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"
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 > /proc/sys/fs/jbd2-debug", where N is a number between
264 1 and 5. The higher the number, the more debugging output is
265 generated. To turn debugging off again, do
266 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/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
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
431 OCFS2 is a general purpose extent based shared disk cluster file
432 system with many similarities to ext3. It supports 64 bit inode
433 numbers, and has automatically extending metadata groups which may
434 also make it attractive for non-clustered use.
436 You'll want to install the ocfs2-tools package in order to at least
439 Project web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2
440 Tools web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools
441 OCFS2 mailing lists: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/mailman/
443 Note: Features which OCFS2 does not support yet:
444 - extended attributes
445 - shared writeable mmap
446 - loopback is supported, but data written will not
449 - cluster aware flock
450 - Directory change notification (F_NOTIFY)
451 - Distributed Caching (F_SETLEASE/F_GETLEASE/break_lease)
453 - readpages / writepages (not user visible)
455 config OCFS2_DEBUG_MASKLOG
456 bool "OCFS2 logging support"
460 The ocfs2 filesystem has an extensive logging system. The system
461 allows selection of events to log via files in /sys/o2cb/logmask/.
462 This option will enlarge your kernel, but it allows debugging of
463 ocfs2 filesystem issues.
466 tristate "Minix fs support"
468 Minix is a simple operating system used in many classes about OS's.
469 The minix file system (method to organize files on a hard disk
470 partition or a floppy disk) was the original file system for Linux,
471 but has been superseded by the second extended file system ext2fs.
472 You don't want to use the minix file system on your hard disk
473 because of certain built-in restrictions, but it is sometimes found
474 on older Linux floppy disks. This option will enlarge your kernel
475 by about 28 KB. If unsure, say N.
477 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
478 module will be called minix. Note that the file system of your root
479 partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as
483 tristate "ROM file system support"
485 This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for
486 initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for
487 other read-only media as well. Read
488 <file:Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt> for details.
490 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
491 module will be called romfs. Note that the file system of your
492 root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a
495 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
501 bool "Inotify file change notification support"
504 Say Y here to enable inotify support. Inotify is a file change
505 notification system and a replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes
506 numerous shortcomings in dnotify and introduces several new features
507 including multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount
510 For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt
515 bool "Inotify support for userspace"
519 Say Y here to enable inotify support for userspace, including the
520 associated system calls. Inotify allows monitoring of both files and
521 directories via a single open fd. Events are read from the file
522 descriptor, which is also select()- and poll()-able.
524 For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt
531 If you say Y here, you will be able to set per user limits for disk
532 usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works for the
533 ext2, ext3, and reiserfs file system. ext3 also supports journalled
534 quotas for which you don't need to run quotacheck(8) after an unclean
536 For further details, read the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from
537 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or the documentation provided
538 with the quota tools. Probably the quota support is only useful for
539 multi user systems. If unsure, say N.
542 tristate "Old quota format support"
545 This quota format was (is) used by kernels earlier than 2.4.22. If
546 you have quota working and you don't want to convert to new quota
550 tristate "Quota format v2 support"
553 This quota format allows using quotas with 32-bit UIDs/GIDs. If you
554 need this functionality say Y here.
558 depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA
562 bool "Dnotify support" if EMBEDDED
565 Dnotify is a directory-based per-fd file change notification system
566 that uses signals to communicate events to user-space. There exist
567 superior alternatives, but some applications may still rely on
570 Because of this, if unsure, say Y.
573 tristate "Kernel automounter support"
575 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
576 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
577 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
578 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
580 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs
581 package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>.
582 You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
584 If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more
585 features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support",
588 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
591 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you
592 probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here.
595 tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)"
597 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
598 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
599 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
600 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
602 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from
603 <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/>; you also
604 want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
606 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
607 called autofs4. You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your
608 modules configuration file.
610 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or
611 don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the
612 local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say
616 tristate "Filesystem in Userspace support"
618 With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem
619 in a userspace program.
621 There's also companion library: libfuse. This library along with
622 utilities is available from the FUSE homepage:
623 <http://fuse.sourceforge.net/>
625 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt> for more information.
626 See <file:Documentation/Changes> for needed library/utility version.
628 If you want to develop a userspace FS, or if you want to use
629 a filesystem based on FUSE, answer Y or M.
636 menu "CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems"
639 tristate "ISO 9660 CDROM file system support"
641 This is the standard file system used on CD-ROMs. It was previously
642 known as "High Sierra File System" and is called "hsfs" on other
643 Unix systems. The so-called Rock-Ridge extensions which allow for
644 long Unix filenames and symbolic links are also supported by this
645 driver. If you have a CD-ROM drive and want to do more with it than
646 just listen to audio CDs and watch its LEDs, say Y (and read
647 <file:Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt> and the CD-ROM-HOWTO,
648 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), thereby
649 enlarging your kernel by about 27 KB; otherwise say N.
651 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
652 module will be called isofs.
655 bool "Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions"
656 depends on ISO9660_FS
659 Joliet is a Microsoft extension for the ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system
660 which allows for long filenames in unicode format (unicode is the
661 new 16 bit character code, successor to ASCII, which encodes the
662 characters of almost all languages of the world; see
663 <http://www.unicode.org/> for more information). Say Y here if you
664 want to be able to read Joliet CD-ROMs under Linux.
667 bool "Transparent decompression extension"
668 depends on ISO9660_FS
671 This is a Linux-specific extension to RockRidge which lets you store
672 data in compressed form on a CD-ROM and have it transparently
673 decompressed when the CD-ROM is accessed. See
674 <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/zisofs/> for the tools
675 necessary to create such a filesystem. Say Y here if you want to be
676 able to read such compressed CD-ROMs.
679 # for fs/nls/Config.in
685 tristate "UDF file system support"
687 This is the new file system used on some CD-ROMs and DVDs. Say Y if
688 you intend to mount DVD discs or CDRW's written in packet mode, or
689 if written to by other UDF utilities, such as DirectCD.
690 Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt>.
692 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
693 module will be called udf.
700 depends on (UDF_FS=m && NLS) || (UDF_FS=y && NLS=y)
706 menu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems"
712 If you want to use one of the FAT-based file systems (the MS-DOS and
713 VFAT (Windows 95) file systems), then you must say Y or M here
714 to include FAT support. You will then be able to mount partitions or
715 diskettes with FAT-based file systems and transparently access the
716 files on them, i.e. MSDOS files will look and behave just like all
719 This FAT support is not a file system in itself, it only provides
720 the foundation for the other file systems. You will have to say Y or
721 M to at least one of "MSDOS fs support" or "VFAT fs support" in
722 order to make use of it.
724 Another way to read and write MSDOS floppies and hard drive
725 partitions from within Linux (but not transparently) is with the
726 mtools ("man mtools") program suite. You don't need to say Y here in
729 If you need to move large files on floppies between a DOS and a
730 Linux box, say Y here, mount the floppy under Linux with an MSDOS
731 file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program
732 available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar").
734 It is now also becoming possible to read and write compressed FAT
735 file systems; read <file:Documentation/filesystems/fat_cvf.txt> for
738 The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure,
741 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
742 fat. Note that if you compile the FAT support as a module, you
743 cannot compile any of the FAT-based file systems into the kernel
744 -- they will have to be modules as well.
747 tristate "MSDOS fs support"
750 This allows you to mount MSDOS partitions of your hard drive (unless
751 they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under
752 Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the
753 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from
754 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in
755 <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you
756 intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y
757 here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes
758 transparent, i.e. the MSDOS files look and behave just like all
761 If you have Windows 95 or Windows NT installed on your MSDOS
762 partitions, you should use the VFAT file system (say Y to "VFAT fs
763 support" below), or you will not be able to see the long filenames
764 generated by Windows 95 / Windows NT.
766 This option will enlarge your kernel by about 7 KB. If unsure,
767 answer Y. This will only work if you said Y to "DOS FAT fs support"
768 as well. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will
772 tristate "VFAT (Windows-95) fs support"
775 This option provides support for normal Windows file systems with
776 long filenames. That includes non-compressed FAT-based file systems
777 used by Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and the Unix
778 programs from the mtools package.
780 The VFAT support enlarges your kernel by about 10 KB and it only
781 works if you said Y to the "DOS FAT fs support" above. Please read
782 the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for details. If
785 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
788 config FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE
789 int "Default codepage for FAT"
790 depends on MSDOS_FS || VFAT_FS
793 This option should be set to the codepage of your FAT filesystems.
794 It can be overridden with the "codepage" mount option.
795 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
797 config FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET
798 string "Default iocharset for FAT"
802 Set this to the default input/output character set you'd
803 like FAT to use. It should probably match the character set
804 that most of your FAT filesystems use, and can be overridden
805 with the "iocharset" mount option for FAT filesystems.
806 Note that "utf8" is not recommended for FAT filesystems.
807 If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here.
808 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
811 tristate "NTFS file system support"
814 NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003.
816 Saying Y or M here enables read support. There is partial, but
817 safe, write support available. For write support you must also
818 say Y to "NTFS write support" below.
820 There are also a number of user-space tools available, called
821 ntfsprogs. These include ntfsundelete and ntfsresize, that work
822 without NTFS support enabled in the kernel.
824 This is a rewrite from scratch of Linux NTFS support and replaced
825 the old NTFS code starting with Linux 2.5.11. A backport to
826 the Linux 2.4 kernel series is separately available as a patch
827 from the project web site.
829 For more information see <file:Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt>
830 and <http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/>.
832 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
833 module will be called ntfs.
835 If you are not using Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 in addition to
836 Linux on your computer it is safe to say N.
839 bool "NTFS debugging support"
842 If you are experiencing any problems with the NTFS file system, say
843 Y here. This will result in additional consistency checks to be
844 performed by the driver as well as additional debugging messages to
845 be written to the system log. Note that debugging messages are
846 disabled by default. To enable them, supply the option debug_msgs=1
847 at the kernel command line when booting the kernel or as an option
848 to insmod when loading the ntfs module. Once the driver is active,
849 you can enable debugging messages by doing (as root):
850 echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug
851 Replacing the "1" with "0" would disable debug messages.
853 If you leave debugging messages disabled, this results in little
854 overhead, but enabling debug messages results in very significant
855 slowdown of the system.
857 When reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of
858 debugging messages while the misbehaviour was occurring.
861 bool "NTFS write support"
864 This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver.
866 The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without
867 changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or
868 renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to
869 so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot
872 While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have
873 so far not received a single report where the driver would have
874 damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use.
876 Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from
877 scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS
878 write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997),
881 This is currently useful with TopologiLinux. TopologiLinux is run
882 on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your
883 hard disk. Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not
884 need its own partition. For more information see
885 <http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/>
887 It is perfectly safe to say N here.
892 menu "Pseudo filesystems"
895 bool "/proc file system support" if EMBEDDED
898 This is a virtual file system providing information about the status
899 of the system. "Virtual" means that it doesn't take up any space on
900 your hard disk: the files are created on the fly by the kernel when
901 you try to access them. Also, you cannot read the files with older
902 version of the program less: you need to use more or cat.
904 It's totally cool; for example, "cat /proc/interrupts" gives
905 information about what the different IRQs are used for at the moment
906 (there is a small number of Interrupt ReQuest lines in your computer
907 that are used by the attached devices to gain the CPU's attention --
908 often a source of trouble if two devices are mistakenly configured
909 to use the same IRQ). The program procinfo to display some
910 information about your system gathered from the /proc file system.
912 Before you can use the /proc file system, it has to be mounted,
913 meaning it has to be given a location in the directory hierarchy.
914 That location should be /proc. A command such as "mount -t proc proc
915 /proc" or the equivalent line in /etc/fstab does the job.
917 The /proc file system is explained in the file
918 <file:Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt> and on the proc(5) manpage
921 This option will enlarge your kernel by about 67 KB. Several
922 programs depend on this, so everyone should say Y here.
925 bool "/proc/kcore support" if !ARM
926 depends on PROC_FS && MMU
929 bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
930 depends on PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP
933 Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format.
936 bool "Sysctl support (/proc/sys)" if EMBEDDED
941 The sysctl interface provides a means of dynamically changing
942 certain kernel parameters and variables on the fly without requiring
943 a recompile of the kernel or reboot of the system. The primary
944 interface is through /proc/sys. If you say Y here a tree of
945 modifiable sysctl entries will be generated beneath the
946 /proc/sys directory. They are explained in the files
947 in <file:Documentation/sysctl/>. Note that enabling this
948 option will enlarge the kernel by at least 8 KB.
950 As it is generally a good thing, you should say Y here unless
951 building a kernel for install/rescue disks or your system is very
955 bool "sysfs file system support" if EMBEDDED
958 The sysfs filesystem is a virtual filesystem that the kernel uses to
959 export internal kernel objects, their attributes, and their
960 relationships to one another.
962 Users can use sysfs to ascertain useful information about the running
963 kernel, such as the devices the kernel has discovered on each bus and
964 which driver each is bound to. sysfs can also be used to tune devices
965 and other kernel subsystems.
967 Some system agents rely on the information in sysfs to operate.
968 /sbin/hotplug uses device and object attributes in sysfs to assist in
969 delegating policy decisions, like persistently naming devices.
971 sysfs is currently used by the block subsystem to mount the root
972 partition. If sysfs is disabled you must specify the boot device on
973 the kernel boot command line via its major and minor numbers. For
974 example, "root=03:01" for /dev/hda1.
976 Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space.
979 bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)"
981 Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory.
983 Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be
984 created on your hard drive. The files live in memory and swap
985 space. If you unmount a tmpfs instance, everything stored therein is
988 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> for details.
990 config TMPFS_POSIX_ACL
991 bool "Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists"
995 POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
996 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
998 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for
999 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
1001 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N.
1004 bool "HugeTLB file system support"
1005 depends on X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || BROKEN
1007 hugetlbfs is a filesystem backing for HugeTLB pages, based on
1008 ramfs. For architectures that support it, say Y here and read
1009 <file:Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt> for details.
1020 Ramfs is a file system which keeps all files in RAM. It allows
1021 read and write access.
1023 It is more of an programming example than a useable file system. If
1024 you need a file system which lives in RAM with limit checking use
1027 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1031 tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1032 depends on SYSFS && EXPERIMENTAL
1034 configfs is a ram-based filesystem that provides the converse
1035 of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based
1036 view of kernel objects, configfs is a filesystem-based manager
1037 of kernel objects, or config_items.
1039 Both sysfs and configfs can and should exist together on the
1040 same system. One is not a replacement for the other.
1044 menu "Miscellaneous filesystems"
1047 tristate "ADFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1048 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1050 The Acorn Disc Filing System is the standard file system of the
1051 RiscOS operating system which runs on Acorn's ARM-based Risc PC
1052 systems and the Acorn Archimedes range of machines. If you say Y
1053 here, Linux will be able to read from ADFS partitions on hard drives
1054 and from ADFS-formatted floppy discs. If you also want to be able to
1055 write to those devices, say Y to "ADFS write support" below.
1057 The ADFS partition should be the first partition (i.e.,
1058 /dev/[hs]d?1) on each of your drives. Please read the file
1059 <file:Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt> for further details.
1061 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be
1067 bool "ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)"
1070 If you say Y here, you will be able to write to ADFS partitions on
1071 hard drives and ADFS-formatted floppy disks. This is experimental
1072 codes, so if you're unsure, say N.
1075 tristate "Amiga FFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1076 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1078 The Fast File System (FFS) is the common file system used on hard
1079 disks by Amiga(tm) systems since AmigaOS Version 1.3 (34.20). Say Y
1080 if you want to be able to read and write files from and to an Amiga
1081 FFS partition on your hard drive. Amiga floppies however cannot be
1082 read with this driver due to an incompatibility of the floppy
1083 controller used in an Amiga and the standard floppy controller in
1084 PCs and workstations. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt>
1085 and <file:fs/affs/Changes>.
1087 With this driver you can also mount disk files used by Bernd
1088 Schmidt's Un*X Amiga Emulator
1089 (<http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/>).
1090 If you want to do this, you will also need to say Y or M to "Loop
1091 device support", above.
1093 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1094 module will be called affs. If unsure, say N.
1097 tristate "eCrypt filesystem layer support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1098 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && KEYS && CRYPTO
1100 Encrypted filesystem that operates on the VFS layer. See
1101 <file:Documentation/ecryptfs.txt> to learn more about
1102 eCryptfs. Userspace components are required and can be
1103 obtained from <http://ecryptfs.sf.net>.
1105 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1106 module will be called ecryptfs.
1109 tristate "Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1110 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1113 If you say Y here, you will be able to mount Macintosh-formatted
1114 floppy disks and hard drive partitions with full read-write access.
1115 Please read <file:fs/hfs/HFS.txt> to learn about the available mount
1118 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1119 module will be called hfs.
1122 tristate "Apple Extended HFS file system support"
1127 If you say Y here, you will be able to mount extended format
1128 Macintosh-formatted hard drive partitions with full read-write access.
1130 This file system is often called HFS+ and was introduced with
1131 MacOS 8. It includes all Mac specific filesystem data such as
1132 data forks and creator codes, but it also has several UNIX
1133 style features such as file ownership and permissions.
1136 tristate "BeOS file system (BeFS) support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1137 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1140 The BeOS File System (BeFS) is the native file system of Be, Inc's
1141 BeOS. Notable features include support for arbitrary attributes
1142 on files and directories, and database-like indices on selected
1143 attributes. (Also note that this driver doesn't make those features
1144 available at this time). It is a 64 bit filesystem, so it supports
1145 extremely large volumes and files.
1147 If you use this filesystem, you should also say Y to at least one
1148 of the NLS (native language support) options below.
1150 If you don't know what this is about, say N.
1152 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
1159 If you say Y here, you can use the 'debug' mount option to enable
1160 debugging output from the driver.
1163 tristate "BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1164 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1166 Boot File System (BFS) is a file system used under SCO UnixWare to
1167 allow the bootloader access to the kernel image and other important
1168 files during the boot process. It is usually mounted under /stand
1169 and corresponds to the slice marked as "STAND" in the UnixWare
1170 partition. You should say Y if you want to read or write the files
1171 on your /stand slice from within Linux. You then also need to say Y
1172 to "UnixWare slices support", below. More information about the BFS
1173 file system is contained in the file
1174 <file:Documentation/filesystems/bfs.txt>.
1176 If you don't know what this is about, say N.
1178 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1179 bfs. Note that the file system of your root partition (the one
1180 containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
1185 tristate "EFS file system support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1186 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1188 EFS is an older file system used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and hard
1189 disk partitions by SGI's IRIX operating system (IRIX 6.0 and newer
1190 uses the XFS file system for hard disk partitions however).
1192 This implementation only offers read-only access. If you don't know
1193 what all this is about, it's safe to say N. For more information
1194 about EFS see its home page at <http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/>.
1196 To compile the EFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1197 module will be called efs.
1200 tristate "Journalling Flash File System (JFFS) support"
1201 depends on MTD && BLOCK
1203 JFFS is the Journalling Flash File System developed by Axis
1204 Communications in Sweden, aimed at providing a crash/powerdown-safe
1205 file system for disk-less embedded devices. Further information is
1206 available at (<http://developer.axis.com/software/jffs/>).
1208 config JFFS_FS_VERBOSE
1209 int "JFFS debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 3 = noisy)"
1213 Determines the verbosity level of the JFFS debugging messages.
1216 bool "JFFS stats available in /proc filesystem"
1217 depends on JFFS_FS && PROC_FS
1219 Enabling this option will cause statistics from mounted JFFS file systems
1220 to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jffs/ directory.
1223 tristate "Journalling Flash File System v2 (JFFS2) support"
1227 JFFS2 is the second generation of the Journalling Flash File System
1228 for use on diskless embedded devices. It provides improved wear
1229 levelling, compression and support for hard links. You cannot use
1230 this on normal block devices, only on 'MTD' devices.
1232 Further information on the design and implementation of JFFS2 is
1233 available at <http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2/>.
1235 config JFFS2_FS_DEBUG
1236 int "JFFS2 debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 2 = noisy)"
1240 This controls the amount of debugging messages produced by the JFFS2
1241 code. Set it to zero for use in production systems. For evaluation,
1242 testing and debugging, it's advisable to set it to one. This will
1243 enable a few assertions and will print debugging messages at the
1244 KERN_DEBUG loglevel, where they won't normally be visible. Level 2
1245 is unlikely to be useful - it enables extra debugging in certain
1246 areas which at one point needed debugging, but when the bugs were
1247 located and fixed, the detailed messages were relegated to level 2.
1249 If reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of the
1250 messages at debug level 1 while the misbehaviour was occurring.
1252 config JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER
1253 bool "JFFS2 write-buffering support"
1257 This enables the write-buffering support in JFFS2.
1259 This functionality is required to support JFFS2 on the following
1260 types of flash devices:
1262 - NOR flash with transparent ECC
1265 config JFFS2_SUMMARY
1266 bool "JFFS2 summary support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1267 depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1270 This feature makes it possible to use summary information
1271 for faster filesystem mount.
1273 The summary information can be inserted into a filesystem image
1274 by the utility 'sumtool'.
1278 config JFFS2_FS_XATTR
1279 bool "JFFS2 XATTR support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1280 depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1283 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
1284 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
1285 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
1289 config JFFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL
1290 bool "JFFS2 POSIX Access Control Lists"
1291 depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR
1295 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
1296 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
1298 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
1299 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
1301 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
1303 config JFFS2_FS_SECURITY
1304 bool "JFFS2 Security Labels"
1305 depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR
1308 Security labels support alternative access control models
1309 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
1310 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
1311 labels in the jffs2 filesystem.
1313 If you are not using a security module that requires using
1314 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
1316 config JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1317 bool "Advanced compression options for JFFS2"
1321 Enabling this option allows you to explicitly choose which
1322 compression modules, if any, are enabled in JFFS2. Removing
1323 compressors and mean you cannot read existing file systems,
1324 and enabling experimental compressors can mean that you
1325 write a file system which cannot be read by a standard kernel.
1327 If unsure, you should _definitely_ say 'N'.
1330 bool "JFFS2 ZLIB compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1336 Zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered,
1337 lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer
1338 hardware and operating system. See <http://www.gzip.org/zlib/> for
1339 further information.
1344 bool "JFFS2 RTIME compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1348 Rtime does manage to recompress already-compressed data. Say 'Y' if unsure.
1351 bool "JFFS2 RUBIN compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1355 RUBINMIPS and DYNRUBIN compressors. Say 'N' if unsure.
1358 prompt "JFFS2 default compression mode" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1359 default JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY
1362 You can set here the default compression mode of JFFS2 from
1363 the available compression modes. Don't touch if unsure.
1365 config JFFS2_CMODE_NONE
1366 bool "no compression"
1368 Uses no compression.
1370 config JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY
1373 Tries the compressors in a predefined order and chooses the first
1376 config JFFS2_CMODE_SIZE
1377 bool "size (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1379 Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest
1385 tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)"
1389 Saying Y here includes support for CramFs (Compressed ROM File
1390 System). CramFs is designed to be a simple, small, and compressed
1391 file system for ROM based embedded systems. CramFs is read-only,
1392 limited to 256MB file systems (with 16MB files), and doesn't support
1393 16/32 bits uid/gid, hard links and timestamps.
1395 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt> and
1396 <file:fs/cramfs/README> for further information.
1398 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1399 cramfs. Note that the root file system (the one containing the
1400 directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
1405 tristate "FreeVxFS file system support (VERITAS VxFS(TM) compatible)"
1408 FreeVxFS is a file system driver that support the VERITAS VxFS(TM)
1409 file system format. VERITAS VxFS(TM) is the standard file system
1410 of SCO UnixWare (and possibly others) and optionally available
1411 for Sunsoft Solaris, HP-UX and many other operating systems.
1412 Currently only readonly access is supported.
1414 NOTE: the file system type as used by mount(1), mount(2) and
1415 fstab(5) is 'vxfs' as it describes the file system format, not
1418 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
1419 called freevxfs. If unsure, say N.
1423 tristate "OS/2 HPFS file system support"
1426 OS/2 is IBM's operating system for PC's, the same as Warp, and HPFS
1427 is the file system used for organizing files on OS/2 hard disk
1428 partitions. Say Y if you want to be able to read files from and
1429 write files to an OS/2 HPFS partition on your hard drive. OS/2
1430 floppies however are in regular MSDOS format, so you don't need this
1431 option in order to be able to read them. Read
1432 <file:Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt>.
1434 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1435 module will be called hpfs. If unsure, say N.
1440 tristate "QNX4 file system support (read only)"
1443 This is the file system used by the real-time operating systems
1444 QNX 4 and QNX 6 (the latter is also called QNX RTP).
1445 Further information is available at <http://www.qnx.com/>.
1446 Say Y if you intend to mount QNX hard disks or floppies.
1447 Unless you say Y to "QNX4FS read-write support" below, you will
1448 only be able to read these file systems.
1450 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1451 module will be called qnx4.
1453 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
1457 bool "QNX4FS write support (DANGEROUS)"
1458 depends on QNX4FS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN
1460 Say Y if you want to test write support for QNX4 file systems.
1462 It's currently broken, so for now:
1468 tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support"
1471 SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel
1472 machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y
1473 here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk
1476 If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely
1477 that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order
1478 to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is
1479 a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse,
1480 UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux. It is
1481 available via FTP (user: ftp) from
1482 <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>).
1483 NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems;
1484 PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-)
1486 If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the
1487 network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support
1488 (but you need NFS file system support obviously).
1490 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
1491 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
1492 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
1493 tar" or preferably "info tar"). Note also that this option has
1494 nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about
1495 the System V file system in
1496 <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>.
1497 Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB.
1499 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1502 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
1507 tristate "UFS file system support (read only)"
1510 BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
1511 OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a file system called UFS. Some System V
1512 Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using
1513 this file system as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from
1514 these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the
1515 experimental "UFS file system write support", below. Please read the
1516 file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt> for more information.
1518 The recently released UFS2 variant (used in FreeBSD 5.x) is
1519 READ-ONLY supported.
1521 If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the
1522 network using NFS, you don't need the UFS file system support (but
1523 you need NFS file system support obviously).
1525 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
1526 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
1527 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
1528 tar" or preferably "info tar").
1530 When accessing NeXTstep files, you may need to convert them from the
1531 NeXT character set to the Latin1 character set; use the program
1532 recode ("info recode") for this purpose.
1534 To compile the UFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1535 module will be called ufs.
1537 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
1540 bool "UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS)"
1541 depends on UFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1543 Say Y here if you want to try writing to UFS partitions. This is
1544 experimental, so you should back up your UFS partitions beforehand.
1547 bool "UFS debugging"
1550 If you are experiencing any problems with the UFS filesystem, say
1551 Y here. This will result in _many_ additional debugging messages to be
1552 written to the system log.
1556 menu "Network File Systems"
1560 tristate "NFS file system support"
1564 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFS_V3_ACL
1566 If you are connected to some other (usually local) Unix computer
1567 (using SLIP, PLIP, PPP or Ethernet) and want to mount files residing
1568 on that computer (the NFS server) using the Network File Sharing
1569 protocol, say Y. "Mounting files" means that the client can access
1570 the files with usual UNIX commands as if they were sitting on the
1571 client's hard disk. For this to work, the server must run the
1572 programs nfsd and mountd (but does not need to have NFS file system
1573 support enabled in its kernel). NFS is explained in the Network
1574 Administrator's Guide, available from
1575 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>, on its man page: "man
1576 nfs", and in the NFS-HOWTO.
1578 A superior but less widely used alternative to NFS is provided by
1579 the Coda file system; see "Coda file system support" below.
1581 If you say Y here, you should have said Y to TCP/IP networking also.
1582 This option would enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB.
1584 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1585 module will be called nfs.
1587 If you are configuring a diskless machine which will mount its root
1588 file system over NFS at boot time, say Y here and to "Kernel
1589 level IP autoconfiguration" above and to "Root file system on NFS"
1590 below. You cannot compile this driver as a module in this case.
1591 There are two packages designed for booting diskless machines over
1592 the net: netboot, available from
1593 <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/netboot/>, and Etherboot,
1594 available from <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/etherboot/>.
1596 If you don't know what all this is about, say N.
1599 bool "Provide NFSv3 client support"
1602 Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak version
1603 3 of the NFS protocol.
1608 bool "Provide client support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension"
1611 Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX
1612 Access Control Lists. The server should also be compiled with
1613 the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL option.
1618 bool "Provide NFSv4 client support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1619 depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1620 select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
1622 Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak the newer
1623 version 4 of the NFS protocol.
1625 Note: Requires auxiliary userspace daemons which may be found on
1626 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
1631 bool "Allow direct I/O on NFS files"
1634 This option enables applications to perform uncached I/O on files
1635 in NFS file systems using the O_DIRECT open() flag. When O_DIRECT
1636 is set for a file, its data is not cached in the system's page
1637 cache. Data is moved to and from user-level application buffers
1638 directly. Unlike local disk-based file systems, NFS O_DIRECT has
1639 no alignment restrictions.
1641 Unless your program is designed to use O_DIRECT properly, you are
1642 much better off allowing the NFS client to manage data caching for
1643 you. Misusing O_DIRECT can cause poor server performance or network
1644 storms. This kernel build option defaults OFF to avoid exposing
1645 system administrators unwittingly to a potentially hazardous
1648 For more details on NFS O_DIRECT, see fs/nfs/direct.c.
1650 If unsure, say N. This reduces the size of the NFS client, and
1651 causes open() to return EINVAL if a file residing in NFS is
1652 opened with the O_DIRECT flag.
1655 tristate "NFS server support"
1660 select NFSD_V2_ACL if NFSD_V3_ACL
1661 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFSD_V2_ACL
1662 select NFSD_TCP if NFSD_V4
1663 select CRYPTO_MD5 if NFSD_V4
1664 select CRYPTO if NFSD_V4
1665 select FS_POSIX_ACL if NFSD_V4
1667 If you want your Linux box to act as an NFS *server*, so that other
1668 computers on your local network which support NFS can access certain
1669 directories on your box transparently, you have two options: you can
1670 use the self-contained user space program nfsd, in which case you
1671 should say N here, or you can say Y and use the kernel based NFS
1672 server. The advantage of the kernel based solution is that it is
1675 In either case, you will need support software; the respective
1676 locations are given in the file <file:Documentation/Changes> in the
1679 If you say Y here, you will get support for version 2 of the NFS
1680 protocol (NFSv2). If you also want NFSv3, say Y to the next question
1683 Please read the NFS-HOWTO, available from
1684 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
1686 To compile the NFS server support as a module, choose M here: the
1687 module will be called nfsd. If unsure, say N.
1694 bool "Provide NFSv3 server support"
1697 If you would like to include the NFSv3 server as well as the NFSv2
1698 server, say Y here. If unsure, say Y.
1701 bool "Provide server support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension"
1704 Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX
1705 Access Control Lists on exported file systems. NFS clients should
1706 be compiled with the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the
1707 CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL option. If unsure, say N.
1710 bool "Provide NFSv4 server support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1711 depends on NFSD_V3 && EXPERIMENTAL
1713 If you would like to include the NFSv4 server as well as the NFSv2
1714 and NFSv3 servers, say Y here. This feature is experimental, and
1715 should only be used if you are interested in helping to test NFSv4.
1719 bool "Provide NFS server over TCP support"
1723 If you want your NFS server to support TCP connections, say Y here.
1724 TCP connections usually perform better than the default UDP when
1725 the network is lossy or congested. If unsure, say Y.
1728 bool "Root file system on NFS"
1729 depends on NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP
1731 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
1732 one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
1733 net via NFS (presumably because your box doesn't have a hard disk),
1734 say Y. Read <file:Documentation/nfsroot.txt> for details. It is
1735 likely that in this case, you also want to say Y to "Kernel level IP
1736 autoconfiguration" so that your box can discover its network address
1739 Most people say N here.
1746 depends on NFSD_V3 || NFS_V3
1752 config NFS_ACL_SUPPORT
1758 depends on NFSD || NFS_FS
1767 config RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
1768 tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1769 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
1776 Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api
1777 mechanism based on Kerberos V5. This is required for
1780 Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on
1781 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
1785 config RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3
1786 tristate "Secure RPC: SPKM3 mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1787 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
1795 Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api
1796 mechanism based on the SPKM3 public-key mechanism.
1798 Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on
1799 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
1804 tristate "SMB file system support (to mount Windows shares etc.)"
1808 SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Windows for Workgroups
1809 (WfW), Windows 95/98, Windows NT and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share
1810 files and printers over local networks. Saying Y here allows you to
1811 mount their file systems (often called "shares" in this context) and
1812 access them just like any other Unix directory. Currently, this
1813 works only if the Windows machines use TCP/IP as the underlying
1814 transport protocol, and not NetBEUI. For details, read
1815 <file:Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt> and the SMB-HOWTO,
1816 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
1818 Note: if you just want your box to act as an SMB *server* and make
1819 files and printing services available to Windows clients (which need
1820 to have a TCP/IP stack), you don't need to say Y here; you can use
1821 the program SAMBA (available from <ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/>)
1824 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
1825 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
1827 To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here: the module will
1828 be called smbfs. Most people say N, however.
1830 config SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
1831 bool "Use a default NLS"
1834 Enabling this will make smbfs use nls translations by default. You
1835 need to specify the local charset (CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT) in the nls
1836 settings and you need to give the default nls for the SMB server as
1837 CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE.
1839 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount
1840 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters.
1842 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
1844 config SMB_NLS_REMOTE
1845 string "Default Remote NLS Option"
1846 depends on SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
1849 This setting allows you to specify a default value for which
1850 codepage the server uses. If this field is left blank no
1851 translations will be done by default. The local codepage/charset
1852 default to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT.
1854 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount
1855 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters.
1857 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
1860 tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem for Samba, Window and other CIFS compliant servers)"
1864 This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System
1865 (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block
1866 (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early
1867 PC operating systems. The CIFS protocol is fully supported by
1868 file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4
1869 and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS
1870 server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited
1871 support for Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well.
1872 You must use the smbfs client filesystem to access older SMB servers
1873 such as OS/2 and DOS.
1875 The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced
1876 network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers,
1877 including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user
1878 session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional
1879 packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements,
1880 and optional Winbind (nsswitch) integration. You do not need to enable
1881 cifs if running only a (Samba) server. It is possible to enable both
1882 smbfs and cifs (e.g. if you are using CIFS for accessing Windows 2003
1883 and Samba 3 servers, and smbfs for accessing old servers). If you need
1884 to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y.
1887 bool "CIFS statistics"
1890 Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share
1891 mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats
1894 bool "Extended statistics"
1895 depends on CIFS_STATS
1897 Enabling this option will allow more detailed statistics on SMB
1898 request timing to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData and also
1899 allow optional logging of slow responses to dmesg (depending on the
1900 value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI, see fs/cifs/README for more details).
1901 These additional statistics may have a minor effect on performance
1902 and memory utilization.
1904 Unless you are a developer or are doing network performance analysis
1907 config CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH
1908 bool "Support legacy servers which use weaker LANMAN security"
1911 Modern CIFS servers including Samba and most Windows versions
1912 (since 1997) support stronger NTLM (and even NTLMv2 and Kerberos)
1913 security mechanisms. These hash the password more securely
1914 than the mechanisms used in the older LANMAN version of the
1915 SMB protocol needed to establish sessions with old SMB servers.
1917 Enabling this option allows the cifs module to mount to older
1918 LANMAN based servers such as OS/2 and Windows 95, but such
1919 mounts may be less secure than mounts using NTLM or more recent
1920 security mechanisms if you are on a public network. Unless you
1921 have a need to access old SMB servers (and are on a private
1922 network) you probably want to say N. Even if this support
1923 is enabled in the kernel build, they will not be used
1924 automatically. At runtime LANMAN mounts are disabled but
1925 can be set to required (or optional) either in
1926 /proc/fs/cifs (see fs/cifs/README for more detail) or via an
1927 option on the mount command. This support is disabled by
1928 default in order to reduce the possibility of a downgrade
1934 bool "CIFS extended attributes"
1937 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
1938 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
1939 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). CIFS maps the name of
1940 extended attributes beginning with the user namespace prefix
1941 to SMB/CIFS EAs. EAs are stored on Windows servers without the
1942 user namespace prefix, but their names are seen by Linux cifs clients
1943 prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace
1944 (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at
1950 bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions"
1951 depends on CIFS_XATTR
1953 Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to
1954 negotiate a newer dialect with servers, such as Samba 3.0.5
1955 or later, that optionally can handle more POSIX like (rather
1956 than Windows like) file behavior. It also enables
1957 support for POSIX ACLs (getfacl and setfacl) to servers
1958 (such as Samba 3.10 and later) which can negotiate
1959 CIFS POSIX ACL support. If unsure, say N.
1962 bool "Enable additional CIFS debugging routines"
1965 Enabling this option adds a few more debugging routines
1966 to the cifs code which slightly increases the size of
1967 the cifs module and can cause additional logging of debug
1968 messages in some error paths, slowing performance. This
1969 option can be turned off unless you are debugging
1970 cifs problems. If unsure, say N.
1972 config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
1973 bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1974 depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL
1976 Enables cifs features under testing. These features are
1977 experimental and currently include support for writepages
1978 (multipage writebehind performance improvements) and directory
1979 change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY) as well as some security
1980 improvements. Some also depend on setting at runtime the
1981 pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental (which is disabled by
1982 default). See the file fs/cifs/README for more details.
1987 bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1988 depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
1989 depends on CONNECTOR
1991 Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which will be used to contact
1992 userspace helper utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged Kerberos
1993 tickets which are needed to mount to certain secure servers
1994 (for which more secure Kerberos authentication is required). If
1998 tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)"
1999 depends on IPX!=n || INET
2001 NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) is a protocol that runs over IPX and is
2002 used by Novell NetWare clients to talk to file servers. It is to
2003 IPX what NFS is to TCP/IP, if that helps. Saying Y here allows you
2004 to mount NetWare file server volumes and to access them just like
2005 any other Unix directory. For details, please read the file
2006 <file:Documentation/filesystems/ncpfs.txt> in the kernel source and
2007 the IPX-HOWTO from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
2009 You do not have to say Y here if you want your Linux box to act as a
2010 file *server* for Novell NetWare clients.
2012 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
2013 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
2015 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
2016 ncpfs. Say N unless you are connected to a Novell network.
2018 source "fs/ncpfs/Kconfig"
2021 tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)"
2024 Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it
2025 enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them
2026 with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard
2027 disk. Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for
2028 disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server
2029 replication, security model for authentication and encryption,
2030 persistent client caches and write back caching.
2032 If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda
2033 *client*. You will need user level code as well, both for the
2034 client and server. Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need
2035 no kernel support. Please read
2036 <file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.txt> and check out the Coda
2037 home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>.
2039 To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the
2040 module will be called coda.
2042 config CODA_FS_OLD_API
2043 bool "Use 96-bit Coda file identifiers"
2046 A new kernel-userspace API had to be introduced for Coda v6.0
2047 to support larger 128-bit file identifiers as needed by the
2048 new realms implementation.
2050 However this new API is not backward compatible with older
2051 clients. If you really need to run the old Coda userspace
2052 cache manager then say Y.
2054 For most cases you probably want to say N.
2057 tristate "Andrew File System support (AFS) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
2058 depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL
2061 If you say Y here, you will get an experimental Andrew File System
2062 driver. It currently only supports unsecured read-only AFS access.
2064 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information.
2072 tristate "Plan 9 Resource Sharing Support (9P2000) (Experimental)"
2073 depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL
2075 If you say Y here, you will get experimental support for
2076 Plan 9 resource sharing via the 9P2000 protocol.
2078 See <http://v9fs.sf.net> for more information.
2085 menu "Partition Types"
2087 source "fs/partitions/Kconfig"
2092 source "fs/nls/Kconfig"
2093 source "fs/dlm/Kconfig"