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  1. #
  2. # File system configuration
  3. #
  4. menu "File systems"
  5. if BLOCK
  6. config EXT2_FS
  7. tristate "Second extended fs support"
  8. help
  9. Ext2 is a standard Linux file system for hard disks.
  10. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
  11. module will be called ext2.
  12. If unsure, say Y.
  13. config EXT2_FS_XATTR
  14. bool "Ext2 extended attributes"
  15. depends on EXT2_FS
  16. help
  17. Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
  18. the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
  19. <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
  20. If unsure, say N.
  21. config EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL
  22. bool "Ext2 POSIX Access Control Lists"
  23. depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR
  24. select FS_POSIX_ACL
  25. help
  26. Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
  27. groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
  28. To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
  29. Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
  30. If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
  31. config EXT2_FS_SECURITY
  32. bool "Ext2 Security Labels"
  33. depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR
  34. help
  35. Security labels support alternative access control models
  36. implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
  37. enables an extended attribute handler for file security
  38. labels in the ext2 filesystem.
  39. If you are not using a security module that requires using
  40. extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
  41. config EXT2_FS_XIP
  42. bool "Ext2 execute in place support"
  43. depends on EXT2_FS && MMU
  44. help
  45. Execute in place can be used on memory-backed block devices. If you
  46. enable this option, you can select to mount block devices which are
  47. capable of this feature without using the page cache.
  48. If you do not use a block device that is capable of using this,
  49. or if unsure, say N.
  50. config FS_XIP
  51. # execute in place
  52. bool
  53. depends on EXT2_FS_XIP
  54. default y
  55. config EXT3_FS
  56. tristate "Ext3 journalling file system support"
  57. select JBD
  58. help
  59. This is the journalling version of the Second extended file system
  60. (often called ext3), the de facto standard Linux file system
  61. (method to organize files on a storage device) for hard disks.
  62. The journalling code included in this driver means you do not have
  63. to run e2fsck (file system checker) on your file systems after a
  64. crash. The journal keeps track of any changes that were being made
  65. at the time the system crashed, and can ensure that your file system
  66. is consistent without the need for a lengthy check.
  67. Other than adding the journal to the file system, the on-disk format
  68. of ext3 is identical to ext2. It is possible to freely switch
  69. between using the ext3 driver and the ext2 driver, as long as the
  70. file system has been cleanly unmounted, or e2fsck is run on the file
  71. system.
  72. To add a journal on an existing ext2 file system or change the
  73. behavior of ext3 file systems, you can use the tune2fs utility ("man
  74. tune2fs"). To modify attributes of files and directories on ext3
  75. file systems, use chattr ("man chattr"). You need to be using
  76. e2fsprogs version 1.20 or later in order to create ext3 journals
  77. (available at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/e2fsprogs/>).
  78. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
  79. module will be called ext3.
  80. config EXT3_FS_XATTR
  81. bool "Ext3 extended attributes"
  82. depends on EXT3_FS
  83. default y
  84. help
  85. Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
  86. the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
  87. <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
  88. If unsure, say N.
  89. You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext3.
  90. config EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL
  91. bool "Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists"
  92. depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR
  93. select FS_POSIX_ACL
  94. help
  95. Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
  96. groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
  97. To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
  98. Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
  99. If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
  100. config EXT3_FS_SECURITY
  101. bool "Ext3 Security Labels"
  102. depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR
  103. help
  104. Security labels support alternative access control models
  105. implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
  106. enables an extended attribute handler for file security
  107. labels in the ext3 filesystem.
  108. If you are not using a security module that requires using
  109. extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
  110. config EXT4DEV_FS
  111. tristate "Ext4dev/ext4 extended fs support development (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  112. depends on EXPERIMENTAL
  113. select JBD2
  114. help
  115. Ext4dev is a predecessor filesystem of the next generation
  116. extended fs ext4, based on ext3 filesystem code. It will be
  117. renamed ext4 fs later, once ext4dev is mature and stabilized.
  118. Unlike the change from ext2 filesystem to ext3 filesystem,
  119. the on-disk format of ext4dev is not the same as ext3 any more:
  120. it is based on extent maps and it supports 48-bit physical block
  121. numbers. These combined on-disk format changes will allow
  122. ext4dev/ext4 to handle more than 16 TB filesystem volumes --
  123. a hard limit that ext3 cannot overcome without changing the
  124. on-disk format.
  125. Other than extent maps and 48-bit block numbers, ext4dev also is
  126. likely to have other new features such as persistent preallocation,
  127. high resolution time stamps, and larger file support etc. These
  128. features will be added to ext4dev gradually.
  129. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here. The
  130. module will be called ext4dev.
  131. If unsure, say N.
  132. config EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
  133. bool "Ext4dev extended attributes"
  134. depends on EXT4DEV_FS
  135. default y
  136. help
  137. Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
  138. the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
  139. <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
  140. If unsure, say N.
  141. You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext4dev/ext4.
  142. config EXT4DEV_FS_POSIX_ACL
  143. bool "Ext4dev POSIX Access Control Lists"
  144. depends on EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
  145. select FS_POSIX_ACL
  146. help
  147. POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
  148. groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
  149. To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for
  150. Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
  151. If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
  152. config EXT4DEV_FS_SECURITY
  153. bool "Ext4dev Security Labels"
  154. depends on EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
  155. help
  156. Security labels support alternative access control models
  157. implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
  158. enables an extended attribute handler for file security
  159. labels in the ext4dev/ext4 filesystem.
  160. If you are not using a security module that requires using
  161. extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
  162. config JBD
  163. tristate
  164. help
  165. This is a generic journalling layer for block devices. It is
  166. currently used by the ext3 and OCFS2 file systems, but it could
  167. also be used to add journal support to other file systems or block
  168. devices such as RAID or LVM.
  169. If you are using the ext3 or OCFS2 file systems, you need to
  170. say Y here. If you are not using ext3 OCFS2 then you will probably
  171. want to say N.
  172. To compile this device as a module, choose M here: the module will be
  173. called jbd. If you are compiling ext3 or OCFS2 into the kernel,
  174. you cannot compile this code as a module.
  175. config JBD_DEBUG
  176. bool "JBD (ext3) debugging support"
  177. depends on JBD
  178. help
  179. If you are using the ext3 journaled file system (or potentially any
  180. other file system/device using JBD), this option allows you to
  181. enable debugging output while the system is running, in order to
  182. help track down any problems you are having. By default the
  183. debugging output will be turned off.
  184. If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging
  185. with "echo N > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug", where N is a number between
  186. 1 and 5, the higher the number, the more debugging output is
  187. generated. To turn debugging off again, do
  188. "echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug".
  189. config JBD2
  190. tristate
  191. help
  192. This is a generic journaling layer for block devices that support
  193. both 32-bit and 64-bit block numbers. It is currently used by
  194. the ext4dev/ext4 filesystem, but it could also be used to add
  195. journal support to other file systems or block devices such
  196. as RAID or LVM.
  197. If you are using ext4dev/ext4, you need to say Y here. If you are not
  198. using ext4dev/ext4 then you will probably want to say N.
  199. To compile this device as a module, choose M here. The module will be
  200. called jbd2. If you are compiling ext4dev/ext4 into the kernel,
  201. you cannot compile this code as a module.
  202. config JBD2_DEBUG
  203. bool "JBD2 (ext4dev/ext4) debugging support"
  204. depends on JBD2
  205. help
  206. If you are using the ext4dev/ext4 journaled file system (or
  207. potentially any other filesystem/device using JBD2), this option
  208. allows you to enable debugging output while the system is running,
  209. in order to help track down any problems you are having.
  210. By default, the debugging output will be turned off.
  211. If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging
  212. with "echo N > /proc/sys/fs/jbd2-debug", where N is a number between
  213. 1 and 5. The higher the number, the more debugging output is
  214. generated. To turn debugging off again, do
  215. "echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/jbd2-debug".
  216. config FS_MBCACHE
  217. # Meta block cache for Extended Attributes (ext2/ext3/ext4)
  218. tristate
  219. depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR || EXT3_FS_XATTR || EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
  220. default y if EXT2_FS=y || EXT3_FS=y || EXT4DEV_FS=y
  221. default m if EXT2_FS=m || EXT3_FS=m || EXT4DEV_FS=m
  222. config REISERFS_FS
  223. tristate "Reiserfs support"
  224. help
  225. Stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a balanced
  226. tree. Uses journalling.
  227. Balanced trees are more efficient than traditional file system
  228. architectural foundations.
  229. In general, ReiserFS is as fast as ext2, but is very efficient with
  230. large directories and small files. Additional patches are needed
  231. for NFS and quotas, please see <http://www.namesys.com/> for links.
  232. It is more easily extended to have features currently found in
  233. database and keyword search systems than block allocation based file
  234. systems are. The next version will be so extended, and will support
  235. plugins consistent with our motto ``It takes more than a license to
  236. make source code open.''
  237. Read <http://www.namesys.com/> to learn more about reiserfs.
  238. Sponsored by Threshold Networks, Emusic.com, and Bigstorage.com.
  239. If you like it, you can pay us to add new features to it that you
  240. need, buy a support contract, or pay us to port it to another OS.
  241. config REISERFS_CHECK
  242. bool "Enable reiserfs debug mode"
  243. depends on REISERFS_FS
  244. help
  245. If you set this to Y, then ReiserFS will perform every check it can
  246. possibly imagine of its internal consistency throughout its
  247. operation. It will also go substantially slower. More than once we
  248. have forgotten that this was on, and then gone despondent over the
  249. latest benchmarks.:-) Use of this option allows our team to go all
  250. out in checking for consistency when debugging without fear of its
  251. effect on end users. If you are on the verge of sending in a bug
  252. report, say Y and you might get a useful error message. Almost
  253. everyone should say N.
  254. config REISERFS_PROC_INFO
  255. bool "Stats in /proc/fs/reiserfs"
  256. depends on REISERFS_FS && PROC_FS
  257. help
  258. Create under /proc/fs/reiserfs a hierarchy of files, displaying
  259. various ReiserFS statistics and internal data at the expense of
  260. making your kernel or module slightly larger (+8 KB). This also
  261. increases the amount of kernel memory required for each mount.
  262. Almost everyone but ReiserFS developers and people fine-tuning
  263. reiserfs or tracing problems should say N.
  264. config REISERFS_FS_XATTR
  265. bool "ReiserFS extended attributes"
  266. depends on REISERFS_FS
  267. help
  268. Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
  269. the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
  270. <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
  271. If unsure, say N.
  272. config REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL
  273. bool "ReiserFS POSIX Access Control Lists"
  274. depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR
  275. select FS_POSIX_ACL
  276. help
  277. Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
  278. groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
  279. To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
  280. Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
  281. If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
  282. config REISERFS_FS_SECURITY
  283. bool "ReiserFS Security Labels"
  284. depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR
  285. help
  286. Security labels support alternative access control models
  287. implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
  288. enables an extended attribute handler for file security
  289. labels in the ReiserFS filesystem.
  290. If you are not using a security module that requires using
  291. extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
  292. config JFS_FS
  293. tristate "JFS filesystem support"
  294. select NLS
  295. help
  296. This is a port of IBM's Journaled Filesystem . More information is
  297. available in the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt>.
  298. If you do not intend to use the JFS filesystem, say N.
  299. config JFS_POSIX_ACL
  300. bool "JFS POSIX Access Control Lists"
  301. depends on JFS_FS
  302. select FS_POSIX_ACL
  303. help
  304. Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
  305. groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
  306. To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
  307. Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
  308. If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
  309. config JFS_SECURITY
  310. bool "JFS Security Labels"
  311. depends on JFS_FS
  312. help
  313. Security labels support alternative access control models
  314. implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
  315. enables an extended attribute handler for file security
  316. labels in the jfs filesystem.
  317. If you are not using a security module that requires using
  318. extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
  319. config JFS_DEBUG
  320. bool "JFS debugging"
  321. depends on JFS_FS
  322. help
  323. If you are experiencing any problems with the JFS filesystem, say
  324. Y here. This will result in additional debugging messages to be
  325. written to the system log. Under normal circumstances, this
  326. results in very little overhead.
  327. config JFS_STATISTICS
  328. bool "JFS statistics"
  329. depends on JFS_FS
  330. help
  331. Enabling this option will cause statistics from the JFS file system
  332. to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jfs/ directory.
  333. config FS_POSIX_ACL
  334. # Posix ACL utility routines (for now, only ext2/ext3/jfs/reiserfs)
  335. #
  336. # NOTE: you can implement Posix ACLs without these helpers (XFS does).
  337. # Never use this symbol for ifdefs.
  338. #
  339. bool
  340. default n
  341. source "fs/xfs/Kconfig"
  342. source "fs/gfs2/Kconfig"
  343. config OCFS2_FS
  344. tristate "OCFS2 file system support"
  345. depends on NET && SYSFS
  346. select CONFIGFS_FS
  347. select JBD
  348. select CRC32
  349. help
  350. OCFS2 is a general purpose extent based shared disk cluster file
  351. system with many similarities to ext3. It supports 64 bit inode
  352. numbers, and has automatically extending metadata groups which may
  353. also make it attractive for non-clustered use.
  354. You'll want to install the ocfs2-tools package in order to at least
  355. get "mount.ocfs2".
  356. Project web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2
  357. Tools web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools
  358. OCFS2 mailing lists: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/mailman/
  359. Note: Features which OCFS2 does not support yet:
  360. - extended attributes
  361. - shared writeable mmap
  362. - loopback is supported, but data written will not
  363. be cluster coherent.
  364. - quotas
  365. - cluster aware flock
  366. - Directory change notification (F_NOTIFY)
  367. - Distributed Caching (F_SETLEASE/F_GETLEASE/break_lease)
  368. - POSIX ACLs
  369. - readpages / writepages (not user visible)
  370. config OCFS2_DEBUG_MASKLOG
  371. bool "OCFS2 logging support"
  372. depends on OCFS2_FS
  373. default y
  374. help
  375. The ocfs2 filesystem has an extensive logging system. The system
  376. allows selection of events to log via files in /sys/o2cb/logmask/.
  377. This option will enlarge your kernel, but it allows debugging of
  378. ocfs2 filesystem issues.
  379. config MINIX_FS
  380. tristate "Minix fs support"
  381. help
  382. Minix is a simple operating system used in many classes about OS's.
  383. The minix file system (method to organize files on a hard disk
  384. partition or a floppy disk) was the original file system for Linux,
  385. but has been superseded by the second extended file system ext2fs.
  386. You don't want to use the minix file system on your hard disk
  387. because of certain built-in restrictions, but it is sometimes found
  388. on older Linux floppy disks. This option will enlarge your kernel
  389. by about 28 KB. If unsure, say N.
  390. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
  391. module will be called minix. Note that the file system of your root
  392. partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as
  393. a module.
  394. config ROMFS_FS
  395. tristate "ROM file system support"
  396. ---help---
  397. This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for
  398. initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for
  399. other read-only media as well. Read
  400. <file:Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt> for details.
  401. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
  402. module will be called romfs. Note that the file system of your
  403. root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a
  404. module.
  405. If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
  406. answer N.
  407. endif
  408. config INOTIFY
  409. bool "Inotify file change notification support"
  410. default y
  411. ---help---
  412. Say Y here to enable inotify support. Inotify is a file change
  413. notification system and a replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes
  414. numerous shortcomings in dnotify and introduces several new features
  415. including multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount
  416. notification.
  417. For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt
  418. If unsure, say Y.
  419. config INOTIFY_USER
  420. bool "Inotify support for userspace"
  421. depends on INOTIFY
  422. default y
  423. ---help---
  424. Say Y here to enable inotify support for userspace, including the
  425. associated system calls. Inotify allows monitoring of both files and
  426. directories via a single open fd. Events are read from the file
  427. descriptor, which is also select()- and poll()-able.
  428. For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt
  429. If unsure, say Y.
  430. config QUOTA
  431. bool "Quota support"
  432. help
  433. If you say Y here, you will be able to set per user limits for disk
  434. usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works for the
  435. ext2, ext3, and reiserfs file system. ext3 also supports journalled
  436. quotas for which you don't need to run quotacheck(8) after an unclean
  437. shutdown.
  438. For further details, read the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from
  439. <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or the documentation provided
  440. with the quota tools. Probably the quota support is only useful for
  441. multi user systems. If unsure, say N.
  442. config QFMT_V1
  443. tristate "Old quota format support"
  444. depends on QUOTA
  445. help
  446. This quota format was (is) used by kernels earlier than 2.4.22. If
  447. you have quota working and you don't want to convert to new quota
  448. format say Y here.
  449. config QFMT_V2
  450. tristate "Quota format v2 support"
  451. depends on QUOTA
  452. help
  453. This quota format allows using quotas with 32-bit UIDs/GIDs. If you
  454. need this functionality say Y here.
  455. config QUOTACTL
  456. bool
  457. depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA
  458. default y
  459. config DNOTIFY
  460. bool "Dnotify support" if EMBEDDED
  461. default y
  462. help
  463. Dnotify is a directory-based per-fd file change notification system
  464. that uses signals to communicate events to user-space. There exist
  465. superior alternatives, but some applications may still rely on
  466. dnotify.
  467. Because of this, if unsure, say Y.
  468. config AUTOFS_FS
  469. tristate "Kernel automounter support"
  470. help
  471. The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
  472. on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
  473. overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
  474. automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
  475. To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs
  476. package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>.
  477. You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
  478. If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more
  479. features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support",
  480. below.
  481. To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
  482. called autofs.
  483. If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you
  484. probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here.
  485. config AUTOFS4_FS
  486. tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)"
  487. help
  488. The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
  489. on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
  490. overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
  491. automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
  492. To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from
  493. <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/>; you also
  494. want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
  495. To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
  496. called autofs4. You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your
  497. modules configuration file.
  498. If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or
  499. don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the
  500. local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say
  501. N here.
  502. config FUSE_FS
  503. tristate "Filesystem in Userspace support"
  504. help
  505. With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem
  506. in a userspace program.
  507. There's also companion library: libfuse. This library along with
  508. utilities is available from the FUSE homepage:
  509. <http://fuse.sourceforge.net/>
  510. See <file:Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt> for more information.
  511. See <file:Documentation/Changes> for needed library/utility version.
  512. If you want to develop a userspace FS, or if you want to use
  513. a filesystem based on FUSE, answer Y or M.
  514. config GENERIC_ACL
  515. bool
  516. select FS_POSIX_ACL
  517. if BLOCK
  518. menu "CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems"
  519. config ISO9660_FS
  520. tristate "ISO 9660 CDROM file system support"
  521. help
  522. This is the standard file system used on CD-ROMs. It was previously
  523. known as "High Sierra File System" and is called "hsfs" on other
  524. Unix systems. The so-called Rock-Ridge extensions which allow for
  525. long Unix filenames and symbolic links are also supported by this
  526. driver. If you have a CD-ROM drive and want to do more with it than
  527. just listen to audio CDs and watch its LEDs, say Y (and read
  528. <file:Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt> and the CD-ROM-HOWTO,
  529. available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), thereby
  530. enlarging your kernel by about 27 KB; otherwise say N.
  531. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
  532. module will be called isofs.
  533. config JOLIET
  534. bool "Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions"
  535. depends on ISO9660_FS
  536. select NLS
  537. help
  538. Joliet is a Microsoft extension for the ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system
  539. which allows for long filenames in unicode format (unicode is the
  540. new 16 bit character code, successor to ASCII, which encodes the
  541. characters of almost all languages of the world; see
  542. <http://www.unicode.org/> for more information). Say Y here if you
  543. want to be able to read Joliet CD-ROMs under Linux.
  544. config ZISOFS
  545. bool "Transparent decompression extension"
  546. depends on ISO9660_FS
  547. select ZLIB_INFLATE
  548. help
  549. This is a Linux-specific extension to RockRidge which lets you store
  550. data in compressed form on a CD-ROM and have it transparently
  551. decompressed when the CD-ROM is accessed. See
  552. <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/zisofs/> for the tools
  553. necessary to create such a filesystem. Say Y here if you want to be
  554. able to read such compressed CD-ROMs.
  555. config UDF_FS
  556. tristate "UDF file system support"
  557. help
  558. This is the new file system used on some CD-ROMs and DVDs. Say Y if
  559. you intend to mount DVD discs or CDRW's written in packet mode, or
  560. if written to by other UDF utilities, such as DirectCD.
  561. Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt>.
  562. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
  563. module will be called udf.
  564. If unsure, say N.
  565. config UDF_NLS
  566. bool
  567. default y
  568. depends on (UDF_FS=m && NLS) || (UDF_FS=y && NLS=y)
  569. endmenu
  570. endif
  571. if BLOCK
  572. menu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems"
  573. config FAT_FS
  574. tristate
  575. select NLS
  576. help
  577. If you want to use one of the FAT-based file systems (the MS-DOS and
  578. VFAT (Windows 95) file systems), then you must say Y or M here
  579. to include FAT support. You will then be able to mount partitions or
  580. diskettes with FAT-based file systems and transparently access the
  581. files on them, i.e. MSDOS files will look and behave just like all
  582. other Unix files.
  583. This FAT support is not a file system in itself, it only provides
  584. the foundation for the other file systems. You will have to say Y or
  585. M to at least one of "MSDOS fs support" or "VFAT fs support" in
  586. order to make use of it.
  587. Another way to read and write MSDOS floppies and hard drive
  588. partitions from within Linux (but not transparently) is with the
  589. mtools ("man mtools") program suite. You don't need to say Y here in
  590. order to do that.
  591. If you need to move large files on floppies between a DOS and a
  592. Linux box, say Y here, mount the floppy under Linux with an MSDOS
  593. file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program
  594. available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar").
  595. The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure,
  596. say Y.
  597. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
  598. fat. Note that if you compile the FAT support as a module, you
  599. cannot compile any of the FAT-based file systems into the kernel
  600. -- they will have to be modules as well.
  601. config MSDOS_FS
  602. tristate "MSDOS fs support"
  603. select FAT_FS
  604. help
  605. This allows you to mount MSDOS partitions of your hard drive (unless
  606. they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under
  607. Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the
  608. DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from
  609. <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in
  610. <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you
  611. intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y
  612. here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes
  613. transparent, i.e. the MSDOS files look and behave just like all
  614. other Unix files.
  615. If you have Windows 95 or Windows NT installed on your MSDOS
  616. partitions, you should use the VFAT file system (say Y to "VFAT fs
  617. support" below), or you will not be able to see the long filenames
  618. generated by Windows 95 / Windows NT.
  619. This option will enlarge your kernel by about 7 KB. If unsure,
  620. answer Y. This will only work if you said Y to "DOS FAT fs support"
  621. as well. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will
  622. be called msdos.
  623. config VFAT_FS
  624. tristate "VFAT (Windows-95) fs support"
  625. select FAT_FS
  626. help
  627. This option provides support for normal Windows file systems with
  628. long filenames. That includes non-compressed FAT-based file systems
  629. used by Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and the Unix
  630. programs from the mtools package.
  631. The VFAT support enlarges your kernel by about 10 KB and it only
  632. works if you said Y to the "DOS FAT fs support" above. Please read
  633. the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for details. If
  634. unsure, say Y.
  635. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
  636. vfat.
  637. config FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE
  638. int "Default codepage for FAT"
  639. depends on MSDOS_FS || VFAT_FS
  640. default 437
  641. help
  642. This option should be set to the codepage of your FAT filesystems.
  643. It can be overridden with the "codepage" mount option.
  644. See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
  645. config FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET
  646. string "Default iocharset for FAT"
  647. depends on VFAT_FS
  648. default "iso8859-1"
  649. help
  650. Set this to the default input/output character set you'd
  651. like FAT to use. It should probably match the character set
  652. that most of your FAT filesystems use, and can be overridden
  653. with the "iocharset" mount option for FAT filesystems.
  654. Note that "utf8" is not recommended for FAT filesystems.
  655. If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here.
  656. See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
  657. config NTFS_FS
  658. tristate "NTFS file system support"
  659. select NLS
  660. help
  661. NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003.
  662. Saying Y or M here enables read support. There is partial, but
  663. safe, write support available. For write support you must also
  664. say Y to "NTFS write support" below.
  665. There are also a number of user-space tools available, called
  666. ntfsprogs. These include ntfsundelete and ntfsresize, that work
  667. without NTFS support enabled in the kernel.
  668. This is a rewrite from scratch of Linux NTFS support and replaced
  669. the old NTFS code starting with Linux 2.5.11. A backport to
  670. the Linux 2.4 kernel series is separately available as a patch
  671. from the project web site.
  672. For more information see <file:Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt>
  673. and <http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/>.
  674. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
  675. module will be called ntfs.
  676. If you are not using Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 in addition to
  677. Linux on your computer it is safe to say N.
  678. config NTFS_DEBUG
  679. bool "NTFS debugging support"
  680. depends on NTFS_FS
  681. help
  682. If you are experiencing any problems with the NTFS file system, say
  683. Y here. This will result in additional consistency checks to be
  684. performed by the driver as well as additional debugging messages to
  685. be written to the system log. Note that debugging messages are
  686. disabled by default. To enable them, supply the option debug_msgs=1
  687. at the kernel command line when booting the kernel or as an option
  688. to insmod when loading the ntfs module. Once the driver is active,
  689. you can enable debugging messages by doing (as root):
  690. echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug
  691. Replacing the "1" with "0" would disable debug messages.
  692. If you leave debugging messages disabled, this results in little
  693. overhead, but enabling debug messages results in very significant
  694. slowdown of the system.
  695. When reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of
  696. debugging messages while the misbehaviour was occurring.
  697. config NTFS_RW
  698. bool "NTFS write support"
  699. depends on NTFS_FS
  700. help
  701. This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver.
  702. The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without
  703. changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or
  704. renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to
  705. so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot
  706. be written to.
  707. While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have
  708. so far not received a single report where the driver would have
  709. damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use.
  710. Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from
  711. scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS
  712. write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997),
  713. is not safe.
  714. This is currently useful with TopologiLinux. TopologiLinux is run
  715. on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your
  716. hard disk. Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not
  717. need its own partition. For more information see
  718. <http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/>
  719. It is perfectly safe to say N here.
  720. endmenu
  721. endif
  722. menu "Pseudo filesystems"
  723. config PROC_FS
  724. bool "/proc file system support" if EMBEDDED
  725. default y
  726. help
  727. This is a virtual file system providing information about the status
  728. of the system. "Virtual" means that it doesn't take up any space on
  729. your hard disk: the files are created on the fly by the kernel when
  730. you try to access them. Also, you cannot read the files with older
  731. version of the program less: you need to use more or cat.
  732. It's totally cool; for example, "cat /proc/interrupts" gives
  733. information about what the different IRQs are used for at the moment
  734. (there is a small number of Interrupt ReQuest lines in your computer
  735. that are used by the attached devices to gain the CPU's attention --
  736. often a source of trouble if two devices are mistakenly configured
  737. to use the same IRQ). The program procinfo to display some
  738. information about your system gathered from the /proc file system.
  739. Before you can use the /proc file system, it has to be mounted,
  740. meaning it has to be given a location in the directory hierarchy.
  741. That location should be /proc. A command such as "mount -t proc proc
  742. /proc" or the equivalent line in /etc/fstab does the job.
  743. The /proc file system is explained in the file
  744. <file:Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt> and on the proc(5) manpage
  745. ("man 5 proc").
  746. This option will enlarge your kernel by about 67 KB. Several
  747. programs depend on this, so everyone should say Y here.
  748. config PROC_KCORE
  749. bool "/proc/kcore support" if !ARM
  750. depends on PROC_FS && MMU
  751. config PROC_VMCORE
  752. bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  753. depends on PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP
  754. default y
  755. help
  756. Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format.
  757. config PROC_SYSCTL
  758. bool "Sysctl support (/proc/sys)" if EMBEDDED
  759. depends on PROC_FS
  760. select SYSCTL
  761. default y
  762. ---help---
  763. The sysctl interface provides a means of dynamically changing
  764. certain kernel parameters and variables on the fly without requiring
  765. a recompile of the kernel or reboot of the system. The primary
  766. interface is through /proc/sys. If you say Y here a tree of
  767. modifiable sysctl entries will be generated beneath the
  768. /proc/sys directory. They are explained in the files
  769. in <file:Documentation/sysctl/>. Note that enabling this
  770. option will enlarge the kernel by at least 8 KB.
  771. As it is generally a good thing, you should say Y here unless
  772. building a kernel for install/rescue disks or your system is very
  773. limited in memory.
  774. config SYSFS
  775. bool "sysfs file system support" if EMBEDDED
  776. default y
  777. help
  778. The sysfs filesystem is a virtual filesystem that the kernel uses to
  779. export internal kernel objects, their attributes, and their
  780. relationships to one another.
  781. Users can use sysfs to ascertain useful information about the running
  782. kernel, such as the devices the kernel has discovered on each bus and
  783. which driver each is bound to. sysfs can also be used to tune devices
  784. and other kernel subsystems.
  785. Some system agents rely on the information in sysfs to operate.
  786. /sbin/hotplug uses device and object attributes in sysfs to assist in
  787. delegating policy decisions, like persistently naming devices.
  788. sysfs is currently used by the block subsystem to mount the root
  789. partition. If sysfs is disabled you must specify the boot device on
  790. the kernel boot command line via its major and minor numbers. For
  791. example, "root=03:01" for /dev/hda1.
  792. Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space.
  793. config TMPFS
  794. bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)"
  795. help
  796. Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory.
  797. Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be
  798. created on your hard drive. The files live in memory and swap
  799. space. If you unmount a tmpfs instance, everything stored therein is
  800. lost.
  801. See <file:Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> for details.
  802. config TMPFS_POSIX_ACL
  803. bool "Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists"
  804. depends on TMPFS
  805. select GENERIC_ACL
  806. help
  807. POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
  808. groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
  809. To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for
  810. Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
  811. If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N.
  812. config HUGETLBFS
  813. bool "HugeTLB file system support"
  814. depends on X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || BROKEN
  815. help
  816. hugetlbfs is a filesystem backing for HugeTLB pages, based on
  817. ramfs. For architectures that support it, say Y here and read
  818. <file:Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt> for details.
  819. If unsure, say N.
  820. config HUGETLB_PAGE
  821. def_bool HUGETLBFS
  822. config RAMFS
  823. bool
  824. default y
  825. ---help---
  826. Ramfs is a file system which keeps all files in RAM. It allows
  827. read and write access.
  828. It is more of an programming example than a useable file system. If
  829. you need a file system which lives in RAM with limit checking use
  830. tmpfs.
  831. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
  832. ramfs.
  833. config CONFIGFS_FS
  834. tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  835. depends on SYSFS && EXPERIMENTAL
  836. help
  837. configfs is a ram-based filesystem that provides the converse
  838. of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based
  839. view of kernel objects, configfs is a filesystem-based manager
  840. of kernel objects, or config_items.
  841. Both sysfs and configfs can and should exist together on the
  842. same system. One is not a replacement for the other.
  843. endmenu
  844. menu "Miscellaneous filesystems"
  845. config ADFS_FS
  846. tristate "ADFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  847. depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
  848. help
  849. The Acorn Disc Filing System is the standard file system of the
  850. RiscOS operating system which runs on Acorn's ARM-based Risc PC
  851. systems and the Acorn Archimedes range of machines. If you say Y
  852. here, Linux will be able to read from ADFS partitions on hard drives
  853. and from ADFS-formatted floppy discs. If you also want to be able to
  854. write to those devices, say Y to "ADFS write support" below.
  855. The ADFS partition should be the first partition (i.e.,
  856. /dev/[hs]d?1) on each of your drives. Please read the file
  857. <file:Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt> for further details.
  858. To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be
  859. called adfs.
  860. If unsure, say N.
  861. config ADFS_FS_RW
  862. bool "ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)"
  863. depends on ADFS_FS
  864. help
  865. If you say Y here, you will be able to write to ADFS partitions on
  866. hard drives and ADFS-formatted floppy disks. This is experimental
  867. codes, so if you're unsure, say N.
  868. config AFFS_FS
  869. tristate "Amiga FFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  870. depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
  871. help
  872. The Fast File System (FFS) is the common file system used on hard
  873. disks by Amiga(tm) systems since AmigaOS Version 1.3 (34.20). Say Y
  874. if you want to be able to read and write files from and to an Amiga
  875. FFS partition on your hard drive. Amiga floppies however cannot be
  876. read with this driver due to an incompatibility of the floppy
  877. controller used in an Amiga and the standard floppy controller in
  878. PCs and workstations. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt>
  879. and <file:fs/affs/Changes>.
  880. With this driver you can also mount disk files used by Bernd
  881. Schmidt's Un*X Amiga Emulator
  882. (<http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/>).
  883. If you want to do this, you will also need to say Y or M to "Loop
  884. device support", above.
  885. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
  886. module will be called affs. If unsure, say N.
  887. config ECRYPT_FS
  888. tristate "eCrypt filesystem layer support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  889. depends on EXPERIMENTAL && KEYS && CRYPTO && NET
  890. help
  891. Encrypted filesystem that operates on the VFS layer. See
  892. <file:Documentation/ecryptfs.txt> to learn more about
  893. eCryptfs. Userspace components are required and can be
  894. obtained from <http://ecryptfs.sf.net>.
  895. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
  896. module will be called ecryptfs.
  897. config HFS_FS
  898. tristate "Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  899. depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
  900. select NLS
  901. help
  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
  905. options.
  906. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
  907. module will be called hfs.
  908. config HFSPLUS_FS
  909. tristate "Apple Extended HFS file system support"
  910. depends on BLOCK
  911. select NLS
  912. select NLS_UTF8
  913. help
  914. If you say Y here, you will be able to mount extended format
  915. Macintosh-formatted hard drive partitions with full read-write access.
  916. This file system is often called HFS+ and was introduced with
  917. MacOS 8. It includes all Mac specific filesystem data such as
  918. data forks and creator codes, but it also has several UNIX
  919. style features such as file ownership and permissions.
  920. config BEFS_FS
  921. tristate "BeOS file system (BeFS) support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  922. depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
  923. select NLS
  924. help
  925. The BeOS File System (BeFS) is the native file system of Be, Inc's
  926. BeOS. Notable features include support for arbitrary attributes
  927. on files and directories, and database-like indices on selected
  928. attributes. (Also note that this driver doesn't make those features
  929. available at this time). It is a 64 bit filesystem, so it supports
  930. extremely large volumes and files.
  931. If you use this filesystem, you should also say Y to at least one
  932. of the NLS (native language support) options below.
  933. If you don't know what this is about, say N.
  934. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
  935. called befs.
  936. config BEFS_DEBUG
  937. bool "Debug BeFS"
  938. depends on BEFS_FS
  939. help
  940. If you say Y here, you can use the 'debug' mount option to enable
  941. debugging output from the driver.
  942. config BFS_FS
  943. tristate "BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  944. depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
  945. help
  946. Boot File System (BFS) is a file system used under SCO UnixWare to
  947. allow the bootloader access to the kernel image and other important
  948. files during the boot process. It is usually mounted under /stand
  949. and corresponds to the slice marked as "STAND" in the UnixWare
  950. partition. You should say Y if you want to read or write the files
  951. on your /stand slice from within Linux. You then also need to say Y
  952. to "UnixWare slices support", below. More information about the BFS
  953. file system is contained in the file
  954. <file:Documentation/filesystems/bfs.txt>.
  955. If you don't know what this is about, say N.
  956. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
  957. bfs. Note that the file system of your root partition (the one
  958. containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
  959. config EFS_FS
  960. tristate "EFS file system support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  961. depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
  962. help
  963. EFS is an older file system used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and hard
  964. disk partitions by SGI's IRIX operating system (IRIX 6.0 and newer
  965. uses the XFS file system for hard disk partitions however).
  966. This implementation only offers read-only access. If you don't know
  967. what all this is about, it's safe to say N. For more information
  968. about EFS see its home page at <http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/>.
  969. To compile the EFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the
  970. module will be called efs.
  971. config JFFS2_FS
  972. tristate "Journalling Flash File System v2 (JFFS2) support"
  973. select CRC32
  974. depends on MTD
  975. help
  976. JFFS2 is the second generation of the Journalling Flash File System
  977. for use on diskless embedded devices. It provides improved wear
  978. levelling, compression and support for hard links. You cannot use
  979. this on normal block devices, only on 'MTD' devices.
  980. Further information on the design and implementation of JFFS2 is
  981. available at <http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2/>.
  982. config JFFS2_FS_DEBUG
  983. int "JFFS2 debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 2 = noisy)"
  984. depends on JFFS2_FS
  985. default "0"
  986. help
  987. This controls the amount of debugging messages produced by the JFFS2
  988. code. Set it to zero for use in production systems. For evaluation,
  989. testing and debugging, it's advisable to set it to one. This will
  990. enable a few assertions and will print debugging messages at the
  991. KERN_DEBUG loglevel, where they won't normally be visible. Level 2
  992. is unlikely to be useful - it enables extra debugging in certain
  993. areas which at one point needed debugging, but when the bugs were
  994. located and fixed, the detailed messages were relegated to level 2.
  995. If reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of the
  996. messages at debug level 1 while the misbehaviour was occurring.
  997. config JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER
  998. bool "JFFS2 write-buffering support"
  999. depends on JFFS2_FS
  1000. default y
  1001. help
  1002. This enables the write-buffering support in JFFS2.
  1003. This functionality is required to support JFFS2 on the following
  1004. types of flash devices:
  1005. - NAND flash
  1006. - NOR flash with transparent ECC
  1007. - DataFlash
  1008. config JFFS2_SUMMARY
  1009. bool "JFFS2 summary support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  1010. depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
  1011. default n
  1012. help
  1013. This feature makes it possible to use summary information
  1014. for faster filesystem mount.
  1015. The summary information can be inserted into a filesystem image
  1016. by the utility 'sumtool'.
  1017. If unsure, say 'N'.
  1018. config JFFS2_FS_XATTR
  1019. bool "JFFS2 XATTR support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  1020. depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
  1021. default n
  1022. help
  1023. Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
  1024. the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
  1025. <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
  1026. If unsure, say N.
  1027. config JFFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL
  1028. bool "JFFS2 POSIX Access Control Lists"
  1029. depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR
  1030. default y
  1031. select FS_POSIX_ACL
  1032. help
  1033. Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
  1034. groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
  1035. To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
  1036. Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
  1037. If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
  1038. config JFFS2_FS_SECURITY
  1039. bool "JFFS2 Security Labels"
  1040. depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR
  1041. default y
  1042. help
  1043. Security labels support alternative access control models
  1044. implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
  1045. enables an extended attribute handler for file security
  1046. labels in the jffs2 filesystem.
  1047. If you are not using a security module that requires using
  1048. extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
  1049. config JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
  1050. bool "Advanced compression options for JFFS2"
  1051. depends on JFFS2_FS
  1052. default n
  1053. help
  1054. Enabling this option allows you to explicitly choose which
  1055. compression modules, if any, are enabled in JFFS2. Removing
  1056. compressors and mean you cannot read existing file systems,
  1057. and enabling experimental compressors can mean that you
  1058. write a file system which cannot be read by a standard kernel.
  1059. If unsure, you should _definitely_ say 'N'.
  1060. config JFFS2_ZLIB
  1061. bool "JFFS2 ZLIB compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
  1062. select ZLIB_INFLATE
  1063. select ZLIB_DEFLATE
  1064. depends on JFFS2_FS
  1065. default y
  1066. help
  1067. Zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered,
  1068. lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer
  1069. hardware and operating system. See <http://www.gzip.org/zlib/> for
  1070. further information.
  1071. Say 'Y' if unsure.
  1072. config JFFS2_RTIME
  1073. bool "JFFS2 RTIME compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
  1074. depends on JFFS2_FS
  1075. default y
  1076. help
  1077. Rtime does manage to recompress already-compressed data. Say 'Y' if unsure.
  1078. config JFFS2_RUBIN
  1079. bool "JFFS2 RUBIN compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
  1080. depends on JFFS2_FS
  1081. default n
  1082. help
  1083. RUBINMIPS and DYNRUBIN compressors. Say 'N' if unsure.
  1084. choice
  1085. prompt "JFFS2 default compression mode" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
  1086. default JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY
  1087. depends on JFFS2_FS
  1088. help
  1089. You can set here the default compression mode of JFFS2 from
  1090. the available compression modes. Don't touch if unsure.
  1091. config JFFS2_CMODE_NONE
  1092. bool "no compression"
  1093. help
  1094. Uses no compression.
  1095. config JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY
  1096. bool "priority"
  1097. help
  1098. Tries the compressors in a predefined order and chooses the first
  1099. successful one.
  1100. config JFFS2_CMODE_SIZE
  1101. bool "size (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  1102. help
  1103. Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest
  1104. result.
  1105. endchoice
  1106. config CRAMFS
  1107. tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)"
  1108. depends on BLOCK
  1109. select ZLIB_INFLATE
  1110. help
  1111. Saying Y here includes support for CramFs (Compressed ROM File
  1112. System). CramFs is designed to be a simple, small, and compressed
  1113. file system for ROM based embedded systems. CramFs is read-only,
  1114. limited to 256MB file systems (with 16MB files), and doesn't support
  1115. 16/32 bits uid/gid, hard links and timestamps.
  1116. See <file:Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt> and
  1117. <file:fs/cramfs/README> for further information.
  1118. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
  1119. cramfs. Note that the root file system (the one containing the
  1120. directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
  1121. If unsure, say N.
  1122. config VXFS_FS
  1123. tristate "FreeVxFS file system support (VERITAS VxFS(TM) compatible)"
  1124. depends on BLOCK
  1125. help
  1126. FreeVxFS is a file system driver that support the VERITAS VxFS(TM)
  1127. file system format. VERITAS VxFS(TM) is the standard file system
  1128. of SCO UnixWare (and possibly others) and optionally available
  1129. for Sunsoft Solaris, HP-UX and many other operating systems.
  1130. Currently only readonly access is supported.
  1131. NOTE: the file system type as used by mount(1), mount(2) and
  1132. fstab(5) is 'vxfs' as it describes the file system format, not
  1133. the actual driver.
  1134. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
  1135. called freevxfs. If unsure, say N.
  1136. config HPFS_FS
  1137. tristate "OS/2 HPFS file system support"
  1138. depends on BLOCK
  1139. help
  1140. OS/2 is IBM's operating system for PC's, the same as Warp, and HPFS
  1141. is the file system used for organizing files on OS/2 hard disk
  1142. partitions. Say Y if you want to be able to read files from and
  1143. write files to an OS/2 HPFS partition on your hard drive. OS/2
  1144. floppies however are in regular MSDOS format, so you don't need this
  1145. option in order to be able to read them. Read
  1146. <file:Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt>.
  1147. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
  1148. module will be called hpfs. If unsure, say N.
  1149. config QNX4FS_FS
  1150. tristate "QNX4 file system support (read only)"
  1151. depends on BLOCK
  1152. help
  1153. This is the file system used by the real-time operating systems
  1154. QNX 4 and QNX 6 (the latter is also called QNX RTP).
  1155. Further information is available at <http://www.qnx.com/>.
  1156. Say Y if you intend to mount QNX hard disks or floppies.
  1157. Unless you say Y to "QNX4FS read-write support" below, you will
  1158. only be able to read these file systems.
  1159. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
  1160. module will be called qnx4.
  1161. If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
  1162. answer N.
  1163. config QNX4FS_RW
  1164. bool "QNX4FS write support (DANGEROUS)"
  1165. depends on QNX4FS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN
  1166. help
  1167. Say Y if you want to test write support for QNX4 file systems.
  1168. It's currently broken, so for now:
  1169. answer N.
  1170. config SYSV_FS
  1171. tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support"
  1172. depends on BLOCK
  1173. help
  1174. SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel
  1175. machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y
  1176. here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk
  1177. partitions.
  1178. If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely
  1179. that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order
  1180. to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is
  1181. a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse,
  1182. UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux. It is
  1183. available via FTP (user: ftp) from
  1184. <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>).
  1185. NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems;
  1186. PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-)
  1187. If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the
  1188. network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support
  1189. (but you need NFS file system support obviously).
  1190. Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
  1191. good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
  1192. (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
  1193. tar" or preferably "info tar"). Note also that this option has
  1194. nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about
  1195. the System V file system in
  1196. <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>.
  1197. Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB.
  1198. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
  1199. sysv.
  1200. If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
  1201. config UFS_FS
  1202. tristate "UFS file system support (read only)"
  1203. depends on BLOCK
  1204. help
  1205. BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
  1206. OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a file system called UFS. Some System V
  1207. Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using
  1208. this file system as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from
  1209. these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the
  1210. experimental "UFS file system write support", below. Please read the
  1211. file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt> for more information.
  1212. The recently released UFS2 variant (used in FreeBSD 5.x) is
  1213. READ-ONLY supported.
  1214. If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the
  1215. network using NFS, you don't need the UFS file system support (but
  1216. you need NFS file system support obviously).
  1217. Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
  1218. good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
  1219. (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
  1220. tar" or preferably "info tar").
  1221. When accessing NeXTstep files, you may need to convert them from the
  1222. NeXT character set to the Latin1 character set; use the program
  1223. recode ("info recode") for this purpose.
  1224. To compile the UFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the
  1225. module will be called ufs.
  1226. If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
  1227. config UFS_FS_WRITE
  1228. bool "UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS)"
  1229. depends on UFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
  1230. help
  1231. Say Y here if you want to try writing to UFS partitions. This is
  1232. experimental, so you should back up your UFS partitions beforehand.
  1233. config UFS_DEBUG
  1234. bool "UFS debugging"
  1235. depends on UFS_FS
  1236. help
  1237. If you are experiencing any problems with the UFS filesystem, say
  1238. Y here. This will result in _many_ additional debugging messages to be
  1239. written to the system log.
  1240. endmenu
  1241. menu "Network File Systems"
  1242. depends on NET
  1243. config NFS_FS
  1244. tristate "NFS file system support"
  1245. depends on INET
  1246. select LOCKD
  1247. select SUNRPC
  1248. select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFS_V3_ACL
  1249. help
  1250. If you are connected to some other (usually local) Unix computer
  1251. (using SLIP, PLIP, PPP or Ethernet) and want to mount files residing
  1252. on that computer (the NFS server) using the Network File Sharing
  1253. protocol, say Y. "Mounting files" means that the client can access
  1254. the files with usual UNIX commands as if they were sitting on the
  1255. client's hard disk. For this to work, the server must run the
  1256. programs nfsd and mountd (but does not need to have NFS file system
  1257. support enabled in its kernel). NFS is explained in the Network
  1258. Administrator's Guide, available from
  1259. <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>, on its man page: "man
  1260. nfs", and in the NFS-HOWTO.
  1261. A superior but less widely used alternative to NFS is provided by
  1262. the Coda file system; see "Coda file system support" below.
  1263. If you say Y here, you should have said Y to TCP/IP networking also.
  1264. This option would enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB.
  1265. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
  1266. module will be called nfs.
  1267. If you are configuring a diskless machine which will mount its root
  1268. file system over NFS at boot time, say Y here and to "Kernel
  1269. level IP autoconfiguration" above and to "Root file system on NFS"
  1270. below. You cannot compile this driver as a module in this case.
  1271. There are two packages designed for booting diskless machines over
  1272. the net: netboot, available from
  1273. <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/netboot/>, and Etherboot,
  1274. available from <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/etherboot/>.
  1275. If you don't know what all this is about, say N.
  1276. config NFS_V3
  1277. bool "Provide NFSv3 client support"
  1278. depends on NFS_FS
  1279. help
  1280. Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak version
  1281. 3 of the NFS protocol.
  1282. If unsure, say Y.
  1283. config NFS_V3_ACL
  1284. bool "Provide client support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension"
  1285. depends on NFS_V3
  1286. help
  1287. Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX
  1288. Access Control Lists. The server should also be compiled with
  1289. the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL option.
  1290. If unsure, say N.
  1291. config NFS_V4
  1292. bool "Provide NFSv4 client support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  1293. depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
  1294. select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
  1295. help
  1296. Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak the newer
  1297. version 4 of the NFS protocol.
  1298. Note: Requires auxiliary userspace daemons which may be found on
  1299. http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
  1300. If unsure, say N.
  1301. config NFS_DIRECTIO
  1302. bool "Allow direct I/O on NFS files"
  1303. depends on NFS_FS
  1304. help
  1305. This option enables applications to perform uncached I/O on files
  1306. in NFS file systems using the O_DIRECT open() flag. When O_DIRECT
  1307. is set for a file, its data is not cached in the system's page
  1308. cache. Data is moved to and from user-level application buffers
  1309. directly. Unlike local disk-based file systems, NFS O_DIRECT has
  1310. no alignment restrictions.
  1311. Unless your program is designed to use O_DIRECT properly, you are
  1312. much better off allowing the NFS client to manage data caching for
  1313. you. Misusing O_DIRECT can cause poor server performance or network
  1314. storms. This kernel build option defaults OFF to avoid exposing
  1315. system administrators unwittingly to a potentially hazardous
  1316. feature.
  1317. For more details on NFS O_DIRECT, see fs/nfs/direct.c.
  1318. If unsure, say N. This reduces the size of the NFS client, and
  1319. causes open() to return EINVAL if a file residing in NFS is
  1320. opened with the O_DIRECT flag.
  1321. config NFSD
  1322. tristate "NFS server support"
  1323. depends on INET
  1324. select LOCKD
  1325. select SUNRPC
  1326. select EXPORTFS
  1327. select NFSD_V2_ACL if NFSD_V3_ACL
  1328. select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFSD_V2_ACL
  1329. select NFSD_TCP if NFSD_V4
  1330. select CRYPTO_MD5 if NFSD_V4
  1331. select CRYPTO if NFSD_V4
  1332. select FS_POSIX_ACL if NFSD_V4
  1333. help
  1334. If you want your Linux box to act as an NFS *server*, so that other
  1335. computers on your local network which support NFS can access certain
  1336. directories on your box transparently, you have two options: you can
  1337. use the self-contained user space program nfsd, in which case you
  1338. should say N here, or you can say Y and use the kernel based NFS
  1339. server. The advantage of the kernel based solution is that it is
  1340. faster.
  1341. In either case, you will need support software; the respective
  1342. locations are given in the file <file:Documentation/Changes> in the
  1343. NFS section.
  1344. If you say Y here, you will get support for version 2 of the NFS
  1345. protocol (NFSv2). If you also want NFSv3, say Y to the next question
  1346. as well.
  1347. Please read the NFS-HOWTO, available from
  1348. <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
  1349. To compile the NFS server support as a module, choose M here: the
  1350. module will be called nfsd. If unsure, say N.
  1351. config NFSD_V2_ACL
  1352. bool
  1353. depends on NFSD
  1354. config NFSD_V3
  1355. bool "Provide NFSv3 server support"
  1356. depends on NFSD
  1357. help
  1358. If you would like to include the NFSv3 server as well as the NFSv2
  1359. server, say Y here. If unsure, say Y.
  1360. config NFSD_V3_ACL
  1361. bool "Provide server support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension"
  1362. depends on NFSD_V3
  1363. help
  1364. Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX
  1365. Access Control Lists on exported file systems. NFS clients should
  1366. be compiled with the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the
  1367. CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL option. If unsure, say N.
  1368. config NFSD_V4
  1369. bool "Provide NFSv4 server support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  1370. depends on NFSD_V3 && EXPERIMENTAL
  1371. help
  1372. If you would like to include the NFSv4 server as well as the NFSv2
  1373. and NFSv3 servers, say Y here. This feature is experimental, and
  1374. should only be used if you are interested in helping to test NFSv4.
  1375. If unsure, say N.
  1376. config NFSD_TCP
  1377. bool "Provide NFS server over TCP support"
  1378. depends on NFSD
  1379. default y
  1380. help
  1381. If you want your NFS server to support TCP connections, say Y here.
  1382. TCP connections usually perform better than the default UDP when
  1383. the network is lossy or congested. If unsure, say Y.
  1384. config ROOT_NFS
  1385. bool "Root file system on NFS"
  1386. depends on NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP
  1387. help
  1388. If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
  1389. one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
  1390. net via NFS (presumably because your box doesn't have a hard disk),
  1391. say Y. Read <file:Documentation/nfsroot.txt> for details. It is
  1392. likely that in this case, you also want to say Y to "Kernel level IP
  1393. autoconfiguration" so that your box can discover its network address
  1394. at boot time.
  1395. Most people say N here.
  1396. config LOCKD
  1397. tristate
  1398. config LOCKD_V4
  1399. bool
  1400. depends on NFSD_V3 || NFS_V3
  1401. default y
  1402. config EXPORTFS
  1403. tristate
  1404. config NFS_ACL_SUPPORT
  1405. tristate
  1406. select FS_POSIX_ACL
  1407. config NFS_COMMON
  1408. bool
  1409. depends on NFSD || NFS_FS
  1410. default y
  1411. config SUNRPC
  1412. tristate
  1413. config SUNRPC_GSS
  1414. tristate
  1415. config SUNRPC_BIND34
  1416. bool "Support for rpcbind versions 3 & 4 (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  1417. depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
  1418. help
  1419. Provides kernel support for querying rpcbind servers via versions 3
  1420. and 4 of the rpcbind protocol. The kernel automatically falls back
  1421. to version 2 if a remote rpcbind service does not support versions
  1422. 3 or 4.
  1423. If unsure, say N to get traditional behavior (version 2 rpcbind
  1424. requests only).
  1425. config RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
  1426. tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  1427. depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
  1428. select SUNRPC_GSS
  1429. select CRYPTO
  1430. select CRYPTO_MD5
  1431. select CRYPTO_DES
  1432. select CRYPTO_CBC
  1433. help
  1434. Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api
  1435. mechanism based on Kerberos V5. This is required for
  1436. NFSv4.
  1437. Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on
  1438. http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
  1439. If unsure, say N.
  1440. config RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3
  1441. tristate "Secure RPC: SPKM3 mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  1442. depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
  1443. select SUNRPC_GSS
  1444. select CRYPTO
  1445. select CRYPTO_MD5
  1446. select CRYPTO_DES
  1447. select CRYPTO_CAST5
  1448. select CRYPTO_CBC
  1449. help
  1450. Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api
  1451. mechanism based on the SPKM3 public-key mechanism.
  1452. Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on
  1453. http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
  1454. If unsure, say N.
  1455. config SMB_FS
  1456. tristate "SMB file system support (to mount Windows shares etc.)"
  1457. depends on INET
  1458. select NLS
  1459. help
  1460. SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Windows for Workgroups
  1461. (WfW), Windows 95/98, Windows NT and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share
  1462. files and printers over local networks. Saying Y here allows you to
  1463. mount their file systems (often called "shares" in this context) and
  1464. access them just like any other Unix directory. Currently, this
  1465. works only if the Windows machines use TCP/IP as the underlying
  1466. transport protocol, and not NetBEUI. For details, read
  1467. <file:Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt> and the SMB-HOWTO,
  1468. available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
  1469. Note: if you just want your box to act as an SMB *server* and make
  1470. files and printing services available to Windows clients (which need
  1471. to have a TCP/IP stack), you don't need to say Y here; you can use
  1472. the program SAMBA (available from <ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/>)
  1473. for that.
  1474. General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
  1475. Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
  1476. To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here: the module will
  1477. be called smbfs. Most people say N, however.
  1478. config SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
  1479. bool "Use a default NLS"
  1480. depends on SMB_FS
  1481. help
  1482. Enabling this will make smbfs use nls translations by default. You
  1483. need to specify the local charset (CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT) in the nls
  1484. settings and you need to give the default nls for the SMB server as
  1485. CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE.
  1486. The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount
  1487. supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters.
  1488. smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
  1489. config SMB_NLS_REMOTE
  1490. string "Default Remote NLS Option"
  1491. depends on SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
  1492. default "cp437"
  1493. help
  1494. This setting allows you to specify a default value for which
  1495. codepage the server uses. If this field is left blank no
  1496. translations will be done by default. The local codepage/charset
  1497. default to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT.
  1498. The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount
  1499. supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters.
  1500. smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
  1501. config CIFS
  1502. tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem for Samba, Window and other CIFS compliant servers)"
  1503. depends on INET
  1504. select NLS
  1505. help
  1506. This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System
  1507. (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block
  1508. (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early
  1509. PC operating systems. The CIFS protocol is fully supported by
  1510. file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4
  1511. and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS
  1512. server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited
  1513. support for OS/2 and Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well.
  1514. The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced
  1515. network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers,
  1516. including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user
  1517. session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional
  1518. packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements.
  1519. If you need to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y.
  1520. config CIFS_STATS
  1521. bool "CIFS statistics"
  1522. depends on CIFS
  1523. help
  1524. Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share
  1525. mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats
  1526. config CIFS_STATS2
  1527. bool "Extended statistics"
  1528. depends on CIFS_STATS
  1529. help
  1530. Enabling this option will allow more detailed statistics on SMB
  1531. request timing to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData and also
  1532. allow optional logging of slow responses to dmesg (depending on the
  1533. value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI, see fs/cifs/README for more details).
  1534. These additional statistics may have a minor effect on performance
  1535. and memory utilization.
  1536. Unless you are a developer or are doing network performance analysis
  1537. or tuning, say N.
  1538. config CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH
  1539. bool "Support legacy servers which use weaker LANMAN security"
  1540. depends on CIFS
  1541. help
  1542. Modern CIFS servers including Samba and most Windows versions
  1543. (since 1997) support stronger NTLM (and even NTLMv2 and Kerberos)
  1544. security mechanisms. These hash the password more securely
  1545. than the mechanisms used in the older LANMAN version of the
  1546. SMB protocol needed to establish sessions with old SMB servers.
  1547. Enabling this option allows the cifs module to mount to older
  1548. LANMAN based servers such as OS/2 and Windows 95, but such
  1549. mounts may be less secure than mounts using NTLM or more recent
  1550. security mechanisms if you are on a public network. Unless you
  1551. have a need to access old SMB servers (and are on a private
  1552. network) you probably want to say N. Even if this support
  1553. is enabled in the kernel build, they will not be used
  1554. automatically. At runtime LANMAN mounts are disabled but
  1555. can be set to required (or optional) either in
  1556. /proc/fs/cifs (see fs/cifs/README for more detail) or via an
  1557. option on the mount command. This support is disabled by
  1558. default in order to reduce the possibility of a downgrade
  1559. attack.
  1560. If unsure, say N.
  1561. config CIFS_XATTR
  1562. bool "CIFS extended attributes"
  1563. depends on CIFS
  1564. help
  1565. Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
  1566. the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
  1567. <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). CIFS maps the name of
  1568. extended attributes beginning with the user namespace prefix
  1569. to SMB/CIFS EAs. EAs are stored on Windows servers without the
  1570. user namespace prefix, but their names are seen by Linux cifs clients
  1571. prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace
  1572. (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at
  1573. this time.
  1574. If unsure, say N.
  1575. config CIFS_POSIX
  1576. bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions"
  1577. depends on CIFS_XATTR
  1578. help
  1579. Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to
  1580. negotiate a newer dialect with servers, such as Samba 3.0.5
  1581. or later, that optionally can handle more POSIX like (rather
  1582. than Windows like) file behavior. It also enables
  1583. support for POSIX ACLs (getfacl and setfacl) to servers
  1584. (such as Samba 3.10 and later) which can negotiate
  1585. CIFS POSIX ACL support. If unsure, say N.
  1586. config CIFS_DEBUG2
  1587. bool "Enable additional CIFS debugging routines"
  1588. depends on CIFS
  1589. help
  1590. Enabling this option adds a few more debugging routines
  1591. to the cifs code which slightly increases the size of
  1592. the cifs module and can cause additional logging of debug
  1593. messages in some error paths, slowing performance. This
  1594. option can be turned off unless you are debugging
  1595. cifs problems. If unsure, say N.
  1596. config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
  1597. bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  1598. depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL
  1599. help
  1600. Enables cifs features under testing. These features are
  1601. experimental and currently include DFS support and directory
  1602. change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY), as well as the upcall
  1603. mechanism which will be used for Kerberos session negotiation
  1604. and uid remapping. Some of these features also may depend on
  1605. setting a value of 1 to the pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental
  1606. (which is disabled by default). See the file fs/cifs/README
  1607. for more details. If unsure, say N.
  1608. config CIFS_UPCALL
  1609. bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  1610. depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
  1611. depends on CONNECTOR
  1612. help
  1613. Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which will be used to contact
  1614. userspace helper utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged Kerberos
  1615. tickets which are needed to mount to certain secure servers
  1616. (for which more secure Kerberos authentication is required). If
  1617. unsure, say N.
  1618. config NCP_FS
  1619. tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)"
  1620. depends on IPX!=n || INET
  1621. help
  1622. NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) is a protocol that runs over IPX and is
  1623. used by Novell NetWare clients to talk to file servers. It is to
  1624. IPX what NFS is to TCP/IP, if that helps. Saying Y here allows you
  1625. to mount NetWare file server volumes and to access them just like
  1626. any other Unix directory. For details, please read the file
  1627. <file:Documentation/filesystems/ncpfs.txt> in the kernel source and
  1628. the IPX-HOWTO from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
  1629. You do not have to say Y here if you want your Linux box to act as a
  1630. file *server* for Novell NetWare clients.
  1631. General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
  1632. Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
  1633. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
  1634. ncpfs. Say N unless you are connected to a Novell network.
  1635. source "fs/ncpfs/Kconfig"
  1636. config CODA_FS
  1637. tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)"
  1638. depends on INET
  1639. help
  1640. Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it
  1641. enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them
  1642. with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard
  1643. disk. Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for
  1644. disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server
  1645. replication, security model for authentication and encryption,
  1646. persistent client caches and write back caching.
  1647. If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda
  1648. *client*. You will need user level code as well, both for the
  1649. client and server. Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need
  1650. no kernel support. Please read
  1651. <file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.txt> and check out the Coda
  1652. home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>.
  1653. To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the
  1654. module will be called coda.
  1655. config CODA_FS_OLD_API
  1656. bool "Use 96-bit Coda file identifiers"
  1657. depends on CODA_FS
  1658. help
  1659. A new kernel-userspace API had to be introduced for Coda v6.0
  1660. to support larger 128-bit file identifiers as needed by the
  1661. new realms implementation.
  1662. However this new API is not backward compatible with older
  1663. clients. If you really need to run the old Coda userspace
  1664. cache manager then say Y.
  1665. For most cases you probably want to say N.
  1666. config AFS_FS
  1667. tristate "Andrew File System support (AFS) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  1668. depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL
  1669. select AF_RXRPC
  1670. help
  1671. If you say Y here, you will get an experimental Andrew File System
  1672. driver. It currently only supports unsecured read-only AFS access.
  1673. See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information.
  1674. If unsure, say N.
  1675. config AFS_DEBUG
  1676. bool "AFS dynamic debugging"
  1677. depends on AFS_FS
  1678. help
  1679. Say Y here to make runtime controllable debugging messages appear.
  1680. See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information.
  1681. If unsure, say N.
  1682. config 9P_FS
  1683. tristate "Plan 9 Resource Sharing Support (9P2000) (Experimental)"
  1684. depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL
  1685. help
  1686. If you say Y here, you will get experimental support for
  1687. Plan 9 resource sharing via the 9P2000 protocol.
  1688. See <http://v9fs.sf.net> for more information.
  1689. If unsure, say N.
  1690. endmenu
  1691. if BLOCK
  1692. menu "Partition Types"
  1693. source "fs/partitions/Kconfig"
  1694. endmenu
  1695. endif
  1696. source "fs/nls/Kconfig"
  1697. source "fs/dlm/Kconfig"
  1698. endmenu