2 # File system configuration
8 tristate "Second extended fs support"
10 Ext2 is a standard Linux file system for hard disks.
12 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
13 module will be called ext2. Be aware however that the file system
14 of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot
15 be compiled as a module, and so this could be dangerous.
20 bool "Ext2 extended attributes"
23 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
24 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
25 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
29 config EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL
30 bool "Ext2 POSIX Access Control Lists"
31 depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR
34 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
35 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
37 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
38 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
40 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
42 config EXT2_FS_SECURITY
43 bool "Ext2 Security Labels"
44 depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR
46 Security labels support alternative access control models
47 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
48 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
49 labels in the ext2 filesystem.
51 If you are not using a security module that requires using
52 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
55 bool "Ext2 execute in place support"
58 Execute in place can be used on memory-backed block devices. If you
59 enable this option, you can select to mount block devices which are
60 capable of this feature without using the page cache.
62 If you do not use a block device that is capable of using this,
68 depends on EXT2_FS_XIP
72 tristate "Ext3 journalling file system support"
74 This is the journaling version of the Second extended file system
75 (often called ext3), the de facto standard Linux file system
76 (method to organize files on a storage device) for hard disks.
78 The journaling code included in this driver means you do not have
79 to run e2fsck (file system checker) on your file systems after a
80 crash. The journal keeps track of any changes that were being made
81 at the time the system crashed, and can ensure that your file system
82 is consistent without the need for a lengthy check.
84 Other than adding the journal to the file system, the on-disk format
85 of ext3 is identical to ext2. It is possible to freely switch
86 between using the ext3 driver and the ext2 driver, as long as the
87 file system has been cleanly unmounted, or e2fsck is run on the file
90 To add a journal on an existing ext2 file system or change the
91 behavior of ext3 file systems, you can use the tune2fs utility ("man
92 tune2fs"). To modify attributes of files and directories on ext3
93 file systems, use chattr ("man chattr"). You need to be using
94 e2fsprogs version 1.20 or later in order to create ext3 journals
95 (available at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/e2fsprogs/>).
97 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
98 module will be called ext3. Be aware however that the file system
99 of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot
100 be compiled as a module, and so this may be dangerous.
103 bool "Ext3 extended attributes"
107 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
108 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
109 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
113 You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext3.
115 config EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL
116 bool "Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists"
117 depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR
120 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
121 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
123 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
124 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
126 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
128 config EXT3_FS_SECURITY
129 bool "Ext3 Security Labels"
130 depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR
132 Security labels support alternative access control models
133 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
134 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
135 labels in the ext3 filesystem.
137 If you are not using a security module that requires using
138 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
141 # CONFIG_JBD could be its own option (even modular), but until there are
142 # other users than ext3, we will simply make it be the same as CONFIG_EXT3_FS
143 # dep_tristate ' Journal Block Device support (JBD for ext3)' CONFIG_JBD $CONFIG_EXT3_FS
147 This is a generic journaling layer for block devices. It is
148 currently used by the ext3 file system, but it could also be used to
149 add journal support to other file systems or block devices such as
152 If you are using the ext3 file system, you need to say Y here. If
153 you are not using ext3 then you will probably want to say N.
155 To compile this device as a module, choose M here: the module will be
156 called jbd. If you are compiling ext3 into the kernel, you cannot
157 compile this code as a module.
160 bool "JBD (ext3) debugging support"
163 If you are using the ext3 journaled file system (or potentially any
164 other file system/device using JBD), this option allows you to
165 enable debugging output while the system is running, in order to
166 help track down any problems you are having. By default the
167 debugging output will be turned off.
169 If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging
170 with "echo N > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug", where N is a number between
171 1 and 5, the higher the number, the more debugging output is
172 generated. To turn debugging off again, do
173 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug".
176 # Meta block cache for Extended Attributes (ext2/ext3)
178 depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR || EXT3_FS_XATTR
179 default y if EXT2_FS=y || EXT3_FS=y
180 default m if EXT2_FS=m || EXT3_FS=m
183 tristate "Reiserfs support"
185 Stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a balanced
186 tree. Uses journaling.
188 Balanced trees are more efficient than traditional file system
189 architectural foundations.
191 In general, ReiserFS is as fast as ext2, but is very efficient with
192 large directories and small files. Additional patches are needed
193 for NFS and quotas, please see <http://www.namesys.com/> for links.
195 It is more easily extended to have features currently found in
196 database and keyword search systems than block allocation based file
197 systems are. The next version will be so extended, and will support
198 plugins consistent with our motto ``It takes more than a license to
199 make source code open.''
201 Read <http://www.namesys.com/> to learn more about reiserfs.
203 Sponsored by Threshold Networks, Emusic.com, and Bigstorage.com.
205 If you like it, you can pay us to add new features to it that you
206 need, buy a support contract, or pay us to port it to another OS.
208 config REISERFS_CHECK
209 bool "Enable reiserfs debug mode"
210 depends on REISERFS_FS
212 If you set this to Y, then ReiserFS will perform every check it can
213 possibly imagine of its internal consistency throughout its
214 operation. It will also go substantially slower. More than once we
215 have forgotten that this was on, and then gone despondent over the
216 latest benchmarks.:-) Use of this option allows our team to go all
217 out in checking for consistency when debugging without fear of its
218 effect on end users. If you are on the verge of sending in a bug
219 report, say Y and you might get a useful error message. Almost
220 everyone should say N.
222 config REISERFS_PROC_INFO
223 bool "Stats in /proc/fs/reiserfs"
224 depends on REISERFS_FS
226 Create under /proc/fs/reiserfs a hierarchy of files, displaying
227 various ReiserFS statistics and internal data at the expense of
228 making your kernel or module slightly larger (+8 KB). This also
229 increases the amount of kernel memory required for each mount.
230 Almost everyone but ReiserFS developers and people fine-tuning
231 reiserfs or tracing problems should say N.
233 config REISERFS_FS_XATTR
234 bool "ReiserFS extended attributes"
235 depends on REISERFS_FS
237 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
238 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
239 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
243 config REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL
244 bool "ReiserFS POSIX Access Control Lists"
245 depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR
248 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
249 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
251 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
252 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
254 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
256 config REISERFS_FS_SECURITY
257 bool "ReiserFS Security Labels"
258 depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR
260 Security labels support alternative access control models
261 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
262 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
263 labels in the ReiserFS filesystem.
265 If you are not using a security module that requires using
266 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
269 tristate "JFS filesystem support"
272 This is a port of IBM's Journaled Filesystem . More information is
273 available in the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt>.
275 If you do not intend to use the JFS filesystem, say N.
278 bool "JFS POSIX Access Control Lists"
282 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
283 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
285 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
286 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
288 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
291 bool "JFS Security Labels"
294 Security labels support alternative access control models
295 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
296 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
297 labels in the jfs filesystem.
299 If you are not using a security module that requires using
300 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
306 If you are experiencing any problems with the JFS filesystem, say
307 Y here. This will result in additional debugging messages to be
308 written to the system log. Under normal circumstances, this
309 results in very little overhead.
311 config JFS_STATISTICS
312 bool "JFS statistics"
315 Enabling this option will cause statistics from the JFS file system
316 to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jfs/ directory.
319 # Posix ACL utility routines (for now, only ext2/ext3/jfs/reiserfs)
321 # NOTE: you can implement Posix ACLs without these helpers (XFS does).
322 # Never use this symbol for ifdefs.
327 source "fs/xfs/Kconfig"
330 tristate "Minix fs support"
332 Minix is a simple operating system used in many classes about OS's.
333 The minix file system (method to organize files on a hard disk
334 partition or a floppy disk) was the original file system for Linux,
335 but has been superseded by the second extended file system ext2fs.
336 You don't want to use the minix file system on your hard disk
337 because of certain built-in restrictions, but it is sometimes found
338 on older Linux floppy disks. This option will enlarge your kernel
339 by about 28 KB. If unsure, say N.
341 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
342 module will be called minix. Note that the file system of your root
343 partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as
347 tristate "ROM file system support"
349 This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for
350 initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for
351 other read-only media as well. Read
352 <file:Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt> for details.
354 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
355 module will be called romfs. Note that the file system of your
356 root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a
359 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
363 bool "Inotify file change notification support"
366 Say Y here to enable inotify support and the associated system
367 calls. Inotify is a file change notification system and a
368 replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes numerous shortcomings in
369 dnotify and introduces several new features. It allows monitoring
370 of both files and directories via a single open fd. Other features
371 include multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount
374 For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt
381 If you say Y here, you will be able to set per user limits for disk
382 usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works for the
383 ext2, ext3, and reiserfs file system. ext3 also supports journalled
384 quotas for which you don't need to run quotacheck(8) after an unclean
386 For further details, read the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from
387 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or the documentation provided
388 with the quota tools. Probably the quota support is only useful for
389 multi user systems. If unsure, say N.
392 tristate "Old quota format support"
395 This quota format was (is) used by kernels earlier than 2.4.22. If
396 you have quota working and you don't want to convert to new quota
400 tristate "Quota format v2 support"
403 This quota format allows using quotas with 32-bit UIDs/GIDs. If you
404 need this functionality say Y here.
408 depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA
412 bool "Dnotify support" if EMBEDDED
415 Dnotify is a directory-based per-fd file change notification system
416 that uses signals to communicate events to user-space. There exist
417 superior alternatives, but some applications may still rely on
420 Because of this, if unsure, say Y.
423 tristate "Kernel automounter support"
425 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
426 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
427 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
428 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
430 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs
431 package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>.
432 You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
434 If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more
435 features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support",
438 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
441 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you
442 probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here.
445 tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)"
447 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
448 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
449 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
450 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
452 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from
453 <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/>; you also
454 want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
456 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
457 called autofs4. You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your
458 modules configuration file.
460 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or
461 don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the
462 local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say
466 tristate "Filesystem in Userspace support"
468 With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem
469 in a userspace program.
471 There's also companion library: libfuse. This library along with
472 utilities is available from the FUSE homepage:
473 <http://fuse.sourceforge.net/>
475 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt> for more information.
476 See <file:Documentation/Changes> for needed library/utility version.
478 If you want to develop a userspace FS, or if you want to use
479 a filesystem based on FUSE, answer Y or M.
481 menu "CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems"
484 tristate "ISO 9660 CDROM file system support"
486 This is the standard file system used on CD-ROMs. It was previously
487 known as "High Sierra File System" and is called "hsfs" on other
488 Unix systems. The so-called Rock-Ridge extensions which allow for
489 long Unix filenames and symbolic links are also supported by this
490 driver. If you have a CD-ROM drive and want to do more with it than
491 just listen to audio CDs and watch its LEDs, say Y (and read
492 <file:Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt> and the CD-ROM-HOWTO,
493 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), thereby
494 enlarging your kernel by about 27 KB; otherwise say N.
496 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
497 module will be called isofs.
500 bool "Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions"
501 depends on ISO9660_FS
504 Joliet is a Microsoft extension for the ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system
505 which allows for long filenames in unicode format (unicode is the
506 new 16 bit character code, successor to ASCII, which encodes the
507 characters of almost all languages of the world; see
508 <http://www.unicode.org/> for more information). Say Y here if you
509 want to be able to read Joliet CD-ROMs under Linux.
512 bool "Transparent decompression extension"
513 depends on ISO9660_FS
516 This is a Linux-specific extension to RockRidge which lets you store
517 data in compressed form on a CD-ROM and have it transparently
518 decompressed when the CD-ROM is accessed. See
519 <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/zisofs/> for the tools
520 necessary to create such a filesystem. Say Y here if you want to be
521 able to read such compressed CD-ROMs.
524 # for fs/nls/Config.in
530 tristate "UDF file system support"
532 This is the new file system used on some CD-ROMs and DVDs. Say Y if
533 you intend to mount DVD discs or CDRW's written in packet mode, or
534 if written to by other UDF utilities, such as DirectCD.
535 Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt>.
537 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
538 module will be called udf.
545 depends on (UDF_FS=m && NLS) || (UDF_FS=y && NLS=y)
549 menu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems"
555 If you want to use one of the FAT-based file systems (the MS-DOS and
556 VFAT (Windows 95) file systems), then you must say Y or M here
557 to include FAT support. You will then be able to mount partitions or
558 diskettes with FAT-based file systems and transparently access the
559 files on them, i.e. MSDOS files will look and behave just like all
562 This FAT support is not a file system in itself, it only provides
563 the foundation for the other file systems. You will have to say Y or
564 M to at least one of "MSDOS fs support" or "VFAT fs support" in
565 order to make use of it.
567 Another way to read and write MSDOS floppies and hard drive
568 partitions from within Linux (but not transparently) is with the
569 mtools ("man mtools") program suite. You don't need to say Y here in
572 If you need to move large files on floppies between a DOS and a
573 Linux box, say Y here, mount the floppy under Linux with an MSDOS
574 file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program
575 available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar").
577 It is now also becoming possible to read and write compressed FAT
578 file systems; read <file:Documentation/filesystems/fat_cvf.txt> for
581 The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure,
584 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
585 fat. Note that if you compile the FAT support as a module, you
586 cannot compile any of the FAT-based file systems into the kernel
587 -- they will have to be modules as well.
590 tristate "MSDOS fs support"
593 This allows you to mount MSDOS partitions of your hard drive (unless
594 they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under
595 Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the
596 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from
597 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in
598 <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you
599 intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y
600 here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes
601 transparent, i.e. the MSDOS files look and behave just like all
604 If you have Windows 95 or Windows NT installed on your MSDOS
605 partitions, you should use the VFAT file system (say Y to "VFAT fs
606 support" below), or you will not be able to see the long filenames
607 generated by Windows 95 / Windows NT.
609 This option will enlarge your kernel by about 7 KB. If unsure,
610 answer Y. This will only work if you said Y to "DOS FAT fs support"
611 as well. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will
615 tristate "VFAT (Windows-95) fs support"
618 This option provides support for normal Windows file systems with
619 long filenames. That includes non-compressed FAT-based file systems
620 used by Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and the Unix
621 programs from the mtools package.
623 The VFAT support enlarges your kernel by about 10 KB and it only
624 works if you said Y to the "DOS FAT fs support" above. Please read
625 the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for details. If
628 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
631 config FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE
632 int "Default codepage for FAT"
633 depends on MSDOS_FS || VFAT_FS
636 This option should be set to the codepage of your FAT filesystems.
637 It can be overridden with the "codepage" mount option.
638 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
640 config FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET
641 string "Default iocharset for FAT"
645 Set this to the default input/output character set you'd
646 like FAT to use. It should probably match the character set
647 that most of your FAT filesystems use, and can be overridden
648 with the "iocharset" mount option for FAT filesystems.
649 Note that "utf8" is not recommended for FAT filesystems.
650 If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here.
651 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
654 tristate "NTFS file system support"
657 NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003.
659 Saying Y or M here enables read support. There is partial, but
660 safe, write support available. For write support you must also
661 say Y to "NTFS write support" below.
663 There are also a number of user-space tools available, called
664 ntfsprogs. These include ntfsundelete and ntfsresize, that work
665 without NTFS support enabled in the kernel.
667 This is a rewrite from scratch of Linux NTFS support and replaced
668 the old NTFS code starting with Linux 2.5.11. A backport to
669 the Linux 2.4 kernel series is separately available as a patch
670 from the project web site.
672 For more information see <file:Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt>
673 and <http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/>.
675 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
676 module will be called ntfs.
678 If you are not using Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 in addition to
679 Linux on your computer it is safe to say N.
682 bool "NTFS debugging support"
685 If you are experiencing any problems with the NTFS file system, say
686 Y here. This will result in additional consistency checks to be
687 performed by the driver as well as additional debugging messages to
688 be written to the system log. Note that debugging messages are
689 disabled by default. To enable them, supply the option debug_msgs=1
690 at the kernel command line when booting the kernel or as an option
691 to insmod when loading the ntfs module. Once the driver is active,
692 you can enable debugging messages by doing (as root):
693 echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug
694 Replacing the "1" with "0" would disable debug messages.
696 If you leave debugging messages disabled, this results in little
697 overhead, but enabling debug messages results in very significant
698 slowdown of the system.
700 When reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of
701 debugging messages while the misbehaviour was occurring.
704 bool "NTFS write support"
707 This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver.
709 The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without
710 changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or
711 renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to
712 so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot
715 While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have
716 so far not received a single report where the driver would have
717 damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use.
719 Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from
720 scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS
721 write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997),
724 This is currently useful with TopologiLinux. TopologiLinux is run
725 on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your
726 hard disk. Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not
727 need its own partition. For more information see
728 <http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/>
730 It is perfectly safe to say N here.
734 menu "Pseudo filesystems"
737 bool "/proc file system support"
739 This is a virtual file system providing information about the status
740 of the system. "Virtual" means that it doesn't take up any space on
741 your hard disk: the files are created on the fly by the kernel when
742 you try to access them. Also, you cannot read the files with older
743 version of the program less: you need to use more or cat.
745 It's totally cool; for example, "cat /proc/interrupts" gives
746 information about what the different IRQs are used for at the moment
747 (there is a small number of Interrupt ReQuest lines in your computer
748 that are used by the attached devices to gain the CPU's attention --
749 often a source of trouble if two devices are mistakenly configured
750 to use the same IRQ). The program procinfo to display some
751 information about your system gathered from the /proc file system.
753 Before you can use the /proc file system, it has to be mounted,
754 meaning it has to be given a location in the directory hierarchy.
755 That location should be /proc. A command such as "mount -t proc proc
756 /proc" or the equivalent line in /etc/fstab does the job.
758 The /proc file system is explained in the file
759 <file:Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt> and on the proc(5) manpage
762 This option will enlarge your kernel by about 67 KB. Several
763 programs depend on this, so everyone should say Y here.
766 bool "/proc/kcore support" if !ARM
767 depends on PROC_FS && MMU
770 bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
771 depends on PROC_FS && EMBEDDED && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP
773 Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format.
776 bool "sysfs file system support" if EMBEDDED
779 The sysfs filesystem is a virtual filesystem that the kernel uses to
780 export internal kernel objects, their attributes, and their
781 relationships to one another.
783 Users can use sysfs to ascertain useful information about the running
784 kernel, such as the devices the kernel has discovered on each bus and
785 which driver each is bound to. sysfs can also be used to tune devices
786 and other kernel subsystems.
788 Some system agents rely on the information in sysfs to operate.
789 /sbin/hotplug uses device and object attributes in sysfs to assist in
790 delegating policy decisions, like persistantly naming devices.
792 sysfs is currently used by the block subsystem to mount the root
793 partition. If sysfs is disabled you must specify the boot device on
794 the kernel boot command line via its major and minor numbers. For
795 example, "root=03:01" for /dev/hda1.
797 Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space.
800 bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)"
802 Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory.
804 Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be
805 created on your hard drive. The files live in memory and swap
806 space. If you unmount a tmpfs instance, everything stored therein is
809 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> for details.
812 bool "HugeTLB file system support"
813 depends X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || X86_64 || BROKEN
822 Ramfs is a file system which keeps all files in RAM. It allows
823 read and write access.
825 It is more of an programming example than a useable file system. If
826 you need a file system which lives in RAM with limit checking use
829 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
833 tristate "Relayfs file system support"
835 Relayfs is a high-speed data relay filesystem designed to provide
836 an efficient mechanism for tools and facilities to relay large
837 amounts of data from kernel space to user space.
839 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be
846 menu "Miscellaneous filesystems"
849 tristate "ADFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
850 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
852 The Acorn Disc Filing System is the standard file system of the
853 RiscOS operating system which runs on Acorn's ARM-based Risc PC
854 systems and the Acorn Archimedes range of machines. If you say Y
855 here, Linux will be able to read from ADFS partitions on hard drives
856 and from ADFS-formatted floppy discs. If you also want to be able to
857 write to those devices, say Y to "ADFS write support" below.
859 The ADFS partition should be the first partition (i.e.,
860 /dev/[hs]d?1) on each of your drives. Please read the file
861 <file:Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt> for further details.
863 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be
869 bool "ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)"
872 If you say Y here, you will be able to write to ADFS partitions on
873 hard drives and ADFS-formatted floppy disks. This is experimental
874 codes, so if you're unsure, say N.
877 tristate "Amiga FFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
878 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
880 The Fast File System (FFS) is the common file system used on hard
881 disks by Amiga(tm) systems since AmigaOS Version 1.3 (34.20). Say Y
882 if you want to be able to read and write files from and to an Amiga
883 FFS partition on your hard drive. Amiga floppies however cannot be
884 read with this driver due to an incompatibility of the floppy
885 controller used in an Amiga and the standard floppy controller in
886 PCs and workstations. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt>
887 and <file:fs/affs/Changes>.
889 With this driver you can also mount disk files used by Bernd
890 Schmidt's Un*X Amiga Emulator
891 (<http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/>).
892 If you want to do this, you will also need to say Y or M to "Loop
893 device support", above.
895 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
896 module will be called affs. If unsure, say N.
899 tristate "Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
900 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
902 If you say Y here, you will be able to mount Macintosh-formatted
903 floppy disks and hard drive partitions with full read-write access.
904 Please read <file:fs/hfs/HFS.txt> to learn about the available mount
907 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
908 module will be called hfs.
911 tristate "Apple Extended HFS file system support"
915 If you say Y here, you will be able to mount extended format
916 Macintosh-formatted hard drive partitions with full read-write access.
918 This file system is often called HFS+ and was introduced with
919 MacOS 8. It includes all Mac specific filesystem data such as
920 data forks and creator codes, but it also has several UNIX
921 style features such as file ownership and permissions.
924 tristate "BeOS file system (BeFS) support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
925 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
928 The BeOS File System (BeFS) is the native file system of Be, Inc's
929 BeOS. Notable features include support for arbitrary attributes
930 on files and directories, and database-like indeces on selected
931 attributes. (Also note that this driver doesn't make those features
932 available at this time). It is a 64 bit filesystem, so it supports
933 extremly large volumes and files.
935 If you use this filesystem, you should also say Y to at least one
936 of the NLS (native language support) options below.
938 If you don't know what this is about, say N.
940 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
947 If you say Y here, you can use the 'debug' mount option to enable
948 debugging output from the driver.
951 tristate "BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
952 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
954 Boot File System (BFS) is a file system used under SCO UnixWare to
955 allow the bootloader access to the kernel image and other important
956 files during the boot process. It is usually mounted under /stand
957 and corresponds to the slice marked as "STAND" in the UnixWare
958 partition. You should say Y if you want to read or write the files
959 on your /stand slice from within Linux. You then also need to say Y
960 to "UnixWare slices support", below. More information about the BFS
961 file system is contained in the file
962 <file:Documentation/filesystems/bfs.txt>.
964 If you don't know what this is about, say N.
966 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
967 bfs. Note that the file system of your root partition (the one
968 containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
973 tristate "EFS file system support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
974 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
976 EFS is an older file system used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and hard
977 disk partitions by SGI's IRIX operating system (IRIX 6.0 and newer
978 uses the XFS file system for hard disk partitions however).
980 This implementation only offers read-only access. If you don't know
981 what all this is about, it's safe to say N. For more information
982 about EFS see its home page at <http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/>.
984 To compile the EFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the
985 module will be called efs.
988 tristate "Journalling Flash File System (JFFS) support"
991 JFFS is the Journaling Flash File System developed by Axis
992 Communications in Sweden, aimed at providing a crash/powerdown-safe
993 file system for disk-less embedded devices. Further information is
994 available at (<http://developer.axis.com/software/jffs/>).
996 config JFFS_FS_VERBOSE
997 int "JFFS debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 3 = noisy)"
1001 Determines the verbosity level of the JFFS debugging messages.
1004 bool "JFFS stats available in /proc filesystem"
1005 depends on JFFS_FS && PROC_FS
1007 Enabling this option will cause statistics from mounted JFFS file systems
1008 to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jffs/ directory.
1011 tristate "Journalling Flash File System v2 (JFFS2) support"
1015 JFFS2 is the second generation of the Journalling Flash File System
1016 for use on diskless embedded devices. It provides improved wear
1017 levelling, compression and support for hard links. You cannot use
1018 this on normal block devices, only on 'MTD' devices.
1020 Further information on the design and implementation of JFFS2 is
1021 available at <http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2/>.
1023 config JFFS2_FS_DEBUG
1024 int "JFFS2 debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 2 = noisy)"
1028 This controls the amount of debugging messages produced by the JFFS2
1029 code. Set it to zero for use in production systems. For evaluation,
1030 testing and debugging, it's advisable to set it to one. This will
1031 enable a few assertions and will print debugging messages at the
1032 KERN_DEBUG loglevel, where they won't normally be visible. Level 2
1033 is unlikely to be useful - it enables extra debugging in certain
1034 areas which at one point needed debugging, but when the bugs were
1035 located and fixed, the detailed messages were relegated to level 2.
1037 If reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of the
1038 messages at debug level 1 while the misbehaviour was occurring.
1040 config JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER
1041 bool "JFFS2 write-buffering support"
1045 This enables the write-buffering support in JFFS2.
1047 This functionality is required to support JFFS2 on the following
1048 types of flash devices:
1050 - NOR flash with transparent ECC
1053 config JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1054 bool "Advanced compression options for JFFS2"
1058 Enabling this option allows you to explicitly choose which
1059 compression modules, if any, are enabled in JFFS2. Removing
1060 compressors and mean you cannot read existing file systems,
1061 and enabling experimental compressors can mean that you
1062 write a file system which cannot be read by a standard kernel.
1064 If unsure, you should _definitely_ say 'N'.
1067 bool "JFFS2 ZLIB compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1073 Zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered,
1074 lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer
1075 hardware and operating system. See <http://www.gzip.org/zlib/> for
1076 further information.
1081 bool "JFFS2 RTIME compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1085 Rtime does manage to recompress already-compressed data. Say 'Y' if unsure.
1088 bool "JFFS2 RUBIN compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1092 RUBINMIPS and DYNRUBIN compressors. Say 'N' if unsure.
1095 prompt "JFFS2 default compression mode" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1096 default JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY
1099 You can set here the default compression mode of JFFS2 from
1100 the available compression modes. Don't touch if unsure.
1102 config JFFS2_CMODE_NONE
1103 bool "no compression"
1105 Uses no compression.
1107 config JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY
1110 Tries the compressors in a predefinied order and chooses the first
1113 config JFFS2_CMODE_SIZE
1114 bool "size (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1116 Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest
1122 tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)"
1125 Saying Y here includes support for CramFs (Compressed ROM File
1126 System). CramFs is designed to be a simple, small, and compressed
1127 file system for ROM based embedded systems. CramFs is read-only,
1128 limited to 256MB file systems (with 16MB files), and doesn't support
1129 16/32 bits uid/gid, hard links and timestamps.
1131 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt> and
1132 <file:fs/cramfs/README> for further information.
1134 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1135 cramfs. Note that the root file system (the one containing the
1136 directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
1141 tristate "FreeVxFS file system support (VERITAS VxFS(TM) compatible)"
1143 FreeVxFS is a file system driver that support the VERITAS VxFS(TM)
1144 file system format. VERITAS VxFS(TM) is the standard file system
1145 of SCO UnixWare (and possibly others) and optionally available
1146 for Sunsoft Solaris, HP-UX and many other operating systems.
1147 Currently only readonly access is supported.
1149 NOTE: the file system type as used by mount(1), mount(2) and
1150 fstab(5) is 'vxfs' as it describes the file system format, not
1153 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
1154 called freevxfs. If unsure, say N.
1158 tristate "OS/2 HPFS file system support"
1160 OS/2 is IBM's operating system for PC's, the same as Warp, and HPFS
1161 is the file system used for organizing files on OS/2 hard disk
1162 partitions. Say Y if you want to be able to read files from and
1163 write files to an OS/2 HPFS partition on your hard drive. OS/2
1164 floppies however are in regular MSDOS format, so you don't need this
1165 option in order to be able to read them. Read
1166 <file:Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt>.
1168 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1169 module will be called hpfs. If unsure, say N.
1174 tristate "QNX4 file system support (read only)"
1176 This is the file system used by the real-time operating systems
1177 QNX 4 and QNX 6 (the latter is also called QNX RTP).
1178 Further information is available at <http://www.qnx.com/>.
1179 Say Y if you intend to mount QNX hard disks or floppies.
1180 Unless you say Y to "QNX4FS read-write support" below, you will
1181 only be able to read these file systems.
1183 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1184 module will be called qnx4.
1186 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
1190 bool "QNX4FS write support (DANGEROUS)"
1191 depends on QNX4FS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN
1193 Say Y if you want to test write support for QNX4 file systems.
1195 It's currently broken, so for now:
1201 tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support"
1203 SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel
1204 machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y
1205 here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk
1208 If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely
1209 that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order
1210 to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is a
1211 a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse,
1212 UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux. It is
1213 available via FTP (user: ftp) from
1214 <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>).
1215 NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems;
1216 PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-)
1218 If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the
1219 network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support
1220 (but you need NFS file system support obviously).
1222 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
1223 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
1224 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
1225 tar" or preferably "info tar"). Note also that this option has
1226 nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about
1227 the System V file system in
1228 <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>.
1229 Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB.
1231 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1234 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
1239 tristate "UFS file system support (read only)"
1241 BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
1242 OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a file system called UFS. Some System V
1243 Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using
1244 this file system as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from
1245 these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the
1246 experimental "UFS file system write support", below. Please read the
1247 file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt> for more information.
1249 The recently released UFS2 variant (used in FreeBSD 5.x) is
1250 READ-ONLY supported.
1252 If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the
1253 network using NFS, you don't need the UFS file system support (but
1254 you need NFS file system support obviously).
1256 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
1257 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
1258 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
1259 tar" or preferably "info tar").
1261 When accessing NeXTstep files, you may need to convert them from the
1262 NeXT character set to the Latin1 character set; use the program
1263 recode ("info recode") for this purpose.
1265 To compile the UFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1266 module will be called ufs.
1268 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
1271 bool "UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS)"
1272 depends on UFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1274 Say Y here if you want to try writing to UFS partitions. This is
1275 experimental, so you should back up your UFS partitions beforehand.
1279 menu "Network File Systems"
1283 tristate "NFS file system support"
1287 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFS_V3_ACL
1289 If you are connected to some other (usually local) Unix computer
1290 (using SLIP, PLIP, PPP or Ethernet) and want to mount files residing
1291 on that computer (the NFS server) using the Network File Sharing
1292 protocol, say Y. "Mounting files" means that the client can access
1293 the files with usual UNIX commands as if they were sitting on the
1294 client's hard disk. For this to work, the server must run the
1295 programs nfsd and mountd (but does not need to have NFS file system
1296 support enabled in its kernel). NFS is explained in the Network
1297 Administrator's Guide, available from
1298 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>, on its man page: "man
1299 nfs", and in the NFS-HOWTO.
1301 A superior but less widely used alternative to NFS is provided by
1302 the Coda file system; see "Coda file system support" below.
1304 If you say Y here, you should have said Y to TCP/IP networking also.
1305 This option would enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB.
1307 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1308 module will be called nfs.
1310 If you are configuring a diskless machine which will mount its root
1311 file system over NFS at boot time, say Y here and to "Kernel
1312 level IP autoconfiguration" above and to "Root file system on NFS"
1313 below. You cannot compile this driver as a module in this case.
1314 There are two packages designed for booting diskless machines over
1315 the net: netboot, available from
1316 <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/netboot/>, and Etherboot,
1317 available from <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/etherboot/>.
1319 If you don't know what all this is about, say N.
1322 bool "Provide NFSv3 client support"
1325 Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak version
1326 3 of the NFS protocol.
1331 bool "Provide client support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension"
1334 Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX
1335 Access Control Lists. The server should also be compiled with
1336 the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL option.
1341 bool "Provide NFSv4 client support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1342 depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1343 select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
1345 Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak the newer
1346 version 4 of the NFS protocol.
1348 Note: Requires auxiliary userspace daemons which may be found on
1349 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
1354 bool "Allow direct I/O on NFS files (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1355 depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1357 This option enables applications to perform uncached I/O on files
1358 in NFS file systems using the O_DIRECT open() flag. When O_DIRECT
1359 is set for a file, its data is not cached in the system's page
1360 cache. Data is moved to and from user-level application buffers
1361 directly. Unlike local disk-based file systems, NFS O_DIRECT has
1362 no alignment restrictions.
1364 Unless your program is designed to use O_DIRECT properly, you are
1365 much better off allowing the NFS client to manage data caching for
1366 you. Misusing O_DIRECT can cause poor server performance or network
1367 storms. This kernel build option defaults OFF to avoid exposing
1368 system administrators unwittingly to a potentially hazardous
1371 For more details on NFS O_DIRECT, see fs/nfs/direct.c.
1373 If unsure, say N. This reduces the size of the NFS client, and
1374 causes open() to return EINVAL if a file residing in NFS is
1375 opened with the O_DIRECT flag.
1378 tristate "NFS server support"
1383 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFSD_V3_ACL || NFSD_V2_ACL
1385 If you want your Linux box to act as an NFS *server*, so that other
1386 computers on your local network which support NFS can access certain
1387 directories on your box transparently, you have two options: you can
1388 use the self-contained user space program nfsd, in which case you
1389 should say N here, or you can say Y and use the kernel based NFS
1390 server. The advantage of the kernel based solution is that it is
1393 In either case, you will need support software; the respective
1394 locations are given in the file <file:Documentation/Changes> in the
1397 If you say Y here, you will get support for version 2 of the NFS
1398 protocol (NFSv2). If you also want NFSv3, say Y to the next question
1401 Please read the NFS-HOWTO, available from
1402 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
1404 To compile the NFS server support as a module, choose M here: the
1405 module will be called nfsd. If unsure, say N.
1412 bool "Provide NFSv3 server support"
1415 If you would like to include the NFSv3 server as well as the NFSv2
1416 server, say Y here. If unsure, say Y.
1419 bool "Provide server support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension"
1423 Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX
1424 Access Control Lists on exported file systems. NFS clients should
1425 be compiled with the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the
1426 CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL option. If unsure, say N.
1429 bool "Provide NFSv4 server support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1430 depends on NFSD_V3 && EXPERIMENTAL
1436 If you would like to include the NFSv4 server as well as the NFSv2
1437 and NFSv3 servers, say Y here. This feature is experimental, and
1438 should only be used if you are interested in helping to test NFSv4.
1442 bool "Provide NFS server over TCP support"
1446 If you want your NFS server to support TCP connections, say Y here.
1447 TCP connections usually perform better than the default UDP when
1448 the network is lossy or congested. If unsure, say Y.
1451 bool "Root file system on NFS"
1452 depends on NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP
1454 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
1455 one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
1456 net via NFS (presumably because your box doesn't have a hard disk),
1457 say Y. Read <file:Documentation/nfsroot.txt> for details. It is
1458 likely that in this case, you also want to say Y to "Kernel level IP
1459 autoconfiguration" so that your box can discover its network address
1462 Most people say N here.
1469 depends on NFSD_V3 || NFS_V3
1475 config NFS_ACL_SUPPORT
1481 depends on NFSD || NFS_FS
1490 config RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
1491 tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1492 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
1498 Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api
1499 mechanism based on Kerberos V5. This is required for
1502 Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on
1503 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
1507 config RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3
1508 tristate "Secure RPC: SPKM3 mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1509 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
1515 Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api
1516 mechanism based on the SPKM3 public-key mechanism.
1518 Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on
1519 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
1524 tristate "SMB file system support (to mount Windows shares etc.)"
1528 SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Windows for Workgroups
1529 (WfW), Windows 95/98, Windows NT and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share
1530 files and printers over local networks. Saying Y here allows you to
1531 mount their file systems (often called "shares" in this context) and
1532 access them just like any other Unix directory. Currently, this
1533 works only if the Windows machines use TCP/IP as the underlying
1534 transport protocol, and not NetBEUI. For details, read
1535 <file:Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt> and the SMB-HOWTO,
1536 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
1538 Note: if you just want your box to act as an SMB *server* and make
1539 files and printing services available to Windows clients (which need
1540 to have a TCP/IP stack), you don't need to say Y here; you can use
1541 the program SAMBA (available from <ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/>)
1544 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
1545 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
1547 To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here: the module will
1548 be called smbfs. Most people say N, however.
1550 config SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
1551 bool "Use a default NLS"
1554 Enabling this will make smbfs use nls translations by default. You
1555 need to specify the local charset (CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT) in the nls
1556 settings and you need to give the default nls for the SMB server as
1557 CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE.
1559 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount
1560 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters.
1562 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
1564 config SMB_NLS_REMOTE
1565 string "Default Remote NLS Option"
1566 depends on SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
1569 This setting allows you to specify a default value for which
1570 codepage the server uses. If this field is left blank no
1571 translations will be done by default. The local codepage/charset
1572 default to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT.
1574 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount
1575 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters.
1577 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
1580 tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem for Samba, Window and other CIFS compliant servers)"
1584 This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System
1585 (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block
1586 (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early
1587 PC operating systems. The CIFS protocol is fully supported by
1588 file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4
1589 and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS
1590 server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Currently
1591 you must use the smbfs client filesystem to access older SMB servers
1592 such as Windows 9x and OS/2.
1594 The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced
1595 network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers,
1596 including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user
1597 session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional
1598 packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements,
1599 and optional Winbind (nsswitch) integration. You do not need to enable
1600 cifs if running only a (Samba) server. It is possible to enable both
1601 smbfs and cifs (e.g. if you are using CIFS for accessing Windows 2003
1602 and Samba 3 servers, and smbfs for accessing old servers). If you need
1603 to mount to Samba or Windows 2003 servers from this machine, say Y.
1606 bool "CIFS statistics"
1609 Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share
1610 mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats
1613 bool "CIFS extended attributes (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1616 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
1617 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
1618 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). CIFS maps the name of
1619 extended attributes beginning with the user namespace prefix
1620 to SMB/CIFS EAs. EAs are stored on Windows servers without the
1621 user namespace prefix, but their names are seen by Linux cifs clients
1622 prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace
1623 (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at
1629 bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1630 depends on CIFS_XATTR
1632 Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to
1633 negotiate a newer dialect with servers, such as Samba 3.0.5
1634 or later, that optionally can handle more POSIX like (rather
1635 than Windows like) file behavior. It also enables
1636 support for POSIX ACLs (getfacl and setfacl) to servers
1637 (such as Samba 3.10 and later) which can negotiate
1638 CIFS POSIX ACL support. If unsure, say N.
1640 config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
1641 bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1644 Enables cifs features under testing. These features
1645 are highly experimental. If unsure, say N.
1648 tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)"
1649 depends on IPX!=n || INET
1651 NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) is a protocol that runs over IPX and is
1652 used by Novell NetWare clients to talk to file servers. It is to
1653 IPX what NFS is to TCP/IP, if that helps. Saying Y here allows you
1654 to mount NetWare file server volumes and to access them just like
1655 any other Unix directory. For details, please read the file
1656 <file:Documentation/filesystems/ncpfs.txt> in the kernel source and
1657 the IPX-HOWTO from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
1659 You do not have to say Y here if you want your Linux box to act as a
1660 file *server* for Novell NetWare clients.
1662 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
1663 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
1665 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1666 ncpfs. Say N unless you are connected to a Novell network.
1668 source "fs/ncpfs/Kconfig"
1671 tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)"
1674 Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it
1675 enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them
1676 with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard
1677 disk. Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for
1678 disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server
1679 replication, security model for authentication and encryption,
1680 persistent client caches and write back caching.
1682 If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda
1683 *client*. You will need user level code as well, both for the
1684 client and server. Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need
1685 no kernel support. Please read
1686 <file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.txt> and check out the Coda
1687 home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>.
1689 To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the
1690 module will be called coda.
1692 config CODA_FS_OLD_API
1693 bool "Use 96-bit Coda file identifiers"
1696 A new kernel-userspace API had to be introduced for Coda v6.0
1697 to support larger 128-bit file identifiers as needed by the
1698 new realms implementation.
1700 However this new API is not backward compatible with older
1701 clients. If you really need to run the old Coda userspace
1702 cache manager then say Y.
1704 For most cases you probably want to say N.
1707 # for fs/nls/Config.in
1708 tristate "Andrew File System support (AFS) (Experimental)"
1709 depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL
1712 If you say Y here, you will get an experimental Andrew File System
1713 driver. It currently only supports unsecured read-only AFS access.
1715 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more intormation.
1723 tristate "Plan 9 Resource Sharing Support (9P2000) (Experimental)"
1724 depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL
1726 If you say Y here, you will get experimental support for
1727 Plan 9 resource sharing via the 9P2000 protocol.
1729 See <http://v9fs.sf.net> for more information.
1735 menu "Partition Types"
1737 source "fs/partitions/Kconfig"
1741 source "fs/nls/Kconfig"