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1# 2# File system configuration 3# 4 5menu "File systems" 6 7config EXT2_FS 8 tristate "Second extended fs support" 9 help 10 Ext2 is a standard Linux file system for hard disks. 11 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. 16 17 If unsure, say Y. 18 19config EXT2_FS_XATTR 20 bool "Ext2 extended attributes" 21 depends on EXT2_FS 22 help 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). 26 27 If unsure, say N. 28 29config EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL 30 bool "Ext2 POSIX Access Control Lists" 31 depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR 32 select FS_POSIX_ACL 33 help 34 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 35 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 36 37 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 38 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 39 40 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 41 42config EXT2_FS_SECURITY 43 bool "Ext2 Security Labels" 44 depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR 45 help 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. 50 51 If you are not using a security module that requires using 52 extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 53 54config EXT2_FS_XIP 55 bool "Ext2 execute in place support" 56 depends on EXT2_FS 57 help 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. 61 62 If you do not use a block device that is capable of using this, 63 or if unsure, say N. 64 65config FS_XIP 66# execute in place 67 bool 68 depends on EXT2_FS_XIP 69 default y 70 71config EXT3_FS 72 tristate "Ext3 journalling file system support" 73 help 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. 77 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. 83 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 88 system. 89 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/>). 96 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. 101 102config EXT3_FS_XATTR 103 bool "Ext3 extended attributes" 104 depends on EXT3_FS 105 default y 106 help 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). 110 111 If unsure, say N. 112 113 You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext3. 114 115config EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL 116 bool "Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists" 117 depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR 118 select FS_POSIX_ACL 119 help 120 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 121 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 122 123 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 124 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 125 126 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 127 128config EXT3_FS_SECURITY 129 bool "Ext3 Security Labels" 130 depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR 131 help 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. 136 137 If you are not using a security module that requires using 138 extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 139 140config JBD 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 144 tristate 145 default EXT3_FS 146 help 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 150 RAID or LVM. 151 152 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. 154 155 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. 158 159config JBD_DEBUG 160 bool "JBD (ext3) debugging support" 161 depends on JBD 162 help 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. 168 169 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". 174 175config FS_MBCACHE 176# Meta block cache for Extended Attributes (ext2/ext3) 177 tristate 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 181 182config REISERFS_FS 183 tristate "Reiserfs support" 184 help 185 Stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a balanced 186 tree. Uses journaling. 187 188 Balanced trees are more efficient than traditional file system 189 architectural foundations. 190 191 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. 194 195 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.'' 200 201 Read <http://www.namesys.com/> to learn more about reiserfs. 202 203 Sponsored by Threshold Networks, Emusic.com, and Bigstorage.com. 204 205 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. 207 208config REISERFS_CHECK 209 bool "Enable reiserfs debug mode" 210 depends on REISERFS_FS 211 help 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. 221 222config REISERFS_PROC_INFO 223 bool "Stats in /proc/fs/reiserfs" 224 depends on REISERFS_FS 225 help 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. 232 233config REISERFS_FS_XATTR 234 bool "ReiserFS extended attributes" 235 depends on REISERFS_FS 236 help 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). 240 241 If unsure, say N. 242 243config REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL 244 bool "ReiserFS POSIX Access Control Lists" 245 depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR 246 select FS_POSIX_ACL 247 help 248 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 249 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 250 251 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 252 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 253 254 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 255 256config REISERFS_FS_SECURITY 257 bool "ReiserFS Security Labels" 258 depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR 259 help 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. 264 265 If you are not using a security module that requires using 266 extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 267 268config JFS_FS 269 tristate "JFS filesystem support" 270 select NLS 271 help 272 This is a port of IBM's Journaled Filesystem . More information is 273 available in the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt>. 274 275 If you do not intend to use the JFS filesystem, say N. 276 277config JFS_POSIX_ACL 278 bool "JFS POSIX Access Control Lists" 279 depends on JFS_FS 280 select FS_POSIX_ACL 281 help 282 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 283 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 284 285 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 286 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 287 288 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 289 290config JFS_SECURITY 291 bool "JFS Security Labels" 292 depends on JFS_FS 293 help 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. 298 299 If you are not using a security module that requires using 300 extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 301 302config JFS_DEBUG 303 bool "JFS debugging" 304 depends on JFS_FS 305 help 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. 310 311config JFS_STATISTICS 312 bool "JFS statistics" 313 depends on JFS_FS 314 help 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. 317 318config FS_POSIX_ACL 319# Posix ACL utility routines (for now, only ext2/ext3/jfs/reiserfs) 320# 321# NOTE: you can implement Posix ACLs without these helpers (XFS does). 322# Never use this symbol for ifdefs. 323# 324 bool 325 default n 326 327source "fs/xfs/Kconfig" 328 329config MINIX_FS 330 tristate "Minix fs support" 331 help 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. 340 341 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 344 a module. 345 346config ROMFS_FS 347 tristate "ROM file system support" 348 ---help--- 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. 353 354 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 357 module. 358 359 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it: 360 answer N. 361 362config INOTIFY 363 bool "Inotify file change notification support" 364 default y 365 ---help--- 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 372 notification. 373 374 For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt 375 376 If unsure, say Y. 377 378config QUOTA 379 bool "Quota support" 380 help 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 385 shutdown. You need additional software in order to use quota support 386 (you can download sources from 387 <http://www.sf.net/projects/linuxquota/>). For further details, read 388 the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from 389 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or the documentation provided 390 with the quota tools. Probably the quota support is only useful for 391 multi user systems. If unsure, say N. 392 393config QFMT_V1 394 tristate "Old quota format support" 395 depends on QUOTA 396 help 397 This quota format was (is) used by kernels earlier than 2.4.22. If 398 you have quota working and you don't want to convert to new quota 399 format say Y here. 400 401config QFMT_V2 402 tristate "Quota format v2 support" 403 depends on QUOTA 404 help 405 This quota format allows using quotas with 32-bit UIDs/GIDs. If you 406 need this functionality say Y here. Note that you will need recent 407 quota utilities (>= 3.01) for new quota format with this kernel. 408 409config QUOTACTL 410 bool 411 depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA 412 default y 413 414config DNOTIFY 415 bool "Dnotify support" if EMBEDDED 416 default y 417 help 418 Dnotify is a directory-based per-fd file change notification system 419 that uses signals to communicate events to user-space. There exist 420 superior alternatives, but some applications may still rely on 421 dnotify. 422 423 Because of this, if unsure, say Y. 424 425config AUTOFS_FS 426 tristate "Kernel automounter support" 427 help 428 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems 429 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce 430 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD 431 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. 432 433 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs 434 package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>. 435 You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. 436 437 If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more 438 features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support", 439 below. 440 441 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be 442 called autofs. 443 444 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you 445 probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here. 446 447config AUTOFS4_FS 448 tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)" 449 help 450 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems 451 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce 452 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD 453 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. 454 455 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from 456 <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/>; you also 457 want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. 458 459 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be 460 called autofs4. You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your 461 modules configuration file. 462 463 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or 464 don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the 465 local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say 466 N here. 467 468menu "CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems" 469 470config ISO9660_FS 471 tristate "ISO 9660 CDROM file system support" 472 help 473 This is the standard file system used on CD-ROMs. It was previously 474 known as "High Sierra File System" and is called "hsfs" on other 475 Unix systems. The so-called Rock-Ridge extensions which allow for 476 long Unix filenames and symbolic links are also supported by this 477 driver. If you have a CD-ROM drive and want to do more with it than 478 just listen to audio CDs and watch its LEDs, say Y (and read 479 <file:Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt> and the CD-ROM-HOWTO, 480 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), thereby 481 enlarging your kernel by about 27 KB; otherwise say N. 482 483 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 484 module will be called isofs. 485 486config JOLIET 487 bool "Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions" 488 depends on ISO9660_FS 489 select NLS 490 help 491 Joliet is a Microsoft extension for the ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system 492 which allows for long filenames in unicode format (unicode is the 493 new 16 bit character code, successor to ASCII, which encodes the 494 characters of almost all languages of the world; see 495 <http://www.unicode.org/> for more information). Say Y here if you 496 want to be able to read Joliet CD-ROMs under Linux. 497 498config ZISOFS 499 bool "Transparent decompression extension" 500 depends on ISO9660_FS 501 select ZLIB_INFLATE 502 help 503 This is a Linux-specific extension to RockRidge which lets you store 504 data in compressed form on a CD-ROM and have it transparently 505 decompressed when the CD-ROM is accessed. See 506 <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/zisofs/> for the tools 507 necessary to create such a filesystem. Say Y here if you want to be 508 able to read such compressed CD-ROMs. 509 510config ZISOFS_FS 511# for fs/nls/Config.in 512 tristate 513 depends on ZISOFS 514 default ISO9660_FS 515 516config UDF_FS 517 tristate "UDF file system support" 518 help 519 This is the new file system used on some CD-ROMs and DVDs. Say Y if 520 you intend to mount DVD discs or CDRW's written in packet mode, or 521 if written to by other UDF utilities, such as DirectCD. 522 Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt>. 523 524 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 525 module will be called udf. 526 527 If unsure, say N. 528 529config UDF_NLS 530 bool 531 default y 532 depends on (UDF_FS=m && NLS) || (UDF_FS=y && NLS=y) 533 534endmenu 535 536menu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems" 537 538config FAT_FS 539 tristate 540 select NLS 541 help 542 If you want to use one of the FAT-based file systems (the MS-DOS and 543 VFAT (Windows 95) file systems), then you must say Y or M here 544 to include FAT support. You will then be able to mount partitions or 545 diskettes with FAT-based file systems and transparently access the 546 files on them, i.e. MSDOS files will look and behave just like all 547 other Unix files. 548 549 This FAT support is not a file system in itself, it only provides 550 the foundation for the other file systems. You will have to say Y or 551 M to at least one of "MSDOS fs support" or "VFAT fs support" in 552 order to make use of it. 553 554 Another way to read and write MSDOS floppies and hard drive 555 partitions from within Linux (but not transparently) is with the 556 mtools ("man mtools") program suite. You don't need to say Y here in 557 order to do that. 558 559 If you need to move large files on floppies between a DOS and a 560 Linux box, say Y here, mount the floppy under Linux with an MSDOS 561 file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program 562 available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar"). 563 564 It is now also becoming possible to read and write compressed FAT 565 file systems; read <file:Documentation/filesystems/fat_cvf.txt> for 566 details. 567 568 The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure, 569 say Y. 570 571 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 572 fat. Note that if you compile the FAT support as a module, you 573 cannot compile any of the FAT-based file systems into the kernel 574 -- they will have to be modules as well. 575 576config MSDOS_FS 577 tristate "MSDOS fs support" 578 select FAT_FS 579 help 580 This allows you to mount MSDOS partitions of your hard drive (unless 581 they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under 582 Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the 583 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from 584 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in 585 <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you 586 intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y 587 here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes 588 transparent, i.e. the MSDOS files look and behave just like all 589 other Unix files. 590 591 If you have Windows 95 or Windows NT installed on your MSDOS 592 partitions, you should use the VFAT file system (say Y to "VFAT fs 593 support" below), or you will not be able to see the long filenames 594 generated by Windows 95 / Windows NT. 595 596 This option will enlarge your kernel by about 7 KB. If unsure, 597 answer Y. This will only work if you said Y to "DOS FAT fs support" 598 as well. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will 599 be called msdos. 600 601config VFAT_FS 602 tristate "VFAT (Windows-95) fs support" 603 select FAT_FS 604 help 605 This option provides support for normal Windows file systems with 606 long filenames. That includes non-compressed FAT-based file systems 607 used by Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and the Unix 608 programs from the mtools package. 609 610 The VFAT support enlarges your kernel by about 10 KB and it only 611 works if you said Y to the "DOS FAT fs support" above. Please read 612 the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for details. If 613 unsure, say Y. 614 615 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 616 vfat. 617 618config FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE 619 int "Default codepage for FAT" 620 depends on MSDOS_FS || VFAT_FS 621 default 437 622 help 623 This option should be set to the codepage of your FAT filesystems. 624 It can be overridden with the "codepage" mount option. 625 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information. 626 627config FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET 628 string "Default iocharset for FAT" 629 depends on VFAT_FS 630 default "iso8859-1" 631 help 632 Set this to the default input/output character set you'd 633 like FAT to use. It should probably match the character set 634 that most of your FAT filesystems use, and can be overridden 635 with the "iocharset" mount option for FAT filesystems. 636 Note that "utf8" is not recommended for FAT filesystems. 637 If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here. 638 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information. 639 640config NTFS_FS 641 tristate "NTFS file system support" 642 select NLS 643 help 644 NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003. 645 646 Saying Y or M here enables read support. There is partial, but 647 safe, write support available. For write support you must also 648 say Y to "NTFS write support" below. 649 650 There are also a number of user-space tools available, called 651 ntfsprogs. These include ntfsundelete and ntfsresize, that work 652 without NTFS support enabled in the kernel. 653 654 This is a rewrite from scratch of Linux NTFS support and replaced 655 the old NTFS code starting with Linux 2.5.11. A backport to 656 the Linux 2.4 kernel series is separately available as a patch 657 from the project web site. 658 659 For more information see <file:Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt> 660 and <http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/>. 661 662 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 663 module will be called ntfs. 664 665 If you are not using Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 in addition to 666 Linux on your computer it is safe to say N. 667 668config NTFS_DEBUG 669 bool "NTFS debugging support" 670 depends on NTFS_FS 671 help 672 If you are experiencing any problems with the NTFS file system, say 673 Y here. This will result in additional consistency checks to be 674 performed by the driver as well as additional debugging messages to 675 be written to the system log. Note that debugging messages are 676 disabled by default. To enable them, supply the option debug_msgs=1 677 at the kernel command line when booting the kernel or as an option 678 to insmod when loading the ntfs module. Once the driver is active, 679 you can enable debugging messages by doing (as root): 680 echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug 681 Replacing the "1" with "0" would disable debug messages. 682 683 If you leave debugging messages disabled, this results in little 684 overhead, but enabling debug messages results in very significant 685 slowdown of the system. 686 687 When reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of 688 debugging messages while the misbehaviour was occurring. 689 690config NTFS_RW 691 bool "NTFS write support" 692 depends on NTFS_FS 693 help 694 This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver. 695 696 The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without 697 changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or 698 renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to 699 so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot 700 be written to. 701 702 While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have 703 so far not received a single report where the driver would have 704 damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use. 705 706 Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from 707 scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS 708 write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997), 709 is not safe. 710 711 This is currently useful with TopologiLinux. TopologiLinux is run 712 on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your 713 hard disk. Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not 714 need its own partition. For more information see 715 <http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/> 716 717 It is perfectly safe to say N here. 718 719endmenu 720 721menu "Pseudo filesystems" 722 723config PROC_FS 724 bool "/proc file system support" 725 help 726 This is a virtual file system providing information about the status 727 of the system. "Virtual" means that it doesn't take up any space on 728 your hard disk: the files are created on the fly by the kernel when 729 you try to access them. Also, you cannot read the files with older 730 version of the program less: you need to use more or cat. 731 732 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. 739 740 Before you can use the /proc file system, it has to be mounted, 741 meaning it has to be given a location in the directory hierarchy. 742 That location should be /proc. A command such as "mount -t proc proc 743 /proc" or the equivalent line in /etc/fstab does the job. 744 745 The /proc file system is explained in the file 746 <file:Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt> and on the proc(5) manpage 747 ("man 5 proc"). 748 749 This option will enlarge your kernel by about 67 KB. Several 750 programs depend on this, so everyone should say Y here. 751 752config PROC_KCORE 753 bool "/proc/kcore support" if !ARM 754 depends on PROC_FS && MMU 755 756config PROC_VMCORE 757 bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 758 depends on PROC_FS && EMBEDDED && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP 759 help 760 Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format. 761 762config SYSFS 763 bool "sysfs file system support" if EMBEDDED 764 default y 765 help 766 The sysfs filesystem is a virtual filesystem that the kernel uses to 767 export internal kernel objects, their attributes, and their 768 relationships to one another. 769 770 Users can use sysfs to ascertain useful information about the running 771 kernel, such as the devices the kernel has discovered on each bus and 772 which driver each is bound to. sysfs can also be used to tune devices 773 and other kernel subsystems. 774 775 Some system agents rely on the information in sysfs to operate. 776 /sbin/hotplug uses device and object attributes in sysfs to assist in 777 delegating policy decisions, like persistantly naming devices. 778 779 sysfs is currently used by the block subsystem to mount the root 780 partition. If sysfs is disabled you must specify the boot device on 781 the kernel boot command line via its major and minor numbers. For 782 example, "root=03:01" for /dev/hda1. 783 784 Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space. 785 786config DEVPTS_FS_XATTR 787 bool "/dev/pts Extended Attributes" 788 depends on UNIX98_PTYS 789 help 790 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 791 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 792 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 793 794 If unsure, say N. 795 796config DEVPTS_FS_SECURITY 797 bool "/dev/pts Security Labels" 798 depends on DEVPTS_FS_XATTR 799 help 800 Security labels support alternative access control models 801 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 802 enables an extended attribute handler for file security 803 labels in the /dev/pts filesystem. 804 805 If you are not using a security module that requires using 806 extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 807 808config TMPFS 809 bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)" 810 help 811 Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory. 812 813 Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be 814 created on your hard drive. The files live in memory and swap 815 space. If you unmount a tmpfs instance, everything stored therein is 816 lost. 817 818 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> for details. 819 820config TMPFS_XATTR 821 bool "tmpfs Extended Attributes" 822 depends on TMPFS 823 help 824 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 825 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 826 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 827 828 If unsure, say N. 829 830config TMPFS_SECURITY 831 bool "tmpfs Security Labels" 832 depends on TMPFS_XATTR 833 help 834 Security labels support alternative access control models 835 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 836 enables an extended attribute handler for file security 837 labels in the tmpfs filesystem. 838 If you are not using a security module that requires using 839 extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 840 841config HUGETLBFS 842 bool "HugeTLB file system support" 843 depends X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || X86_64 || BROKEN 844 845config HUGETLB_PAGE 846 def_bool HUGETLBFS 847 848config RAMFS 849 bool 850 default y 851 ---help--- 852 Ramfs is a file system which keeps all files in RAM. It allows 853 read and write access. 854 855 It is more of an programming example than a useable file system. If 856 you need a file system which lives in RAM with limit checking use 857 tmpfs. 858 859 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 860 ramfs. 861 862endmenu 863 864menu "Miscellaneous filesystems" 865 866config ADFS_FS 867 tristate "ADFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 868 depends on EXPERIMENTAL 869 help 870 The Acorn Disc Filing System is the standard file system of the 871 RiscOS operating system which runs on Acorn's ARM-based Risc PC 872 systems and the Acorn Archimedes range of machines. If you say Y 873 here, Linux will be able to read from ADFS partitions on hard drives 874 and from ADFS-formatted floppy discs. If you also want to be able to 875 write to those devices, say Y to "ADFS write support" below. 876 877 The ADFS partition should be the first partition (i.e., 878 /dev/[hs]d?1) on each of your drives. Please read the file 879 <file:Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt> for further details. 880 881 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be 882 called adfs. 883 884 If unsure, say N. 885 886config ADFS_FS_RW 887 bool "ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)" 888 depends on ADFS_FS 889 help 890 If you say Y here, you will be able to write to ADFS partitions on 891 hard drives and ADFS-formatted floppy disks. This is experimental 892 codes, so if you're unsure, say N. 893 894config AFFS_FS 895 tristate "Amiga FFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 896 depends on EXPERIMENTAL 897 help 898 The Fast File System (FFS) is the common file system used on hard 899 disks by Amiga(tm) systems since AmigaOS Version 1.3 (34.20). Say Y 900 if you want to be able to read and write files from and to an Amiga 901 FFS partition on your hard drive. Amiga floppies however cannot be 902 read with this driver due to an incompatibility of the floppy 903 controller used in an Amiga and the standard floppy controller in 904 PCs and workstations. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt> 905 and <file:fs/affs/Changes>. 906 907 With this driver you can also mount disk files used by Bernd 908 Schmidt's Un*X Amiga Emulator 909 (<http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/>). 910 If you want to do this, you will also need to say Y or M to "Loop 911 device support", above. 912 913 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 914 module will be called affs. If unsure, say N. 915 916config HFS_FS 917 tristate "Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 918 depends on EXPERIMENTAL 919 help 920 If you say Y here, you will be able to mount Macintosh-formatted 921 floppy disks and hard drive partitions with full read-write access. 922 Please read <file:fs/hfs/HFS.txt> to learn about the available mount 923 options. 924 925 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 926 module will be called hfs. 927 928config HFSPLUS_FS 929 tristate "Apple Extended HFS file system support" 930 select NLS 931 select NLS_UTF8 932 help 933 If you say Y here, you will be able to mount extended format 934 Macintosh-formatted hard drive partitions with full read-write access. 935 936 This file system is often called HFS+ and was introduced with 937 MacOS 8. It includes all Mac specific filesystem data such as 938 data forks and creator codes, but it also has several UNIX 939 style features such as file ownership and permissions. 940 941config BEFS_FS 942 tristate "BeOS file system (BeFS) support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 943 depends on EXPERIMENTAL 944 select NLS 945 help 946 The BeOS File System (BeFS) is the native file system of Be, Inc's 947 BeOS. Notable features include support for arbitrary attributes 948 on files and directories, and database-like indeces on selected 949 attributes. (Also note that this driver doesn't make those features 950 available at this time). It is a 64 bit filesystem, so it supports 951 extremly large volumes and files. 952 953 If you use this filesystem, you should also say Y to at least one 954 of the NLS (native language support) options below. 955 956 If you don't know what this is about, say N. 957 958 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 959 called befs. 960 961config BEFS_DEBUG 962 bool "Debug BeFS" 963 depends on BEFS_FS 964 help 965 If you say Y here, you can use the 'debug' mount option to enable 966 debugging output from the driver. 967 968config BFS_FS 969 tristate "BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 970 depends on EXPERIMENTAL 971 help 972 Boot File System (BFS) is a file system used under SCO UnixWare to 973 allow the bootloader access to the kernel image and other important 974 files during the boot process. It is usually mounted under /stand 975 and corresponds to the slice marked as "STAND" in the UnixWare 976 partition. You should say Y if you want to read or write the files 977 on your /stand slice from within Linux. You then also need to say Y 978 to "UnixWare slices support", below. More information about the BFS 979 file system is contained in the file 980 <file:Documentation/filesystems/bfs.txt>. 981 982 If you don't know what this is about, say N. 983 984 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 985 bfs. Note that the file system of your root partition (the one 986 containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module. 987 988 989 990config EFS_FS 991 tristate "EFS file system support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 992 depends on EXPERIMENTAL 993 help 994 EFS is an older file system used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and hard 995 disk partitions by SGI's IRIX operating system (IRIX 6.0 and newer 996 uses the XFS file system for hard disk partitions however). 997 998 This implementation only offers read-only access. If you don't know 999 what all this is about, it's safe to say N. For more information 1000 about EFS see its home page at <http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/>. 1001 1002 To compile the EFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the 1003 module will be called efs. 1004 1005config JFFS_FS 1006 tristate "Journalling Flash File System (JFFS) support" 1007 depends on MTD 1008 help 1009 JFFS is the Journaling Flash File System developed by Axis 1010 Communications in Sweden, aimed at providing a crash/powerdown-safe 1011 file system for disk-less embedded devices. Further information is 1012 available at (<http://developer.axis.com/software/jffs/>). 1013 1014config JFFS_FS_VERBOSE 1015 int "JFFS debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 3 = noisy)" 1016 depends on JFFS_FS 1017 default "0" 1018 help 1019 Determines the verbosity level of the JFFS debugging messages. 1020 1021config JFFS_PROC_FS 1022 bool "JFFS stats available in /proc filesystem" 1023 depends on JFFS_FS && PROC_FS 1024 help 1025 Enabling this option will cause statistics from mounted JFFS file systems 1026 to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jffs/ directory. 1027 1028config JFFS2_FS 1029 tristate "Journalling Flash File System v2 (JFFS2) support" 1030 select CRC32 1031 depends on MTD 1032 help 1033 JFFS2 is the second generation of the Journalling Flash File System 1034 for use on diskless embedded devices. It provides improved wear 1035 levelling, compression and support for hard links. You cannot use 1036 this on normal block devices, only on 'MTD' devices. 1037 1038 Further information on the design and implementation of JFFS2 is 1039 available at <http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2/>. 1040 1041config JFFS2_FS_DEBUG 1042 int "JFFS2 debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 2 = noisy)" 1043 depends on JFFS2_FS 1044 default "0" 1045 help 1046 This controls the amount of debugging messages produced by the JFFS2 1047 code. Set it to zero for use in production systems. For evaluation, 1048 testing and debugging, it's advisable to set it to one. This will 1049 enable a few assertions and will print debugging messages at the 1050 KERN_DEBUG loglevel, where they won't normally be visible. Level 2 1051 is unlikely to be useful - it enables extra debugging in certain 1052 areas which at one point needed debugging, but when the bugs were 1053 located and fixed, the detailed messages were relegated to level 2. 1054 1055 If reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of the 1056 messages at debug level 1 while the misbehaviour was occurring. 1057 1058config JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER 1059 bool "JFFS2 write-buffering support" 1060 depends on JFFS2_FS 1061 default y 1062 help 1063 This enables the write-buffering support in JFFS2. 1064 1065 This functionality is required to support JFFS2 on the following 1066 types of flash devices: 1067 - NAND flash 1068 - NOR flash with transparent ECC 1069 - DataFlash 1070 1071config JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 1072 bool "Advanced compression options for JFFS2" 1073 depends on JFFS2_FS 1074 default n 1075 help 1076 Enabling this option allows you to explicitly choose which 1077 compression modules, if any, are enabled in JFFS2. Removing 1078 compressors and mean you cannot read existing file systems, 1079 and enabling experimental compressors can mean that you 1080 write a file system which cannot be read by a standard kernel. 1081 1082 If unsure, you should _definitely_ say 'N'. 1083 1084config JFFS2_ZLIB 1085 bool "JFFS2 ZLIB compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 1086 select ZLIB_INFLATE 1087 select ZLIB_DEFLATE 1088 depends on JFFS2_FS 1089 default y 1090 help 1091 Zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered, 1092 lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer 1093 hardware and operating system. See <http://www.gzip.org/zlib/> for 1094 further information. 1095 1096 Say 'Y' if unsure. 1097 1098config JFFS2_RTIME 1099 bool "JFFS2 RTIME compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 1100 depends on JFFS2_FS 1101 default y 1102 help 1103 Rtime does manage to recompress already-compressed data. Say 'Y' if unsure. 1104 1105config JFFS2_RUBIN 1106 bool "JFFS2 RUBIN compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 1107 depends on JFFS2_FS 1108 default n 1109 help 1110 RUBINMIPS and DYNRUBIN compressors. Say 'N' if unsure. 1111 1112choice 1113 prompt "JFFS2 default compression mode" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 1114 default JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY 1115 depends on JFFS2_FS 1116 help 1117 You can set here the default compression mode of JFFS2 from 1118 the available compression modes. Don't touch if unsure. 1119 1120config JFFS2_CMODE_NONE 1121 bool "no compression" 1122 help 1123 Uses no compression. 1124 1125config JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY 1126 bool "priority" 1127 help 1128 Tries the compressors in a predefinied order and chooses the first 1129 successful one. 1130 1131config JFFS2_CMODE_SIZE 1132 bool "size (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1133 help 1134 Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest 1135 result. 1136 1137endchoice 1138 1139config CRAMFS 1140 tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)" 1141 select ZLIB_INFLATE 1142 help 1143 Saying Y here includes support for CramFs (Compressed ROM File 1144 System). CramFs is designed to be a simple, small, and compressed 1145 file system for ROM based embedded systems. CramFs is read-only, 1146 limited to 256MB file systems (with 16MB files), and doesn't support 1147 16/32 bits uid/gid, hard links and timestamps. 1148 1149 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt> and 1150 <file:fs/cramfs/README> for further information. 1151 1152 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 1153 cramfs. Note that the root file system (the one containing the 1154 directory /) cannot be compiled as a module. 1155 1156 If unsure, say N. 1157 1158config VXFS_FS 1159 tristate "FreeVxFS file system support (VERITAS VxFS(TM) compatible)" 1160 help 1161 FreeVxFS is a file system driver that support the VERITAS VxFS(TM) 1162 file system format. VERITAS VxFS(TM) is the standard file system 1163 of SCO UnixWare (and possibly others) and optionally available 1164 for Sunsoft Solaris, HP-UX and many other operating systems. 1165 Currently only readonly access is supported. 1166 1167 NOTE: the file system type as used by mount(1), mount(2) and 1168 fstab(5) is 'vxfs' as it describes the file system format, not 1169 the actual driver. 1170 1171 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 1172 called freevxfs. If unsure, say N. 1173 1174 1175config HPFS_FS 1176 tristate "OS/2 HPFS file system support" 1177 help 1178 OS/2 is IBM's operating system for PC's, the same as Warp, and HPFS 1179 is the file system used for organizing files on OS/2 hard disk 1180 partitions. Say Y if you want to be able to read files from and 1181 write files to an OS/2 HPFS partition on your hard drive. OS/2 1182 floppies however are in regular MSDOS format, so you don't need this 1183 option in order to be able to read them. Read 1184 <file:Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt>. 1185 1186 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 1187 module will be called hpfs. If unsure, say N. 1188 1189 1190 1191config QNX4FS_FS 1192 tristate "QNX4 file system support (read only)" 1193 help 1194 This is the file system used by the real-time operating systems 1195 QNX 4 and QNX 6 (the latter is also called QNX RTP). 1196 Further information is available at <http://www.qnx.com/>. 1197 Say Y if you intend to mount QNX hard disks or floppies. 1198 Unless you say Y to "QNX4FS read-write support" below, you will 1199 only be able to read these file systems. 1200 1201 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 1202 module will be called qnx4. 1203 1204 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it: 1205 answer N. 1206 1207config QNX4FS_RW 1208 bool "QNX4FS write support (DANGEROUS)" 1209 depends on QNX4FS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN 1210 help 1211 Say Y if you want to test write support for QNX4 file systems. 1212 1213 It's currently broken, so for now: 1214 answer N. 1215 1216 1217 1218config SYSV_FS 1219 tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support" 1220 help 1221 SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel 1222 machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y 1223 here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk 1224 partitions. 1225 1226 If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely 1227 that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order 1228 to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is a 1229 a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse, 1230 UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux. It is 1231 available via FTP (user: ftp) from 1232 <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>). 1233 NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems; 1234 PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-) 1235 1236 If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the 1237 network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support 1238 (but you need NFS file system support obviously). 1239 1240 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a 1241 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes 1242 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man 1243 tar" or preferably "info tar"). Note also that this option has 1244 nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about 1245 the System V file system in 1246 <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>. 1247 Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB. 1248 1249 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 1250 sysv. 1251 1252 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. 1253 1254 1255 1256config UFS_FS 1257 tristate "UFS file system support (read only)" 1258 help 1259 BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, 1260 OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a file system called UFS. Some System V 1261 Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using 1262 this file system as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from 1263 these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the 1264 experimental "UFS file system write support", below. Please read the 1265 file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt> for more information. 1266 1267 The recently released UFS2 variant (used in FreeBSD 5.x) is 1268 READ-ONLY supported. 1269 1270 If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the 1271 network using NFS, you don't need the UFS file system support (but 1272 you need NFS file system support obviously). 1273 1274 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a 1275 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes 1276 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man 1277 tar" or preferably "info tar"). 1278 1279 When accessing NeXTstep files, you may need to convert them from the 1280 NeXT character set to the Latin1 character set; use the program 1281 recode ("info recode") for this purpose. 1282 1283 To compile the UFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the 1284 module will be called ufs. 1285 1286 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. 1287 1288config UFS_FS_WRITE 1289 bool "UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS)" 1290 depends on UFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 1291 help 1292 Say Y here if you want to try writing to UFS partitions. This is 1293 experimental, so you should back up your UFS partitions beforehand. 1294 1295endmenu 1296 1297menu "Network File Systems" 1298 depends on NET 1299 1300config NFS_FS 1301 tristate "NFS file system support" 1302 depends on INET 1303 select LOCKD 1304 select SUNRPC 1305 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFS_V3_ACL 1306 help 1307 If you are connected to some other (usually local) Unix computer 1308 (using SLIP, PLIP, PPP or Ethernet) and want to mount files residing 1309 on that computer (the NFS server) using the Network File Sharing 1310 protocol, say Y. "Mounting files" means that the client can access 1311 the files with usual UNIX commands as if they were sitting on the 1312 client's hard disk. For this to work, the server must run the 1313 programs nfsd and mountd (but does not need to have NFS file system 1314 support enabled in its kernel). NFS is explained in the Network 1315 Administrator's Guide, available from 1316 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>, on its man page: "man 1317 nfs", and in the NFS-HOWTO. 1318 1319 A superior but less widely used alternative to NFS is provided by 1320 the Coda file system; see "Coda file system support" below. 1321 1322 If you say Y here, you should have said Y to TCP/IP networking also. 1323 This option would enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB. 1324 1325 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 1326 module will be called nfs. 1327 1328 If you are configuring a diskless machine which will mount its root 1329 file system over NFS at boot time, say Y here and to "Kernel 1330 level IP autoconfiguration" above and to "Root file system on NFS" 1331 below. You cannot compile this driver as a module in this case. 1332 There are two packages designed for booting diskless machines over 1333 the net: netboot, available from 1334 <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/netboot/>, and Etherboot, 1335 available from <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/etherboot/>. 1336 1337 If you don't know what all this is about, say N. 1338 1339config NFS_V3 1340 bool "Provide NFSv3 client support" 1341 depends on NFS_FS 1342 help 1343 Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak version 1344 3 of the NFS protocol. 1345 1346 If unsure, say Y. 1347 1348config NFS_V3_ACL 1349 bool "Provide client support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension" 1350 depends on NFS_V3 1351 help 1352 Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX 1353 Access Control Lists. The server should also be compiled with 1354 the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL option. 1355 1356 If unsure, say N. 1357 1358config NFS_V4 1359 bool "Provide NFSv4 client support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1360 depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 1361 select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 1362 help 1363 Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak the newer 1364 version 4 of the NFS protocol. 1365 1366 Note: Requires auxiliary userspace daemons which may be found on 1367 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ 1368 1369 If unsure, say N. 1370 1371config NFS_DIRECTIO 1372 bool "Allow direct I/O on NFS files (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1373 depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 1374 help 1375 This option enables applications to perform uncached I/O on files 1376 in NFS file systems using the O_DIRECT open() flag. When O_DIRECT 1377 is set for a file, its data is not cached in the system's page 1378 cache. Data is moved to and from user-level application buffers 1379 directly. Unlike local disk-based file systems, NFS O_DIRECT has 1380 no alignment restrictions. 1381 1382 Unless your program is designed to use O_DIRECT properly, you are 1383 much better off allowing the NFS client to manage data caching for 1384 you. Misusing O_DIRECT can cause poor server performance or network 1385 storms. This kernel build option defaults OFF to avoid exposing 1386 system administrators unwittingly to a potentially hazardous 1387 feature. 1388 1389 For more details on NFS O_DIRECT, see fs/nfs/direct.c. 1390 1391 If unsure, say N. This reduces the size of the NFS client, and 1392 causes open() to return EINVAL if a file residing in NFS is 1393 opened with the O_DIRECT flag. 1394 1395config NFSD 1396 tristate "NFS server support" 1397 depends on INET 1398 select LOCKD 1399 select SUNRPC 1400 select EXPORTFS 1401 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFSD_V3_ACL || NFSD_V2_ACL 1402 help 1403 If you want your Linux box to act as an NFS *server*, so that other 1404 computers on your local network which support NFS can access certain 1405 directories on your box transparently, you have two options: you can 1406 use the self-contained user space program nfsd, in which case you 1407 should say N here, or you can say Y and use the kernel based NFS 1408 server. The advantage of the kernel based solution is that it is 1409 faster. 1410 1411 In either case, you will need support software; the respective 1412 locations are given in the file <file:Documentation/Changes> in the 1413 NFS section. 1414 1415 If you say Y here, you will get support for version 2 of the NFS 1416 protocol (NFSv2). If you also want NFSv3, say Y to the next question 1417 as well. 1418 1419 Please read the NFS-HOWTO, available from 1420 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1421 1422 To compile the NFS server support as a module, choose M here: the 1423 module will be called nfsd. If unsure, say N. 1424 1425config NFSD_V2_ACL 1426 bool 1427 depends on NFSD 1428 1429config NFSD_V3 1430 bool "Provide NFSv3 server support" 1431 depends on NFSD 1432 help 1433 If you would like to include the NFSv3 server as well as the NFSv2 1434 server, say Y here. If unsure, say Y. 1435 1436config NFSD_V3_ACL 1437 bool "Provide server support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension" 1438 depends on NFSD_V3 1439 select NFSD_V2_ACL 1440 help 1441 Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX 1442 Access Control Lists on exported file systems. NFS clients should 1443 be compiled with the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the 1444 CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL option. If unsure, say N. 1445 1446config NFSD_V4 1447 bool "Provide NFSv4 server support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1448 depends on NFSD_V3 && EXPERIMENTAL 1449 select NFSD_TCP 1450 select CRYPTO_MD5 1451 select CRYPTO 1452 select FS_POSIX_ACL 1453 help 1454 If you would like to include the NFSv4 server as well as the NFSv2 1455 and NFSv3 servers, say Y here. This feature is experimental, and 1456 should only be used if you are interested in helping to test NFSv4. 1457 If unsure, say N. 1458 1459config NFSD_TCP 1460 bool "Provide NFS server over TCP support" 1461 depends on NFSD 1462 default y 1463 help 1464 If you want your NFS server to support TCP connections, say Y here. 1465 TCP connections usually perform better than the default UDP when 1466 the network is lossy or congested. If unsure, say Y. 1467 1468config ROOT_NFS 1469 bool "Root file system on NFS" 1470 depends on NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP 1471 help 1472 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the 1473 one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the 1474 net via NFS (presumably because your box doesn't have a hard disk), 1475 say Y. Read <file:Documentation/nfsroot.txt> for details. It is 1476 likely that in this case, you also want to say Y to "Kernel level IP 1477 autoconfiguration" so that your box can discover its network address 1478 at boot time. 1479 1480 Most people say N here. 1481 1482config LOCKD 1483 tristate 1484 1485config LOCKD_V4 1486 bool 1487 depends on NFSD_V3 || NFS_V3 1488 default y 1489 1490config EXPORTFS 1491 tristate 1492 1493config NFS_ACL_SUPPORT 1494 tristate 1495 select FS_POSIX_ACL 1496 1497config NFS_COMMON 1498 bool 1499 depends on NFSD || NFS_FS 1500 default y 1501 1502config SUNRPC 1503 tristate 1504 1505config SUNRPC_GSS 1506 tristate 1507 1508config RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 1509 tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1510 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL 1511 select SUNRPC_GSS 1512 select CRYPTO 1513 select CRYPTO_MD5 1514 select CRYPTO_DES 1515 help 1516 Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api 1517 mechanism based on Kerberos V5. This is required for 1518 NFSv4. 1519 1520 Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on 1521 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ 1522 1523 If unsure, say N. 1524 1525config RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3 1526 tristate "Secure RPC: SPKM3 mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1527 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL 1528 select SUNRPC_GSS 1529 select CRYPTO 1530 select CRYPTO_MD5 1531 select CRYPTO_DES 1532 help 1533 Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api 1534 mechanism based on the SPKM3 public-key mechanism. 1535 1536 Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on 1537 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ 1538 1539 If unsure, say N. 1540 1541config SMB_FS 1542 tristate "SMB file system support (to mount Windows shares etc.)" 1543 depends on INET 1544 select NLS 1545 help 1546 SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Windows for Workgroups 1547 (WfW), Windows 95/98, Windows NT and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share 1548 files and printers over local networks. Saying Y here allows you to 1549 mount their file systems (often called "shares" in this context) and 1550 access them just like any other Unix directory. Currently, this 1551 works only if the Windows machines use TCP/IP as the underlying 1552 transport protocol, and not NetBEUI. For details, read 1553 <file:Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt> and the SMB-HOWTO, 1554 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1555 1556 Note: if you just want your box to act as an SMB *server* and make 1557 files and printing services available to Windows clients (which need 1558 to have a TCP/IP stack), you don't need to say Y here; you can use 1559 the program SAMBA (available from <ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/>) 1560 for that. 1561 1562 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and 1563 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>. 1564 1565 To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here: the module will 1566 be called smbfs. Most people say N, however. 1567 1568config SMB_NLS_DEFAULT 1569 bool "Use a default NLS" 1570 depends on SMB_FS 1571 help 1572 Enabling this will make smbfs use nls translations by default. You 1573 need to specify the local charset (CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT) in the nls 1574 settings and you need to give the default nls for the SMB server as 1575 CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE. 1576 1577 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount 1578 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters. 1579 1580 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this. 1581 1582config SMB_NLS_REMOTE 1583 string "Default Remote NLS Option" 1584 depends on SMB_NLS_DEFAULT 1585 default "cp437" 1586 help 1587 This setting allows you to specify a default value for which 1588 codepage the server uses. If this field is left blank no 1589 translations will be done by default. The local codepage/charset 1590 default to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT. 1591 1592 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount 1593 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters. 1594 1595 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this. 1596 1597config CIFS 1598 tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem for Samba, Window and other CIFS compliant servers)" 1599 depends on INET 1600 select NLS 1601 help 1602 This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System 1603 (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block 1604 (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early 1605 PC operating systems. The CIFS protocol is fully supported by 1606 file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4 1607 and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS 1608 server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Currently 1609 you must use the smbfs client filesystem to access older SMB servers 1610 such as Windows 9x and OS/2. 1611 1612 The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced 1613 network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers, 1614 including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user 1615 session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional 1616 packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements, 1617 and optional Winbind (nsswitch) integration. You do not need to enable 1618 cifs if running only a (Samba) server. It is possible to enable both 1619 smbfs and cifs (e.g. if you are using CIFS for accessing Windows 2003 1620 and Samba 3 servers, and smbfs for accessing old servers). If you need 1621 to mount to Samba or Windows 2003 servers from this machine, say Y. 1622 1623config CIFS_STATS 1624 bool "CIFS statistics" 1625 depends on CIFS 1626 help 1627 Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share 1628 mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats 1629 1630config CIFS_XATTR 1631 bool "CIFS extended attributes (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1632 depends on CIFS 1633 help 1634 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 1635 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 1636 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). CIFS maps the name of 1637 extended attributes beginning with the user namespace prefix 1638 to SMB/CIFS EAs. EAs are stored on Windows servers without the 1639 user namespace prefix, but their names are seen by Linux cifs clients 1640 prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace 1641 (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at 1642 this time. 1643 1644 If unsure, say N. 1645 1646config CIFS_POSIX 1647 bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1648 depends on CIFS_XATTR 1649 help 1650 Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to 1651 negotiate a newer dialect with servers, such as Samba 3.0.5 1652 or later, that optionally can handle more POSIX like (rather 1653 than Windows like) file behavior. It also enables 1654 support for POSIX ACLs (getfacl and setfacl) to servers 1655 (such as Samba 3.10 and later) which can negotiate 1656 CIFS POSIX ACL support. If unsure, say N. 1657 1658config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL 1659 bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1660 depends on CIFS 1661 help 1662 Enables cifs features under testing. These features 1663 are highly experimental. If unsure, say N. 1664 1665config NCP_FS 1666 tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)" 1667 depends on IPX!=n || INET 1668 help 1669 NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) is a protocol that runs over IPX and is 1670 used by Novell NetWare clients to talk to file servers. It is to 1671 IPX what NFS is to TCP/IP, if that helps. Saying Y here allows you 1672 to mount NetWare file server volumes and to access them just like 1673 any other Unix directory. For details, please read the file 1674 <file:Documentation/filesystems/ncpfs.txt> in the kernel source and 1675 the IPX-HOWTO from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1676 1677 You do not have to say Y here if you want your Linux box to act as a 1678 file *server* for Novell NetWare clients. 1679 1680 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and 1681 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>. 1682 1683 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 1684 ncpfs. Say N unless you are connected to a Novell network. 1685 1686source "fs/ncpfs/Kconfig" 1687 1688config CODA_FS 1689 tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)" 1690 depends on INET 1691 help 1692 Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it 1693 enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them 1694 with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard 1695 disk. Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for 1696 disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server 1697 replication, security model for authentication and encryption, 1698 persistent client caches and write back caching. 1699 1700 If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda 1701 *client*. You will need user level code as well, both for the 1702 client and server. Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need 1703 no kernel support. Please read 1704 <file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.txt> and check out the Coda 1705 home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>. 1706 1707 To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the 1708 module will be called coda. 1709 1710config CODA_FS_OLD_API 1711 bool "Use 96-bit Coda file identifiers" 1712 depends on CODA_FS 1713 help 1714 A new kernel-userspace API had to be introduced for Coda v6.0 1715 to support larger 128-bit file identifiers as needed by the 1716 new realms implementation. 1717 1718 However this new API is not backward compatible with older 1719 clients. If you really need to run the old Coda userspace 1720 cache manager then say Y. 1721 1722 For most cases you probably want to say N. 1723 1724config AFS_FS 1725# for fs/nls/Config.in 1726 tristate "Andrew File System support (AFS) (Experimental)" 1727 depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL 1728 select RXRPC 1729 help 1730 If you say Y here, you will get an experimental Andrew File System 1731 driver. It currently only supports unsecured read-only AFS access. 1732 1733 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more intormation. 1734 1735 If unsure, say N. 1736 1737config RXRPC 1738 tristate 1739 1740endmenu 1741 1742menu "Partition Types" 1743 1744source "fs/partitions/Kconfig" 1745 1746endmenu 1747 1748source "fs/nls/Kconfig" 1749 1750endmenu 1751