Dnotify is a directory-based per-fd file change notification system
580 that uses signals to communicate events to user-space. There exist
581 superior alternatives, but some applications may still rely on
587 tristate "Kernel automounter support"
589 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
590 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
591 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
592 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
594 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs
595 package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>.
596 You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
598 If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more
599 features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support",
602 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
605 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you
606 probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here.
609 tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)"
611 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
612 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
613 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
614 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
616 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from
617 <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/>; you also
618 want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
620 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
621 called autofs4. You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your
622 modules configuration file.
624 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or
625 don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the
626 local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say
630 tristate "Filesystem in Userspace support"
632 With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem
633 in a userspace program.
635 There's also companion library: libfuse. This library along with
636 utilities is available from the FUSE homepage:
637 <http://fuse.sourceforge.net/>
639 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt> for more information.
640 See <file:Documentation/Changes> for needed library/utility version.
642 If you want to develop a userspace FS, or if you want to use
643 a filesystem based on FUSE, answer Y or M.
650 menu "CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems"
653 tristate "ISO 9660 CDROM file system support"
655 This is the standard file system used on CD-ROMs. It was previously
656 known as "High Sierra File System" and is called "hsfs" on other
657 Unix systems. The so-called Rock-Ridge extensions which allow for
658 long Unix filenames and symbolic links are also supported by this
659 driver. If you have a CD-ROM drive and want to do more with it than
660 just listen to audio CDs and watch its LEDs, say Y (and read
661 <file:Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt> and the CD-ROM-HOWTO,
662 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), thereby
663 enlarging your kernel by about 27 KB; otherwise say N.
665 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
666 module will be called isofs.
669 bool "Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions"
670 depends on ISO9660_FS
673 Joliet is a Microsoft extension for the ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system
674 which allows for long filenames in unicode format (unicode is the
675 new 16 bit character code, successor to ASCII, which encodes the
676 characters of almost all languages of the world; see
677 <http://www.unicode.org/> for more information). Say Y here if you
678 want to be able to read Joliet CD-ROMs under Linux.
681 bool "Transparent decompression extension"
682 depends on ISO9660_FS
685 This is a Linux-specific extension to RockRidge which lets you store
686 data in compressed form on a CD-ROM and have it transparently
687 decompressed when the CD-ROM is accessed. See
688 <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/zisofs/> for the tools
689 necessary to create such a filesystem. Say Y here if you want to be
690 able to read such compressed CD-ROMs.
693 tristate "UDF file system support"
695 This is the new file system used on some CD-ROMs and DVDs. Say Y if
696 you intend to mount DVD discs or CDRW's written in packet mode, or
697 if written to by other UDF utilities, such as DirectCD.
698 Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt>.
700 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
701 module will be called udf.
708 depends on (UDF_FS=m && NLS) || (UDF_FS=y && NLS=y)
714 menu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems"
720 If you want to use one of the FAT-based file systems (the MS-DOS and
721 VFAT (Windows 95) file systems), then you must say Y or M here
722 to include FAT support. You will then be able to mount partitions or
723 diskettes with FAT-based file systems and transparently access the
724 files on them, i.e. MSDOS files will look and behave just like all
727 This FAT support is not a file system in itself, it only provides
728 the foundation for the other file systems. You will have to say Y or
729 M to at least one of "MSDOS fs support" or "VFAT fs support" in
730 order to make use of it.
732 Another way to read and write MSDOS floppies and hard drive
733 partitions from within Linux (but not transparently) is with the
734 mtools ("man mtools") program suite. You don't need to say Y here in
737 If you need to move large files on floppies between a DOS and a
738 Linux box, say Y here, mount the floppy under Linux with an MSDOS
739 file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program
740 available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar").
742 The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure,
745 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
746 fat. Note that if you compile the FAT support as a module, you
747 cannot compile any of the FAT-based file systems into the kernel
748 -- they will have to be modules as well.
751 tristate "MSDOS fs support"
754 This allows you to mount MSDOS partitions of your hard drive (unless
755 they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under
756 Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the
757 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from
758 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in
759 <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you
760 intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y
761 here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes
762 transparent, i.e. the MSDOS files look and behave just like all
765 If you have Windows 95 or Windows NT installed on your MSDOS
766 partitions, you should use the VFAT file system (say Y to "VFAT fs
767 support" below), or you will not be able to see the long filenames
768 generated by Windows 95 / Windows NT.
770 This option will enlarge your kernel by about 7 KB. If unsure,
771 answer Y. This will only work if you said Y to "DOS FAT fs support"
772 as well. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will
776 tristate "VFAT (Windows-95) fs support"
779 This option provides support for normal Windows file systems with
780 long filenames. That includes non-compressed FAT-based file systems
781 used by Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and the Unix
782 programs from the mtools package.
784 The VFAT support enlarges your kernel by about 10 KB and it only
785 works if you said Y to the "DOS FAT fs support" above. Please read
786 the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for details. If
789 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
792 config FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE
793 int "Default codepage for FAT"
794 depends on MSDOS_FS || VFAT_FS
797 This option should be set to the codepage of your FAT filesystems.
798 It can be overridden with the "codepage" mount option.
799 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
801 config FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET
802 string "Default iocharset for FAT"
806 Set this to the default input/output character set you'd
807 like FAT to use. It should probably match the character set
808 that most of your FAT filesystems use, and can be overridden
809 with the "iocharset" mount option for FAT filesystems.
810 Note that "utf8" is not recommended for FAT filesystems.
811 If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here.
812 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
815 tristate "NTFS file system support"
818 NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003.
820 Saying Y or M here enables read support. There is partial, but
821 safe, write support available. For write support you must also
822 say Y to "NTFS write support" below.
824 There are also a number of user-space tools available, called
825 ntfsprogs. These include ntfsundelete and ntfsresize, that work
826 without NTFS support enabled in the kernel.
828 This is a rewrite from scratch of Linux NTFS support and replaced
829 the old NTFS code starting with Linux 2.5.11. A backport to
830 the Linux 2.4 kernel series is separately available as a patch
831 from the project web site.
833 For more information see <file:Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt>
834 and <http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/>.
836 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
837 module will be called ntfs.
839 If you are not using Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 in addition to
840 Linux on your computer it is safe to say N.
843 bool "NTFS debugging support"
846 If you are experiencing any problems with the NTFS file system, say
847 Y here. This will result in additional consistency checks to be
848 performed by the driver as well as additional debugging messages to
849 be written to the system log. Note that debugging messages are
850 disabled by default. To enable them, supply the option debug_msgs=1
851 at the kernel command line when booting the kernel or as an option
852 to insmod when loading the ntfs module. Once the driver is active,
853 you can enable debugging messages by doing (as root):
854 echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug
855 Replacing the "1" with "0" would disable debug messages.
857 If you leave debugging messages disabled, this results in little
858 overhead, but enabling debug messages results in very significant
859 slowdown of the system.
861 When reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of
862 debugging messages while the misbehaviour was occurring.
865 bool "NTFS write support"
868 This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver.
870 The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without
871 changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or
872 renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to
873 so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot
876 While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have
877 so far not received a single report where the driver would have
878 damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use.
880 Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from
881 scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS
882 write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997),
885 This is currently useful with TopologiLinux. TopologiLinux is run
886 on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your
887 hard disk. Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not
888 need its own partition. For more information see
889 <http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/>
891 It is perfectly safe to say N here.
896 menu "Pseudo filesystems"
899 bool "/proc file system support" if EMBEDDED
902 This is a virtual file system providing information about the status
903 of the system. "Virtual" means that it doesn't take up any space on
904 your hard disk: the files are created on the fly by the kernel when
905 you try to access them. Also, you cannot read the files with older
906 version of the program less: you need to use more or cat.
908 It's totally cool; for example, "cat /proc/interrupts" gives
909 information about what the different IRQs are used for at the moment
910 (there is a small number of Interrupt ReQuest lines in your computer
911 that are used by the attached devices to gain the CPU's attention --
912 often a source of trouble if two devices are mistakenly configured
913 to use the same IRQ). The program procinfo to display some
914 information about your system gathered from the /proc file system.
916 Before you can use the /proc file system, it has to be mounted,
917 meaning it has to be given a location in the directory hierarchy.
918 That location should be /proc. A command such as "mount -t proc proc
919 /proc" or the equivalent line in /etc/fstab does the job.
921 The /proc file system is explained in the file
922 <file:Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt> and on the proc(5) manpage
925 This option will enlarge your kernel by about 67 KB. Several
926 programs depend on this, so everyone should say Y here.
929 bool "/proc/kcore support" if !ARM
930 depends on PROC_FS && MMU
933 bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
934 depends on PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP
937 Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format.
940 bool "Sysctl support (/proc/sys)" if EMBEDDED
945 The sysctl interface provides a means of dynamically changing
946 certain kernel parameters and variables on the fly without requiring
947 a recompile of the kernel or reboot of the system. The primary
948 interface is through /proc/sys. If you say Y here a tree of
949 modifiable sysctl entries will be generated beneath the
950 /proc/sys directory. They are explained in the files
951 in <file:Documentation/sysctl/>. Note that enabling this
952 option will enlarge the kernel by at least 8 KB.
954 As it is generally a good thing, you should say Y here unless
955 building a kernel for install/rescue disks or your system is very
959 bool "sysfs file system support" if EMBEDDED
962 The sysfs filesystem is a virtual filesystem that the kernel uses to
963 export internal kernel objects, their attributes, and their
964 relationships to one another.
966 Users can use sysfs to ascertain useful information about the running
967 kernel, such as the devices the kernel has discovered on each bus and
968 which driver each is bound to. sysfs can also be used to tune devices
969 and other kernel subsystems.
971 Some system agents rely on the information in sysfs to operate.
972 /sbin/hotplug uses device and object attributes in sysfs to assist in
973 delegating policy decisions, like persistently naming devices.
975 sysfs is currently used by the block subsystem to mount the root
976 partition. If sysfs is disabled you must specify the boot device on
977 the kernel boot command line via its major and minor numbers. For
978 example, "root=03:01" for /dev/hda1.
980 Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space.
983 bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)"
985 Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory.
987 Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be
988 created on your hard drive. The files live in memory and swap
989 space. If you unmount a tmpfs instance, everything stored therein is
992 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> for details.
994 config TMPFS_POSIX_ACL
995 bool "Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists"
999 POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
1000 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
1002 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for
1003 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
1005 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N.
1008 bool "HugeTLB file system support"
1009 depends on X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || (SUPERH && MMU) || BROKEN
1011 hugetlbfs is a filesystem backing for HugeTLB pages, based on
1012 ramfs. For architectures that support it, say Y here and read
1013 <file:Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt> for details.
1021 tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1022 depends on SYSFS && EXPERIMENTAL
1024 configfs is a ram-based filesystem that provides the converse
1025 of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based
1026 view of kernel objects, configfs is a filesystem-based manager
1027 of kernel objects, or config_items.
1029 Both sysfs and configfs can and should exist together on the
1030 same system. One is not a replacement for the other.
1034 menu "Miscellaneous filesystems"
1037 tristate "ADFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1038 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1040 The Acorn Disc Filing System is the standard file system of the
1041 RiscOS operating system which runs on Acorn's ARM-based Risc PC
1042 systems and the Acorn Archimedes range of machines. If you say Y
1043 here, Linux will be able to read from ADFS partitions on hard drives
1044 and from ADFS-formatted floppy discs. If you also want to be able to
1045 write to those devices, say Y to "ADFS write support" below.
1047 The ADFS partition should be the first partition (i.e.,
1048 /dev/[hs]d?1) on each of your drives. Please read the file
1049 <file:Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt> for further details.
1051 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be
1057 bool "ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)"
1060 If you say Y here, you will be able to write to ADFS partitions on
1061 hard drives and ADFS-formatted floppy disks. This is experimental
1062 codes, so if you're unsure, say N.
1065 tristate "Amiga FFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1066 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1068 The Fast File System (FFS) is the common file system used on hard
1069 disks by Amiga(tm) systems since AmigaOS Version 1.3 (34.20). Say Y
1070 if you want to be able to read and write files from and to an Amiga
1071 FFS partition on your hard drive. Amiga floppies however cannot be
1072 read with this driver due to an incompatibility of the floppy
1073 controller used in an Amiga and the standard floppy controller in
1074 PCs and workstations. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt>
1075 and <file:fs/affs/Changes>.
1077 With this driver you can also mount disk files used by Bernd
1078 Schmidt's Un*X Amiga Emulator
1079 (<http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/>).
1080 If you want to do this, you will also need to say Y or M to "Loop
1081 device support", above.
1083 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1084 module will be called affs. If unsure, say N.
1087 tristate "eCrypt filesystem layer support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1088 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && KEYS && CRYPTO && NET
1090 Encrypted filesystem that operates on the VFS layer. See
1091 <file:Documentation/ecryptfs.txt> to learn more about
1092 eCryptfs. Userspace components are required and can be
1093 obtained from <http://ecryptfs.sf.net>.
1095 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1096 module will be called ecryptfs.
1099 tristate "Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1100 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1103 If you say Y here, you will be able to mount Macintosh-formatted
1104 floppy disks and hard drive partitions with full read-write access.
1105 Please read <file:fs/hfs/HFS.txt> to learn about the available mount
1108 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1109 module will be called hfs.
1112 tristate "Apple Extended HFS file system support"
1117 If you say Y here, you will be able to mount extended format
1118 Macintosh-formatted hard drive partitions with full read-write access.
1120 This file system is often called HFS+ and was introduced with
1121 MacOS 8. It includes all Mac specific filesystem data such as
1122 data forks and creator codes, but it also has several UNIX
1123 style features such as file ownership and permissions.
1126 tristate "BeOS file system (BeFS) support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1127 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1130 The BeOS File System (BeFS) is the native file system of Be, Inc's
1131 BeOS. Notable features include support for arbitrary attributes
1132 on files and directories, and database-like indices on selected
1133 attributes. (Also note that this driver doesn't make those features
1134 available at this time). It is a 64 bit filesystem, so it supports
1135 extremely large volumes and files.
1137 If you use this filesystem, you should also say Y to at least one
1138 of the NLS (native language support) options below.
1140 If you don't know what this is about, say N.
1142 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
1149 If you say Y here, you can use the 'debug' mount option to enable
1150 debugging output from the driver.
1153 tristate "BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1154 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1156 Boot File System (BFS) is a file system used under SCO UnixWare to
1157 allow the bootloader access to the kernel image and other important
1158 files during the boot process. It is usually mounted under /stand
1159 and corresponds to the slice marked as "STAND" in the UnixWare
1160 partition. You should say Y if you want to read or write the files
1161 on your /stand slice from within Linux. You then also need to say Y
1162 to "UnixWare slices support", below. More information about the BFS
1163 file system is contained in the file
1164 <file:Documentation/filesystems/bfs.txt>.
1166 If you don't know what this is about, say N.
1168 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1169 bfs. Note that the file system of your root partition (the one
1170 containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
1175 tristate "EFS file system support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1176 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1178 EFS is an older file system used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and hard
1179 disk partitions by SGI's IRIX operating system (IRIX 6.0 and newer
1180 uses the XFS file system for hard disk partitions however).
1182 This implementation only offers read-only access. If you don't know
1183 what all this is about, it's safe to say N. For more information
1184 about EFS see its home page at <http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/>.
1186 To compile the EFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1187 module will be called efs.
1190 tristate "Journalling Flash File System v2 (JFFS2) support"
1194 JFFS2 is the second generation of the Journalling Flash File System
1195 for use on diskless embedded devices. It provides improved wear
1196 levelling, compression and support for hard links. You cannot use
1197 this on normal block devices, only on 'MTD' devices.
1199 Further information on the design and implementation of JFFS2 is
1200 available at <http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2/>.
1202 config JFFS2_FS_DEBUG
1203 int "JFFS2 debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 2 = noisy)"
1207 This controls the amount of debugging messages produced by the JFFS2
1208 code. Set it to zero for use in production systems. For evaluation,
1209 testing and debugging, it's advisable to set it to one. This will
1210 enable a few assertions and will print debugging messages at the
1211 KERN_DEBUG loglevel, where they won't normally be visible. Level 2
1212 is unlikely to be useful - it enables extra debugging in certain
1213 areas which at one point needed debugging, but when the bugs were
1214 located and fixed, the detailed messages were relegated to level 2.
1216 If reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of the
1217 messages at debug level 1 while the misbehaviour was occurring.
1219 config JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER
1220 bool "JFFS2 write-buffering support"
1224 This enables the write-buffering support in JFFS2.
1226 This functionality is required to support JFFS2 on the following
1227 types of flash devices:
1229 - NOR flash with transparent ECC
1232 config JFFS2_FS_WBUF_VERIFY
1233 bool "Verify JFFS2 write-buffer reads"
1234 depends on JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER
1237 This causes JFFS2 to read back every page written through the
1238 write-buffer, and check for errors.
1240 config JFFS2_SUMMARY
1241 bool "JFFS2 summary support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1242 depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1245 This feature makes it possible to use summary information
1246 for faster filesystem mount.
1248 The summary information can be inserted into a filesystem image
1249 by the utility 'sumtool'.
1253 config JFFS2_FS_XATTR
1254 bool "JFFS2 XATTR support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1255 depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1258 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
1259 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
1260 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
1264 config JFFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL
1265 bool "JFFS2 POSIX Access Control Lists"
1266 depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR
1270 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
1271 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
1273 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
1274 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
1276 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
1278 config JFFS2_FS_SECURITY
1279 bool "JFFS2 Security Labels"
1280 depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR
1283 Security labels support alternative access control models
1284 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
1285 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
1286 labels in the jffs2 filesystem.
1288 If you are not using a security module that requires using
1289 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
1291 config JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1292 bool "Advanced compression options for JFFS2"
1296 Enabling this option allows you to explicitly choose which
1297 compression modules, if any, are enabled in JFFS2. Removing
1298 compressors and mean you cannot read existing file systems,
1299 and enabling experimental compressors can mean that you
1300 write a file system which cannot be read by a standard kernel.
1302 If unsure, you should _definitely_ say 'N'.
1305 bool "JFFS2 ZLIB compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1311 Zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered,
1312 lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer
1313 hardware and operating system. See <http://www.gzip.org/zlib/> for
1314 further information.
1319 bool "JFFS2 LZO compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1321 select LZO_DECOMPRESS
1325 minilzo-based compression. Generally works better than Zlib.
1327 This feature was added in July, 2007. Say 'N' if you need
1328 compatibility with older bootloaders or kernels.
1331 bool "JFFS2 RTIME compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1335 Rtime does manage to recompress already-compressed data. Say 'Y' if unsure.
1338 bool "JFFS2 RUBIN compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1342 RUBINMIPS and DYNRUBIN compressors. Say 'N' if unsure.
1345 prompt "JFFS2 default compression mode" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1346 default JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY
1349 You can set here the default compression mode of JFFS2 from
1350 the available compression modes. Don't touch if unsure.
1352 config JFFS2_CMODE_NONE
1353 bool "no compression"
1355 Uses no compression.
1357 config JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY
1360 Tries the compressors in a predefined order and chooses the first
1363 config JFFS2_CMODE_SIZE
1364 bool "size (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1366 Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest
1369 config JFFS2_CMODE_FAVOURLZO
1372 Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest
1373 result but gives some preference to LZO (which has faster
1374 decompression) at the expense of size.
1379 tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)"
1383 Saying Y here includes support for CramFs (Compressed ROM File
1384 System). CramFs is designed to be a simple, small, and compressed
1385 file system for ROM based embedded systems. CramFs is read-only,
1386 limited to 256MB file systems (with 16MB files), and doesn't support
1387 16/32 bits uid/gid, hard links and timestamps.
1389 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt> and
1390 <file:fs/cramfs/README> for further information.
1392 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1393 cramfs. Note that the root file system (the one containing the
1394 directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
1399 tristate "FreeVxFS file system support (VERITAS VxFS(TM) compatible)"
1402 FreeVxFS is a file system driver that support the VERITAS VxFS(TM)
1403 file system format. VERITAS VxFS(TM) is the standard file system
1404 of SCO UnixWare (and possibly others) and optionally available
1405 for Sunsoft Solaris, HP-UX and many other operating systems.
1406 Currently only readonly access is supported.
1408 NOTE: the file system type as used by mount(1), mount(2) and
1409 fstab(5) is 'vxfs' as it describes the file system format, not
1412 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
1413 called freevxfs. If unsure, say N.
1417 tristate "OS/2 HPFS file system support"
1420 OS/2 is IBM's operating system for PC's, the same as Warp, and HPFS
1421 is the file system used for organizing files on OS/2 hard disk
1422 partitions. Say Y if you want to be able to read files from and
1423 write files to an OS/2 HPFS partition on your hard drive. OS/2
1424 floppies however are in regular MSDOS format, so you don't need this
1425 option in order to be able to read them. Read
1426 <file:Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt>.
1428 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1429 module will be called hpfs. If unsure, say N.
1434 tristate "QNX4 file system support (read only)"
1437 This is the file system used by the real-time operating systems
1438 QNX 4 and QNX 6 (the latter is also called QNX RTP).
1439 Further information is available at <http://www.qnx.com/>.
1440 Say Y if you intend to mount QNX hard disks or floppies.
1441 Unless you say Y to "QNX4FS read-write support" below, you will
1442 only be able to read these file systems.
1444 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1445 module will be called qnx4.
1447 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
1451 bool "QNX4FS write support (DANGEROUS)"
1452 depends on QNX4FS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN
1454 Say Y if you want to test write support for QNX4 file systems.
1456 It's currently broken, so for now:
1462 tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support"
1465 SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel
1466 machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y
1467 here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk
1470 If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely
1471 that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order
1472 to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is
1473 a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse,
1474 UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux. It is
1475 available via FTP (user: ftp) from
1476 <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>).
1477 NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems;
1478 PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-)
1480 If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the
1481 network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support
1482 (but you need NFS file system support obviously).
1484 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
1485 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
1486 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
1487 tar" or preferably "info tar"). Note also that this option has
1488 nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about
1489 the System V file system in
1490 <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>.
1491 Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB.
1493 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1496 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
1501 tristate "UFS file system support (read only)"
1504 BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
1505 OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a file system called UFS. Some System V
1506 Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using
1507 this file system as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from
1508 these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the
1509 experimental "UFS file system write support", below. Please read the
1510 file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt> for more information.
1512 The recently released UFS2 variant (used in FreeBSD 5.x) is
1513 READ-ONLY supported.
1515 If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the
1516 network using NFS, you don't need the UFS file system support (but
1517 you need NFS file system support obviously).
1519 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
1520 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
1521 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
1522 tar" or preferably "info tar").
1524 When accessing NeXTstep files, you may need to convert them from the
1525 NeXT character set to the Latin1 character set; use the program
1526 recode ("info recode") for this purpose.
1528 To compile the UFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1529 module will be called ufs.
1531 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
1534 bool "UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS)"
1535 depends on UFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1537 Say Y here if you want to try writing to UFS partitions. This is
1538 experimental, so you should back up your UFS partitions beforehand.
1541 bool "UFS debugging"
1544 If you are experiencing any problems with the UFS filesystem, say
1545 Y here. This will result in _many_ additional debugging messages to be
1546 written to the system log.
1550 menuconfig NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS
1551 bool "Network File Systems"
1555 Say Y here to get to see options for network filesystems and
1556 filesystem-related networking code, such as NFS daemon and
1557 RPCSEC security modules.
1558 This option alone does not add any kernel code.
1560 If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and
1561 disabled; if unsure, say Y here.
1563 if NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS
1566 tristate "NFS file system support"
1570 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFS_V3_ACL
1572 If you are connected to some other (usually local) Unix computer
1573 (using SLIP, PLIP, PPP or Ethernet) and want to mount files residing
1574 on that computer (the NFS server) using the Network File Sharing
1575 protocol, say Y. "Mounting files" means that the client can access
1576 the files with usual UNIX commands as if they were sitting on the
1577 client's hard disk. For this to work, the server must run the
1578 programs nfsd and mountd (but does not need to have NFS file system
1579 support enabled in its kernel). NFS is explained in the Network
1580 Administrator's Guide, available from
1581 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>, on its man page: "man
1582 nfs", and in the NFS-HOWTO.
1584 A superior but less widely used alternative to NFS is provided by
1585 the Coda file system; see "Coda file system support" below.
1587 If you say Y here, you should have said Y to TCP/IP networking also.
1588 This option would enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB.
1590 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1591 module will be called nfs.
1593 If you are configuring a diskless machine which will mount its root
1594 file system over NFS at boot time, say Y here and to "Kernel
1595 level IP autoconfiguration" above and to "Root file system on NFS"
1596 below. You cannot compile this driver as a module in this case.
1597 There are two packages designed for booting diskless machines over
1598 the net: netboot, available from
1599 <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/netboot/>, and Etherboot,
1600 available from <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/etherboot/>.
1602 If you don't know what all this is about, say N.
1605 bool "Provide NFSv3 client support"
1608 Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak version
1609 3 of the NFS protocol.
1614 bool "Provide client support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension"
1617 Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX
1618 Access Control Lists. The server should also be compiled with
1619 the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL option.
1624 bool "Provide NFSv4 client support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1625 depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1626 select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
1628 Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak the newer
1629 version 4 of the NFS protocol.
1631 Note: Requires auxiliary userspace daemons which may be found on
1632 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
1637 bool "Allow direct I/O on NFS files"
1640 This option enables applications to perform uncached I/O on files
1641 in NFS file systems using the O_DIRECT open() flag. When O_DIRECT
1642 is set for a file, its data is not cached in the system's page
1643 cache. Data is moved to and from user-level application buffers
1644 directly. Unlike local disk-based file systems, NFS O_DIRECT has
1645 no alignment restrictions.
1647 Unless your program is designed to use O_DIRECT properly, you are
1648 much better off allowing the NFS client to manage data caching for
1649 you. Misusing O_DIRECT can cause poor server performance or network
1650 storms. This kernel build option defaults OFF to avoid exposing
1651 system administrators unwittingly to a potentially hazardous
1654 For more details on NFS O_DIRECT, see fs/nfs/direct.c.
1656 If unsure, say N. This reduces the size of the NFS client, and
1657 causes open() to return EINVAL if a file residing in NFS is
1658 opened with the O_DIRECT flag.
1661 tristate "NFS server support"
1666 select NFSD_V2_ACL if NFSD_V3_ACL
1667 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFSD_V2_ACL
1668 select NFSD_TCP if NFSD_V4
1669 select CRYPTO_MD5 if NFSD_V4
1670 select CRYPTO if NFSD_V4
1671 select FS_POSIX_ACL if NFSD_V4
1673 If you want your Linux box to act as an NFS *server*, so that other
1674 computers on your local network which support NFS can access certain
1675 directories on your box transparently, you have two options: you can
1676 use the self-contained user space program nfsd, in which case you
1677 should say N here, or you can say Y and use the kernel based NFS
1678 server. The advantage of the kernel based solution is that it is
1681 In either case, you will need support software; the respective
1682 locations are given in the file <file:Documentation/Changes> in the
1685 If you say Y here, you will get support for version 2 of the NFS
1686 protocol (NFSv2). If you also want NFSv3, say Y to the next question
1689 Please read the NFS-HOWTO, available from
1690 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
1692 To compile the NFS server support as a module, choose M here: the
1693 module will be called nfsd. If unsure, say N.
1700 bool "Provide NFSv3 server support"
1703 If you would like to include the NFSv3 server as well as the NFSv2
1704 server, say Y here. If unsure, say Y.
1707 bool "Provide server support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension"
1710 Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX
1711 Access Control Lists on exported file systems. NFS clients should
1712 be compiled with the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the
1713 CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL option. If unsure, say N.
1716 bool "Provide NFSv4 server support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1717 depends on NFSD && NFSD_V3 && EXPERIMENTAL
1718 select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
1720 If you would like to include the NFSv4 server as well as the NFSv2
1721 and NFSv3 servers, say Y here. This feature is experimental, and
1722 should only be used if you are interested in helping to test NFSv4.
1726 bool "Provide NFS server over TCP support"
1730 If you want your NFS server to support TCP connections, say Y here.
1731 TCP connections usually perform better than the default UDP when
1732 the network is lossy or congested. If unsure, say Y.
1735 bool "Root file system on NFS"
1736 depends on NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP
1738 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
1739 one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
1740 net via NFS (presumably because your box doesn't have a hard disk),
1741 say Y. Read <file:Documentation/nfsroot.txt> for details. It is
1742 likely that in this case, you also want to say Y to "Kernel level IP
1743 autoconfiguration" so that your box can discover its network address
1746 Most people say N here.
1753 depends on NFSD_V3 || NFS_V3
1759 config NFS_ACL_SUPPORT
1765 depends on NFSD || NFS_FS
1774 config SUNRPC_XPRT_RDMA
1775 tristate "RDMA transport for sunrpc (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1776 depends on SUNRPC && INFINIBAND && EXPERIMENTAL
1779 Adds a client RPC transport for supporting kernel NFS over RDMA
1780 mounts, including Infiniband and iWARP. Experimental.
1782 config SUNRPC_BIND34
1783 bool "Support for rpcbind versions 3 & 4 (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1784 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
1786 Provides kernel support for querying rpcbind servers via versions 3
1787 and 4 of the rpcbind protocol. The kernel automatically falls back
1788 to version 2 if a remote rpcbind service does not support versions
1791 If unsure, say N to get traditional behavior (version 2 rpcbind
1794 config RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
1795 tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1796 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
1803 Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api
1804 mechanism based on Kerberos V5. This is required for
1807 Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on
1808 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
1812 config RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3
1813 tristate "Secure RPC: SPKM3 mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1814 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
1822 Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api
1823 mechanism based on the SPKM3 public-key mechanism.
1825 Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on
1826 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
1831 tristate "SMB file system support (to mount Windows shares etc.)"
1835 SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Windows for Workgroups
1836 (WfW), Windows 95/98, Windows NT and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share
1837 files and printers over local networks. Saying Y here allows you to
1838 mount their file systems (often called "shares" in this context) and
1839 access them just like any other Unix directory. Currently, this
1840 works only if the Windows machines use TCP/IP as the underlying
1841 transport protocol, and not NetBEUI. For details, read
1842 <file:Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt> and the SMB-HOWTO,
1843 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
1845 Note: if you just want your box to act as an SMB *server* and make
1846 files and printing services available to Windows clients (which need
1847 to have a TCP/IP stack), you don't need to say Y here; you can use
1848 the program SAMBA (available from <ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/>)
1851 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
1852 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
1854 To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here: the module will
1855 be called smbfs. Most people say N, however.
1857 config SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
1858 bool "Use a default NLS"
1861 Enabling this will make smbfs use nls translations by default. You
1862 need to specify the local charset (CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT) in the nls
1863 settings and you need to give the default nls for the SMB server as
1864 CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE.
1866 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount
1867 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters.
1869 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
1871 config SMB_NLS_REMOTE
1872 string "Default Remote NLS Option"
1873 depends on SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
1876 This setting allows you to specify a default value for which
1877 codepage the server uses. If this field is left blank no
1878 translations will be done by default. The local codepage/charset
1879 default to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT.
1881 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount
1882 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters.
1884 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
1887 tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem for Samba, Window and other CIFS compliant servers)"
1891 This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System
1892 (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block
1893 (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early
1894 PC operating systems. The CIFS protocol is fully supported by
1895 file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4
1896 and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS
1897 server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited
1898 support for OS/2 and Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well.
1900 The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced
1901 network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers,
1902 including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user
1903 session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional
1904 packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements.
1905 If you need to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y.
1908 bool "CIFS statistics"
1911 Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share
1912 mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats
1915 bool "Extended statistics"
1916 depends on CIFS_STATS
1918 Enabling this option will allow more detailed statistics on SMB
1919 request timing to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData and also
1920 allow optional logging of slow responses to dmesg (depending on the
1921 value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI, see fs/cifs/README for more details).
1922 These additional statistics may have a minor effect on performance
1923 and memory utilization.
1925 Unless you are a developer or are doing network performance analysis
1928 config CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH
1929 bool "Support legacy servers which use weaker LANMAN security"
1932 Modern CIFS servers including Samba and most Windows versions
1933 (since 1997) support stronger NTLM (and even NTLMv2 and Kerberos)
1934 security mechanisms. These hash the password more securely
1935 than the mechanisms used in the older LANMAN version of the
1936 SMB protocol needed to establish sessions with old SMB servers.
1938 Enabling this option allows the cifs module to mount to older
1939 LANMAN based servers such as OS/2 and Windows 95, but such
1940 mounts may be less secure than mounts using NTLM or more recent
1941 security mechanisms if you are on a public network. Unless you
1942 have a need to access old SMB servers (and are on a private
1943 network) you probably want to say N. Even if this support
1944 is enabled in the kernel build, they will not be used
1945 automatically. At runtime LANMAN mounts are disabled but
1946 can be set to required (or optional) either in
1947 /proc/fs/cifs (see fs/cifs/README for more detail) or via an
1948 option on the mount command. This support is disabled by
1949 default in order to reduce the possibility of a downgrade
1955 bool "CIFS extended attributes"
1958 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
1959 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
1960 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). CIFS maps the name of
1961 extended attributes beginning with the user namespace prefix
1962 to SMB/CIFS EAs. EAs are stored on Windows servers without the
1963 user namespace prefix, but their names are seen by Linux cifs clients
1964 prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace
1965 (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at
1971 bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions"
1972 depends on CIFS_XATTR
1974 Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to
1975 negotiate a newer dialect with servers, such as Samba 3.0.5
1976 or later, that optionally can handle more POSIX like (rather
1977 than Windows like) file behavior. It also enables
1978 support for POSIX ACLs (getfacl and setfacl) to servers
1979 (such as Samba 3.10 and later) which can negotiate
1980 CIFS POSIX ACL support. If unsure, say N.
1983 bool "Enable additional CIFS debugging routines"
1986 Enabling this option adds a few more debugging routines
1987 to the cifs code which slightly increases the size of
1988 the cifs module and can cause additional logging of debug
1989 messages in some error paths, slowing performance. This
1990 option can be turned off unless you are debugging
1991 cifs problems. If unsure, say N.
1993 config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
1994 bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1995 depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL
1997 Enables cifs features under testing. These features are
1998 experimental and currently include DFS support and directory
1999 change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY), as well as the upcall
2000 mechanism which will be used for Kerberos session negotiation
2001 and uid remapping. Some of these features also may depend on
2002 setting a value of 1 to the pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental
2003 (which is disabled by default). See the file fs/cifs/README
2004 for more details. If unsure, say N.
2007 bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)"
2008 depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
2009 depends on CONNECTOR
2011 Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which will be used to contact
2012 userspace helper utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged Kerberos
2013 tickets which are needed to mount to certain secure servers
2014 (for which more secure Kerberos authentication is required). If
2018 tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)"
2019 depends on IPX!=n || INET
2021 NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) is a protocol that runs over IPX and is
2022 used by Novell NetWare clients to talk to file servers. It is to
2023 IPX what NFS is to TCP/IP, if that helps. Saying Y here allows you
2024 to mount NetWare file server volumes and to access them just like
2025 any other Unix directory. For details, please read the file
2026 <file:Documentation/filesystems/ncpfs.txt> in the kernel source and
2027 the IPX-HOWTO from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
2029 You do not have to say Y here if you want your Linux box to act as a
2030 file *server* for Novell NetWare clients.
2032 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
2033 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
2035 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
2036 ncpfs. Say N unless you are connected to a Novell network.
2038 source "fs/ncpfs/Kconfig"
2041 tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)"
2044 Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it
2045 enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them
2046 with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard
2047 disk. Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for
2048 disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server
2049 replication, security model for authentication and encryption,
2050 persistent client caches and write back caching.
2052 If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda
2053 *client*. You will need user level code as well, both for the
2054 client and server. Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need
2055 no kernel support. Please read
2056 <file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.txt> and check out the Coda
2057 home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>.
2059 To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the
2060 module will be called coda.
2062 config CODA_FS_OLD_API
2063 bool "Use 96-bit Coda file identifiers"
2066 A new kernel-userspace API had to be introduced for Coda v6.0
2067 to support larger 128-bit file identifiers as needed by the
2068 new realms implementation.
2070 However this new API is not backward compatible with older
2071 clients. If you really need to run the old Coda userspace
2072 cache manager then say Y.
2074 For most cases you probably want to say N.
2077 tristate "Andrew File System support (AFS) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
2078 depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL
2081 If you say Y here, you will get an experimental Andrew File System
2082 driver. It currently only supports unsecured read-only AFS access.
2084 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information.
2089 bool "AFS dynamic debugging"
2092 Say Y here to make runtime controllable debugging messages appear.
2094 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information.
2099 tristate "Plan 9 Resource Sharing Support (9P2000) (Experimental)"
2100 depends on INET && NET_9P && EXPERIMENTAL
2102 If you say Y here, you will get experimental support for
2103 Plan 9 resource sharing via the 9P2000 protocol.
2105 See <http://v9fs.sf.net> for more information.
2109 endif # NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS
2112 menu "Partition Types"
2114 source "fs/partitions/Kconfig"
2119 source "fs/nls/Kconfig"
2120 source "fs/dlm/Kconfig"