2 # File system configuration
10 tristate "Second extended fs support"
12 Ext2 is a standard Linux file system for hard disks.
14 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
15 module will be called ext2.
20 bool "Ext2 extended attributes"
23 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
24 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
25 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
29 config EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL
30 bool "Ext2 POSIX Access Control Lists"
31 depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR
34 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
35 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
37 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
38 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
40 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
42 config EXT2_FS_SECURITY
43 bool "Ext2 Security Labels"
44 depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR
46 Security labels support alternative access control models
47 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
48 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
49 labels in the ext2 filesystem.
51 If you are not using a security module that requires using
52 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
55 bool "Ext2 execute in place support"
56 depends on EXT2_FS && MMU
58 Execute in place can be used on memory-backed block devices. If you
59 enable this option, you can select to mount block devices which are
60 capable of this feature without using the page cache.
62 If you do not use a block device that is capable of using this,
68 depends on EXT2_FS_XIP
72 tristate "Ext3 journalling file system support"
75 This is the journalling version of the Second extended file system
76 (often called ext3), the de facto standard Linux file system
77 (method to organize files on a storage device) for hard disks.
79 The journalling code included in this driver means you do not have
80 to run e2fsck (file system checker) on your file systems after a
81 crash. The journal keeps track of any changes that were being made
82 at the time the system crashed, and can ensure that your file system
83 is consistent without the need for a lengthy check.
85 Other than adding the journal to the file system, the on-disk format
86 of ext3 is identical to ext2. It is possible to freely switch
87 between using the ext3 driver and the ext2 driver, as long as the
88 file system has been cleanly unmounted, or e2fsck is run on the file
91 To add a journal on an existing ext2 file system or change the
92 behavior of ext3 file systems, you can use the tune2fs utility ("man
93 tune2fs"). To modify attributes of files and directories on ext3
94 file systems, use chattr ("man chattr"). You need to be using
95 e2fsprogs version 1.20 or later in order to create ext3 journals
96 (available at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/e2fsprogs/>).
98 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
99 module will be called ext3.
102 bool "Ext3 extended attributes"
106 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
107 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
108 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
112 You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext3.
114 config EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL
115 bool "Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists"
116 depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR
119 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
120 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
122 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
123 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
125 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
127 config EXT3_FS_SECURITY
128 bool "Ext3 Security Labels"
129 depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR
131 Security labels support alternative access control models
132 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
133 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
134 labels in the ext3 filesystem.
136 If you are not using a security module that requires using
137 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
140 tristate "Ext4dev/ext4 extended fs support development (EXPERIMENTAL)"
141 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
144 Ext4dev is a predecessor filesystem of the next generation
145 extended fs ext4, based on ext3 filesystem code. It will be
146 renamed ext4 fs later, once ext4dev is mature and stabilized.
148 Unlike the change from ext2 filesystem to ext3 filesystem,
149 the on-disk format of ext4dev is not the same as ext3 any more:
150 it is based on extent maps and it supports 48-bit physical block
151 numbers. These combined on-disk format changes will allow
152 ext4dev/ext4 to handle more than 16 TB filesystem volumes --
153 a hard limit that ext3 cannot overcome without changing the
156 Other than extent maps and 48-bit block numbers, ext4dev also is
157 likely to have other new features such as persistent preallocation,
158 high resolution time stamps, and larger file support etc. These
159 features will be added to ext4dev gradually.
161 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here. The
162 module will be called ext4dev.
166 config EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
167 bool "Ext4dev extended attributes"
168 depends on EXT4DEV_FS
171 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
172 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
173 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
177 You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext4dev/ext4.
179 config EXT4DEV_FS_POSIX_ACL
180 bool "Ext4dev POSIX Access Control Lists"
181 depends on EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
184 POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
185 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
187 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for
188 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
190 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
192 config EXT4DEV_FS_SECURITY
193 bool "Ext4dev Security Labels"
194 depends on EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
196 Security labels support alternative access control models
197 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
198 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
199 labels in the ext4dev/ext4 filesystem.
201 If you are not using a security module that requires using
202 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
207 This is a generic journalling layer for block devices. It is
208 currently used by the ext3 and OCFS2 file systems, but it could
209 also be used to add journal support to other file systems or block
210 devices such as RAID or LVM.
212 If you are using the ext3 or OCFS2 file systems, you need to
213 say Y here. If you are not using ext3 OCFS2 then you will probably
216 To compile this device as a module, choose M here: the module will be
217 called jbd. If you are compiling ext3 or OCFS2 into the kernel,
218 you cannot compile this code as a module.
221 bool "JBD (ext3) debugging support"
224 If you are using the ext3 journaled file system (or potentially any
225 other file system/device using JBD), this option allows you to
226 enable debugging output while the system is running, in order to
227 help track down any problems you are having. By default the
228 debugging output will be turned off.
230 If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging
231 with "echo N > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug", where N is a number between
232 1 and 5, the higher the number, the more debugging output is
233 generated. To turn debugging off again, do
234 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug".
239 This is a generic journaling layer for block devices that support
240 both 32-bit and 64-bit block numbers. It is currently used by
241 the ext4dev/ext4 filesystem, but it could also be used to add
242 journal support to other file systems or block devices such
245 If you are using ext4dev/ext4, you need to say Y here. If you are not
246 using ext4dev/ext4 then you will probably want to say N.
248 To compile this device as a module, choose M here. The module will be
249 called jbd2. If you are compiling ext4dev/ext4 into the kernel,
250 you cannot compile this code as a module.
253 bool "JBD2 (ext4dev/ext4) debugging support"
254 depends on JBD2 && DEBUG_FS
256 If you are using the ext4dev/ext4 journaled file system (or
257 potentially any other filesystem/device using JBD2), this option
258 allows you to enable debugging output while the system is running,
259 in order to help track down any problems you are having.
260 By default, the debugging output will be turned off.
262 If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging
263 with "echo N > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd2/jbd2-debug", where N is a
264 number between 1 and 5. The higher the number, the more debugging
265 output is generated. To turn debugging off again, do
266 "echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd2/jbd2-debug".
269 # Meta block cache for Extended Attributes (ext2/ext3/ext4)
271 depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR || EXT3_FS_XATTR || EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
272 default y if EXT2_FS=y || EXT3_FS=y || EXT4DEV_FS=y
273 default m if EXT2_FS=m || EXT3_FS=m || EXT4DEV_FS=m
276 tristate "Reiserfs support"
278 Stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a balanced
279 tree. Uses journalling.
281 Balanced trees are more efficient than traditional file system
282 architectural foundations.
284 In general, ReiserFS is as fast as ext2, but is very efficient with
285 large directories and small files. Additional patches are needed
286 for NFS and quotas, please see <http://www.namesys.com/> for links.
288 It is more easily extended to have features currently found in
289 database and keyword search systems than block allocation based file
290 systems are. The next version will be so extended, and will support
291 plugins consistent with our motto ``It takes more than a license to
292 make source code open.''
294 Read <http://www.namesys.com/> to learn more about reiserfs.
296 Sponsored by Threshold Networks, Emusic.com, and Bigstorage.com.
298 If you like it, you can pay us to add new features to it that you
299 need, buy a support contract, or pay us to port it to another OS.
301 config REISERFS_CHECK
302 bool "Enable reiserfs debug mode"
303 depends on REISERFS_FS
305 If you set this to Y, then ReiserFS will perform every check it can
306 possibly imagine of its internal consistency throughout its
307 operation. It will also go substantially slower. More than once we
308 have forgotten that this was on, and then gone despondent over the
309 latest benchmarks.:-) Use of this option allows our team to go all
310 out in checking for consistency when debugging without fear of its
311 effect on end users. If you are on the verge of sending in a bug
312 report, say Y and you might get a useful error message. Almost
313 everyone should say N.
315 config REISERFS_PROC_INFO
316 bool "Stats in /proc/fs/reiserfs"
317 depends on REISERFS_FS && PROC_FS
319 Create under /proc/fs/reiserfs a hierarchy of files, displaying
320 various ReiserFS statistics and internal data at the expense of
321 making your kernel or module slightly larger (+8 KB). This also
322 increases the amount of kernel memory required for each mount.
323 Almost everyone but ReiserFS developers and people fine-tuning
324 reiserfs or tracing problems should say N.
326 config REISERFS_FS_XATTR
327 bool "ReiserFS extended attributes"
328 depends on REISERFS_FS
330 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
331 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
332 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
336 config REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL
337 bool "ReiserFS POSIX Access Control Lists"
338 depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR
341 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
342 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
344 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
345 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
347 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
349 config REISERFS_FS_SECURITY
350 bool "ReiserFS Security Labels"
351 depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR
353 Security labels support alternative access control models
354 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
355 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
356 labels in the ReiserFS filesystem.
358 If you are not using a security module that requires using
359 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
362 tristate "JFS filesystem support"
365 This is a port of IBM's Journaled Filesystem . More information is
366 available in the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt>.
368 If you do not intend to use the JFS filesystem, say N.
371 bool "JFS POSIX Access Control Lists"
375 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
376 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
378 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
379 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
381 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
384 bool "JFS Security Labels"
387 Security labels support alternative access control models
388 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
389 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
390 labels in the jfs filesystem.
392 If you are not using a security module that requires using
393 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
399 If you are experiencing any problems with the JFS filesystem, say
400 Y here. This will result in additional debugging messages to be
401 written to the system log. Under normal circumstances, this
402 results in very little overhead.
404 config JFS_STATISTICS
405 bool "JFS statistics"
408 Enabling this option will cause statistics from the JFS file system
409 to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jfs/ directory.
412 # Posix ACL utility routines (for now, only ext2/ext3/jfs/reiserfs)
414 # NOTE: you can implement Posix ACLs without these helpers (XFS does).
415 # Never use this symbol for ifdefs.
420 source "fs/xfs/Kconfig"
421 source "fs/gfs2/Kconfig"
424 tristate "OCFS2 file system support"
425 depends on NET && SYSFS
430 OCFS2 is a general purpose extent based shared disk cluster file
431 system with many similarities to ext3. It supports 64 bit inode
432 numbers, and has automatically extending metadata groups which may
433 also make it attractive for non-clustered use.
435 You'll want to install the ocfs2-tools package in order to at least
438 Project web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2
439 Tools web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools
440 OCFS2 mailing lists: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/mailman/
442 Note: Features which OCFS2 does not support yet:
443 - extended attributes
445 - cluster aware flock
446 - Directory change notification (F_NOTIFY)
447 - Distributed Caching (F_SETLEASE/F_GETLEASE/break_lease)
449 - readpages / writepages (not user visible)
451 config OCFS2_DEBUG_MASKLOG
452 bool "OCFS2 logging support"
456 The ocfs2 filesystem has an extensive logging system. The system
457 allows selection of events to log via files in /sys/o2cb/logmask/.
458 This option will enlarge your kernel, but it allows debugging of
459 ocfs2 filesystem issues.
462 tristate "Minix fs support"
464 Minix is a simple operating system used in many classes about OS's.
465 The minix file system (method to organize files on a hard disk
466 partition or a floppy disk) was the original file system for Linux,
467 but has been superseded by the second extended file system ext2fs.
468 You don't want to use the minix file system on your hard disk
469 because of certain built-in restrictions, but it is sometimes found
470 on older Linux floppy disks. This option will enlarge your kernel
471 by about 28 KB. If unsure, say N.
473 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
474 module will be called minix. Note that the file system of your root
475 partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as
479 tristate "ROM file system support"
481 This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for
482 initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for
483 other read-only media as well. Read
484 <file:Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt> for details.
486 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
487 module will be called romfs. Note that the file system of your
488 root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a
491 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
497 bool "Inotify file change notification support"
500 Say Y here to enable inotify support. Inotify is a file change
501 notification system and a replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes
502 numerous shortcomings in dnotify and introduces several new features
503 including multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount
506 For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt
511 bool "Inotify support for userspace"
515 Say Y here to enable inotify support for userspace, including the
516 associated system calls. Inotify allows monitoring of both files and
517 directories via a single open fd. Events are read from the file
518 descriptor, which is also select()- and poll()-able.
520 For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt
527 If you say Y here, you will be able to set per user limits for disk
528 usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works for the
529 ext2, ext3, and reiserfs file system. ext3 also supports journalled
530 quotas for which you don't need to run quotacheck(8) after an unclean
532 For further details, read the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from
533 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or the documentation provided
534 with the quota tools. Probably the quota support is only useful for
535 multi user systems. If unsure, say N.
538 tristate "Old quota format support"
541 This quota format was (is) used by kernels earlier than 2.4.22. If
542 you have quota working and you don't want to convert to new quota
546 tristate "Quota format v2 support"
549 This quota format allows using quotas with 32-bit UIDs/GIDs. If you
550 need this functionality say Y here.
554 depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA
558 bool "Dnotify support" if EMBEDDED
561 Dnotify is a directory-based per-fd file change notification system
562 that uses signals to communicate events to user-space. There exist
563 superior alternatives, but some applications may still rely on
566 Because of this, if unsure, say Y.
569 tristate "Kernel automounter support"
571 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
572 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
573 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
574 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
576 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs
577 package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>.
578 You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
580 If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more
581 features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support",
584 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
587 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you
588 probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here.
591 tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)"
593 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
594 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
595 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
596 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
598 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from
599 <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/>; you also
600 want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
602 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
603 called autofs4. You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your
604 modules configuration file.
606 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or
607 don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the
608 local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say
612 tristate "Filesystem in Userspace support"
614 With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem
615 in a userspace program.
617 There's also companion library: libfuse. This library along with
618 utilities is available from the FUSE homepage:
619 <http://fuse.sourceforge.net/>
621 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt> for more information.
622 See <file:Documentation/Changes> for needed library/utility version.
624 If you want to develop a userspace FS, or if you want to use
625 a filesystem based on FUSE, answer Y or M.
632 menu "CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems"
635 tristate "ISO 9660 CDROM file system support"
637 This is the standard file system used on CD-ROMs. It was previously
638 known as "High Sierra File System" and is called "hsfs" on other
639 Unix systems. The so-called Rock-Ridge extensions which allow for
640 long Unix filenames and symbolic links are also supported by this
641 driver. If you have a CD-ROM drive and want to do more with it than
642 just listen to audio CDs and watch its LEDs, say Y (and read
643 <file:Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt> and the CD-ROM-HOWTO,
644 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), thereby
645 enlarging your kernel by about 27 KB; otherwise say N.
647 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
648 module will be called isofs.
651 bool "Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions"
652 depends on ISO9660_FS
655 Joliet is a Microsoft extension for the ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system
656 which allows for long filenames in unicode format (unicode is the
657 new 16 bit character code, successor to ASCII, which encodes the
658 characters of almost all languages of the world; see
659 <http://www.unicode.org/> for more information). Say Y here if you
660 want to be able to read Joliet CD-ROMs under Linux.
663 bool "Transparent decompression extension"
664 depends on ISO9660_FS
667 This is a Linux-specific extension to RockRidge which lets you store
668 data in compressed form on a CD-ROM and have it transparently
669 decompressed when the CD-ROM is accessed. See
670 <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/zisofs/> for the tools
671 necessary to create such a filesystem. Say Y here if you want to be
672 able to read such compressed CD-ROMs.
675 tristate "UDF file system support"
677 This is the new file system used on some CD-ROMs and DVDs. Say Y if
678 you intend to mount DVD discs or CDRW's written in packet mode, or
679 if written to by other UDF utilities, such as DirectCD.
680 Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt>.
682 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
683 module will be called udf.
690 depends on (UDF_FS=m && NLS) || (UDF_FS=y && NLS=y)
696 menu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems"
702 If you want to use one of the FAT-based file systems (the MS-DOS and
703 VFAT (Windows 95) file systems), then you must say Y or M here
704 to include FAT support. You will then be able to mount partitions or
705 diskettes with FAT-based file systems and transparently access the
706 files on them, i.e. MSDOS files will look and behave just like all
709 This FAT support is not a file system in itself, it only provides
710 the foundation for the other file systems. You will have to say Y or
711 M to at least one of "MSDOS fs support" or "VFAT fs support" in
712 order to make use of it.
714 Another way to read and write MSDOS floppies and hard drive
715 partitions from within Linux (but not transparently) is with the
716 mtools ("man mtools") program suite. You don't need to say Y here in
719 If you need to move large files on floppies between a DOS and a
720 Linux box, say Y here, mount the floppy under Linux with an MSDOS
721 file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program
722 available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar").
724 The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure,
727 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
728 fat. Note that if you compile the FAT support as a module, you
729 cannot compile any of the FAT-based file systems into the kernel
730 -- they will have to be modules as well.
733 tristate "MSDOS fs support"
736 This allows you to mount MSDOS partitions of your hard drive (unless
737 they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under
738 Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the
739 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from
740 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in
741 <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you
742 intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y
743 here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes
744 transparent, i.e. the MSDOS files look and behave just like all
747 If you have Windows 95 or Windows NT installed on your MSDOS
748 partitions, you should use the VFAT file system (say Y to "VFAT fs
749 support" below), or you will not be able to see the long filenames
750 generated by Windows 95 / Windows NT.
752 This option will enlarge your kernel by about 7 KB. If unsure,
753 answer Y. This will only work if you said Y to "DOS FAT fs support"
754 as well. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will
758 tristate "VFAT (Windows-95) fs support"
761 This option provides support for normal Windows file systems with
762 long filenames. That includes non-compressed FAT-based file systems
763 used by Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and the Unix
764 programs from the mtools package.
766 The VFAT support enlarges your kernel by about 10 KB and it only
767 works if you said Y to the "DOS FAT fs support" above. Please read
768 the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for details. If
771 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
774 config FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE
775 int "Default codepage for FAT"
776 depends on MSDOS_FS || VFAT_FS
779 This option should be set to the codepage of your FAT filesystems.
780 It can be overridden with the "codepage" mount option.
781 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
783 config FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET
784 string "Default iocharset for FAT"
788 Set this to the default input/output character set you'd
789 like FAT to use. It should probably match the character set
790 that most of your FAT filesystems use, and can be overridden
791 with the "iocharset" mount option for FAT filesystems.
792 Note that "utf8" is not recommended for FAT filesystems.
793 If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here.
794 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
797 tristate "NTFS file system support"
800 NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003.
802 Saying Y or M here enables read support. There is partial, but
803 safe, write support available. For write support you must also
804 say Y to "NTFS write support" below.
806 There are also a number of user-space tools available, called
807 ntfsprogs. These include ntfsundelete and ntfsresize, that work
808 without NTFS support enabled in the kernel.
810 This is a rewrite from scratch of Linux NTFS support and replaced
811 the old NTFS code starting with Linux 2.5.11. A backport to
812 the Linux 2.4 kernel series is separately available as a patch
813 from the project web site.
815 For more information see <file:Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt>
816 and <http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/>.
818 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
819 module will be called ntfs.
821 If you are not using Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 in addition to
822 Linux on your computer it is safe to say N.
825 bool "NTFS debugging support"
828 If you are experiencing any problems with the NTFS file system, say
829 Y here. This will result in additional consistency checks to be
830 performed by the driver as well as additional debugging messages to
831 be written to the system log. Note that debugging messages are
832 disabled by default. To enable them, supply the option debug_msgs=1
833 at the kernel command line when booting the kernel or as an option
834 to insmod when loading the ntfs module. Once the driver is active,
835 you can enable debugging messages by doing (as root):
836 echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug
837 Replacing the "1" with "0" would disable debug messages.
839 If you leave debugging messages disabled, this results in little
840 overhead, but enabling debug messages results in very significant
841 slowdown of the system.
843 When reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of
844 debugging messages while the misbehaviour was occurring.
847 bool "NTFS write support"
850 This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver.
852 The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without
853 changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or
854 renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to
855 so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot
858 While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have
859 so far not received a single report where the driver would have
860 damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use.
862 Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from
863 scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS
864 write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997),
867 This is currently useful with TopologiLinux. TopologiLinux is run
868 on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your
869 hard disk. Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not
870 need its own partition. For more information see
871 <http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/>
873 It is perfectly safe to say N here.
878 menu "Pseudo filesystems"
881 bool "/proc file system support" if EMBEDDED
884 This is a virtual file system providing information about the status
885 of the system. "Virtual" means that it doesn't take up any space on
886 your hard disk: the files are created on the fly by the kernel when
887 you try to access them. Also, you cannot read the files with older
888 version of the program less: you need to use more or cat.
890 It's totally cool; for example, "cat /proc/interrupts" gives
891 information about what the different IRQs are used for at the moment
892 (there is a small number of Interrupt ReQuest lines in your computer
893 that are used by the attached devices to gain the CPU's attention --
894 often a source of trouble if two devices are mistakenly configured
895 to use the same IRQ). The program procinfo to display some
896 information about your system gathered from the /proc file system.
898 Before you can use the /proc file system, it has to be mounted,
899 meaning it has to be given a location in the directory hierarchy.
900 That location should be /proc. A command such as "mount -t proc proc
901 /proc" or the equivalent line in /etc/fstab does the job.
903 The /proc file system is explained in the file
904 <file:Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt> and on the proc(5) manpage
907 This option will enlarge your kernel by about 67 KB. Several
908 programs depend on this, so everyone should say Y here.
911 bool "/proc/kcore support" if !ARM
912 depends on PROC_FS && MMU
915 bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
916 depends on PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP
919 Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format.
922 bool "Sysctl support (/proc/sys)" if EMBEDDED
927 The sysctl interface provides a means of dynamically changing
928 certain kernel parameters and variables on the fly without requiring
929 a recompile of the kernel or reboot of the system. The primary
930 interface is through /proc/sys. If you say Y here a tree of
931 modifiable sysctl entries will be generated beneath the
932 /proc/sys directory. They are explained in the files
933 in <file:Documentation/sysctl/>. Note that enabling this
934 option will enlarge the kernel by at least 8 KB.
936 As it is generally a good thing, you should say Y here unless
937 building a kernel for install/rescue disks or your system is very
941 bool "sysfs file system support" if EMBEDDED
944 The sysfs filesystem is a virtual filesystem that the kernel uses to
945 export internal kernel objects, their attributes, and their
946 relationships to one another.
948 Users can use sysfs to ascertain useful information about the running
949 kernel, such as the devices the kernel has discovered on each bus and
950 which driver each is bound to. sysfs can also be used to tune devices
951 and other kernel subsystems.
953 Some system agents rely on the information in sysfs to operate.
954 /sbin/hotplug uses device and object attributes in sysfs to assist in
955 delegating policy decisions, like persistently naming devices.
957 sysfs is currently used by the block subsystem to mount the root
958 partition. If sysfs is disabled you must specify the boot device on
959 the kernel boot command line via its major and minor numbers. For
960 example, "root=03:01" for /dev/hda1.
962 Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space.
965 bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)"
967 Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory.
969 Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be
970 created on your hard drive. The files live in memory and swap
971 space. If you unmount a tmpfs instance, everything stored therein is
974 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> for details.
976 config TMPFS_POSIX_ACL
977 bool "Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists"
981 POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
982 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
984 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for
985 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
987 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N.
990 bool "HugeTLB file system support"
991 depends on X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || (SUPERH && MMU) || BROKEN
993 hugetlbfs is a filesystem backing for HugeTLB pages, based on
994 ramfs. For architectures that support it, say Y here and read
995 <file:Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt> for details.
1006 Ramfs is a file system which keeps all files in RAM. It allows
1007 read and write access.
1009 It is more of an programming example than a useable file system. If
1010 you need a file system which lives in RAM with limit checking use
1013 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1017 tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1018 depends on SYSFS && EXPERIMENTAL
1020 configfs is a ram-based filesystem that provides the converse
1021 of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based
1022 view of kernel objects, configfs is a filesystem-based manager
1023 of kernel objects, or config_items.
1025 Both sysfs and configfs can and should exist together on the
1026 same system. One is not a replacement for the other.
1030 menu "Miscellaneous filesystems"
1033 tristate "ADFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1034 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1036 The Acorn Disc Filing System is the standard file system of the
1037 RiscOS operating system which runs on Acorn's ARM-based Risc PC
1038 systems and the Acorn Archimedes range of machines. If you say Y
1039 here, Linux will be able to read from ADFS partitions on hard drives
1040 and from ADFS-formatted floppy discs. If you also want to be able to
1041 write to those devices, say Y to "ADFS write support" below.
1043 The ADFS partition should be the first partition (i.e.,
1044 /dev/[hs]d?1) on each of your drives. Please read the file
1045 <file:Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt> for further details.
1047 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be
1053 bool "ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)"
1056 If you say Y here, you will be able to write to ADFS partitions on
1057 hard drives and ADFS-formatted floppy disks. This is experimental
1058 codes, so if you're unsure, say N.
1061 tristate "Amiga FFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1062 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1064 The Fast File System (FFS) is the common file system used on hard
1065 disks by Amiga(tm) systems since AmigaOS Version 1.3 (34.20). Say Y
1066 if you want to be able to read and write files from and to an Amiga
1067 FFS partition on your hard drive. Amiga floppies however cannot be
1068 read with this driver due to an incompatibility of the floppy
1069 controller used in an Amiga and the standard floppy controller in
1070 PCs and workstations. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt>
1071 and <file:fs/affs/Changes>.
1073 With this driver you can also mount disk files used by Bernd
1074 Schmidt's Un*X Amiga Emulator
1075 (<http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/>).
1076 If you want to do this, you will also need to say Y or M to "Loop
1077 device support", above.
1079 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1080 module will be called affs. If unsure, say N.
1083 tristate "eCrypt filesystem layer support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1084 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && KEYS && CRYPTO && NET
1086 Encrypted filesystem that operates on the VFS layer. See
1087 <file:Documentation/ecryptfs.txt> to learn more about
1088 eCryptfs. Userspace components are required and can be
1089 obtained from <http://ecryptfs.sf.net>.
1091 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1092 module will be called ecryptfs.
1095 tristate "Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1096 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1099 If you say Y here, you will be able to mount Macintosh-formatted
1100 floppy disks and hard drive partitions with full read-write access.
1101 Please read <file:fs/hfs/HFS.txt> to learn about the available mount
1104 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1105 module will be called hfs.
1108 tristate "Apple Extended HFS file system support"
1113 If you say Y here, you will be able to mount extended format
1114 Macintosh-formatted hard drive partitions with full read-write access.
1116 This file system is often called HFS+ and was introduced with
1117 MacOS 8. It includes all Mac specific filesystem data such as
1118 data forks and creator codes, but it also has several UNIX
1119 style features such as file ownership and permissions.
1122 tristate "BeOS file system (BeFS) support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1123 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1126 The BeOS File System (BeFS) is the native file system of Be, Inc's
1127 BeOS. Notable features include support for arbitrary attributes
1128 on files and directories, and database-like indices on selected
1129 attributes. (Also note that this driver doesn't make those features
1130 available at this time). It is a 64 bit filesystem, so it supports
1131 extremely large volumes and files.
1133 If you use this filesystem, you should also say Y to at least one
1134 of the NLS (native language support) options below.
1136 If you don't know what this is about, say N.
1138 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
1145 If you say Y here, you can use the 'debug' mount option to enable
1146 debugging output from the driver.
1149 tristate "BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1150 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1152 Boot File System (BFS) is a file system used under SCO UnixWare to
1153 allow the bootloader access to the kernel image and other important
1154 files during the boot process. It is usually mounted under /stand
1155 and corresponds to the slice marked as "STAND" in the UnixWare
1156 partition. You should say Y if you want to read or write the files
1157 on your /stand slice from within Linux. You then also need to say Y
1158 to "UnixWare slices support", below. More information about the BFS
1159 file system is contained in the file
1160 <file:Documentation/filesystems/bfs.txt>.
1162 If you don't know what this is about, say N.
1164 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1165 bfs. Note that the file system of your root partition (the one
1166 containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
1171 tristate "EFS file system support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1172 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1174 EFS is an older file system used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and hard
1175 disk partitions by SGI's IRIX operating system (IRIX 6.0 and newer
1176 uses the XFS file system for hard disk partitions however).
1178 This implementation only offers read-only access. If you don't know
1179 what all this is about, it's safe to say N. For more information
1180 about EFS see its home page at <http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/>.
1182 To compile the EFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1183 module will be called efs.
1186 tristate "Journalling Flash File System v2 (JFFS2) support"
1190 JFFS2 is the second generation of the Journalling Flash File System
1191 for use on diskless embedded devices. It provides improved wear
1192 levelling, compression and support for hard links. You cannot use
1193 this on normal block devices, only on 'MTD' devices.
1195 Further information on the design and implementation of JFFS2 is
1196 available at <http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2/>.
1198 config JFFS2_FS_DEBUG
1199 int "JFFS2 debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 2 = noisy)"
1203 This controls the amount of debugging messages produced by the JFFS2
1204 code. Set it to zero for use in production systems. For evaluation,
1205 testing and debugging, it's advisable to set it to one. This will
1206 enable a few assertions and will print debugging messages at the
1207 KERN_DEBUG loglevel, where they won't normally be visible. Level 2
1208 is unlikely to be useful - it enables extra debugging in certain
1209 areas which at one point needed debugging, but when the bugs were
1210 located and fixed, the detailed messages were relegated to level 2.
1212 If reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of the
1213 messages at debug level 1 while the misbehaviour was occurring.
1215 config JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER
1216 bool "JFFS2 write-buffering support"
1220 This enables the write-buffering support in JFFS2.
1222 This functionality is required to support JFFS2 on the following
1223 types of flash devices:
1225 - NOR flash with transparent ECC
1228 config JFFS2_FS_WBUF_VERIFY
1229 bool "Verify JFFS2 write-buffer reads"
1230 depends on JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER
1233 This causes JFFS2 to read back every page written through the
1234 write-buffer, and check for errors.
1236 config JFFS2_SUMMARY
1237 bool "JFFS2 summary support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1238 depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1241 This feature makes it possible to use summary information
1242 for faster filesystem mount.
1244 The summary information can be inserted into a filesystem image
1245 by the utility 'sumtool'.
1249 config JFFS2_FS_XATTR
1250 bool "JFFS2 XATTR support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1251 depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1254 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
1255 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
1256 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
1260 config JFFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL
1261 bool "JFFS2 POSIX Access Control Lists"
1262 depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR
1266 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
1267 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
1269 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
1270 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
1272 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
1274 config JFFS2_FS_SECURITY
1275 bool "JFFS2 Security Labels"
1276 depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR
1279 Security labels support alternative access control models
1280 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
1281 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
1282 labels in the jffs2 filesystem.
1284 If you are not using a security module that requires using
1285 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
1287 config JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1288 bool "Advanced compression options for JFFS2"
1292 Enabling this option allows you to explicitly choose which
1293 compression modules, if any, are enabled in JFFS2. Removing
1294 compressors and mean you cannot read existing file systems,
1295 and enabling experimental compressors can mean that you
1296 write a file system which cannot be read by a standard kernel.
1298 If unsure, you should _definitely_ say 'N'.
1301 bool "JFFS2 ZLIB compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1307 Zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered,
1308 lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer
1309 hardware and operating system. See <http://www.gzip.org/zlib/> for
1310 further information.
1315 bool "JFFS2 LZO compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1317 select LZO_DECOMPRESS
1321 minilzo-based compression. Generally works better than Zlib.
1323 This feature was added in July, 2007. Say 'N' if you need
1324 compatibility with older bootloaders or kernels.
1327 bool "JFFS2 RTIME compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1331 Rtime does manage to recompress already-compressed data. Say 'Y' if unsure.
1334 bool "JFFS2 RUBIN compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1338 RUBINMIPS and DYNRUBIN compressors. Say 'N' if unsure.
1341 prompt "JFFS2 default compression mode" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1342 default JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY
1345 You can set here the default compression mode of JFFS2 from
1346 the available compression modes. Don't touch if unsure.
1348 config JFFS2_CMODE_NONE
1349 bool "no compression"
1351 Uses no compression.
1353 config JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY
1356 Tries the compressors in a predefined order and chooses the first
1359 config JFFS2_CMODE_SIZE
1360 bool "size (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1362 Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest
1365 config JFFS2_CMODE_FAVOURLZO
1368 Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest
1369 result but gives some preference to LZO (which has faster
1370 decompression) at the expense of size.
1375 tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)"
1379 Saying Y here includes support for CramFs (Compressed ROM File
1380 System). CramFs is designed to be a simple, small, and compressed
1381 file system for ROM based embedded systems. CramFs is read-only,
1382 limited to 256MB file systems (with 16MB files), and doesn't support
1383 16/32 bits uid/gid, hard links and timestamps.
1385 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt> and
1386 <file:fs/cramfs/README> for further information.
1388 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1389 cramfs. Note that the root file system (the one containing the
1390 directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
1395 tristate "FreeVxFS file system support (VERITAS VxFS(TM) compatible)"
1398 FreeVxFS is a file system driver that support the VERITAS VxFS(TM)
1399 file system format. VERITAS VxFS(TM) is the standard file system
1400 of SCO UnixWare (and possibly others) and optionally available
1401 for Sunsoft Solaris, HP-UX and many other operating systems.
1402 Currently only readonly access is supported.
1404 NOTE: the file system type as used by mount(1), mount(2) and
1405 fstab(5) is 'vxfs' as it describes the file system format, not
1408 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
1409 called freevxfs. If unsure, say N.
1413 tristate "OS/2 HPFS file system support"
1416 OS/2 is IBM's operating system for PC's, the same as Warp, and HPFS
1417 is the file system used for organizing files on OS/2 hard disk
1418 partitions. Say Y if you want to be able to read files from and
1419 write files to an OS/2 HPFS partition on your hard drive. OS/2
1420 floppies however are in regular MSDOS format, so you don't need this
1421 option in order to be able to read them. Read
1422 <file:Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt>.
1424 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1425 module will be called hpfs. If unsure, say N.
1430 tristate "QNX4 file system support (read only)"
1433 This is the file system used by the real-time operating systems
1434 QNX 4 and QNX 6 (the latter is also called QNX RTP).
1435 Further information is available at <http://www.qnx.com/>.
1436 Say Y if you intend to mount QNX hard disks or floppies.
1437 Unless you say Y to "QNX4FS read-write support" below, you will
1438 only be able to read these file systems.
1440 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1441 module will be called qnx4.
1443 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
1447 bool "QNX4FS write support (DANGEROUS)"
1448 depends on QNX4FS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN
1450 Say Y if you want to test write support for QNX4 file systems.
1452 It's currently broken, so for now:
1458 tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support"
1461 SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel
1462 machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y
1463 here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk
1466 If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely
1467 that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order
1468 to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is
1469 a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse,
1470 UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux. It is
1471 available via FTP (user: ftp) from
1472 <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>).
1473 NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems;
1474 PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-)
1476 If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the
1477 network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support
1478 (but you need NFS file system support obviously).
1480 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
1481 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
1482 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
1483 tar" or preferably "info tar"). Note also that this option has
1484 nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about
1485 the System V file system in
1486 <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>.
1487 Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB.
1489 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1492 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
1497 tristate "UFS file system support (read only)"
1500 BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
1501 OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a file system called UFS. Some System V
1502 Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using
1503 this file system as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from
1504 these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the
1505 experimental "UFS file system write support", below. Please read the
1506 file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt> for more information.
1508 The recently released UFS2 variant (used in FreeBSD 5.x) is
1509 READ-ONLY supported.
1511 If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the
1512 network using NFS, you don't need the UFS file system support (but
1513 you need NFS file system support obviously).
1515 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
1516 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
1517 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
1518 tar" or preferably "info tar").
1520 When accessing NeXTstep files, you may need to convert them from the
1521 NeXT character set to the Latin1 character set; use the program
1522 recode ("info recode") for this purpose.
1524 To compile the UFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1525 module will be called ufs.
1527 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
1530 bool "UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS)"
1531 depends on UFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1533 Say Y here if you want to try writing to UFS partitions. This is
1534 experimental, so you should back up your UFS partitions beforehand.
1537 bool "UFS debugging"
1540 If you are experiencing any problems with the UFS filesystem, say
1541 Y here. This will result in _many_ additional debugging messages to be
1542 written to the system log.
1546 menu "Network File Systems"
1550 tristate "NFS file system support"
1554 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFS_V3_ACL
1556 If you are connected to some other (usually local) Unix computer
1557 (using SLIP, PLIP, PPP or Ethernet) and want to mount files residing
1558 on that computer (the NFS server) using the Network File Sharing
1559 protocol, say Y. "Mounting files" means that the client can access
1560 the files with usual UNIX commands as if they were sitting on the
1561 client's hard disk. For this to work, the server must run the
1562 programs nfsd and mountd (but does not need to have NFS file system
1563 support enabled in its kernel). NFS is explained in the Network
1564 Administrator's Guide, available from
1565 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>, on its man page: "man
1566 nfs", and in the NFS-HOWTO.
1568 A superior but less widely used alternative to NFS is provided by
1569 the Coda file system; see "Coda file system support" below.
1571 If you say Y here, you should have said Y to TCP/IP networking also.
1572 This option would enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB.
1574 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1575 module will be called nfs.
1577 If you are configuring a diskless machine which will mount its root
1578 file system over NFS at boot time, say Y here and to "Kernel
1579 level IP autoconfiguration" above and to "Root file system on NFS"
1580 below. You cannot compile this driver as a module in this case.
1581 There are two packages designed for booting diskless machines over
1582 the net: netboot, available from
1583 <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/netboot/>, and Etherboot,
1584 available from <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/etherboot/>.
1586 If you don't know what all this is about, say N.
1589 bool "Provide NFSv3 client support"
1592 Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak version
1593 3 of the NFS protocol.
1598 bool "Provide client support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension"
1601 Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX
1602 Access Control Lists. The server should also be compiled with
1603 the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL option.
1608 bool "Provide NFSv4 client support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1609 depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1610 select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
1612 Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak the newer
1613 version 4 of the NFS protocol.
1615 Note: Requires auxiliary userspace daemons which may be found on
1616 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
1621 bool "Allow direct I/O on NFS files"
1624 This option enables applications to perform uncached I/O on files
1625 in NFS file systems using the O_DIRECT open() flag. When O_DIRECT
1626 is set for a file, its data is not cached in the system's page
1627 cache. Data is moved to and from user-level application buffers
1628 directly. Unlike local disk-based file systems, NFS O_DIRECT has
1629 no alignment restrictions.
1631 Unless your program is designed to use O_DIRECT properly, you are
1632 much better off allowing the NFS client to manage data caching for
1633 you. Misusing O_DIRECT can cause poor server performance or network
1634 storms. This kernel build option defaults OFF to avoid exposing
1635 system administrators unwittingly to a potentially hazardous
1638 For more details on NFS O_DIRECT, see fs/nfs/direct.c.
1640 If unsure, say N. This reduces the size of the NFS client, and
1641 causes open() to return EINVAL if a file residing in NFS is
1642 opened with the O_DIRECT flag.
1645 tristate "NFS server support"
1650 select NFSD_V2_ACL if NFSD_V3_ACL
1651 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFSD_V2_ACL
1652 select NFSD_TCP if NFSD_V4
1653 select CRYPTO_MD5 if NFSD_V4
1654 select CRYPTO if NFSD_V4
1655 select FS_POSIX_ACL if NFSD_V4
1657 If you want your Linux box to act as an NFS *server*, so that other
1658 computers on your local network which support NFS can access certain
1659 directories on your box transparently, you have two options: you can
1660 use the self-contained user space program nfsd, in which case you
1661 should say N here, or you can say Y and use the kernel based NFS
1662 server. The advantage of the kernel based solution is that it is
1665 In either case, you will need support software; the respective
1666 locations are given in the file <file:Documentation/Changes> in the
1669 If you say Y here, you will get support for version 2 of the NFS
1670 protocol (NFSv2). If you also want NFSv3, say Y to the next question
1673 Please read the NFS-HOWTO, available from
1674 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
1676 To compile the NFS server support as a module, choose M here: the
1677 module will be called nfsd. If unsure, say N.
1684 bool "Provide NFSv3 server support"
1687 If you would like to include the NFSv3 server as well as the NFSv2
1688 server, say Y here. If unsure, say Y.
1691 bool "Provide server support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension"
1694 Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX
1695 Access Control Lists on exported file systems. NFS clients should
1696 be compiled with the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the
1697 CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL option. If unsure, say N.
1700 bool "Provide NFSv4 server support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1701 depends on NFSD && NFSD_V3 && EXPERIMENTAL
1702 select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
1704 If you would like to include the NFSv4 server as well as the NFSv2
1705 and NFSv3 servers, say Y here. This feature is experimental, and
1706 should only be used if you are interested in helping to test NFSv4.
1710 bool "Provide NFS server over TCP support"
1714 If you want your NFS server to support TCP connections, say Y here.
1715 TCP connections usually perform better than the default UDP when
1716 the network is lossy or congested. If unsure, say Y.
1719 bool "Root file system on NFS"
1720 depends on NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP
1722 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
1723 one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
1724 net via NFS (presumably because your box doesn't have a hard disk),
1725 say Y. Read <file:Documentation/nfsroot.txt> for details. It is
1726 likely that in this case, you also want to say Y to "Kernel level IP
1727 autoconfiguration" so that your box can discover its network address
1730 Most people say N here.
1737 depends on NFSD_V3 || NFS_V3
1743 config NFS_ACL_SUPPORT
1749 depends on NFSD || NFS_FS
1758 config SUNRPC_BIND34
1759 bool "Support for rpcbind versions 3 & 4 (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1760 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
1762 Provides kernel support for querying rpcbind servers via versions 3
1763 and 4 of the rpcbind protocol. The kernel automatically falls back
1764 to version 2 if a remote rpcbind service does not support versions
1767 If unsure, say N to get traditional behavior (version 2 rpcbind
1770 config RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
1771 tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1772 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
1779 Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api
1780 mechanism based on Kerberos V5. This is required for
1783 Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on
1784 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
1788 config RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3
1789 tristate "Secure RPC: SPKM3 mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1790 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
1798 Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api
1799 mechanism based on the SPKM3 public-key mechanism.
1801 Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on
1802 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
1807 tristate "SMB file system support (to mount Windows shares etc.)"
1811 SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Windows for Workgroups
1812 (WfW), Windows 95/98, Windows NT and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share
1813 files and printers over local networks. Saying Y here allows you to
1814 mount their file systems (often called "shares" in this context) and
1815 access them just like any other Unix directory. Currently, this
1816 works only if the Windows machines use TCP/IP as the underlying
1817 transport protocol, and not NetBEUI. For details, read
1818 <file:Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt> and the SMB-HOWTO,
1819 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
1821 Note: if you just want your box to act as an SMB *server* and make
1822 files and printing services available to Windows clients (which need
1823 to have a TCP/IP stack), you don't need to say Y here; you can use
1824 the program SAMBA (available from <ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/>)
1827 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
1828 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
1830 To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here: the module will
1831 be called smbfs. Most people say N, however.
1833 config SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
1834 bool "Use a default NLS"
1837 Enabling this will make smbfs use nls translations by default. You
1838 need to specify the local charset (CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT) in the nls
1839 settings and you need to give the default nls for the SMB server as
1840 CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE.
1842 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount
1843 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters.
1845 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
1847 config SMB_NLS_REMOTE
1848 string "Default Remote NLS Option"
1849 depends on SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
1852 This setting allows you to specify a default value for which
1853 codepage the server uses. If this field is left blank no
1854 translations will be done by default. The local codepage/charset
1855 default to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT.
1857 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount
1858 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters.
1860 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
1863 tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem for Samba, Window and other CIFS compliant servers)"
1867 This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System
1868 (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block
1869 (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early
1870 PC operating systems. The CIFS protocol is fully supported by
1871 file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4
1872 and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS
1873 server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited
1874 support for OS/2 and Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well.
1876 The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced
1877 network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers,
1878 including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user
1879 session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional
1880 packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements.
1881 If you need to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y.
1884 bool "CIFS statistics"
1887 Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share
1888 mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats
1891 bool "Extended statistics"
1892 depends on CIFS_STATS
1894 Enabling this option will allow more detailed statistics on SMB
1895 request timing to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData and also
1896 allow optional logging of slow responses to dmesg (depending on the
1897 value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI, see fs/cifs/README for more details).
1898 These additional statistics may have a minor effect on performance
1899 and memory utilization.
1901 Unless you are a developer or are doing network performance analysis
1904 config CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH
1905 bool "Support legacy servers which use weaker LANMAN security"
1908 Modern CIFS servers including Samba and most Windows versions
1909 (since 1997) support stronger NTLM (and even NTLMv2 and Kerberos)
1910 security mechanisms. These hash the password more securely
1911 than the mechanisms used in the older LANMAN version of the
1912 SMB protocol needed to establish sessions with old SMB servers.
1914 Enabling this option allows the cifs module to mount to older
1915 LANMAN based servers such as OS/2 and Windows 95, but such
1916 mounts may be less secure than mounts using NTLM or more recent
1917 security mechanisms if you are on a public network. Unless you
1918 have a need to access old SMB servers (and are on a private
1919 network) you probably want to say N. Even if this support
1920 is enabled in the kernel build, they will not be used
1921 automatically. At runtime LANMAN mounts are disabled but
1922 can be set to required (or optional) either in
1923 /proc/fs/cifs (see fs/cifs/README for more detail) or via an
1924 option on the mount command. This support is disabled by
1925 default in order to reduce the possibility of a downgrade
1931 bool "CIFS extended attributes"
1934 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
1935 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
1936 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). CIFS maps the name of
1937 extended attributes beginning with the user namespace prefix
1938 to SMB/CIFS EAs. EAs are stored on Windows servers without the
1939 user namespace prefix, but their names are seen by Linux cifs clients
1940 prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace
1941 (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at
1947 bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions"
1948 depends on CIFS_XATTR
1950 Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to
1951 negotiate a newer dialect with servers, such as Samba 3.0.5
1952 or later, that optionally can handle more POSIX like (rather
1953 than Windows like) file behavior. It also enables
1954 support for POSIX ACLs (getfacl and setfacl) to servers
1955 (such as Samba 3.10 and later) which can negotiate
1956 CIFS POSIX ACL support. If unsure, say N.
1959 bool "Enable additional CIFS debugging routines"
1962 Enabling this option adds a few more debugging routines
1963 to the cifs code which slightly increases the size of
1964 the cifs module and can cause additional logging of debug
1965 messages in some error paths, slowing performance. This
1966 option can be turned off unless you are debugging
1967 cifs problems. If unsure, say N.
1969 config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
1970 bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1971 depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL
1973 Enables cifs features under testing. These features are
1974 experimental and currently include DFS support and directory
1975 change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY), as well as the upcall
1976 mechanism which will be used for Kerberos session negotiation
1977 and uid remapping. Some of these features also may depend on
1978 setting a value of 1 to the pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental
1979 (which is disabled by default). See the file fs/cifs/README
1980 for more details. If unsure, say N.
1983 bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1984 depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
1985 depends on CONNECTOR
1987 Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which will be used to contact
1988 userspace helper utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged Kerberos
1989 tickets which are needed to mount to certain secure servers
1990 (for which more secure Kerberos authentication is required). If
1994 tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)"
1995 depends on IPX!=n || INET
1997 NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) is a protocol that runs over IPX and is
1998 used by Novell NetWare clients to talk to file servers. It is to
1999 IPX what NFS is to TCP/IP, if that helps. Saying Y here allows you
2000 to mount NetWare file server volumes and to access them just like
2001 any other Unix directory. For details, please read the file
2002 <file:Documentation/filesystems/ncpfs.txt> in the kernel source and
2003 the IPX-HOWTO from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
2005 You do not have to say Y here if you want your Linux box to act as a
2006 file *server* for Novell NetWare clients.
2008 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
2009 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
2011 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
2012 ncpfs. Say N unless you are connected to a Novell network.
2014 source "fs/ncpfs/Kconfig"
2017 tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)"
2020 Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it
2021 enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them
2022 with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard
2023 disk. Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for
2024 disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server
2025 replication, security model for authentication and encryption,
2026 persistent client caches and write back caching.
2028 If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda
2029 *client*. You will need user level code as well, both for the
2030 client and server. Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need
2031 no kernel support. Please read
2032 <file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.txt> and check out the Coda
2033 home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>.
2035 To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the
2036 module will be called coda.
2038 config CODA_FS_OLD_API
2039 bool "Use 96-bit Coda file identifiers"
2042 A new kernel-userspace API had to be introduced for Coda v6.0
2043 to support larger 128-bit file identifiers as needed by the
2044 new realms implementation.
2046 However this new API is not backward compatible with older
2047 clients. If you really need to run the old Coda userspace
2048 cache manager then say Y.
2050 For most cases you probably want to say N.
2053 tristate "Andrew File System support (AFS) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
2054 depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL
2057 If you say Y here, you will get an experimental Andrew File System
2058 driver. It currently only supports unsecured read-only AFS access.
2060 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information.
2065 bool "AFS dynamic debugging"
2068 Say Y here to make runtime controllable debugging messages appear.
2070 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information.
2075 tristate "Plan 9 Resource Sharing Support (9P2000) (Experimental)"
2076 depends on INET && NET_9P && EXPERIMENTAL
2078 If you say Y here, you will get experimental support for
2079 Plan 9 resource sharing via the 9P2000 protocol.
2081 See <http://v9fs.sf.net> for more information.
2088 menu "Partition Types"
2090 source "fs/partitions/Kconfig"
2095 source "fs/nls/Kconfig"
2096 source "fs/dlm/Kconfig"