2 # File system configuration
8 tristate "Second extended fs support"
10 Ext2 is a standard Linux file system for hard disks.
12 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
13 module will be called ext2. Be aware however that the file system
14 of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot
15 be compiled as a module, and so this could be dangerous.
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"
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 journaling version of the Second extended file system
76 (often called ext3), the de facto standard Linux file system
77 (method to organize files on a storage device) for hard disks.
79 The journaling code included in this driver means you do not have
80 to run e2fsck (file system checker) on your file systems after a
81 crash. The journal keeps track of any changes that were being made
82 at the time the system crashed, and can ensure that your file system
83 is consistent without the need for a lengthy check.
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. Be aware however that the file system
100 of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot
101 be compiled as a module, and so this may be dangerous.
104 bool "Ext3 extended attributes"
108 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
109 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
110 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
114 You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext3.
116 config EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL
117 bool "Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists"
118 depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR
121 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
122 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
124 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
125 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
127 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
129 config EXT3_FS_SECURITY
130 bool "Ext3 Security Labels"
131 depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR
133 Security labels support alternative access control models
134 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
135 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
136 labels in the ext3 filesystem.
138 If you are not using a security module that requires using
139 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
144 This is a generic journaling layer for block devices. It is
145 currently used by the ext3 and OCFS2 file systems, but it could
146 also be used to add journal support to other file systems or block
147 devices such as RAID or LVM.
149 If you are using the ext3 or OCFS2 file systems, you need to
150 say Y here. If you are not using ext3 OCFS2 then you will probably
153 To compile this device as a module, choose M here: the module will be
154 called jbd. If you are compiling ext3 or OCFS2 into the kernel,
155 you cannot compile this code as a module.
158 bool "JBD (ext3) debugging support"
161 If you are using the ext3 journaled file system (or potentially any
162 other file system/device using JBD), this option allows you to
163 enable debugging output while the system is running, in order to
164 help track down any problems you are having. By default the
165 debugging output will be turned off.
167 If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging
168 with "echo N > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug", where N is a number between
169 1 and 5, the higher the number, the more debugging output is
170 generated. To turn debugging off again, do
171 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug".
174 # Meta block cache for Extended Attributes (ext2/ext3)
176 depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR || EXT3_FS_XATTR
177 default y if EXT2_FS=y || EXT3_FS=y
178 default m if EXT2_FS=m || EXT3_FS=m
181 tristate "Reiserfs support"
183 Stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a balanced
184 tree. Uses journaling.
186 Balanced trees are more efficient than traditional file system
187 architectural foundations.
189 In general, ReiserFS is as fast as ext2, but is very efficient with
190 large directories and small files. Additional patches are needed
191 for NFS and quotas, please see <http://www.namesys.com/> for links.
193 It is more easily extended to have features currently found in
194 database and keyword search systems than block allocation based file
195 systems are. The next version will be so extended, and will support
196 plugins consistent with our motto ``It takes more than a license to
197 make source code open.''
199 Read <http://www.namesys.com/> to learn more about reiserfs.
201 Sponsored by Threshold Networks, Emusic.com, and Bigstorage.com.
203 If you like it, you can pay us to add new features to it that you
204 need, buy a support contract, or pay us to port it to another OS.
206 config REISERFS_CHECK
207 bool "Enable reiserfs debug mode"
208 depends on REISERFS_FS
210 If you set this to Y, then ReiserFS will perform every check it can
211 possibly imagine of its internal consistency throughout its
212 operation. It will also go substantially slower. More than once we
213 have forgotten that this was on, and then gone despondent over the
214 latest benchmarks.:-) Use of this option allows our team to go all
215 out in checking for consistency when debugging without fear of its
216 effect on end users. If you are on the verge of sending in a bug
217 report, say Y and you might get a useful error message. Almost
218 everyone should say N.
220 config REISERFS_PROC_INFO
221 bool "Stats in /proc/fs/reiserfs"
222 depends on REISERFS_FS
224 Create under /proc/fs/reiserfs a hierarchy of files, displaying
225 various ReiserFS statistics and internal data at the expense of
226 making your kernel or module slightly larger (+8 KB). This also
227 increases the amount of kernel memory required for each mount.
228 Almost everyone but ReiserFS developers and people fine-tuning
229 reiserfs or tracing problems should say N.
231 config REISERFS_FS_XATTR
232 bool "ReiserFS extended attributes"
233 depends on REISERFS_FS
235 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
236 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
237 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
241 config REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL
242 bool "ReiserFS POSIX Access Control Lists"
243 depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR
246 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
247 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
249 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
250 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
252 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
254 config REISERFS_FS_SECURITY
255 bool "ReiserFS Security Labels"
256 depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR
258 Security labels support alternative access control models
259 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
260 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
261 labels in the ReiserFS filesystem.
263 If you are not using a security module that requires using
264 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
267 tristate "JFS filesystem support"
270 This is a port of IBM's Journaled Filesystem . More information is
271 available in the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt>.
273 If you do not intend to use the JFS filesystem, say N.
276 bool "JFS POSIX Access Control Lists"
280 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
281 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
283 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
284 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
286 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
289 bool "JFS Security Labels"
292 Security labels support alternative access control models
293 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
294 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
295 labels in the jfs filesystem.
297 If you are not using a security module that requires using
298 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
304 If you are experiencing any problems with the JFS filesystem, say
305 Y here. This will result in additional debugging messages to be
306 written to the system log. Under normal circumstances, this
307 results in very little overhead.
309 config JFS_STATISTICS
310 bool "JFS statistics"
313 Enabling this option will cause statistics from the JFS file system
314 to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jfs/ directory.
317 # Posix ACL utility routines (for now, only ext2/ext3/jfs/reiserfs)
319 # NOTE: you can implement Posix ACLs without these helpers (XFS does).
320 # Never use this symbol for ifdefs.
325 source "fs/xfs/Kconfig"
328 tristate "OCFS2 file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
329 depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
335 OCFS2 is a general purpose extent based shared disk cluster file
336 system with many similarities to ext3. It supports 64 bit inode
337 numbers, and has automatically extending metadata groups which may
338 also make it attractive for non-clustered use.
340 You'll want to install the ocfs2-tools package in order to at least
343 Project web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2
344 Tools web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools
345 OCFS2 mailing lists: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/mailman/
347 Note: Features which OCFS2 does not support yet:
348 - extended attributes
349 - shared writeable mmap
350 - loopback is supported, but data written will not
353 - cluster aware flock
354 - Directory change notification (F_NOTIFY)
355 - Distributed Caching (F_SETLEASE/F_GETLEASE/break_lease)
357 - readpages / writepages (not user visible)
360 tristate "Minix fs support"
362 Minix is a simple operating system used in many classes about OS's.
363 The minix file system (method to organize files on a hard disk
364 partition or a floppy disk) was the original file system for Linux,
365 but has been superseded by the second extended file system ext2fs.
366 You don't want to use the minix file system on your hard disk
367 because of certain built-in restrictions, but it is sometimes found
368 on older Linux floppy disks. This option will enlarge your kernel
369 by about 28 KB. If unsure, say N.
371 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
372 module will be called minix. Note that the file system of your root
373 partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as
377 tristate "ROM file system support"
379 This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for
380 initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for
381 other read-only media as well. Read
382 <file:Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt> for details.
384 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
385 module will be called romfs. Note that the file system of your
386 root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a
389 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
393 bool "Inotify file change notification support"
396 Say Y here to enable inotify support and the associated system
397 calls. Inotify is a file change notification system and a
398 replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes numerous shortcomings in
399 dnotify and introduces several new features. It allows monitoring
400 of both files and directories via a single open fd. Other features
401 include multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount
404 For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt
411 If you say Y here, you will be able to set per user limits for disk
412 usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works for the
413 ext2, ext3, and reiserfs file system. ext3 also supports journalled
414 quotas for which you don't need to run quotacheck(8) after an unclean
416 For further details, read the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from
417 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or the documentation provided
418 with the quota tools. Probably the quota support is only useful for
419 multi user systems. If unsure, say N.
422 tristate "Old quota format support"
425 This quota format was (is) used by kernels earlier than 2.4.22. If
426 you have quota working and you don't want to convert to new quota
430 tristate "Quota format v2 support"
433 This quota format allows using quotas with 32-bit UIDs/GIDs. If you
434 need this functionality say Y here.
438 depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA
442 bool "Dnotify support" if EMBEDDED
445 Dnotify is a directory-based per-fd file change notification system
446 that uses signals to communicate events to user-space. There exist
447 superior alternatives, but some applications may still rely on
450 Because of this, if unsure, say Y.
453 tristate "Kernel automounter support"
455 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
456 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
457 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
458 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
460 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs
461 package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>.
462 You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
464 If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more
465 features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support",
468 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
471 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you
472 probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here.
475 tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)"
477 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
478 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
479 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
480 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
482 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from
483 <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/>; you also
484 want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
486 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
487 called autofs4. You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your
488 modules configuration file.
490 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or
491 don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the
492 local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say
496 tristate "Filesystem in Userspace support"
498 With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem
499 in a userspace program.
501 There's also companion library: libfuse. This library along with
502 utilities is available from the FUSE homepage:
503 <http://fuse.sourceforge.net/>
505 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt> for more information.
506 See <file:Documentation/Changes> for needed library/utility version.
508 If you want to develop a userspace FS, or if you want to use
509 a filesystem based on FUSE, answer Y or M.
511 menu "CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems"
514 tristate "ISO 9660 CDROM file system support"
516 This is the standard file system used on CD-ROMs. It was previously
517 known as "High Sierra File System" and is called "hsfs" on other
518 Unix systems. The so-called Rock-Ridge extensions which allow for
519 long Unix filenames and symbolic links are also supported by this
520 driver. If you have a CD-ROM drive and want to do more with it than
521 just listen to audio CDs and watch its LEDs, say Y (and read
522 <file:Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt> and the CD-ROM-HOWTO,
523 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), thereby
524 enlarging your kernel by about 27 KB; otherwise say N.
526 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
527 module will be called isofs.
530 bool "Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions"
531 depends on ISO9660_FS
534 Joliet is a Microsoft extension for the ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system
535 which allows for long filenames in unicode format (unicode is the
536 new 16 bit character code, successor to ASCII, which encodes the
537 characters of almost all languages of the world; see
538 <http://www.unicode.org/> for more information). Say Y here if you
539 want to be able to read Joliet CD-ROMs under Linux.
542 bool "Transparent decompression extension"
543 depends on ISO9660_FS
546 This is a Linux-specific extension to RockRidge which lets you store
547 data in compressed form on a CD-ROM and have it transparently
548 decompressed when the CD-ROM is accessed. See
549 <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/zisofs/> for the tools
550 necessary to create such a filesystem. Say Y here if you want to be
551 able to read such compressed CD-ROMs.
554 # for fs/nls/Config.in
560 tristate "UDF file system support"
562 This is the new file system used on some CD-ROMs and DVDs. Say Y if
563 you intend to mount DVD discs or CDRW's written in packet mode, or
564 if written to by other UDF utilities, such as DirectCD.
565 Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt>.
567 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
568 module will be called udf.
575 depends on (UDF_FS=m && NLS) || (UDF_FS=y && NLS=y)
579 menu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems"
585 If you want to use one of the FAT-based file systems (the MS-DOS and
586 VFAT (Windows 95) file systems), then you must say Y or M here
587 to include FAT support. You will then be able to mount partitions or
588 diskettes with FAT-based file systems and transparently access the
589 files on them, i.e. MSDOS files will look and behave just like all
592 This FAT support is not a file system in itself, it only provides
593 the foundation for the other file systems. You will have to say Y or
594 M to at least one of "MSDOS fs support" or "VFAT fs support" in
595 order to make use of it.
597 Another way to read and write MSDOS floppies and hard drive
598 partitions from within Linux (but not transparently) is with the
599 mtools ("man mtools") program suite. You don't need to say Y here in
602 If you need to move large files on floppies between a DOS and a
603 Linux box, say Y here, mount the floppy under Linux with an MSDOS
604 file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program
605 available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar").
607 It is now also becoming possible to read and write compressed FAT
608 file systems; read <file:Documentation/filesystems/fat_cvf.txt> for
611 The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure,
614 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
615 fat. Note that if you compile the FAT support as a module, you
616 cannot compile any of the FAT-based file systems into the kernel
617 -- they will have to be modules as well.
620 tristate "MSDOS fs support"
623 This allows you to mount MSDOS partitions of your hard drive (unless
624 they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under
625 Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the
626 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from
627 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in
628 <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you
629 intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y
630 here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes
631 transparent, i.e. the MSDOS files look and behave just like all
634 If you have Windows 95 or Windows NT installed on your MSDOS
635 partitions, you should use the VFAT file system (say Y to "VFAT fs
636 support" below), or you will not be able to see the long filenames
637 generated by Windows 95 / Windows NT.
639 This option will enlarge your kernel by about 7 KB. If unsure,
640 answer Y. This will only work if you said Y to "DOS FAT fs support"
641 as well. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will
645 tristate "VFAT (Windows-95) fs support"
648 This option provides support for normal Windows file systems with
649 long filenames. That includes non-compressed FAT-based file systems
650 used by Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and the Unix
651 programs from the mtools package.
653 The VFAT support enlarges your kernel by about 10 KB and it only
654 works if you said Y to the "DOS FAT fs support" above. Please read
655 the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for details. If
658 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
661 config FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE
662 int "Default codepage for FAT"
663 depends on MSDOS_FS || VFAT_FS
666 This option should be set to the codepage of your FAT filesystems.
667 It can be overridden with the "codepage" mount option.
668 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
670 config FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET
671 string "Default iocharset for FAT"
675 Set this to the default input/output character set you'd
676 like FAT to use. It should probably match the character set
677 that most of your FAT filesystems use, and can be overridden
678 with the "iocharset" mount option for FAT filesystems.
679 Note that "utf8" is not recommended for FAT filesystems.
680 If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here.
681 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
684 tristate "NTFS file system support"
687 NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003.
689 Saying Y or M here enables read support. There is partial, but
690 safe, write support available. For write support you must also
691 say Y to "NTFS write support" below.
693 There are also a number of user-space tools available, called
694 ntfsprogs. These include ntfsundelete and ntfsresize, that work
695 without NTFS support enabled in the kernel.
697 This is a rewrite from scratch of Linux NTFS support and replaced
698 the old NTFS code starting with Linux 2.5.11. A backport to
699 the Linux 2.4 kernel series is separately available as a patch
700 from the project web site.
702 For more information see <file:Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt>
703 and <http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/>.
705 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
706 module will be called ntfs.
708 If you are not using Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 in addition to
709 Linux on your computer it is safe to say N.
712 bool "NTFS debugging support"
715 If you are experiencing any problems with the NTFS file system, say
716 Y here. This will result in additional consistency checks to be
717 performed by the driver as well as additional debugging messages to
718 be written to the system log. Note that debugging messages are
719 disabled by default. To enable them, supply the option debug_msgs=1
720 at the kernel command line when booting the kernel or as an option
721 to insmod when loading the ntfs module. Once the driver is active,
722 you can enable debugging messages by doing (as root):
723 echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug
724 Replacing the "1" with "0" would disable debug messages.
726 If you leave debugging messages disabled, this results in little
727 overhead, but enabling debug messages results in very significant
728 slowdown of the system.
730 When reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of
731 debugging messages while the misbehaviour was occurring.
734 bool "NTFS write support"
737 This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver.
739 The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without
740 changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or
741 renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to
742 so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot
745 While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have
746 so far not received a single report where the driver would have
747 damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use.
749 Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from
750 scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS
751 write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997),
754 This is currently useful with TopologiLinux. TopologiLinux is run
755 on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your
756 hard disk. Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not
757 need its own partition. For more information see
758 <http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/>
760 It is perfectly safe to say N here.
764 menu "Pseudo filesystems"
767 bool "/proc file system support"
769 This is a virtual file system providing information about the status
770 of the system. "Virtual" means that it doesn't take up any space on
771 your hard disk: the files are created on the fly by the kernel when
772 you try to access them. Also, you cannot read the files with older
773 version of the program less: you need to use more or cat.
775 It's totally cool; for example, "cat /proc/interrupts" gives
776 information about what the different IRQs are used for at the moment
777 (there is a small number of Interrupt ReQuest lines in your computer
778 that are used by the attached devices to gain the CPU's attention --
779 often a source of trouble if two devices are mistakenly configured
780 to use the same IRQ). The program procinfo to display some
781 information about your system gathered from the /proc file system.
783 Before you can use the /proc file system, it has to be mounted,
784 meaning it has to be given a location in the directory hierarchy.
785 That location should be /proc. A command such as "mount -t proc proc
786 /proc" or the equivalent line in /etc/fstab does the job.
788 The /proc file system is explained in the file
789 <file:Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt> and on the proc(5) manpage
792 This option will enlarge your kernel by about 67 KB. Several
793 programs depend on this, so everyone should say Y here.
796 bool "/proc/kcore support" if !ARM
797 depends on PROC_FS && MMU
800 bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
801 depends on PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP
803 Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format.
806 bool "sysfs file system support" if EMBEDDED
809 The sysfs filesystem is a virtual filesystem that the kernel uses to
810 export internal kernel objects, their attributes, and their
811 relationships to one another.
813 Users can use sysfs to ascertain useful information about the running
814 kernel, such as the devices the kernel has discovered on each bus and
815 which driver each is bound to. sysfs can also be used to tune devices
816 and other kernel subsystems.
818 Some system agents rely on the information in sysfs to operate.
819 /sbin/hotplug uses device and object attributes in sysfs to assist in
820 delegating policy decisions, like persistantly naming devices.
822 sysfs is currently used by the block subsystem to mount the root
823 partition. If sysfs is disabled you must specify the boot device on
824 the kernel boot command line via its major and minor numbers. For
825 example, "root=03:01" for /dev/hda1.
827 Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space.
830 bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)"
832 Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory.
834 Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be
835 created on your hard drive. The files live in memory and swap
836 space. If you unmount a tmpfs instance, everything stored therein is
839 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> for details.
842 bool "HugeTLB file system support"
843 depends X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || BROKEN
852 Ramfs is a file system which keeps all files in RAM. It allows
853 read and write access.
855 It is more of an programming example than a useable file system. If
856 you need a file system which lives in RAM with limit checking use
859 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
863 tristate "Relayfs file system support"
865 Relayfs is a high-speed data relay filesystem designed to provide
866 an efficient mechanism for tools and facilities to relay large
867 amounts of data from kernel space to user space.
869 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be
875 tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem (EXPERIMENTAL)"
876 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
878 configfs is a ram-based filesystem that provides the converse
879 of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based
880 view of kernel objects, configfs is a filesystem-based manager
881 of kernel objects, or config_items.
883 Both sysfs and configfs can and should exist together on the
884 same system. One is not a replacement for the other.
888 menu "Miscellaneous filesystems"
891 tristate "ADFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
892 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
894 The Acorn Disc Filing System is the standard file system of the
895 RiscOS operating system which runs on Acorn's ARM-based Risc PC
896 systems and the Acorn Archimedes range of machines. If you say Y
897 here, Linux will be able to read from ADFS partitions on hard drives
898 and from ADFS-formatted floppy discs. If you also want to be able to
899 write to those devices, say Y to "ADFS write support" below.
901 The ADFS partition should be the first partition (i.e.,
902 /dev/[hs]d?1) on each of your drives. Please read the file
903 <file:Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt> for further details.
905 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be
911 bool "ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)"
914 If you say Y here, you will be able to write to ADFS partitions on
915 hard drives and ADFS-formatted floppy disks. This is experimental
916 codes, so if you're unsure, say N.
919 tristate "Amiga FFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
920 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
922 The Fast File System (FFS) is the common file system used on hard
923 disks by Amiga(tm) systems since AmigaOS Version 1.3 (34.20). Say Y
924 if you want to be able to read and write files from and to an Amiga
925 FFS partition on your hard drive. Amiga floppies however cannot be
926 read with this driver due to an incompatibility of the floppy
927 controller used in an Amiga and the standard floppy controller in
928 PCs and workstations. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt>
929 and <file:fs/affs/Changes>.
931 With this driver you can also mount disk files used by Bernd
932 Schmidt's Un*X Amiga Emulator
933 (<http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/>).
934 If you want to do this, you will also need to say Y or M to "Loop
935 device support", above.
937 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
938 module will be called affs. If unsure, say N.
941 tristate "Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
942 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
945 If you say Y here, you will be able to mount Macintosh-formatted
946 floppy disks and hard drive partitions with full read-write access.
947 Please read <file:fs/hfs/HFS.txt> to learn about the available mount
950 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
951 module will be called hfs.
954 tristate "Apple Extended HFS file system support"
958 If you say Y here, you will be able to mount extended format
959 Macintosh-formatted hard drive partitions with full read-write access.
961 This file system is often called HFS+ and was introduced with
962 MacOS 8. It includes all Mac specific filesystem data such as
963 data forks and creator codes, but it also has several UNIX
964 style features such as file ownership and permissions.
967 tristate "BeOS file system (BeFS) support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
968 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
971 The BeOS File System (BeFS) is the native file system of Be, Inc's
972 BeOS. Notable features include support for arbitrary attributes
973 on files and directories, and database-like indeces on selected
974 attributes. (Also note that this driver doesn't make those features
975 available at this time). It is a 64 bit filesystem, so it supports
976 extremly large volumes and files.
978 If you use this filesystem, you should also say Y to at least one
979 of the NLS (native language support) options below.
981 If you don't know what this is about, say N.
983 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
990 If you say Y here, you can use the 'debug' mount option to enable
991 debugging output from the driver.
994 tristate "BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
995 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
997 Boot File System (BFS) is a file system used under SCO UnixWare to
998 allow the bootloader access to the kernel image and other important
999 files during the boot process. It is usually mounted under /stand
1000 and corresponds to the slice marked as "STAND" in the UnixWare
1001 partition. You should say Y if you want to read or write the files
1002 on your /stand slice from within Linux. You then also need to say Y
1003 to "UnixWare slices support", below. More information about the BFS
1004 file system is contained in the file
1005 <file:Documentation/filesystems/bfs.txt>.
1007 If you don't know what this is about, say N.
1009 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1010 bfs. Note that the file system of your root partition (the one
1011 containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
1016 tristate "EFS file system support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1017 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
1019 EFS is an older file system used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and hard
1020 disk partitions by SGI's IRIX operating system (IRIX 6.0 and newer
1021 uses the XFS file system for hard disk partitions however).
1023 This implementation only offers read-only access. If you don't know
1024 what all this is about, it's safe to say N. For more information
1025 about EFS see its home page at <http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/>.
1027 To compile the EFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1028 module will be called efs.
1031 tristate "Journalling Flash File System (JFFS) support"
1034 JFFS is the Journaling Flash File System developed by Axis
1035 Communications in Sweden, aimed at providing a crash/powerdown-safe
1036 file system for disk-less embedded devices. Further information is
1037 available at (<http://developer.axis.com/software/jffs/>).
1039 config JFFS_FS_VERBOSE
1040 int "JFFS debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 3 = noisy)"
1044 Determines the verbosity level of the JFFS debugging messages.
1047 bool "JFFS stats available in /proc filesystem"
1048 depends on JFFS_FS && PROC_FS
1050 Enabling this option will cause statistics from mounted JFFS file systems
1051 to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jffs/ directory.
1054 tristate "Journalling Flash File System v2 (JFFS2) support"
1058 JFFS2 is the second generation of the Journalling Flash File System
1059 for use on diskless embedded devices. It provides improved wear
1060 levelling, compression and support for hard links. You cannot use
1061 this on normal block devices, only on 'MTD' devices.
1063 Further information on the design and implementation of JFFS2 is
1064 available at <http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2/>.
1066 config JFFS2_FS_DEBUG
1067 int "JFFS2 debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 2 = noisy)"
1071 This controls the amount of debugging messages produced by the JFFS2
1072 code. Set it to zero for use in production systems. For evaluation,
1073 testing and debugging, it's advisable to set it to one. This will
1074 enable a few assertions and will print debugging messages at the
1075 KERN_DEBUG loglevel, where they won't normally be visible. Level 2
1076 is unlikely to be useful - it enables extra debugging in certain
1077 areas which at one point needed debugging, but when the bugs were
1078 located and fixed, the detailed messages were relegated to level 2.
1080 If reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of the
1081 messages at debug level 1 while the misbehaviour was occurring.
1083 config JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER
1084 bool "JFFS2 write-buffering support"
1088 This enables the write-buffering support in JFFS2.
1090 This functionality is required to support JFFS2 on the following
1091 types of flash devices:
1093 - NOR flash with transparent ECC
1096 config JFFS2_SUMMARY
1097 bool "JFFS2 summary support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1098 depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1101 This feature makes it possible to use summary information
1102 for faster filesystem mount.
1104 The summary information can be inserted into a filesystem image
1105 by the utility 'sumtool'.
1109 config JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1110 bool "Advanced compression options for JFFS2"
1114 Enabling this option allows you to explicitly choose which
1115 compression modules, if any, are enabled in JFFS2. Removing
1116 compressors and mean you cannot read existing file systems,
1117 and enabling experimental compressors can mean that you
1118 write a file system which cannot be read by a standard kernel.
1120 If unsure, you should _definitely_ say 'N'.
1123 bool "JFFS2 ZLIB compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1129 Zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered,
1130 lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer
1131 hardware and operating system. See <http://www.gzip.org/zlib/> for
1132 further information.
1137 bool "JFFS2 RTIME compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1141 Rtime does manage to recompress already-compressed data. Say 'Y' if unsure.
1144 bool "JFFS2 RUBIN compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1148 RUBINMIPS and DYNRUBIN compressors. Say 'N' if unsure.
1151 prompt "JFFS2 default compression mode" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1152 default JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY
1155 You can set here the default compression mode of JFFS2 from
1156 the available compression modes. Don't touch if unsure.
1158 config JFFS2_CMODE_NONE
1159 bool "no compression"
1161 Uses no compression.
1163 config JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY
1166 Tries the compressors in a predefinied order and chooses the first
1169 config JFFS2_CMODE_SIZE
1170 bool "size (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1172 Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest
1178 tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)"
1181 Saying Y here includes support for CramFs (Compressed ROM File
1182 System). CramFs is designed to be a simple, small, and compressed
1183 file system for ROM based embedded systems. CramFs is read-only,
1184 limited to 256MB file systems (with 16MB files), and doesn't support
1185 16/32 bits uid/gid, hard links and timestamps.
1187 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt> and
1188 <file:fs/cramfs/README> for further information.
1190 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1191 cramfs. Note that the root file system (the one containing the
1192 directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
1197 tristate "FreeVxFS file system support (VERITAS VxFS(TM) compatible)"
1199 FreeVxFS is a file system driver that support the VERITAS VxFS(TM)
1200 file system format. VERITAS VxFS(TM) is the standard file system
1201 of SCO UnixWare (and possibly others) and optionally available
1202 for Sunsoft Solaris, HP-UX and many other operating systems.
1203 Currently only readonly access is supported.
1205 NOTE: the file system type as used by mount(1), mount(2) and
1206 fstab(5) is 'vxfs' as it describes the file system format, not
1209 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
1210 called freevxfs. If unsure, say N.
1214 tristate "OS/2 HPFS file system support"
1216 OS/2 is IBM's operating system for PC's, the same as Warp, and HPFS
1217 is the file system used for organizing files on OS/2 hard disk
1218 partitions. Say Y if you want to be able to read files from and
1219 write files to an OS/2 HPFS partition on your hard drive. OS/2
1220 floppies however are in regular MSDOS format, so you don't need this
1221 option in order to be able to read them. Read
1222 <file:Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt>.
1224 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1225 module will be called hpfs. If unsure, say N.
1230 tristate "QNX4 file system support (read only)"
1232 This is the file system used by the real-time operating systems
1233 QNX 4 and QNX 6 (the latter is also called QNX RTP).
1234 Further information is available at <http://www.qnx.com/>.
1235 Say Y if you intend to mount QNX hard disks or floppies.
1236 Unless you say Y to "QNX4FS read-write support" below, you will
1237 only be able to read these file systems.
1239 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1240 module will be called qnx4.
1242 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
1246 bool "QNX4FS write support (DANGEROUS)"
1247 depends on QNX4FS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN
1249 Say Y if you want to test write support for QNX4 file systems.
1251 It's currently broken, so for now:
1257 tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support"
1259 SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel
1260 machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y
1261 here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk
1264 If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely
1265 that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order
1266 to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is a
1267 a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse,
1268 UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux. It is
1269 available via FTP (user: ftp) from
1270 <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>).
1271 NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems;
1272 PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-)
1274 If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the
1275 network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support
1276 (but you need NFS file system support obviously).
1278 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
1279 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
1280 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
1281 tar" or preferably "info tar"). Note also that this option has
1282 nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about
1283 the System V file system in
1284 <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>.
1285 Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB.
1287 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1290 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
1295 tristate "UFS file system support (read only)"
1297 BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
1298 OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a file system called UFS. Some System V
1299 Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using
1300 this file system as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from
1301 these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the
1302 experimental "UFS file system write support", below. Please read the
1303 file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt> for more information.
1305 The recently released UFS2 variant (used in FreeBSD 5.x) is
1306 READ-ONLY supported.
1308 If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the
1309 network using NFS, you don't need the UFS file system support (but
1310 you need NFS file system support obviously).
1312 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
1313 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
1314 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
1315 tar" or preferably "info tar").
1317 When accessing NeXTstep files, you may need to convert them from the
1318 NeXT character set to the Latin1 character set; use the program
1319 recode ("info recode") for this purpose.
1321 To compile the UFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1322 module will be called ufs.
1324 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
1327 bool "UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS)"
1328 depends on UFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN
1330 Say Y here if you want to try writing to UFS partitions. This is
1331 experimental, so you should back up your UFS partitions beforehand.
1335 menu "Network File Systems"
1339 tristate "NFS file system support"
1343 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFS_V3_ACL
1345 If you are connected to some other (usually local) Unix computer
1346 (using SLIP, PLIP, PPP or Ethernet) and want to mount files residing
1347 on that computer (the NFS server) using the Network File Sharing
1348 protocol, say Y. "Mounting files" means that the client can access
1349 the files with usual UNIX commands as if they were sitting on the
1350 client's hard disk. For this to work, the server must run the
1351 programs nfsd and mountd (but does not need to have NFS file system
1352 support enabled in its kernel). NFS is explained in the Network
1353 Administrator's Guide, available from
1354 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>, on its man page: "man
1355 nfs", and in the NFS-HOWTO.
1357 A superior but less widely used alternative to NFS is provided by
1358 the Coda file system; see "Coda file system support" below.
1360 If you say Y here, you should have said Y to TCP/IP networking also.
1361 This option would enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB.
1363 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1364 module will be called nfs.
1366 If you are configuring a diskless machine which will mount its root
1367 file system over NFS at boot time, say Y here and to "Kernel
1368 level IP autoconfiguration" above and to "Root file system on NFS"
1369 below. You cannot compile this driver as a module in this case.
1370 There are two packages designed for booting diskless machines over
1371 the net: netboot, available from
1372 <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/netboot/>, and Etherboot,
1373 available from <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/etherboot/>.
1375 If you don't know what all this is about, say N.
1378 bool "Provide NFSv3 client support"
1381 Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak version
1382 3 of the NFS protocol.
1387 bool "Provide client support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension"
1390 Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX
1391 Access Control Lists. The server should also be compiled with
1392 the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL option.
1397 bool "Provide NFSv4 client support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1398 depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1399 select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
1401 Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak the newer
1402 version 4 of the NFS protocol.
1404 Note: Requires auxiliary userspace daemons which may be found on
1405 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
1410 bool "Allow direct I/O on NFS files (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1411 depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1413 This option enables applications to perform uncached I/O on files
1414 in NFS file systems using the O_DIRECT open() flag. When O_DIRECT
1415 is set for a file, its data is not cached in the system's page
1416 cache. Data is moved to and from user-level application buffers
1417 directly. Unlike local disk-based file systems, NFS O_DIRECT has
1418 no alignment restrictions.
1420 Unless your program is designed to use O_DIRECT properly, you are
1421 much better off allowing the NFS client to manage data caching for
1422 you. Misusing O_DIRECT can cause poor server performance or network
1423 storms. This kernel build option defaults OFF to avoid exposing
1424 system administrators unwittingly to a potentially hazardous
1427 For more details on NFS O_DIRECT, see fs/nfs/direct.c.
1429 If unsure, say N. This reduces the size of the NFS client, and
1430 causes open() to return EINVAL if a file residing in NFS is
1431 opened with the O_DIRECT flag.
1434 tristate "NFS server support"
1439 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFSD_V3_ACL || NFSD_V2_ACL
1441 If you want your Linux box to act as an NFS *server*, so that other
1442 computers on your local network which support NFS can access certain
1443 directories on your box transparently, you have two options: you can
1444 use the self-contained user space program nfsd, in which case you
1445 should say N here, or you can say Y and use the kernel based NFS
1446 server. The advantage of the kernel based solution is that it is
1449 In either case, you will need support software; the respective
1450 locations are given in the file <file:Documentation/Changes> in the
1453 If you say Y here, you will get support for version 2 of the NFS
1454 protocol (NFSv2). If you also want NFSv3, say Y to the next question
1457 Please read the NFS-HOWTO, available from
1458 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
1460 To compile the NFS server support as a module, choose M here: the
1461 module will be called nfsd. If unsure, say N.
1468 bool "Provide NFSv3 server support"
1471 If you would like to include the NFSv3 server as well as the NFSv2
1472 server, say Y here. If unsure, say Y.
1475 bool "Provide server support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension"
1479 Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX
1480 Access Control Lists on exported file systems. NFS clients should
1481 be compiled with the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the
1482 CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL option. If unsure, say N.
1485 bool "Provide NFSv4 server support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1486 depends on NFSD_V3 && EXPERIMENTAL
1492 If you would like to include the NFSv4 server as well as the NFSv2
1493 and NFSv3 servers, say Y here. This feature is experimental, and
1494 should only be used if you are interested in helping to test NFSv4.
1498 bool "Provide NFS server over TCP support"
1502 If you want your NFS server to support TCP connections, say Y here.
1503 TCP connections usually perform better than the default UDP when
1504 the network is lossy or congested. If unsure, say Y.
1507 bool "Root file system on NFS"
1508 depends on NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP
1510 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
1511 one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
1512 net via NFS (presumably because your box doesn't have a hard disk),
1513 say Y. Read <file:Documentation/nfsroot.txt> for details. It is
1514 likely that in this case, you also want to say Y to "Kernel level IP
1515 autoconfiguration" so that your box can discover its network address
1518 Most people say N here.
1525 depends on NFSD_V3 || NFS_V3
1531 config NFS_ACL_SUPPORT
1537 depends on NFSD || NFS_FS
1546 config RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
1547 tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1548 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
1554 Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api
1555 mechanism based on Kerberos V5. This is required for
1558 Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on
1559 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
1563 config RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3
1564 tristate "Secure RPC: SPKM3 mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1565 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
1571 Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api
1572 mechanism based on the SPKM3 public-key mechanism.
1574 Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on
1575 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
1580 tristate "SMB file system support (to mount Windows shares etc.)"
1584 SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Windows for Workgroups
1585 (WfW), Windows 95/98, Windows NT and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share
1586 files and printers over local networks. Saying Y here allows you to
1587 mount their file systems (often called "shares" in this context) and
1588 access them just like any other Unix directory. Currently, this
1589 works only if the Windows machines use TCP/IP as the underlying
1590 transport protocol, and not NetBEUI. For details, read
1591 <file:Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt> and the SMB-HOWTO,
1592 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
1594 Note: if you just want your box to act as an SMB *server* and make
1595 files and printing services available to Windows clients (which need
1596 to have a TCP/IP stack), you don't need to say Y here; you can use
1597 the program SAMBA (available from <ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/>)
1600 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
1601 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
1603 To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here: the module will
1604 be called smbfs. Most people say N, however.
1606 config SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
1607 bool "Use a default NLS"
1610 Enabling this will make smbfs use nls translations by default. You
1611 need to specify the local charset (CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT) in the nls
1612 settings and you need to give the default nls for the SMB server as
1613 CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE.
1615 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount
1616 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters.
1618 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
1620 config SMB_NLS_REMOTE
1621 string "Default Remote NLS Option"
1622 depends on SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
1625 This setting allows you to specify a default value for which
1626 codepage the server uses. If this field is left blank no
1627 translations will be done by default. The local codepage/charset
1628 default to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT.
1630 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount
1631 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters.
1633 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
1636 tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem for Samba, Window and other CIFS compliant servers)"
1640 This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System
1641 (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block
1642 (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early
1643 PC operating systems. The CIFS protocol is fully supported by
1644 file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4
1645 and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS
1646 server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited
1647 support for Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well.
1648 You must use the smbfs client filesystem to access older SMB servers
1649 such as OS/2 and DOS.
1651 The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced
1652 network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers,
1653 including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user
1654 session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional
1655 packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements,
1656 and optional Winbind (nsswitch) integration. You do not need to enable
1657 cifs if running only a (Samba) server. It is possible to enable both
1658 smbfs and cifs (e.g. if you are using CIFS for accessing Windows 2003
1659 and Samba 3 servers, and smbfs for accessing old servers). If you need
1660 to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y.
1663 bool "CIFS statistics"
1666 Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share
1667 mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats
1670 bool "CIFS extended statistics"
1671 depends on CIFS_STATS
1673 Enabling this option will allow more detailed statistics on SMB
1674 request timing to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData and also
1675 allow optional logging of slow responses to dmesg (depending on the
1676 value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI, see fs/cifs/README for more details).
1677 These additional statistics may have a minor effect on performance
1678 and memory utilization.
1680 Unless you are a developer or are doing network performance analysis
1684 bool "CIFS extended attributes"
1687 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
1688 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
1689 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). CIFS maps the name of
1690 extended attributes beginning with the user namespace prefix
1691 to SMB/CIFS EAs. EAs are stored on Windows servers without the
1692 user namespace prefix, but their names are seen by Linux cifs clients
1693 prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace
1694 (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at
1700 bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions"
1701 depends on CIFS_XATTR
1703 Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to
1704 negotiate a newer dialect with servers, such as Samba 3.0.5
1705 or later, that optionally can handle more POSIX like (rather
1706 than Windows like) file behavior. It also enables
1707 support for POSIX ACLs (getfacl and setfacl) to servers
1708 (such as Samba 3.10 and later) which can negotiate
1709 CIFS POSIX ACL support. If unsure, say N.
1711 config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
1712 bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1713 depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL
1715 Enables cifs features under testing. These features are
1716 experimental and currently include support for writepages
1717 (multipage writebehind performance improvements) and directory
1718 change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY) as well as some security
1719 improvements. Some also depend on setting at runtime the
1720 pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental (which is disabled by
1721 default). See the file fs/cifs/README for more details.
1726 bool "CIFS Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1727 depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
1730 Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which will be used to contact
1731 userspace helper utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged Kerberos
1732 tickets which are needed to mount to certain secure servers
1733 (for which more secure Kerberos authentication is required). If
1737 tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)"
1738 depends on IPX!=n || INET
1740 NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) is a protocol that runs over IPX and is
1741 used by Novell NetWare clients to talk to file servers. It is to
1742 IPX what NFS is to TCP/IP, if that helps. Saying Y here allows you
1743 to mount NetWare file server volumes and to access them just like
1744 any other Unix directory. For details, please read the file
1745 <file:Documentation/filesystems/ncpfs.txt> in the kernel source and
1746 the IPX-HOWTO from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
1748 You do not have to say Y here if you want your Linux box to act as a
1749 file *server* for Novell NetWare clients.
1751 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
1752 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
1754 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1755 ncpfs. Say N unless you are connected to a Novell network.
1757 source "fs/ncpfs/Kconfig"
1760 tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)"
1763 Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it
1764 enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them
1765 with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard
1766 disk. Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for
1767 disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server
1768 replication, security model for authentication and encryption,
1769 persistent client caches and write back caching.
1771 If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda
1772 *client*. You will need user level code as well, both for the
1773 client and server. Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need
1774 no kernel support. Please read
1775 <file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.txt> and check out the Coda
1776 home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>.
1778 To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the
1779 module will be called coda.
1781 config CODA_FS_OLD_API
1782 bool "Use 96-bit Coda file identifiers"
1785 A new kernel-userspace API had to be introduced for Coda v6.0
1786 to support larger 128-bit file identifiers as needed by the
1787 new realms implementation.
1789 However this new API is not backward compatible with older
1790 clients. If you really need to run the old Coda userspace
1791 cache manager then say Y.
1793 For most cases you probably want to say N.
1796 # for fs/nls/Config.in
1797 tristate "Andrew File System support (AFS) (Experimental)"
1798 depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL
1801 If you say Y here, you will get an experimental Andrew File System
1802 driver. It currently only supports unsecured read-only AFS access.
1804 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more intormation.
1812 tristate "Plan 9 Resource Sharing Support (9P2000) (Experimental)"
1813 depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL
1815 If you say Y here, you will get experimental support for
1816 Plan 9 resource sharing via the 9P2000 protocol.
1818 See <http://v9fs.sf.net> for more information.
1824 menu "Partition Types"
1826 source "fs/partitions/Kconfig"
1830 source "fs/nls/Kconfig"