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
145 Ext4dev is a predecessor filesystem of the next generation
146 extended fs ext4, based on ext3 filesystem code. It will be
147 renamed ext4 fs later, once ext4dev is mature and stabilized.
149 Unlike the change from ext2 filesystem to ext3 filesystem,
150 the on-disk format of ext4dev is not the same as ext3 any more:
151 it is based on extent maps and it supports 48-bit physical block
152 numbers. These combined on-disk format changes will allow
153 ext4dev/ext4 to handle more than 16 TB filesystem volumes --
154 a hard limit that ext3 cannot overcome without changing the
157 Other than extent maps and 48-bit block numbers, ext4dev also is
158 likely to have other new features such as persistent preallocation,
159 high resolution time stamps, and larger file support etc. These
160 features will be added to ext4dev gradually.
162 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here. The
163 module will be called ext4dev.
167 config EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
168 bool "Ext4dev extended attributes"
169 depends on EXT4DEV_FS
172 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
173 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
174 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
178 You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext4dev/ext4.
180 config EXT4DEV_FS_POSIX_ACL
181 bool "Ext4dev POSIX Access Control Lists"
182 depends on EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
185 POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
186 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
188 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for
189 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
191 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
193 config EXT4DEV_FS_SECURITY
194 bool "Ext4dev Security Labels"
195 depends on EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
197 Security labels support alternative access control models
198 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
199 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
200 labels in the ext4dev/ext4 filesystem.
202 If you are not using a security module that requires using
203 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
208 This is a generic journalling layer for block devices. It is
209 currently used by the ext3 and OCFS2 file systems, but it could
210 also be used to add journal support to other file systems or block
211 devices such as RAID or LVM.
213 If you are using the ext3 or OCFS2 file systems, you need to
214 say Y here. If you are not using ext3 OCFS2 then you will probably
217 To compile this device as a module, choose M here: the module will be
218 called jbd. If you are compiling ext3 or OCFS2 into the kernel,
219 you cannot compile this code as a module.
222 bool "JBD (ext3) debugging support"
223 depends on JBD && DEBUG_FS
225 If you are using the ext3 journaled file system (or potentially any
226 other file system/device using JBD), this option allows you to
227 enable debugging output while the system is running, in order to
228 help track down any problems you are having. By default the
229 debugging output will be turned off.
231 If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging
232 with "echo N > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd/jbd-debug", where N is a
233 number between 1 and 5, the higher the number, the more debugging
234 output is generated. To turn debugging off again, do
235 "echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd/jbd-debug".
240 This is a generic journaling layer for block devices that support
241 both 32-bit and 64-bit block numbers. It is currently used by
242 the ext4dev/ext4 filesystem, but it could also be used to add
243 journal support to other file systems or block devices such
246 If you are using ext4dev/ext4, you need to say Y here. If you are not
247 using ext4dev/ext4 then you will probably want to say N.
249 To compile this device as a module, choose M here. The module will be
250 called jbd2. If you are compiling ext4dev/ext4 into the kernel,
251 you cannot compile this code as a module.
254 bool "JBD2 (ext4dev/ext4) debugging support"
255 depends on JBD2 && DEBUG_FS
257 If you are using the ext4dev/ext4 journaled file system (or
258 potentially any other filesystem/device using JBD2), this option
259 allows you to enable debugging output while the system is running,
260 in order to help track down any problems you are having.
261 By default, the debugging output will be turned off.
263 If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging
264 with "echo N > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd2/jbd2-debug", where N is a
265 number between 1 and 5. The higher the number, the more debugging
266 output is generated. To turn debugging off again, do
267 "echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd2/jbd2-debug".
270 # Meta block cache for Extended Attributes (ext2/ext3/ext4)
272 depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR || EXT3_FS_XATTR || EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
273 default y if EXT2_FS=y || EXT3_FS=y || EXT4DEV_FS=y
274 default m if EXT2_FS=m || EXT3_FS=m || EXT4DEV_FS=m
277 tristate "Reiserfs support"
279 Stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a balanced
280 tree. Uses journalling.
282 Balanced trees are more efficient than traditional file system
283 architectural foundations.
285 In general, ReiserFS is as fast as ext2, but is very efficient with
286 large directories and small files. Additional patches are needed
287 for NFS and quotas, please see <http://www.namesys.com/> for links.
289 It is more easily extended to have features currently found in
290 database and keyword search systems than block allocation based file
291 systems are. The next version will be so extended, and will support
292 plugins consistent with our motto ``It takes more than a license to
293 make source code open.''
295 Read <http://www.namesys.com/> to learn more about reiserfs.
297 Sponsored by Threshold Networks, Emusic.com, and Bigstorage.com.
299 If you like it, you can pay us to add new features to it that you
300 need, buy a support contract, or pay us to port it to another OS.
302 config REISERFS_CHECK
303 bool "Enable reiserfs debug mode"
304 depends on REISERFS_FS
306 If you set this to Y, then ReiserFS will perform every check it can
307 possibly imagine of its internal consistency throughout its
308 operation. It will also go substantially slower. More than once we
309 have forgotten that this was on, and then gone despondent over the
310 latest benchmarks.:-) Use of this option allows our team to go all
311 out in checking for consistency when debugging without fear of its
312 effect on end users. If you are on the verge of sending in a bug
313 report, say Y and you might get a useful error message. Almost
314 everyone should say N.
316 config REISERFS_PROC_INFO
317 bool "Stats in /proc/fs/reiserfs"
318 depends on REISERFS_FS && PROC_FS
320 Create under /proc/fs/reiserfs a hierarchy of files, displaying
321 various ReiserFS statistics and internal data at the expense of
322 making your kernel or module slightly larger (+8 KB). This also
323 increases the amount of kernel memory required for each mount.
324 Almost everyone but ReiserFS developers and people fine-tuning
325 reiserfs or tracing problems should say N.
327 config REISERFS_FS_XATTR
328 bool "ReiserFS extended attributes"
329 depends on REISERFS_FS
331 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
332 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
333 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
337 config REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL
338 bool "ReiserFS POSIX Access Control Lists"
339 depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR
342 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
343 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
345 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
346 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
348 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
350 config REISERFS_FS_SECURITY
351 bool "ReiserFS Security Labels"
352 depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR
354 Security labels support alternative access control models
355 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
356 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
357 labels in the ReiserFS filesystem.
359 If you are not using a security module that requires using
360 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
363 tristate "JFS filesystem support"
366 This is a port of IBM's Journaled Filesystem . More information is
367 available in the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt>.
369 If you do not intend to use the JFS filesystem, say N.
372 bool "JFS POSIX Access Control Lists"
376 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
377 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
379 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
380 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
382 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
385 bool "JFS Security Labels"
388 Security labels support alternative access control models
389 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
390 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
391 labels in the jfs filesystem.
393 If you are not using a security module that requires using
394 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
400 If you are experiencing any problems with the JFS filesystem, say
401 Y here. This will result in additional debugging messages to be
402 written to the system log. Under normal circumstances, this
403 results in very little overhead.
405 config JFS_STATISTICS
406 bool "JFS statistics"
409 Enabling this option will cause statistics from the JFS file system
410 to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jfs/ directory.
413 # Posix ACL utility routines (for now, only ext2/ext3/jfs/reiserfs)
415 # NOTE: you can implement Posix ACLs without these helpers (XFS does).
416 # Never use this symbol for ifdefs.
421 source "fs/xfs/Kconfig"
422 source "fs/gfs2/Kconfig"
425 tristate "OCFS2 file system support"
426 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
446 - cluster aware flock
447 - Directory change notification (F_NOTIFY)
448 - Distributed Caching (F_SETLEASE/F_GETLEASE/break_lease)
450 - readpages / writepages (not user visible)
452 config OCFS2_DEBUG_MASKLOG
453 bool "OCFS2 logging support"
457 The ocfs2 filesystem has an extensive logging system. The system
458 allows selection of events to log via files in /sys/o2cb/logmask/.
459 This option will enlarge your kernel, but it allows debugging of
460 ocfs2 filesystem issues.
462 config OCFS2_DEBUG_FS
463 bool "OCFS2 expensive checks"
467 This option will enable expensive consistency checks. Enable
468 this option for debugging only as it is likely to decrease
469 performance of the filesystem.
472 tristate "Minix fs support"
474 Minix is a simple operating system used in many classes about OS's.
475 The minix file system (method to organize files on a hard disk
476 partition or a floppy disk) was the original file system for Linux,
477 but has been superseded by the second extended file system ext2fs.
478 You don't want to use the minix file system on your hard disk
479 because of certain built-in restrictions, but it is sometimes found
480 on older Linux floppy disks. This option will enlarge your kernel
481 by about 28 KB. If unsure, say N.
483 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
484 module will be called minix. Note that the file system of your root
485 partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as
489 tristate "ROM file system support"
491 This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for
492 initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for
493 other read-only media as well. Read
494 <file:Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt> for details.
496 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
497 module will be called romfs. Note that the file system of your
498 root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a
501 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
507 bool "Inotify file change notification support"
510 Say Y here to enable inotify support. Inotify is a file change
511 notification system and a replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes
512 numerous shortcomings in dnotify and introduces several new features
513 including multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount
516 For more information, see <file:Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt>
521 bool "Inotify support for userspace"
525 Say Y here to enable inotify support for userspace, including the
526 associated system calls. Inotify allows monitoring of both files and
527 directories via a single open fd. Events are read from the file
528 descriptor, which is also select()- and poll()-able.
530 For more information, see <file:Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt>
537 If you say Y here, you will be able to set per user limits for disk
538 usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works for the
539 ext2, ext3, and reiserfs file system. ext3 also supports journalled
540 quotas for which you don't need to run quotacheck(8) after an unclean
542 For further details, read the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from
543 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or the documentation provided
544 with the quota tools. Probably the quota support is only useful for
545 multi user systems. If unsure, say N.
547 config QUOTA_NETLINK_INTERFACE
548 bool "Report quota messages through netlink interface"
549 depends on QUOTA && NET
551 If you say Y here, quota warnings (about exceeding softlimit, reaching
552 hardlimit, etc.) will be reported through netlink interface. If unsure,
555 config PRINT_QUOTA_WARNING
556 bool "Print quota warnings to console (OBSOLETE)"
560 If you say Y here, quota warnings (about exceeding softlimit, reaching
561 hardlimit, etc.) will be printed to the process' controlling terminal.
562 Note that this behavior is currently deprecated and may go away in
563 future. Please use notification via netlink socket instead.
566 tristate "Old quota format support"
569 This quota format was (is) used by kernels earlier than 2.4.22. If
570 you have quota working and you don't want to convert to new quota
574 tristate "Quota format v2 support"
577 This quota format allows using quotas with 32-bit UIDs/GIDs. If you
578 need this functionality say Y here.
582 depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA
586 bool "Dnotify support"
589 Dnotify is a directory-based per-fd file change notification system
590 that uses signals to communicate events to user-space. There exist
591 superior alternatives, but some applications may still rely on
597 tristate "Kernel automounter support"
599 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
600 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
601 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
602 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
604 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs
605 package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>.
606 You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
608 If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more
609 features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support",
612 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
615 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you
616 probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here.
619 tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)"
621 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
622 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
623 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
624 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
626 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from
627 <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/>; you also
628 want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
630 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
631 called autofs4. You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your
632 modules configuration file.
634 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or
635 don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the
636 local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say
640 tristate "Filesystem in Userspace support"
642 With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem
643 in a userspace program.
645 There's also companion library: libfuse. This library along with
646 utilities is available from the FUSE homepage:
647 <http://fuse.sourceforge.net/>
649 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt> for more information.
650 See <file:Documentation/Changes> for needed library/utility version.
652 If you want to develop a userspace FS, or if you want to use
653 a filesystem based on FUSE, answer Y or M.
660 menu "CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems"
663 tristate "ISO 9660 CDROM file system support"
665 This is the standard file system used on CD-ROMs. It was previously
666 known as "High Sierra File System" and is called "hsfs" on other
667 Unix systems. The so-called Rock-Ridge extensions which allow for
668 long Unix filenames and symbolic links are also supported by this
669 driver. If you have a CD-ROM drive and want to do more with it than
670 just listen to audio CDs and watch its LEDs, say Y (and read
671 <file:Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt> and the CD-ROM-HOWTO,
672 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), thereby
673 enlarging your kernel by about 27 KB; otherwise say N.
675 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
676 module will be called isofs.
679 bool "Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions"
680 depends on ISO9660_FS
683 Joliet is a Microsoft extension for the ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system
684 which allows for long filenames in unicode format (unicode is the
685 new 16 bit character code, successor to ASCII, which encodes the
686 characters of almost all languages of the world; see
687 <http://www.unicode.org/> for more information). Say Y here if you
688 want to be able to read Joliet CD-ROMs under Linux.
691 bool "Transparent decompression extension"
692 depends on ISO9660_FS
695 This is a Linux-specific extension to RockRidge which lets you store
696 data in compressed form on a CD-ROM and have it transparently
697 decompressed when the CD-ROM is accessed. See
698 <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/zisofs/> for the tools
699 necessary to create such a filesystem. Say Y here if you want to be
700 able to read such compressed CD-ROMs.
703 tristate "UDF file system support"
705 This is the new file system used on some CD-ROMs and DVDs. Say Y if
706 you intend to mount DVD discs or CDRW's written in packet mode, or
707 if written to by other UDF utilities, such as DirectCD.
708 Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt>.
710 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
711 module will be called udf.
718 depends on (UDF_FS=m && NLS) || (UDF_FS=y && NLS=y)
724 menu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems"
730 If you want to use one of the FAT-based file systems (the MS-DOS and
731 VFAT (Windows 95) file systems), then you must say Y or M here
732 to include FAT support. You will then be able to mount partitions or
733 diskettes with FAT-based file systems and transparently access the
734 files on them, i.e. MSDOS files will look and behave just like all
737 This FAT support is not a file system in itself, it only provides
738 the foundation for the other file systems. You will have to say Y or
739 M to at least one of "MSDOS fs support" or "VFAT fs support" in
740 order to make use of it.
742 Another way to read and write MSDOS floppies and hard drive
743 partitions from within Linux (but not transparently) is with the
744 mtools ("man mtools") program suite. You don't need to say Y here in
747 If you need to move large files on floppies between a DOS and a
748 Linux box, say Y here, mount the floppy under Linux with an MSDOS
749 file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program
750 available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar").
752 The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure,
755 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
756 fat. Note that if you compile the FAT support as a module, you
757 cannot compile any of the FAT-based file systems into the kernel
758 -- they will have to be modules as well.
761 tristate "MSDOS fs support"
764 This allows you to mount MSDOS partitions of your hard drive (unless
765 they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under
766 Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the
767 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from
768 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in
769 <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you
770 intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y
771 here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes
772 transparent, i.e. the MSDOS files look and behave just like all
775 If you have Windows 95 or Windows NT installed on your MSDOS
776 partitions, you should use the VFAT file system (say Y to "VFAT fs
777 support" below), or you will not be able to see the long filenames
778 generated by Windows 95 / Windows NT.
780 This option will enlarge your kernel by about 7 KB. If unsure,
781 answer Y. This will only work if you said Y to "DOS FAT fs support"
782 as well. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will
786 tristate "VFAT (Windows-95) fs support"
789 This option provides support for normal Windows file systems with
790 long filenames. That includes non-compressed FAT-based file systems
791 used by Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and the Unix
792 programs from the mtools package.
794 The VFAT support enlarges your kernel by about 10 KB and it only
795 works if you said Y to the "DOS FAT fs support" above. Please read
796 the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for details. If
799 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
802 config FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE
803 int "Default codepage for FAT"
804 depends on MSDOS_FS || VFAT_FS
807 This option should be set to the codepage of your FAT filesystems.
808 It can be overridden with the "codepage" mount option.
809 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
811 config FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET
812 string "Default iocharset for FAT"
816 Set this to the default input/output character set you'd
817 like FAT to use. It should probably match the character set
818 that most of your FAT filesystems use, and can be overridden
819 with the "iocharset" mount option for FAT filesystems.
820 Note that "utf8" is not recommended for FAT filesystems.
821 If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here.
822 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
825 tristate "NTFS file system support"
828 NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003.
830 Saying Y or M here enables read support. There is partial, but
831 safe, write support available. For write support you must also
832 say Y to "NTFS write support" below.
834 There are also a number of user-space tools available, called
835 ntfsprogs. These include ntfsundelete and ntfsresize, that work
836 without NTFS support enabled in the kernel.
838 This is a rewrite from scratch of Linux NTFS support and replaced
839 the old NTFS code starting with Linux 2.5.11. A backport to
840 the Linux 2.4 kernel series is separately available as a patch
841 from the project web site.
843 For more information see <file:Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt>
844 and <http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/>.
846 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
847 module will be called ntfs.
849 If you are not using Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 in addition to
850 Linux on your computer it is safe to say N.
853 bool "NTFS debugging support"
856 If you are experiencing any problems with the NTFS file system, say
857 Y here. This will result in additional consistency checks to be
858 performed by the driver as well as additional debugging messages to
859 be written to the system log. Note that debugging messages are
860 disabled by default. To enable them, supply the option debug_msgs=1
861 at the kernel command line when booting the kernel or as an option
862 to insmod when loading the ntfs module. Once the driver is active,
863 you can enable debugging messages by doing (as root):
864 echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug
865 Replacing the "1" with "0" would disable debug messages.
867 If you leave debugging messages disabled, this results in little
868 overhead, but enabling debug messages results in very significant
869 slowdown of the system.
871 When reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of
872 debugging messages while the misbehaviour was occurring.
875 bool "NTFS write support"
878 This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver.
880 The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without
881 changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or
882 renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to
883 so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot
886 While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have
887 so far not received a single report where the driver would have
888 damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use.
890 Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from
891 scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS
892 write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997),
895 This is currently useful with TopologiLinux. TopologiLinux is run
896 on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your
897 hard disk. Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not
898 need its own partition. For more information see
899 <http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/>
901 It is perfectly safe to say N here.
906 menu "Pseudo filesystems"
909 bool "/proc file system support" if EMBEDDED
912 This is a virtual file system providing information about the status
913 of the system. "Virtual" means that it doesn't take up any space on
914 your hard disk: the files are created on the fly by the kernel when
915 you try to access them. Also, you cannot read the files with older
916 version of the program less: you need to use more or cat.
918 It's totally cool; for example, "cat /proc/interrupts" gives
919 information about what the different IRQs are used for at the moment
920 (there is a small number of Interrupt ReQuest lines in your computer
921 that are used by the attached devices to gain the CPU's attention --
922 often a source of trouble if two devices are mistakenly configured
923 to use the same IRQ). The program procinfo to display some
924 information about your system gathered from the /proc file system.
926 Before you can use the /proc file system, it has to be mounted,
927 meaning it has to be given a location in the directory hierarchy.
928 That location should be /proc. A command such as "mount -t proc proc
929 /proc" or the equivalent line in /etc/fstab does the job.
931 The /proc file system is explained in the file
932 <file:Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt> and on the proc(5) manpage
935 This option will enlarge your kernel by about 67 KB. Several
936 programs depend on this, so everyone should say Y here.
939 bool "/proc/kcore support" if !ARM
940 depends on PROC_FS && MMU
943 bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
944 depends on PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP
947 Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format.
950 bool "Sysctl support (/proc/sys)" if EMBEDDED
955 The sysctl interface provides a means of dynamically changing
956 certain kernel parameters and variables on the fly without requiring
957 a recompile of the kernel or reboot of the system. The primary
958 interface is through /proc/sys. If you say Y here a tree of
959 modifiable sysctl entries will be generated beneath the
960 /proc/sys directory. They are explained in the files
961 in <file:Documentation/sysctl/>. Note that enabling this
962 option will enlarge the kernel by at least 8 KB.
964 As it is generally a good thing, you should say Y here unless
965 building a kernel for install/rescue disks or your system is very
969 bool "sysfs file system support" if EMBEDDED
972 The sysfs filesystem is a virtual filesystem that the kernel uses to
973 export internal kernel objects, their attributes, and their
974 relationships to one another.
976 Users can use sysfs to ascertain useful information about the running
977 kernel, such as the devices the kernel has discovered on each bus and
978 which driver each is bound to. sysfs can also be used to tune devices
979 and other kernel subsystems.
981 Some system agents rely on the information in sysfs to operate.
982 /sbin/hotplug uses device and object attributes in sysfs to assist in
983 delegating policy decisions, like persistently naming devices.
985 sysfs is currently used by the block subsystem to mount the root
986 partition. If sysfs is disabled you must specify the boot device on
987 the kernel boot command line via its major and minor numbers. For
988 example, "root=03:01" for /dev/hda1.
990 Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space.
993 bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)"
995 Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory.
997 Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be
998 created on your hard drive. The files live in memory and swap
999 space. If you unmount a tmpfs instance, everything stored therein is
1002 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> for details.
1004 config TMPFS_POSIX_ACL
1005 bool "Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists"
1009 POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
1010 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
1012 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for
1013 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
1015 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N.
1018 bool "HugeTLB file system support"
1019 depends on X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || (SUPERH && MMU) || BROKEN
1021 hugetlbfs is a filesystem backing for HugeTLB pages, based on
1022 ramfs. For architectures that support it, say Y here and read
1023 <file:Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt> for details.
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 && NET
1100 Encrypted filesystem that operates on the VFS layer. See
1101 <file:Documentation/filesystems/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 v2 (JFFS2) support"
1204 JFFS2 is the second generation of the Journalling Flash File System
1205 for use on diskless embedded devices. It provides improved wear
1206 levelling, compression and support for hard links. You cannot use
1207 this on normal block devices, only on 'MTD' devices.
1209 Further information on the design and implementation of JFFS2 is
1210 available at <http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2/>.
1212 config JFFS2_FS_DEBUG
1213 int "JFFS2 debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 2 = noisy)"
1217 This controls the amount of debugging messages produced by the JFFS2
1218 code. Set it to zero for use in production systems. For evaluation,
1219 testing and debugging, it's advisable to set it to one. This will
1220 enable a few assertions and will print debugging messages at the
1221 KERN_DEBUG loglevel, where they won't normally be visible. Level 2
1222 is unlikely to be useful - it enables extra debugging in certain
1223 areas which at one point needed debugging, but when the bugs were
1224 located and fixed, the detailed messages were relegated to level 2.
1226 If reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of the
1227 messages at debug level 1 while the misbehaviour was occurring.
1229 config JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER
1230 bool "JFFS2 write-buffering support"
1234 This enables the write-buffering support in JFFS2.
1236 This functionality is required to support JFFS2 on the following
1237 types of flash devices:
1239 - NOR flash with transparent ECC
1242 config JFFS2_FS_WBUF_VERIFY
1243 bool "Verify JFFS2 write-buffer reads"
1244 depends on JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER
1247 This causes JFFS2 to read back every page written through the
1248 write-buffer, and check for errors.
1250 config JFFS2_SUMMARY
1251 bool "JFFS2 summary support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1252 depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1255 This feature makes it possible to use summary information
1256 for faster filesystem mount.
1258 The summary information can be inserted into a filesystem image
1259 by the utility 'sumtool'.
1263 config JFFS2_FS_XATTR
1264 bool "JFFS2 XATTR support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1265 depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1268 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
1269 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
1270 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
1274 config JFFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL
1275 bool "JFFS2 POSIX Access Control Lists"
1276 depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR
1280 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
1281 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
1283 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
1284 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
1286 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
1288 config JFFS2_FS_SECURITY
1289 bool "JFFS2 Security Labels"
1290 depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR
1293 Security labels support alternative access control models
1294 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
1295 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
1296 labels in the jffs2 filesystem.
1298 If you are not using a security module that requires using
1299 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
1301 config JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1302 bool "Advanced compression options for JFFS2"
1306 Enabling this option allows you to explicitly choose which
1307 compression modules, if any, are enabled in JFFS2. Removing
1308 compressors can mean you cannot read existing file systems,
1309 and enabling experimental compressors can mean that you
1310 write a file system which cannot be read by a standard kernel.
1312 If unsure, you should _definitely_ say 'N'.
1315 bool "JFFS2 ZLIB compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1321 Zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered,
1322 lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer
1323 hardware and operating system. See <http://www.gzip.org/zlib/> for
1324 further information.
1329 bool "JFFS2 LZO compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1331 select LZO_DECOMPRESS
1335 minilzo-based compression. Generally works better than Zlib.
1337 This feature was added in July, 2007. Say 'N' if you need
1338 compatibility with older bootloaders or kernels.
1341 bool "JFFS2 RTIME compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1345 Rtime does manage to recompress already-compressed data. Say 'Y' if unsure.
1348 bool "JFFS2 RUBIN compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1352 RUBINMIPS and DYNRUBIN compressors. Say 'N' if unsure.
1355 prompt "JFFS2 default compression mode" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1356 default JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY
1359 You can set here the default compression mode of JFFS2 from
1360 the available compression modes. Don't touch if unsure.
1362 config JFFS2_CMODE_NONE
1363 bool "no compression"
1365 Uses no compression.
1367 config JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY
1370 Tries the compressors in a predefined order and chooses the first
1373 config JFFS2_CMODE_SIZE
1374 bool "size (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1376 Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest
1379 config JFFS2_CMODE_FAVOURLZO
1382 Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest
1383 result but gives some preference to LZO (which has faster
1384 decompression) at the expense of size.
1389 tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)"
1393 Saying Y here includes support for CramFs (Compressed ROM File
1394 System). CramFs is designed to be a simple, small, and compressed
1395 file system for ROM based embedded systems. CramFs is read-only,
1396 limited to 256MB file systems (with 16MB files), and doesn't support
1397 16/32 bits uid/gid, hard links and timestamps.
1399 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt> and
1400 <file:fs/cramfs/README> for further information.
1402 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1403 cramfs. Note that the root file system (the one containing the
1404 directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
1409 tristate "FreeVxFS file system support (VERITAS VxFS(TM) compatible)"
1412 FreeVxFS is a file system driver that support the VERITAS VxFS(TM)
1413 file system format. VERITAS VxFS(TM) is the standard file system
1414 of SCO UnixWare (and possibly others) and optionally available
1415 for Sunsoft Solaris, HP-UX and many other operating systems.
1416 Currently only readonly access is supported.
1418 NOTE: the file system type as used by mount(1), mount(2) and
1419 fstab(5) is 'vxfs' as it describes the file system format, not
1422 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
1423 called freevxfs. If unsure, say N.
1427 tristate "OS/2 HPFS file system support"
1430 OS/2 is IBM's operating system for PC's, the same as Warp, and HPFS
1431 is the file system used for organizing files on OS/2 hard disk
1432 partitions. Say Y if you want to be able to read files from and
1433 write files to an OS/2 HPFS partition on your hard drive. OS/2
1434 floppies however are in regular MSDOS format, so you don't need this
1435 option in order to be able to read them. Read
1436 <file:Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt>.
1438 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1439 module will be called hpfs. If unsure, say N.
1444 tristate "QNX4 file system support (read only)"
1447 This is the file system used by the real-time operating systems
1448 QNX 4 and QNX 6 (the latter is also called QNX RTP).
1449 Further information is available at <http://www.qnx.com/>.
1450 Say Y if you intend to mount QNX hard disks or floppies.
1451 Unless you say Y to "QNX4FS read-write support" below, you will
1452 only be able to read these file systems.
1454 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1455 module will be called qnx4.
1457 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
1461 bool "QNX4FS write support (DANGEROUS)"
1462 depends on QNX4FS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN
1464 Say Y if you want to test write support for QNX4 file systems.
1466 It's currently broken, so for now:
1472 tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support"
1475 SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel
1476 machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y
1477 here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk
1480 If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely
1481 that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order
1482 to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is
1483 a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse,
1484 UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux. It is
1485 available via FTP (user: ftp) from
1486 <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>).
1487 NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems;
1488 PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-)
1490 If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the
1491 network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support
1492 (but you need NFS file system support obviously).
1494 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
1495 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
1496 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
1497 tar" or preferably "info tar"). Note also that this option has
1498 nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about
1499 the System V file system in
1500 <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>.
1501 Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB.
1503 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1506 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
1511 tristate "UFS file system support (read only)"
1514 BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
1515 OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a file system called UFS. Some System V
1516 Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using
1517 this file system as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from
1518 these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the
1519 experimental "UFS file system write support", below. Please read the
1520 file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt> for more information.
1522 The recently released UFS2 variant (used in FreeBSD 5.x) is
1523 READ-ONLY supported.
1525 If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the
1526 network using NFS, you don't need the UFS file system support (but
1527 you need NFS file system support obviously).
1529 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
1530 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
1531 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
1532 tar" or preferably "info tar").
1534 When accessing NeXTstep files, you may need to convert them from the
1535 NeXT character set to the Latin1 character set; use the program
1536 recode ("info recode") for this purpose.
1538 To compile the UFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1539 module will be called ufs.
1541 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
1544 bool "UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS)"
1545 depends on UFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1547 Say Y here if you want to try writing to UFS partitions. This is
1548 experimental, so you should back up your UFS partitions beforehand.
1551 bool "UFS debugging"
1554 If you are experiencing any problems with the UFS filesystem, say
1555 Y here. This will result in _many_ additional debugging messages to be
1556 written to the system log.
1560 menuconfig NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS
1561 bool "Network File Systems"
1565 Say Y here to get to see options for network filesystems and
1566 filesystem-related networking code, such as NFS daemon and
1567 RPCSEC security modules.
1568 This option alone does not add any kernel code.
1570 If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and
1571 disabled; if unsure, say Y here.
1573 if NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS
1576 tristate "NFS file system support"
1580 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFS_V3_ACL
1582 If you are connected to some other (usually local) Unix computer
1583 (using SLIP, PLIP, PPP or Ethernet) and want to mount files residing
1584 on that computer (the NFS server) using the Network File Sharing
1585 protocol, say Y. "Mounting files" means that the client can access
1586 the files with usual UNIX commands as if they were sitting on the
1587 client's hard disk. For this to work, the server must run the
1588 programs nfsd and mountd (but does not need to have NFS file system
1589 support enabled in its kernel). NFS is explained in the Network
1590 Administrator's Guide, available from
1591 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>, on its man page: "man
1592 nfs", and in the NFS-HOWTO.
1594 A superior but less widely used alternative to NFS is provided by
1595 the Coda file system; see "Coda file system support" below.
1597 If you say Y here, you should have said Y to TCP/IP networking also.
1598 This option would enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB.
1600 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1601 module will be called nfs.
1603 If you are configuring a diskless machine which will mount its root
1604 file system over NFS at boot time, say Y here and to "Kernel
1605 level IP autoconfiguration" above and to "Root file system on NFS"
1606 below. You cannot compile this driver as a module in this case.
1607 There are two packages designed for booting diskless machines over
1608 the net: netboot, available from
1609 <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/netboot/>, and Etherboot,
1610 available from <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/etherboot/>.
1612 If you don't know what all this is about, say N.
1615 bool "Provide NFSv3 client support"
1618 Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak version
1619 3 of the NFS protocol.
1624 bool "Provide client support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension"
1627 Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX
1628 Access Control Lists. The server should also be compiled with
1629 the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL option.
1634 bool "Provide NFSv4 client support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1635 depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1636 select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
1638 Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak the newer
1639 version 4 of the NFS protocol.
1641 Note: Requires auxiliary userspace daemons which may be found on
1642 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
1647 bool "Allow direct I/O on NFS files"
1650 This option enables applications to perform uncached I/O on files
1651 in NFS file systems using the O_DIRECT open() flag. When O_DIRECT
1652 is set for a file, its data is not cached in the system's page
1653 cache. Data is moved to and from user-level application buffers
1654 directly. Unlike local disk-based file systems, NFS O_DIRECT has
1655 no alignment restrictions.
1657 Unless your program is designed to use O_DIRECT properly, you are
1658 much better off allowing the NFS client to manage data caching for
1659 you. Misusing O_DIRECT can cause poor server performance or network
1660 storms. This kernel build option defaults OFF to avoid exposing
1661 system administrators unwittingly to a potentially hazardous
1664 For more details on NFS O_DIRECT, see fs/nfs/direct.c.
1666 If unsure, say N. This reduces the size of the NFS client, and
1667 causes open() to return EINVAL if a file residing in NFS is
1668 opened with the O_DIRECT flag.
1671 tristate "NFS server support"
1676 select NFSD_V2_ACL if NFSD_V3_ACL
1677 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFSD_V2_ACL
1678 select NFSD_TCP if NFSD_V4
1679 select CRYPTO_MD5 if NFSD_V4
1680 select CRYPTO if NFSD_V4
1681 select FS_POSIX_ACL if NFSD_V4
1683 If you want your Linux box to act as an NFS *server*, so that other
1684 computers on your local network which support NFS can access certain
1685 directories on your box transparently, you have two options: you can
1686 use the self-contained user space program nfsd, in which case you
1687 should say N here, or you can say Y and use the kernel based NFS
1688 server. The advantage of the kernel based solution is that it is
1691 In either case, you will need support software; the respective
1692 locations are given in the file <file:Documentation/Changes> in the
1695 If you say Y here, you will get support for version 2 of the NFS
1696 protocol (NFSv2). If you also want NFSv3, say Y to the next question
1699 Please read the NFS-HOWTO, available from
1700 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
1702 To compile the NFS server support as a module, choose M here: the
1703 module will be called nfsd. If unsure, say N.
1710 bool "Provide NFSv3 server support"
1713 If you would like to include the NFSv3 server as well as the NFSv2
1714 server, say Y here. If unsure, say Y.
1717 bool "Provide server support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension"
1720 Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX
1721 Access Control Lists on exported file systems. NFS clients should
1722 be compiled with the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the
1723 CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL option. If unsure, say N.
1726 bool "Provide NFSv4 server support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1727 depends on NFSD && NFSD_V3 && EXPERIMENTAL
1728 select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
1730 If you would like to include the NFSv4 server as well as the NFSv2
1731 and NFSv3 servers, say Y here. This feature is experimental, and
1732 should only be used if you are interested in helping to test NFSv4.
1736 bool "Provide NFS server over TCP support"
1740 If you want your NFS server to support TCP connections, say Y here.
1741 TCP connections usually perform better than the default UDP when
1742 the network is lossy or congested. If unsure, say Y.
1745 bool "Root file system on NFS"
1746 depends on NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP
1748 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
1749 one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
1750 net via NFS (presumably because your box doesn't have a hard disk),
1751 say Y. Read <file:Documentation/nfsroot.txt> for details. It is
1752 likely that in this case, you also want to say Y to "Kernel level IP
1753 autoconfiguration" so that your box can discover its network address
1756 Most people say N here.
1763 depends on NFSD_V3 || NFS_V3
1769 config NFS_ACL_SUPPORT
1775 depends on NFSD || NFS_FS
1784 config SUNRPC_XPRT_RDMA
1785 tristate "RDMA transport for sunrpc (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1786 depends on SUNRPC && INFINIBAND && EXPERIMENTAL
1789 Adds a client RPC transport for supporting kernel NFS over RDMA
1790 mounts, including Infiniband and iWARP. Experimental.
1792 config SUNRPC_BIND34
1793 bool "Support for rpcbind versions 3 & 4 (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1794 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
1796 Provides kernel support for querying rpcbind servers via versions 3
1797 and 4 of the rpcbind protocol. The kernel automatically falls back
1798 to version 2 if a remote rpcbind service does not support versions
1801 If unsure, say N to get traditional behavior (version 2 rpcbind
1804 config RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
1805 tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1806 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
1813 Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api
1814 mechanism based on Kerberos V5. This is required for
1817 Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on
1818 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
1822 config RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3
1823 tristate "Secure RPC: SPKM3 mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1824 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
1832 Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api
1833 mechanism based on the SPKM3 public-key mechanism.
1835 Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on
1836 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
1841 tristate "SMB file system support (to mount Windows shares etc.)"
1845 SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Windows for Workgroups
1846 (WfW), Windows 95/98, Windows NT and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share
1847 files and printers over local networks. Saying Y here allows you to
1848 mount their file systems (often called "shares" in this context) and
1849 access them just like any other Unix directory. Currently, this
1850 works only if the Windows machines use TCP/IP as the underlying
1851 transport protocol, and not NetBEUI. For details, read
1852 <file:Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt> and the SMB-HOWTO,
1853 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
1855 Note: if you just want your box to act as an SMB *server* and make
1856 files and printing services available to Windows clients (which need
1857 to have a TCP/IP stack), you don't need to say Y here; you can use
1858 the program SAMBA (available from <ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/>)
1861 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
1862 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
1864 To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here: the module will
1865 be called smbfs. Most people say N, however.
1867 config SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
1868 bool "Use a default NLS"
1871 Enabling this will make smbfs use nls translations by default. You
1872 need to specify the local charset (CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT) in the nls
1873 settings and you need to give the default nls for the SMB server as
1874 CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE.
1876 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount
1877 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters.
1879 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
1881 config SMB_NLS_REMOTE
1882 string "Default Remote NLS Option"
1883 depends on SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
1886 This setting allows you to specify a default value for which
1887 codepage the server uses. If this field is left blank no
1888 translations will be done by default. The local codepage/charset
1889 default to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT.
1891 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount
1892 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters.
1894 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
1897 tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem for Samba, Window and other CIFS compliant servers)"
1901 This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System
1902 (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block
1903 (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early
1904 PC operating systems. The CIFS protocol is fully supported by
1905 file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4
1906 and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS
1907 server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited
1908 support for OS/2 and Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well.
1910 The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced
1911 network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers,
1912 including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user
1913 session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional
1914 packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements.
1915 If you need to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y.
1918 bool "CIFS statistics"
1921 Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share
1922 mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats
1925 bool "Extended statistics"
1926 depends on CIFS_STATS
1928 Enabling this option will allow more detailed statistics on SMB
1929 request timing to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData and also
1930 allow optional logging of slow responses to dmesg (depending on the
1931 value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI, see fs/cifs/README for more details).
1932 These additional statistics may have a minor effect on performance
1933 and memory utilization.
1935 Unless you are a developer or are doing network performance analysis
1938 config CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH
1939 bool "Support legacy servers which use weaker LANMAN security"
1942 Modern CIFS servers including Samba and most Windows versions
1943 (since 1997) support stronger NTLM (and even NTLMv2 and Kerberos)
1944 security mechanisms. These hash the password more securely
1945 than the mechanisms used in the older LANMAN version of the
1946 SMB protocol needed to establish sessions with old SMB servers.
1948 Enabling this option allows the cifs module to mount to older
1949 LANMAN based servers such as OS/2 and Windows 95, but such
1950 mounts may be less secure than mounts using NTLM or more recent
1951 security mechanisms if you are on a public network. Unless you
1952 have a need to access old SMB servers (and are on a private
1953 network) you probably want to say N. Even if this support
1954 is enabled in the kernel build, they will not be used
1955 automatically. At runtime LANMAN mounts are disabled but
1956 can be set to required (or optional) either in
1957 /proc/fs/cifs (see fs/cifs/README for more detail) or via an
1958 option on the mount command. This support is disabled by
1959 default in order to reduce the possibility of a downgrade
1965 bool "CIFS extended attributes"
1968 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
1969 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
1970 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). CIFS maps the name of
1971 extended attributes beginning with the user namespace prefix
1972 to SMB/CIFS EAs. EAs are stored on Windows servers without the
1973 user namespace prefix, but their names are seen by Linux cifs clients
1974 prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace
1975 (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at
1981 bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions"
1982 depends on CIFS_XATTR
1984 Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to
1985 negotiate a newer dialect with servers, such as Samba 3.0.5
1986 or later, that optionally can handle more POSIX like (rather
1987 than Windows like) file behavior. It also enables
1988 support for POSIX ACLs (getfacl and setfacl) to servers
1989 (such as Samba 3.10 and later) which can negotiate
1990 CIFS POSIX ACL support. If unsure, say N.
1993 bool "Enable additional CIFS debugging routines"
1996 Enabling this option adds a few more debugging routines
1997 to the cifs code which slightly increases the size of
1998 the cifs module and can cause additional logging of debug
1999 messages in some error paths, slowing performance. This
2000 option can be turned off unless you are debugging
2001 cifs problems. If unsure, say N.
2003 config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
2004 bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)"
2005 depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL
2007 Enables cifs features under testing. These features are
2008 experimental and currently include DFS support and directory
2009 change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY), as well as the upcall
2010 mechanism which will be used for Kerberos session negotiation
2011 and uid remapping. Some of these features also may depend on
2012 setting a value of 1 to the pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental
2013 (which is disabled by default). See the file fs/cifs/README
2014 for more details. If unsure, say N.
2017 bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)"
2018 depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
2021 Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which will be used to contact
2022 userspace helper utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged Kerberos
2023 tickets which are needed to mount to certain secure servers
2024 (for which more secure Kerberos authentication is required). If
2028 tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)"
2029 depends on IPX!=n || INET
2031 NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) is a protocol that runs over IPX and is
2032 used by Novell NetWare clients to talk to file servers. It is to
2033 IPX what NFS is to TCP/IP, if that helps. Saying Y here allows you
2034 to mount NetWare file server volumes and to access them just like
2035 any other Unix directory. For details, please read the file
2036 <file:Documentation/filesystems/ncpfs.txt> in the kernel source and
2037 the IPX-HOWTO from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
2039 You do not have to say Y here if you want your Linux box to act as a
2040 file *server* for Novell NetWare clients.
2042 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
2043 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
2045 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
2046 ncpfs. Say N unless you are connected to a Novell network.
2048 source "fs/ncpfs/Kconfig"
2051 tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)"
2054 Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it
2055 enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them
2056 with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard
2057 disk. Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for
2058 disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server
2059 replication, security model for authentication and encryption,
2060 persistent client caches and write back caching.
2062 If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda
2063 *client*. You will need user level code as well, both for the
2064 client and server. Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need
2065 no kernel support. Please read
2066 <file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.txt> and check out the Coda
2067 home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>.
2069 To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the
2070 module will be called coda.
2072 config CODA_FS_OLD_API
2073 bool "Use 96-bit Coda file identifiers"
2076 A new kernel-userspace API had to be introduced for Coda v6.0
2077 to support larger 128-bit file identifiers as needed by the
2078 new realms implementation.
2080 However this new API is not backward compatible with older
2081 clients. If you really need to run the old Coda userspace
2082 cache manager then say Y.
2084 For most cases you probably want to say N.
2087 tristate "Andrew File System support (AFS) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
2088 depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL
2091 If you say Y here, you will get an experimental Andrew File System
2092 driver. It currently only supports unsecured read-only AFS access.
2094 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information.
2099 bool "AFS dynamic debugging"
2102 Say Y here to make runtime controllable debugging messages appear.
2104 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information.
2109 tristate "Plan 9 Resource Sharing Support (9P2000) (Experimental)"
2110 depends on INET && NET_9P && EXPERIMENTAL
2112 If you say Y here, you will get experimental support for
2113 Plan 9 resource sharing via the 9P2000 protocol.
2115 See <http://v9fs.sf.net> for more information.
2119 endif # NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS
2122 menu "Partition Types"
2124 source "fs/partitions/Kconfig"
2129 source "fs/nls/Kconfig"
2130 source "fs/dlm/Kconfig"