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# File system configuration
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#
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menu "File systems"
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if BLOCK
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config EXT2_FS
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tristate "Second extended fs support"
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help
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Ext2 is a standard Linux file system for hard disks.
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To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
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module will be called ext2.
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If unsure, say Y.
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config EXT2_FS_XATTR
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bool "Ext2 extended attributes"
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depends on EXT2_FS
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help
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Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
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the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
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<http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
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If unsure, say N.
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config EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL
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bool "Ext2 POSIX Access Control Lists"
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depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR
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select FS_POSIX_ACL
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help
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Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
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groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
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To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
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Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
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If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
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config EXT2_FS_SECURITY
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bool "Ext2 Security Labels"
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depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR
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help
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Security labels support alternative access control models
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implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
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enables an extended attribute handler for file security
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labels in the ext2 filesystem.
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If you are not using a security module that requires using
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extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
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config EXT2_FS_XIP
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bool "Ext2 execute in place support"
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depends on EXT2_FS && MMU
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help
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Execute in place can be used on memory-backed block devices. If you
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enable this option, you can select to mount block devices which are
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capable of this feature without using the page cache.
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If you do not use a block device that is capable of using this,
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or if unsure, say N.
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config FS_XIP
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# execute in place
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bool
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depends on EXT2_FS_XIP
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default y
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config EXT3_FS
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tristate "Ext3 journalling file system support"
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select JBD
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help
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This is the journalling version of the Second extended file system
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(often called ext3), the de facto standard Linux file system
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(method to organize files on a storage device) for hard disks.
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The journalling code included in this driver means you do not have
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to run e2fsck (file system checker) on your file systems after a
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crash. The journal keeps track of any changes that were being made
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at the time the system crashed, and can ensure that your file system
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is consistent without the need for a lengthy check.
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Other than adding the journal to the file system, the on-disk format
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of ext3 is identical to ext2. It is possible to freely switch
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between using the ext3 driver and the ext2 driver, as long as the
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file system has been cleanly unmounted, or e2fsck is run on the file
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system.
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To add a journal on an existing ext2 file system or change the
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behavior of ext3 file systems, you can use the tune2fs utility ("man
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tune2fs"). To modify attributes of files and directories on ext3
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file systems, use chattr ("man chattr"). You need to be using
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e2fsprogs version 1.20 or later in order to create ext3 journals
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(available at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/e2fsprogs/>).
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To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
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module will be called ext3.
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config EXT3_FS_XATTR
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bool "Ext3 extended attributes"
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depends on EXT3_FS
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default y
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help
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Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
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the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
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<http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
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If unsure, say N.
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You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext3.
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config EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL
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bool "Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists"
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depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR
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select FS_POSIX_ACL
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help
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Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
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groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
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To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
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Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
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If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
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config EXT3_FS_SECURITY
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bool "Ext3 Security Labels"
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depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR
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help
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Security labels support alternative access control models
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implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
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enables an extended attribute handler for file security
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labels in the ext3 filesystem.
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If you are not using a security module that requires using
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extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
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config EXT4DEV_FS
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tristate "Ext4dev/ext4 extended fs support development (EXPERIMENTAL)"
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depends on EXPERIMENTAL
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select JBD2
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help
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Ext4dev is a predecessor filesystem of the next generation
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extended fs ext4, based on ext3 filesystem code. It will be
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renamed ext4 fs later, once ext4dev is mature and stabilized.
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Unlike the change from ext2 filesystem to ext3 filesystem,
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the on-disk format of ext4dev is not the same as ext3 any more:
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it is based on extent maps and it supports 48-bit physical block
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numbers. These combined on-disk format changes will allow
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ext4dev/ext4 to handle more than 16 TB filesystem volumes --
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a hard limit that ext3 cannot overcome without changing the
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on-disk format.
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Other than extent maps and 48-bit block numbers, ext4dev also is
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likely to have other new features such as persistent preallocation,
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high resolution time stamps, and larger file support etc. These
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features will be added to ext4dev gradually.
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To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here. The
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module will be called ext4dev.
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If unsure, say N.
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config EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
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bool "Ext4dev extended attributes"
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depends on EXT4DEV_FS
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default y
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help
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Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
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the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
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<http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
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If unsure, say N.
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You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext4dev/ext4.
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config EXT4DEV_FS_POSIX_ACL
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bool "Ext4dev POSIX Access Control Lists"
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depends on EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
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select FS_POSIX_ACL
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help
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POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
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groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
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To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for
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Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
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If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
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config EXT4DEV_FS_SECURITY
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bool "Ext4dev Security Labels"
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depends on EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
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help
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Security labels support alternative access control models
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implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
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enables an extended attribute handler for file security
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labels in the ext4dev/ext4 filesystem.
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If you are not using a security module that requires using
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extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
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config JBD
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tristate
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help
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This is a generic journalling layer for block devices. It is
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currently used by the ext3 and OCFS2 file systems, but it could
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also be used to add journal support to other file systems or block
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devices such as RAID or LVM.
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If you are using the ext3 or OCFS2 file systems, you need to
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say Y here. If you are not using ext3 OCFS2 then you will probably
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want to say N.
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To compile this device as a module, choose M here: the module will be
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called jbd. If you are compiling ext3 or OCFS2 into the kernel,
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you cannot compile this code as a module.
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config JBD_DEBUG
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bool "JBD (ext3) debugging support"
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depends on JBD
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help
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If you are using the ext3 journaled file system (or potentially any
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other file system/device using JBD), this option allows you to
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enable debugging output while the system is running, in order to
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help track down any problems you are having. By default the
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debugging output will be turned off.
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If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging
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with "echo N > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug", where N is a number between
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1 and 5, the higher the number, the more debugging output is
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generated. To turn debugging off again, do
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"echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug".
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config JBD2
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tristate
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help
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This is a generic journaling layer for block devices that support
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both 32-bit and 64-bit block numbers. It is currently used by
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the ext4dev/ext4 filesystem, but it could also be used to add
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journal support to other file systems or block devices such
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as RAID or LVM.
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If you are using ext4dev/ext4, you need to say Y here. If you are not
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using ext4dev/ext4 then you will probably want to say N.
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To compile this device as a module, choose M here. The module will be
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called jbd2. If you are compiling ext4dev/ext4 into the kernel,
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you cannot compile this code as a module.
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config JBD2_DEBUG
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bool "JBD2 (ext4dev/ext4) debugging support"
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depends on JBD2
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help
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If you are using the ext4dev/ext4 journaled file system (or
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potentially any other filesystem/device using JBD2), this option
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allows you to enable debugging output while the system is running,
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in order to help track down any problems you are having.
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By default, the debugging output will be turned off.
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If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging
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with "echo N > /proc/sys/fs/jbd2-debug", where N is a number between
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1 and 5. The higher the number, the more debugging output is
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generated. To turn debugging off again, do
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"echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/jbd2-debug".
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config FS_MBCACHE
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# Meta block cache for Extended Attributes (ext2/ext3/ext4)
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tristate
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depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR || EXT3_FS_XATTR || EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
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default y if EXT2_FS=y || EXT3_FS=y || EXT4DEV_FS=y
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default m if EXT2_FS=m || EXT3_FS=m || EXT4DEV_FS=m
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config REISERFS_FS
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tristate "Reiserfs support"
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help
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Stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a balanced
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tree. Uses journalling.
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Balanced trees are more efficient than traditional file system
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architectural foundations.
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In general, ReiserFS is as fast as ext2, but is very efficient with
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large directories and small files. Additional patches are needed
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for NFS and quotas, please see <http://www.namesys.com/> for links.
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It is more easily extended to have features currently found in
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database and keyword search systems than block allocation based file
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systems are. The next version will be so extended, and will support
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plugins consistent with our motto ``It takes more than a license to
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make source code open.''
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Read <http://www.namesys.com/> to learn more about reiserfs.
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Sponsored by Threshold Networks, Emusic.com, and Bigstorage.com.
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If you like it, you can pay us to add new features to it that you
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need, buy a support contract, or pay us to port it to another OS.
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config REISERFS_CHECK
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bool "Enable reiserfs debug mode"
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depends on REISERFS_FS
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help
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If you set this to Y, then ReiserFS will perform every check it can
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possibly imagine of its internal consistency throughout its
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operation. It will also go substantially slower. More than once we
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have forgotten that this was on, and then gone despondent over the
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latest benchmarks.:-) Use of this option allows our team to go all
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out in checking for consistency when debugging without fear of its
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effect on end users. If you are on the verge of sending in a bug
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report, say Y and you might get a useful error message. Almost
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everyone should say N.
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config REISERFS_PROC_INFO
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bool "Stats in /proc/fs/reiserfs"
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depends on REISERFS_FS && PROC_FS
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help
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Create under /proc/fs/reiserfs a hierarchy of files, displaying
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various ReiserFS statistics and internal data at the expense of
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making your kernel or module slightly larger (+8 KB). This also
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increases the amount of kernel memory required for each mount.
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Almost everyone but ReiserFS developers and people fine-tuning
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reiserfs or tracing problems should say N.
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config REISERFS_FS_XATTR
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bool "ReiserFS extended attributes"
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depends on REISERFS_FS
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help
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Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
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the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
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<http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
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If unsure, say N.
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config REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL
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bool "ReiserFS POSIX Access Control Lists"
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depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR
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select FS_POSIX_ACL
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help
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Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
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groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
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To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
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Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
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If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
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config REISERFS_FS_SECURITY
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bool "ReiserFS Security Labels"
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depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR
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help
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Security labels support alternative access control models
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implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
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enables an extended attribute handler for file security
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labels in the ReiserFS filesystem.
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If you are not using a security module that requires using
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extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
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config JFS_FS
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tristate "JFS filesystem support"
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select NLS
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help
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This is a port of IBM's Journaled Filesystem . More information is
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available in the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt>.
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If you do not intend to use the JFS filesystem, say N.
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config JFS_POSIX_ACL
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bool "JFS POSIX Access Control Lists"
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depends on JFS_FS
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select FS_POSIX_ACL
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help
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Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
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groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
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To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
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Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
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If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
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config JFS_SECURITY
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bool "JFS Security Labels"
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depends on JFS_FS
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help
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Security labels support alternative access control models
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implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
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enables an extended attribute handler for file security
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labels in the jfs filesystem.
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If you are not using a security module that requires using
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extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
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config JFS_DEBUG
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bool "JFS debugging"
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depends on JFS_FS
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help
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If you are experiencing any problems with the JFS filesystem, say
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Y here. This will result in additional debugging messages to be
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written to the system log. Under normal circumstances, this
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results in very little overhead.
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config JFS_STATISTICS
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bool "JFS statistics"
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depends on JFS_FS
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help
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Enabling this option will cause statistics from the JFS file system
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to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jfs/ directory.
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config FS_POSIX_ACL
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# Posix ACL utility routines (for now, only ext2/ext3/jfs/reiserfs)
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#
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# NOTE: you can implement Posix ACLs without these helpers (XFS does).
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# Never use this symbol for ifdefs.
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#
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bool
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default n
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source "fs/xfs/Kconfig"
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source "fs/gfs2/Kconfig"
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config OCFS2_FS
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tristate "OCFS2 file system support"
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depends on NET && SYSFS
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select CONFIGFS_FS
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select JBD
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select CRC32
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help
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OCFS2 is a general purpose extent based shared disk cluster file
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system with many similarities to ext3. It supports 64 bit inode
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numbers, and has automatically extending metadata groups which may
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also make it attractive for non-clustered use.
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You'll want to install the ocfs2-tools package in order to at least
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get "mount.ocfs2".
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Project web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2
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Tools web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools
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OCFS2 mailing lists: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/mailman/
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Note: Features which OCFS2 does not support yet:
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- extended attributes
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- shared writeable mmap
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- loopback is supported, but data written will not
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be cluster coherent.
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- quotas
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- cluster aware flock
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- Directory change notification (F_NOTIFY)
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- Distributed Caching (F_SETLEASE/F_GETLEASE/break_lease)
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- POSIX ACLs
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- readpages / writepages (not user visible)
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config OCFS2_DEBUG_MASKLOG
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bool "OCFS2 logging support"
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depends on OCFS2_FS
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default y
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help
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The ocfs2 filesystem has an extensive logging system. The system
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allows selection of events to log via files in /sys/o2cb/logmask/.
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This option will enlarge your kernel, but it allows debugging of
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ocfs2 filesystem issues.
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config MINIX_FS
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tristate "Minix fs support"
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help
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Minix is a simple operating system used in many classes about OS's.
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The minix file system (method to organize files on a hard disk
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partition or a floppy disk) was the original file system for Linux,
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but has been superseded by the second extended file system ext2fs.
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You don't want to use the minix file system on your hard disk
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because of certain built-in restrictions, but it is sometimes found
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on older Linux floppy disks. This option will enlarge your kernel
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by about 28 KB. If unsure, say N.
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To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
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module will be called minix. Note that the file system of your root
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partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as
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a module.
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config ROMFS_FS
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tristate "ROM file system support"
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---help---
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This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for
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initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for
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other read-only media as well. Read
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<file:Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt> for details.
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To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
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module will be called romfs. Note that the file system of your
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root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a
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module.
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If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
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answer N.
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endif
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config INOTIFY
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bool "Inotify file change notification support"
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default y
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---help---
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Say Y here to enable inotify support. Inotify is a file change
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notification system and a replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes
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numerous shortcomings in dnotify and introduces several new features
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including multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount
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notification.
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|
|
|
For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt
|
|
|
|
If unsure, say Y.
|
|
|
|
config INOTIFY_USER
|
|
bool "Inotify support for userspace"
|
|
depends on INOTIFY
|
|
default y
|
|
---help---
|
|
Say Y here to enable inotify support for userspace, including the
|
|
associated system calls. Inotify allows monitoring of both files and
|
|
directories via a single open fd. Events are read from the file
|
|
descriptor, which is also select()- and poll()-able.
|
|
|
|
For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt
|
|
|
|
If unsure, say Y.
|
|
|
|
config QUOTA
|
|
bool "Quota support"
|
|
help
|
|
If you say Y here, you will be able to set per user limits for disk
|
|
usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works for the
|
|
ext2, ext3, and reiserfs file system. ext3 also supports journalled
|
|
quotas for which you don't need to run quotacheck(8) after an unclean
|
|
shutdown.
|
|
For further details, read the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from
|
|
<http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or the documentation provided
|
|
with the quota tools. Probably the quota support is only useful for
|
|
multi user systems. If unsure, say N.
|
|
|
|
config QFMT_V1
|
|
tristate "Old quota format support"
|
|
depends on QUOTA
|
|
help
|
|
This quota format was (is) used by kernels earlier than 2.4.22. If
|
|
you have quota working and you don't want to convert to new quota
|
|
format say Y here.
|
|
|
|
config QFMT_V2
|
|
tristate "Quota format v2 support"
|
|
depends on QUOTA
|
|
help
|
|
This quota format allows using quotas with 32-bit UIDs/GIDs. If you
|
|
need this functionality say Y here.
|
|
|
|
config QUOTACTL
|
|
bool
|
|
depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA
|
|
default y
|
|
|
|
config DNOTIFY
|
|
bool "Dnotify support" if EMBEDDED
|
|
default y
|
|
help
|
|
Dnotify is a directory-based per-fd file change notification system
|
|
that uses signals to communicate events to user-space. There exist
|
|
superior alternatives, but some applications may still rely on
|
|
dnotify.
|
|
|
|
Because of this, if unsure, say Y.
|
|
|
|
config AUTOFS_FS
|
|
tristate "Kernel automounter support"
|
|
help
|
|
The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
|
|
on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
|
|
overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
|
|
automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
|
|
|
|
To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs
|
|
package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>.
|
|
You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
|
|
|
|
If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more
|
|
features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support",
|
|
below.
|
|
|
|
To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
|
|
called autofs.
|
|
|
|
If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you
|
|
probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here.
|
|
|
|
config AUTOFS4_FS
|
|
tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)"
|
|
help
|
|
The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
|
|
on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
|
|
overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
|
|
automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
|
|
|
|
To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from
|
|
<ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/>; you also
|
|
want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
|
|
|
|
To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
|
|
called autofs4. You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your
|
|
modules configuration file.
|
|
|
|
If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or
|
|
don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the
|
|
local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say
|
|
N here.
|
|
|
|
config FUSE_FS
|
|
tristate "Filesystem in Userspace support"
|
|
help
|
|
With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem
|
|
in a userspace program.
|
|
|
|
There's also companion library: libfuse. This library along with
|
|
utilities is available from the FUSE homepage:
|
|
<http://fuse.sourceforge.net/>
|
|
|
|
See <file:Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt> for more information.
|
|
See <file:Documentation/Changes> for needed library/utility version.
|
|
|
|
If you want to develop a userspace FS, or if you want to use
|
|
a filesystem based on FUSE, answer Y or M.
|
|
|
|
config GENERIC_ACL
|
|
bool
|
|
select FS_POSIX_ACL
|
|
|
|
if BLOCK
|
|
menu "CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems"
|
|
|
|
config ISO9660_FS
|
|
tristate "ISO 9660 CDROM file system support"
|
|
help
|
|
This is the standard file system used on CD-ROMs. It was previously
|
|
known as "High Sierra File System" and is called "hsfs" on other
|
|
Unix systems. The so-called Rock-Ridge extensions which allow for
|
|
long Unix filenames and symbolic links are also supported by this
|
|
driver. If you have a CD-ROM drive and want to do more with it than
|
|
just listen to audio CDs and watch its LEDs, say Y (and read
|
|
<file:Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt> and the CD-ROM-HOWTO,
|
|
available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), thereby
|
|
enlarging your kernel by about 27 KB; otherwise say N.
|
|
|
|
To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
|
|
module will be called isofs.
|
|
|
|
config JOLIET
|
|
bool "Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions"
|
|
depends on ISO9660_FS
|
|
select NLS
|
|
help
|
|
Joliet is a Microsoft extension for the ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system
|
|
which allows for long filenames in unicode format (unicode is the
|
|
new 16 bit character code, successor to ASCII, which encodes the
|
|
characters of almost all languages of the world; see
|
|
<http://www.unicode.org/> for more information). Say Y here if you
|
|
want to be able to read Joliet CD-ROMs under Linux.
|
|
|
|
config ZISOFS
|
|
bool "Transparent decompression extension"
|
|
depends on ISO9660_FS
|
|
select ZLIB_INFLATE
|
|
help
|
|
This is a Linux-specific extension to RockRidge which lets you store
|
|
data in compressed form on a CD-ROM and have it transparently
|
|
decompressed when the CD-ROM is accessed. See
|
|
<http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/zisofs/> for the tools
|
|
necessary to create such a filesystem. Say Y here if you want to be
|
|
able to read such compressed CD-ROMs.
|
|
|
|
config UDF_FS
|
|
tristate "UDF file system support"
|
|
help
|
|
This is the new file system used on some CD-ROMs and DVDs. Say Y if
|
|
you intend to mount DVD discs or CDRW's written in packet mode, or
|
|
if written to by other UDF utilities, such as DirectCD.
|
|
Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt>.
|
|
|
|
To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
|
|
module will be called udf.
|
|
|
|
If unsure, say N.
|
|
|
|
config UDF_NLS
|
|
bool
|
|
default y
|
|
depends on (UDF_FS=m && NLS) || (UDF_FS=y && NLS=y)
|
|
|
|
endmenu
|
|
endif
|
|
|
|
if BLOCK
|
|
menu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems"
|
|
|
|
config FAT_FS
|
|
tristate
|
|
select NLS
|
|
help
|
|
If you want to use one of the FAT-based file systems (the MS-DOS and
|
|
VFAT (Windows 95) file systems), then you must say Y or M here
|
|
to include FAT support. You will then be able to mount partitions or
|
|
diskettes with FAT-based file systems and transparently access the
|
|
files on them, i.e. MSDOS files will look and behave just like all
|
|
other Unix files.
|
|
|
|
This FAT support is not a file system in itself, it only provides
|
|
the foundation for the other file systems. You will have to say Y or
|
|
M to at least one of "MSDOS fs support" or "VFAT fs support" in
|
|
order to make use of it.
|
|
|
|
Another way to read and write MSDOS floppies and hard drive
|
|
partitions from within Linux (but not transparently) is with the
|
|
mtools ("man mtools") program suite. You don't need to say Y here in
|
|
order to do that.
|
|
|
|
If you need to move large files on floppies between a DOS and a
|
|
Linux box, say Y here, mount the floppy under Linux with an MSDOS
|
|
file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program
|
|
available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar").
|
|
|
|
The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure,
|
|
say Y.
|
|
|
|
To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
|
|
fat. Note that if you compile the FAT support as a module, you
|
|
cannot compile any of the FAT-based file systems into the kernel
|
|
-- they will have to be modules as well.
|
|
|
|
config MSDOS_FS
|
|
tristate "MSDOS fs support"
|
|
select FAT_FS
|
|
help
|
|
This allows you to mount MSDOS partitions of your hard drive (unless
|
|
they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under
|
|
Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the
|
|
DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from
|
|
<http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in
|
|
<ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you
|
|
intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y
|
|
here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes
|
|
transparent, i.e. the MSDOS files look and behave just like all
|
|
other Unix files.
|
|
|
|
If you have Windows 95 or Windows NT installed on your MSDOS
|
|
partitions, you should use the VFAT file system (say Y to "VFAT fs
|
|
support" below), or you will not be able to see the long filenames
|
|
generated by Windows 95 / Windows NT.
|
|
|
|
This option will enlarge your kernel by about 7 KB. If unsure,
|
|
answer Y. This will only work if you said Y to "DOS FAT fs support"
|
|
as well. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will
|
|
be called msdos.
|
|
|
|
config VFAT_FS
|
|
tristate "VFAT (Windows-95) fs support"
|
|
select FAT_FS
|
|
help
|
|
This option provides support for normal Windows file systems with
|
|
long filenames. That includes non-compressed FAT-based file systems
|
|
used by Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and the Unix
|
|
programs from the mtools package.
|
|
|
|
The VFAT support enlarges your kernel by about 10 KB and it only
|
|
works if you said Y to the "DOS FAT fs support" above. Please read
|
|
the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for details. If
|
|
unsure, say Y.
|
|
|
|
To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
|
|
vfat.
|
|
|
|
config FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE
|
|
int "Default codepage for FAT"
|
|
depends on MSDOS_FS || VFAT_FS
|
|
default 437
|
|
help
|
|
This option should be set to the codepage of your FAT filesystems.
|
|
It can be overridden with the "codepage" mount option.
|
|
See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
|
|
|
|
config FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET
|
|
string "Default iocharset for FAT"
|
|
depends on VFAT_FS
|
|
default "iso8859-1"
|
|
help
|
|
Set this to the default input/output character set you'd
|
|
like FAT to use. It should probably match the character set
|
|
that most of your FAT filesystems use, and can be overridden
|
|
with the "iocharset" mount option for FAT filesystems.
|
|
Note that "utf8" is not recommended for FAT filesystems.
|
|
If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here.
|
|
See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
|
|
|
|
config NTFS_FS
|
|
tristate "NTFS file system support"
|
|
select NLS
|
|
help
|
|
NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003.
|
|
|
|
Saying Y or M here enables read support. There is partial, but
|
|
safe, write support available. For write support you must also
|
|
say Y to "NTFS write support" below.
|
|
|
|
There are also a number of user-space tools available, called
|
|
ntfsprogs. These include ntfsundelete and ntfsresize, that work
|
|
without NTFS support enabled in the kernel.
|
|
|
|
This is a rewrite from scratch of Linux NTFS support and replaced
|
|
the old NTFS code starting with Linux 2.5.11. A backport to
|
|
the Linux 2.4 kernel series is separately available as a patch
|
|
from the project web site.
|
|
|
|
For more information see <file:Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt>
|
|
and <http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/>.
|
|
|
|
To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
|
|
module will be called ntfs.
|
|
|
|
If you are not using Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 in addition to
|
|
Linux on your computer it is safe to say N.
|
|
|
|
config NTFS_DEBUG
|
|
bool "NTFS debugging support"
|
|
depends on NTFS_FS
|
|
help
|
|
If you are experiencing any problems with the NTFS file system, say
|
|
Y here. This will result in additional consistency checks to be
|
|
performed by the driver as well as additional debugging messages to
|
|
be written to the system log. Note that debugging messages are
|
|
disabled by default. To enable them, supply the option debug_msgs=1
|
|
at the kernel command line when booting the kernel or as an option
|
|
to insmod when loading the ntfs module. Once the driver is active,
|
|
you can enable debugging messages by doing (as root):
|
|
echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug
|
|
Replacing the "1" with "0" would disable debug messages.
|
|
|
|
If you leave debugging messages disabled, this results in little
|
|
overhead, but enabling debug messages results in very significant
|
|
slowdown of the system.
|
|
|
|
When reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of
|
|
debugging messages while the misbehaviour was occurring.
|
|
|
|
config NTFS_RW
|
|
bool "NTFS write support"
|
|
depends on NTFS_FS
|
|
help
|
|
This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver.
|
|
|
|
The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without
|
|
changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or
|
|
renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to
|
|
so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot
|
|
be written to.
|
|
|
|
While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have
|
|
so far not received a single report where the driver would have
|
|
damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use.
|
|
|
|
Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from
|
|
scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS
|
|
write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997),
|
|
is not safe.
|
|
|
|
This is currently useful with TopologiLinux. TopologiLinux is run
|
|
on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your
|
|
hard disk. Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not
|
|
need its own partition. For more information see
|
|
<http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/>
|
|
|
|
It is perfectly safe to say N here.
|
|
|
|
endmenu
|
|
endif
|
|
|
|
menu "Pseudo filesystems"
|
|
|
|
config PROC_FS
|
|
bool "/proc file system support" if EMBEDDED
|
|
default y
|
|
help
|
|
This is a virtual file system providing information about the status
|
|
of the system. "Virtual" means that it doesn't take up any space on
|
|
your hard disk: the files are created on the fly by the kernel when
|
|
you try to access them. Also, you cannot read the files with older
|
|
version of the program less: you need to use more or cat.
|
|
|
|
It's totally cool; for example, "cat /proc/interrupts" gives
|
|
information about what the different IRQs are used for at the moment
|
|
(there is a small number of Interrupt ReQuest lines in your computer
|
|
that are used by the attached devices to gain the CPU's attention --
|
|
often a source of trouble if two devices are mistakenly configured
|
|
to use the same IRQ). The program procinfo to display some
|
|
information about your system gathered from the /proc file system.
|
|
|
|
Before you can use the /proc file system, it has to be mounted,
|
|
meaning it has to be given a location in the directory hierarchy.
|
|
That location should be /proc. A command such as "mount -t proc proc
|
|
/proc" or the equivalent line in /etc/fstab does the job.
|
|
|
|
The /proc file system is explained in the file
|
|
<file:Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt> and on the proc(5) manpage
|
|
("man 5 proc").
|
|
|
|
This option will enlarge your kernel by about 67 KB. Several
|
|
programs depend on this, so everyone should say Y here.
|
|
|
|
config PROC_KCORE
|
|
bool "/proc/kcore support" if !ARM
|
|
depends on PROC_FS && MMU
|
|
|
|
config PROC_VMCORE
|
|
bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
|
|
depends on PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP
|
|
default y
|
|
help
|
|
Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format.
|
|
|
|
config PROC_SYSCTL
|
|
bool "Sysctl support (/proc/sys)" if EMBEDDED
|
|
depends on PROC_FS
|
|
select SYSCTL
|
|
default y
|
|
---help---
|
|
The sysctl interface provides a means of dynamically changing
|
|
certain kernel parameters and variables on the fly without requiring
|
|
a recompile of the kernel or reboot of the system. The primary
|
|
interface is through /proc/sys. If you say Y here a tree of
|
|
modifiable sysctl entries will be generated beneath the
|
|
/proc/sys directory. They are explained in the files
|
|
in <file:Documentation/sysctl/>. Note that enabling this
|
|
option will enlarge the kernel by at least 8 KB.
|
|
|
|
As it is generally a good thing, you should say Y here unless
|
|
building a kernel for install/rescue disks or your system is very
|
|
limited in memory.
|
|
|
|
config SYSFS
|
|
bool "sysfs file system support" if EMBEDDED
|
|
default y
|
|
help
|
|
The sysfs filesystem is a virtual filesystem that the kernel uses to
|
|
export internal kernel objects, their attributes, and their
|
|
relationships to one another.
|
|
|
|
Users can use sysfs to ascertain useful information about the running
|
|
kernel, such as the devices the kernel has discovered on each bus and
|
|
which driver each is bound to. sysfs can also be used to tune devices
|
|
and other kernel subsystems.
|
|
|
|
Some system agents rely on the information in sysfs to operate.
|
|
/sbin/hotplug uses device and object attributes in sysfs to assist in
|
|
delegating policy decisions, like persistently naming devices.
|
|
|
|
sysfs is currently used by the block subsystem to mount the root
|
|
partition. If sysfs is disabled you must specify the boot device on
|
|
the kernel boot command line via its major and minor numbers. For
|
|
example, "root=03:01" for /dev/hda1.
|
|
|
|
Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space.
|
|
|
|
config TMPFS
|
|
bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)"
|
|
help
|
|
Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory.
|
|
|
|
Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be
|
|
created on your hard drive. The files live in memory and swap
|
|
space. If you unmount a tmpfs instance, everything stored therein is
|
|
lost.
|
|
|
|
See <file:Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> for details.
|
|
|
|
config TMPFS_POSIX_ACL
|
|
bool "Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists"
|
|
depends on TMPFS
|
|
select GENERIC_ACL
|
|
help
|
|
POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
|
|
groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
|
|
|
|
To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for
|
|
Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
|
|
|
|
If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N.
|
|
|
|
config HUGETLBFS
|
|
bool "HugeTLB file system support"
|
|
depends on X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || BROKEN
|
|
help
|
|
hugetlbfs is a filesystem backing for HugeTLB pages, based on
|
|
ramfs. For architectures that support it, say Y here and read
|
|
<file:Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt> for details.
|
|
|
|
If unsure, say N.
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|
|
|
config HUGETLB_PAGE
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def_bool HUGETLBFS
|
|
|
|
config RAMFS
|
|
bool
|
|
default y
|
|
---help---
|
|
Ramfs is a file system which keeps all files in RAM. It allows
|
|
read and write access.
|
|
|
|
It is more of an programming example than a useable file system. If
|
|
you need a file system which lives in RAM with limit checking use
|
|
tmpfs.
|
|
|
|
To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
|
|
ramfs.
|
|
|
|
config CONFIGFS_FS
|
|
tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem (EXPERIMENTAL)"
|
|
depends on SYSFS && EXPERIMENTAL
|
|
help
|
|
configfs is a ram-based filesystem that provides the converse
|
|
of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based
|
|
view of kernel objects, configfs is a filesystem-based manager
|
|
of kernel objects, or config_items.
|
|
|
|
Both sysfs and configfs can and should exist together on the
|
|
same system. One is not a replacement for the other.
|
|
|
|
endmenu
|
|
|
|
menu "Miscellaneous filesystems"
|
|
|
|
config ADFS_FS
|
|
tristate "ADFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
|
|
depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
|
|
help
|
|
The Acorn Disc Filing System is the standard file system of the
|
|
RiscOS operating system which runs on Acorn's ARM-based Risc PC
|
|
systems and the Acorn Archimedes range of machines. If you say Y
|
|
here, Linux will be able to read from ADFS partitions on hard drives
|
|
and from ADFS-formatted floppy discs. If you also want to be able to
|
|
write to those devices, say Y to "ADFS write support" below.
|
|
|
|
The ADFS partition should be the first partition (i.e.,
|
|
/dev/[hs]d?1) on each of your drives. Please read the file
|
|
<file:Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt> for further details.
|
|
|
|
To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be
|
|
called adfs.
|
|
|
|
If unsure, say N.
|
|
|
|
config ADFS_FS_RW
|
|
bool "ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)"
|
|
depends on ADFS_FS
|
|
help
|
|
If you say Y here, you will be able to write to ADFS partitions on
|
|
hard drives and ADFS-formatted floppy disks. This is experimental
|
|
codes, so if you're unsure, say N.
|
|
|
|
config AFFS_FS
|
|
tristate "Amiga FFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
|
|
depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
|
|
help
|
|
The Fast File System (FFS) is the common file system used on hard
|
|
disks by Amiga(tm) systems since AmigaOS Version 1.3 (34.20). Say Y
|
|
if you want to be able to read and write files from and to an Amiga
|
|
FFS partition on your hard drive. Amiga floppies however cannot be
|
|
read with this driver due to an incompatibility of the floppy
|
|
controller used in an Amiga and the standard floppy controller in
|
|
PCs and workstations. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt>
|
|
and <file:fs/affs/Changes>.
|
|
|
|
With this driver you can also mount disk files used by Bernd
|
|
Schmidt's Un*X Amiga Emulator
|
|
(<http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/>).
|
|
If you want to do this, you will also need to say Y or M to "Loop
|
|
device support", above.
|
|
|
|
To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
|
|
module will be called affs. If unsure, say N.
|
|
|
|
config ECRYPT_FS
|
|
tristate "eCrypt filesystem layer support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
|
|
depends on EXPERIMENTAL && KEYS && CRYPTO && NET
|
|
help
|
|
Encrypted filesystem that operates on the VFS layer. See
|
|
<file:Documentation/ecryptfs.txt> to learn more about
|
|
eCryptfs. Userspace components are required and can be
|
|
obtained from <http://ecryptfs.sf.net>.
|
|
|
|
To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
|
|
module will be called ecryptfs.
|
|
|
|
config HFS_FS
|
|
tristate "Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
|
|
depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
|
|
select NLS
|
|
help
|
|
If you say Y here, you will be able to mount Macintosh-formatted
|
|
floppy disks and hard drive partitions with full read-write access.
|
|
Please read <file:fs/hfs/HFS.txt> to learn about the available mount
|
|
options.
|
|
|
|
To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
|
|
module will be called hfs.
|
|
|
|
config HFSPLUS_FS
|
|
tristate "Apple Extended HFS file system support"
|
|
depends on BLOCK
|
|
select NLS
|
|
select NLS_UTF8
|
|
help
|
|
If you say Y here, you will be able to mount extended format
|
|
Macintosh-formatted hard drive partitions with full read-write access.
|
|
|
|
This file system is often called HFS+ and was introduced with
|
|
MacOS 8. It includes all Mac specific filesystem data such as
|
|
data forks and creator codes, but it also has several UNIX
|
|
style features such as file ownership and permissions.
|
|
|
|
config BEFS_FS
|
|
tristate "BeOS file system (BeFS) support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
|
|
depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
|
|
select NLS
|
|
help
|
|
The BeOS File System (BeFS) is the native file system of Be, Inc's
|
|
BeOS. Notable features include support for arbitrary attributes
|
|
on files and directories, and database-like indices on selected
|
|
attributes. (Also note that this driver doesn't make those features
|
|
available at this time). It is a 64 bit filesystem, so it supports
|
|
extremely large volumes and files.
|
|
|
|
If you use this filesystem, you should also say Y to at least one
|
|
of the NLS (native language support) options below.
|
|
|
|
If you don't know what this is about, say N.
|
|
|
|
To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
|
|
called befs.
|
|
|
|
config BEFS_DEBUG
|
|
bool "Debug BeFS"
|
|
depends on BEFS_FS
|
|
help
|
|
If you say Y here, you can use the 'debug' mount option to enable
|
|
debugging output from the driver.
|
|
|
|
config BFS_FS
|
|
tristate "BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
|
|
depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
|
|
help
|
|
Boot File System (BFS) is a file system used under SCO UnixWare to
|
|
allow the bootloader access to the kernel image and other important
|
|
files during the boot process. It is usually mounted under /stand
|
|
and corresponds to the slice marked as "STAND" in the UnixWare
|
|
partition. You should say Y if you want to read or write the files
|
|
on your /stand slice from within Linux. You then also need to say Y
|
|
to "UnixWare slices support", below. More information about the BFS
|
|
file system is contained in the file
|
|
<file:Documentation/filesystems/bfs.txt>.
|
|
|
|
If you don't know what this is about, say N.
|
|
|
|
To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
|
|
bfs. Note that the file system of your root partition (the one
|
|
containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
config EFS_FS
|
|
tristate "EFS file system support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
|
|
depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
|
|
help
|
|
EFS is an older file system used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and hard
|
|
disk partitions by SGI's IRIX operating system (IRIX 6.0 and newer
|
|
uses the XFS file system for hard disk partitions however).
|
|
|
|
This implementation only offers read-only access. If you don't know
|
|
what all this is about, it's safe to say N. For more information
|
|
about EFS see its home page at <http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/>.
|
|
|
|
To compile the EFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the
|
|
module will be called efs.
|
|
|
|
config JFFS2_FS
|
|
tristate "Journalling Flash File System v2 (JFFS2) support"
|
|
select CRC32
|
|
depends on MTD
|
|
help
|
|
JFFS2 is the second generation of the Journalling Flash File System
|
|
for use on diskless embedded devices. It provides improved wear
|
|
levelling, compression and support for hard links. You cannot use
|
|
this on normal block devices, only on 'MTD' devices.
|
|
|
|
Further information on the design and implementation of JFFS2 is
|
|
available at <http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2/>.
|
|
|
|
config JFFS2_FS_DEBUG
|
|
int "JFFS2 debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 2 = noisy)"
|
|
depends on JFFS2_FS
|
|
default "0"
|
|
help
|
|
This controls the amount of debugging messages produced by the JFFS2
|
|
code. Set it to zero for use in production systems. For evaluation,
|
|
testing and debugging, it's advisable to set it to one. This will
|
|
enable a few assertions and will print debugging messages at the
|
|
KERN_DEBUG loglevel, where they won't normally be visible. Level 2
|
|
is unlikely to be useful - it enables extra debugging in certain
|
|
areas which at one point needed debugging, but when the bugs were
|
|
located and fixed, the detailed messages were relegated to level 2.
|
|
|
|
If reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of the
|
|
messages at debug level 1 while the misbehaviour was occurring.
|
|
|
|
config JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER
|
|
bool "JFFS2 write-buffering support"
|
|
depends on JFFS2_FS
|
|
default y
|
|
help
|
|
This enables the write-buffering support in JFFS2.
|
|
|
|
This functionality is required to support JFFS2 on the following
|
|
types of flash devices:
|
|
- NAND flash
|
|
- NOR flash with transparent ECC
|
|
- DataFlash
|
|
|
|
config JFFS2_SUMMARY
|
|
bool "JFFS2 summary support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
|
|
depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
|
|
default n
|
|
help
|
|
This feature makes it possible to use summary information
|
|
for faster filesystem mount.
|
|
|
|
The summary information can be inserted into a filesystem image
|
|
by the utility 'sumtool'.
|
|
|
|
If unsure, say 'N'.
|
|
|
|
config JFFS2_FS_XATTR
|
|
bool "JFFS2 XATTR support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
|
|
depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
|
|
default n
|
|
help
|
|
Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
|
|
the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
|
|
<http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
|
|
|
|
If unsure, say N.
|
|
|
|
config JFFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL
|
|
bool "JFFS2 POSIX Access Control Lists"
|
|
depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR
|
|
default y
|
|
select FS_POSIX_ACL
|
|
help
|
|
Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
|
|
groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
|
|
|
|
To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
|
|
Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
|
|
|
|
If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
|
|
|
|
config JFFS2_FS_SECURITY
|
|
bool "JFFS2 Security Labels"
|
|
depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR
|
|
default y
|
|
help
|
|
Security labels support alternative access control models
|
|
implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
|
|
enables an extended attribute handler for file security
|
|
labels in the jffs2 filesystem.
|
|
|
|
If you are not using a security module that requires using
|
|
extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
|
|
|
|
config JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
|
|
bool "Advanced compression options for JFFS2"
|
|
depends on JFFS2_FS
|
|
default n
|
|
help
|
|
Enabling this option allows you to explicitly choose which
|
|
compression modules, if any, are enabled in JFFS2. Removing
|
|
compressors and mean you cannot read existing file systems,
|
|
and enabling experimental compressors can mean that you
|
|
write a file system which cannot be read by a standard kernel.
|
|
|
|
If unsure, you should _definitely_ say 'N'.
|
|
|
|
config JFFS2_ZLIB
|
|
bool "JFFS2 ZLIB compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
|
|
select ZLIB_INFLATE
|
|
select ZLIB_DEFLATE
|
|
depends on JFFS2_FS
|
|
default y
|
|
help
|
|
Zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered,
|
|
lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer
|
|
hardware and operating system. See <http://www.gzip.org/zlib/> for
|
|
further information.
|
|
|
|
Say 'Y' if unsure.
|
|
|
|
config JFFS2_RTIME
|
|
bool "JFFS2 RTIME compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
|
|
depends on JFFS2_FS
|
|
default y
|
|
help
|
|
Rtime does manage to recompress already-compressed data. Say 'Y' if unsure.
|
|
|
|
config JFFS2_RUBIN
|
|
bool "JFFS2 RUBIN compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
|
|
depends on JFFS2_FS
|
|
default n
|
|
help
|
|
RUBINMIPS and DYNRUBIN compressors. Say 'N' if unsure.
|
|
|
|
choice
|
|
prompt "JFFS2 default compression mode" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
|
|
default JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY
|
|
depends on JFFS2_FS
|
|
help
|
|
You can set here the default compression mode of JFFS2 from
|
|
the available compression modes. Don't touch if unsure.
|
|
|
|
config JFFS2_CMODE_NONE
|
|
bool "no compression"
|
|
help
|
|
Uses no compression.
|
|
|
|
config JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY
|
|
bool "priority"
|
|
help
|
|
Tries the compressors in a predefined order and chooses the first
|
|
successful one.
|
|
|
|
config JFFS2_CMODE_SIZE
|
|
bool "size (EXPERIMENTAL)"
|
|
help
|
|
Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest
|
|
result.
|
|
|
|
endchoice
|
|
|
|
config CRAMFS
|
|
tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)"
|
|
depends on BLOCK
|
|
select ZLIB_INFLATE
|
|
help
|
|
Saying Y here includes support for CramFs (Compressed ROM File
|
|
System). CramFs is designed to be a simple, small, and compressed
|
|
file system for ROM based embedded systems. CramFs is read-only,
|
|
limited to 256MB file systems (with 16MB files), and doesn't support
|
|
16/32 bits uid/gid, hard links and timestamps.
|
|
|
|
See <file:Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt> and
|
|
<file:fs/cramfs/README> for further information.
|
|
|
|
To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
|
|
cramfs. Note that the root file system (the one containing the
|
|
directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
|
|
|
|
If unsure, say N.
|
|
|
|
config VXFS_FS
|
|
tristate "FreeVxFS file system support (VERITAS VxFS(TM) compatible)"
|
|
depends on BLOCK
|
|
help
|
|
FreeVxFS is a file system driver that support the VERITAS VxFS(TM)
|
|
file system format. VERITAS VxFS(TM) is the standard file system
|
|
of SCO UnixWare (and possibly others) and optionally available
|
|
for Sunsoft Solaris, HP-UX and many other operating systems.
|
|
Currently only readonly access is supported.
|
|
|
|
NOTE: the file system type as used by mount(1), mount(2) and
|
|
fstab(5) is 'vxfs' as it describes the file system format, not
|
|
the actual driver.
|
|
|
|
To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
|
|
called freevxfs. If unsure, say N.
|
|
|
|
|
|
config HPFS_FS
|
|
tristate "OS/2 HPFS file system support"
|
|
depends on BLOCK
|
|
help
|
|
OS/2 is IBM's operating system for PC's, the same as Warp, and HPFS
|
|
is the file system used for organizing files on OS/2 hard disk
|
|
partitions. Say Y if you want to be able to read files from and
|
|
write files to an OS/2 HPFS partition on your hard drive. OS/2
|
|
floppies however are in regular MSDOS format, so you don't need this
|
|
option in order to be able to read them. Read
|
|
<file:Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt>.
|
|
|
|
To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
|
|
module will be called hpfs. If unsure, say N.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
config QNX4FS_FS
|
|
tristate "QNX4 file system support (read only)"
|
|
depends on BLOCK
|
|
help
|
|
This is the file system used by the real-time operating systems
|
|
QNX 4 and QNX 6 (the latter is also called QNX RTP).
|
|
Further information is available at <http://www.qnx.com/>.
|
|
Say Y if you intend to mount QNX hard disks or floppies.
|
|
Unless you say Y to "QNX4FS read-write support" below, you will
|
|
only be able to read these file systems.
|
|
|
|
To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
|
|
module will be called qnx4.
|
|
|
|
If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
|
|
answer N.
|
|
|
|
config QNX4FS_RW
|
|
bool "QNX4FS write support (DANGEROUS)"
|
|
depends on QNX4FS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN
|
|
help
|
|
Say Y if you want to test write support for QNX4 file systems.
|
|
|
|
It's currently broken, so for now:
|
|
answer N.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
config SYSV_FS
|
|
tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support"
|
|
depends on BLOCK
|
|
help
|
|
SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel
|
|
machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y
|
|
here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk
|
|
partitions.
|
|
|
|
If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely
|
|
that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order
|
|
to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is
|
|
a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse,
|
|
UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux. It is
|
|
available via FTP (user: ftp) from
|
|
<ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>).
|
|
NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems;
|
|
PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-)
|
|
|
|
If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the
|
|
network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support
|
|
(but you need NFS file system support obviously).
|
|
|
|
Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
|
|
good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
|
|
(and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
|
|
tar" or preferably "info tar"). Note also that this option has
|
|
nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about
|
|
the System V file system in
|
|
<file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>.
|
|
Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB.
|
|
|
|
To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
|
|
sysv.
|
|
|
|
If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
config UFS_FS
|
|
tristate "UFS file system support (read only)"
|
|
depends on BLOCK
|
|
help
|
|
BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
|
|
OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a file system called UFS. Some System V
|
|
Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using
|
|
this file system as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from
|
|
these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the
|
|
experimental "UFS file system write support", below. Please read the
|
|
file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt> for more information.
|
|
|
|
The recently released UFS2 variant (used in FreeBSD 5.x) is
|
|
READ-ONLY supported.
|
|
|
|
If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the
|
|
network using NFS, you don't need the UFS file system support (but
|
|
you need NFS file system support obviously).
|
|
|
|
Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
|
|
good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
|
|
(and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
|
|
tar" or preferably "info tar").
|
|
|
|
When accessing NeXTstep files, you may need to convert them from the
|
|
NeXT character set to the Latin1 character set; use the program
|
|
recode ("info recode") for this purpose.
|
|
|
|
To compile the UFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the
|
|
module will be called ufs.
|
|
|
|
If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
|
|
|
|
config UFS_FS_WRITE
|
|
bool "UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS)"
|
|
depends on UFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
|
|
help
|
|
Say Y here if you want to try writing to UFS partitions. This is
|
|
experimental, so you should back up your UFS partitions beforehand.
|
|
|
|
config UFS_DEBUG
|
|
bool "UFS debugging"
|
|
depends on UFS_FS
|
|
help
|
|
If you are experiencing any problems with the UFS filesystem, say
|
|
Y here. This will result in _many_ additional debugging messages to be
|
|
written to the system log.
|
|
|
|
endmenu
|
|
|
|
menu "Network File Systems"
|
|
depends on NET
|
|
|
|
config NFS_FS
|
|
tristate "NFS file system support"
|
|
depends on INET
|
|
select LOCKD
|
|
select SUNRPC
|
|
select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFS_V3_ACL
|
|
help
|
|
If you are connected to some other (usually local) Unix computer
|
|
(using SLIP, PLIP, PPP or Ethernet) and want to mount files residing
|
|
on that computer (the NFS server) using the Network File Sharing
|
|
protocol, say Y. "Mounting files" means that the client can access
|
|
the files with usual UNIX commands as if they were sitting on the
|
|
client's hard disk. For this to work, the server must run the
|
|
programs nfsd and mountd (but does not need to have NFS file system
|
|
support enabled in its kernel). NFS is explained in the Network
|
|
Administrator's Guide, available from
|
|
<http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>, on its man page: "man
|
|
nfs", and in the NFS-HOWTO.
|
|
|
|
A superior but less widely used alternative to NFS is provided by
|
|
the Coda file system; see "Coda file system support" below.
|
|
|
|
If you say Y here, you should have said Y to TCP/IP networking also.
|
|
This option would enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB.
|
|
|
|
To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
|
|
module will be called nfs.
|
|
|
|
If you are configuring a diskless machine which will mount its root
|
|
file system over NFS at boot time, say Y here and to "Kernel
|
|
level IP autoconfiguration" above and to "Root file system on NFS"
|
|
below. You cannot compile this driver as a module in this case.
|
|
There are two packages designed for booting diskless machines over
|
|
the net: netboot, available from
|
|
<http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/netboot/>, and Etherboot,
|
|
available from <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/etherboot/>.
|
|
|
|
If you don't know what all this is about, say N.
|
|
|
|
config NFS_V3
|
|
bool "Provide NFSv3 client support"
|
|
depends on NFS_FS
|
|
help
|
|
Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak version
|
|
3 of the NFS protocol.
|
|
|
|
If unsure, say Y.
|
|
|
|
config NFS_V3_ACL
|
|
bool "Provide client support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension"
|
|
depends on NFS_V3
|
|
help
|
|
Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX
|
|
Access Control Lists. The server should also be compiled with
|
|
the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL option.
|
|
|
|
If unsure, say N.
|
|
|
|
config NFS_V4
|
|
bool "Provide NFSv4 client support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
|
|
depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
|
|
select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
|
|
help
|
|
Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak the newer
|
|
version 4 of the NFS protocol.
|
|
|
|
Note: Requires auxiliary userspace daemons which may be found on
|
|
http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
|
|
|
|
If unsure, say N.
|
|
|
|
config NFS_DIRECTIO
|
|
bool "Allow direct I/O on NFS files"
|
|
depends on NFS_FS
|
|
help
|
|
This option enables applications to perform uncached I/O on files
|
|
in NFS file systems using the O_DIRECT open() flag. When O_DIRECT
|
|
is set for a file, its data is not cached in the system's page
|
|
cache. Data is moved to and from user-level application buffers
|
|
directly. Unlike local disk-based file systems, NFS O_DIRECT has
|
|
no alignment restrictions.
|
|
|
|
Unless your program is designed to use O_DIRECT properly, you are
|
|
much better off allowing the NFS client to manage data caching for
|
|
you. Misusing O_DIRECT can cause poor server performance or network
|
|
storms. This kernel build option defaults OFF to avoid exposing
|
|
system administrators unwittingly to a potentially hazardous
|
|
feature.
|
|
|
|
For more details on NFS O_DIRECT, see fs/nfs/direct.c.
|
|
|
|
If unsure, say N. This reduces the size of the NFS client, and
|
|
causes open() to return EINVAL if a file residing in NFS is
|
|
opened with the O_DIRECT flag.
|
|
|
|
config NFSD
|
|
tristate "NFS server support"
|
|
depends on INET
|
|
select LOCKD
|
|
select SUNRPC
|
|
select EXPORTFS
|
|
select NFSD_V2_ACL if NFSD_V3_ACL
|
|
select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFSD_V2_ACL
|
|
select NFSD_TCP if NFSD_V4
|
|
select CRYPTO_MD5 if NFSD_V4
|
|
select CRYPTO if NFSD_V4
|
|
select FS_POSIX_ACL if NFSD_V4
|
|
help
|
|
If you want your Linux box to act as an NFS *server*, so that other
|
|
computers on your local network which support NFS can access certain
|
|
directories on your box transparently, you have two options: you can
|
|
use the self-contained user space program nfsd, in which case you
|
|
should say N here, or you can say Y and use the kernel based NFS
|
|
server. The advantage of the kernel based solution is that it is
|
|
faster.
|
|
|
|
In either case, you will need support software; the respective
|
|
locations are given in the file <file:Documentation/Changes> in the
|
|
NFS section.
|
|
|
|
If you say Y here, you will get support for version 2 of the NFS
|
|
protocol (NFSv2). If you also want NFSv3, say Y to the next question
|
|
as well.
|
|
|
|
Please read the NFS-HOWTO, available from
|
|
<http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
|
|
|
|
To compile the NFS server support as a module, choose M here: the
|
|
module will be called nfsd. If unsure, say N.
|
|
|
|
config NFSD_V2_ACL
|
|
bool
|
|
depends on NFSD
|
|
|
|
config NFSD_V3
|
|
bool "Provide NFSv3 server support"
|
|
depends on NFSD
|
|
help
|
|
If you would like to include the NFSv3 server as well as the NFSv2
|
|
server, say Y here. If unsure, say Y.
|
|
|
|
config NFSD_V3_ACL
|
|
bool "Provide server support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension"
|
|
depends on NFSD_V3
|
|
help
|
|
Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX
|
|
Access Control Lists on exported file systems. NFS clients should
|
|
be compiled with the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the
|
|
CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL option. If unsure, say N.
|
|
|
|
config NFSD_V4
|
|
bool "Provide NFSv4 server support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
|
|
depends on NFSD_V3 && EXPERIMENTAL
|
|
help
|
|
If you would like to include the NFSv4 server as well as the NFSv2
|
|
and NFSv3 servers, say Y here. This feature is experimental, and
|
|
should only be used if you are interested in helping to test NFSv4.
|
|
If unsure, say N.
|
|
|
|
config NFSD_TCP
|
|
bool "Provide NFS server over TCP support"
|
|
depends on NFSD
|
|
default y
|
|
help
|
|
If you want your NFS server to support TCP connections, say Y here.
|
|
TCP connections usually perform better than the default UDP when
|
|
the network is lossy or congested. If unsure, say Y.
|
|
|
|
config ROOT_NFS
|
|
bool "Root file system on NFS"
|
|
depends on NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP
|
|
help
|
|
If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
|
|
one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
|
|
net via NFS (presumably because your box doesn't have a hard disk),
|
|
say Y. Read <file:Documentation/nfsroot.txt> for details. It is
|
|
likely that in this case, you also want to say Y to "Kernel level IP
|
|
autoconfiguration" so that your box can discover its network address
|
|
at boot time.
|
|
|
|
Most people say N here.
|
|
|
|
config LOCKD
|
|
tristate
|
|
|
|
config LOCKD_V4
|
|
bool
|
|
depends on NFSD_V3 || NFS_V3
|
|
default y
|
|
|
|
config EXPORTFS
|
|
tristate
|
|
|
|
config NFS_ACL_SUPPORT
|
|
tristate
|
|
select FS_POSIX_ACL
|
|
|
|
config NFS_COMMON
|
|
bool
|
|
depends on NFSD || NFS_FS
|
|
default y
|
|
|
|
config SUNRPC
|
|
tristate
|
|
|
|
config SUNRPC_GSS
|
|
tristate
|
|
|
|
config SUNRPC_BIND34
|
|
bool "Support for rpcbind versions 3 & 4 (EXPERIMENTAL)"
|
|
depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
|
|
help
|
|
Provides kernel support for querying rpcbind servers via versions 3
|
|
and 4 of the rpcbind protocol. The kernel automatically falls back
|
|
to version 2 if a remote rpcbind service does not support versions
|
|
3 or 4.
|
|
|
|
If unsure, say N to get traditional behavior (version 2 rpcbind
|
|
requests only).
|
|
|
|
config RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
|
|
tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
|
|
depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
|
|
select SUNRPC_GSS
|
|
select CRYPTO
|
|
select CRYPTO_MD5
|
|
select CRYPTO_DES
|
|
select CRYPTO_CBC
|
|
help
|
|
Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api
|
|
mechanism based on Kerberos V5. This is required for
|
|
NFSv4.
|
|
|
|
Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on
|
|
http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
|
|
|
|
If unsure, say N.
|
|
|
|
config RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3
|
|
tristate "Secure RPC: SPKM3 mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
|
|
depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
|
|
select SUNRPC_GSS
|
|
select CRYPTO
|
|
select CRYPTO_MD5
|
|
select CRYPTO_DES
|
|
select CRYPTO_CAST5
|
|
select CRYPTO_CBC
|
|
help
|
|
Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api
|
|
mechanism based on the SPKM3 public-key mechanism.
|
|
|
|
Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on
|
|
http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
|
|
|
|
If unsure, say N.
|
|
|
|
config SMB_FS
|
|
tristate "SMB file system support (to mount Windows shares etc.)"
|
|
depends on INET
|
|
select NLS
|
|
help
|
|
SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Windows for Workgroups
|
|
(WfW), Windows 95/98, Windows NT and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share
|
|
files and printers over local networks. Saying Y here allows you to
|
|
mount their file systems (often called "shares" in this context) and
|
|
access them just like any other Unix directory. Currently, this
|
|
works only if the Windows machines use TCP/IP as the underlying
|
|
transport protocol, and not NetBEUI. For details, read
|
|
<file:Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt> and the SMB-HOWTO,
|
|
available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
|
|
|
|
Note: if you just want your box to act as an SMB *server* and make
|
|
files and printing services available to Windows clients (which need
|
|
to have a TCP/IP stack), you don't need to say Y here; you can use
|
|
the program SAMBA (available from <ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/>)
|
|
for that.
|
|
|
|
General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
|
|
Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
|
|
|
|
To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here: the module will
|
|
be called smbfs. Most people say N, however.
|
|
|
|
config SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
|
|
bool "Use a default NLS"
|
|
depends on SMB_FS
|
|
help
|
|
Enabling this will make smbfs use nls translations by default. You
|
|
need to specify the local charset (CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT) in the nls
|
|
settings and you need to give the default nls for the SMB server as
|
|
CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE.
|
|
|
|
The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount
|
|
supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters.
|
|
|
|
smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
|
|
|
|
config SMB_NLS_REMOTE
|
|
string "Default Remote NLS Option"
|
|
depends on SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
|
|
default "cp437"
|
|
help
|
|
This setting allows you to specify a default value for which
|
|
codepage the server uses. If this field is left blank no
|
|
translations will be done by default. The local codepage/charset
|
|
default to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT.
|
|
|
|
The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount
|
|
supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters.
|
|
|
|
smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
|
|
|
|
config CIFS
|
|
tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem for Samba, Window and other CIFS compliant servers)"
|
|
depends on INET
|
|
select NLS
|
|
help
|
|
This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System
|
|
(CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block
|
|
(SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early
|
|
PC operating systems. The CIFS protocol is fully supported by
|
|
file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4
|
|
and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS
|
|
server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited
|
|
support for OS/2 and Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well.
|
|
|
|
The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced
|
|
network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers,
|
|
including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user
|
|
session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional
|
|
packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements.
|
|
If you need to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y.
|
|
|
|
config CIFS_STATS
|
|
bool "CIFS statistics"
|
|
depends on CIFS
|
|
help
|
|
Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share
|
|
mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats
|
|
|
|
config CIFS_STATS2
|
|
bool "Extended statistics"
|
|
depends on CIFS_STATS
|
|
help
|
|
Enabling this option will allow more detailed statistics on SMB
|
|
request timing to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData and also
|
|
allow optional logging of slow responses to dmesg (depending on the
|
|
value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI, see fs/cifs/README for more details).
|
|
These additional statistics may have a minor effect on performance
|
|
and memory utilization.
|
|
|
|
Unless you are a developer or are doing network performance analysis
|
|
or tuning, say N.
|
|
|
|
config CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH
|
|
bool "Support legacy servers which use weaker LANMAN security"
|
|
depends on CIFS
|
|
help
|
|
Modern CIFS servers including Samba and most Windows versions
|
|
(since 1997) support stronger NTLM (and even NTLMv2 and Kerberos)
|
|
security mechanisms. These hash the password more securely
|
|
than the mechanisms used in the older LANMAN version of the
|
|
SMB protocol needed to establish sessions with old SMB servers.
|
|
|
|
Enabling this option allows the cifs module to mount to older
|
|
LANMAN based servers such as OS/2 and Windows 95, but such
|
|
mounts may be less secure than mounts using NTLM or more recent
|
|
security mechanisms if you are on a public network. Unless you
|
|
have a need to access old SMB servers (and are on a private
|
|
network) you probably want to say N. Even if this support
|
|
is enabled in the kernel build, they will not be used
|
|
automatically. At runtime LANMAN mounts are disabled but
|
|
can be set to required (or optional) either in
|
|
/proc/fs/cifs (see fs/cifs/README for more detail) or via an
|
|
option on the mount command. This support is disabled by
|
|
default in order to reduce the possibility of a downgrade
|
|
attack.
|
|
|
|
If unsure, say N.
|
|
|
|
config CIFS_XATTR
|
|
bool "CIFS extended attributes"
|
|
depends on CIFS
|
|
help
|
|
Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
|
|
the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
|
|
<http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). CIFS maps the name of
|
|
extended attributes beginning with the user namespace prefix
|
|
to SMB/CIFS EAs. EAs are stored on Windows servers without the
|
|
user namespace prefix, but their names are seen by Linux cifs clients
|
|
prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace
|
|
(used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at
|
|
this time.
|
|
|
|
If unsure, say N.
|
|
|
|
config CIFS_POSIX
|
|
bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions"
|
|
depends on CIFS_XATTR
|
|
help
|
|
Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to
|
|
negotiate a newer dialect with servers, such as Samba 3.0.5
|
|
or later, that optionally can handle more POSIX like (rather
|
|
than Windows like) file behavior. It also enables
|
|
support for POSIX ACLs (getfacl and setfacl) to servers
|
|
(such as Samba 3.10 and later) which can negotiate
|
|
CIFS POSIX ACL support. If unsure, say N.
|
|
|
|
config CIFS_DEBUG2
|
|
bool "Enable additional CIFS debugging routines"
|
|
depends on CIFS
|
|
help
|
|
Enabling this option adds a few more debugging routines
|
|
to the cifs code which slightly increases the size of
|
|
the cifs module and can cause additional logging of debug
|
|
messages in some error paths, slowing performance. This
|
|
option can be turned off unless you are debugging
|
|
cifs problems. If unsure, say N.
|
|
|
|
config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
|
|
bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)"
|
|
depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL
|
|
help
|
|
Enables cifs features under testing. These features are
|
|
experimental and currently include DFS support and directory
|
|
change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY), as well as the upcall
|
|
mechanism which will be used for Kerberos session negotiation
|
|
and uid remapping. Some of these features also may depend on
|
|
setting a value of 1 to the pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental
|
|
(which is disabled by default). See the file fs/cifs/README
|
|
for more details. If unsure, say N.
|
|
|
|
config CIFS_UPCALL
|
|
bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)"
|
|
depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
|
|
depends on CONNECTOR
|
|
help
|
|
Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which will be used to contact
|
|
userspace helper utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged Kerberos
|
|
tickets which are needed to mount to certain secure servers
|
|
(for which more secure Kerberos authentication is required). If
|
|
unsure, say N.
|
|
|
|
config NCP_FS
|
|
tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)"
|
|
depends on IPX!=n || INET
|
|
help
|
|
NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) is a protocol that runs over IPX and is
|
|
used by Novell NetWare clients to talk to file servers. It is to
|
|
IPX what NFS is to TCP/IP, if that helps. Saying Y here allows you
|
|
to mount NetWare file server volumes and to access them just like
|
|
any other Unix directory. For details, please read the file
|
|
<file:Documentation/filesystems/ncpfs.txt> in the kernel source and
|
|
the IPX-HOWTO from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
|
|
|
|
You do not have to say Y here if you want your Linux box to act as a
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file *server* for Novell NetWare clients.
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General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
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Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
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To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
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ncpfs. Say N unless you are connected to a Novell network.
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source "fs/ncpfs/Kconfig"
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config CODA_FS
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tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)"
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depends on INET
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help
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Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it
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enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them
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with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard
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disk. Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for
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disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server
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replication, security model for authentication and encryption,
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persistent client caches and write back caching.
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If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda
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*client*. You will need user level code as well, both for the
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client and server. Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need
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no kernel support. Please read
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<file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.txt> and check out the Coda
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home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>.
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To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the
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module will be called coda.
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config CODA_FS_OLD_API
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bool "Use 96-bit Coda file identifiers"
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depends on CODA_FS
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help
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A new kernel-userspace API had to be introduced for Coda v6.0
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to support larger 128-bit file identifiers as needed by the
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new realms implementation.
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However this new API is not backward compatible with older
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clients. If you really need to run the old Coda userspace
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cache manager then say Y.
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For most cases you probably want to say N.
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config AFS_FS
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tristate "Andrew File System support (AFS) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
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depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL
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select AF_RXRPC
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help
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If you say Y here, you will get an experimental Andrew File System
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driver. It currently only supports unsecured read-only AFS access.
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See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information.
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If unsure, say N.
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config AFS_DEBUG
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bool "AFS dynamic debugging"
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depends on AFS_FS
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help
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Say Y here to make runtime controllable debugging messages appear.
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See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information.
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If unsure, say N.
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config 9P_FS
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tristate "Plan 9 Resource Sharing Support (9P2000) (Experimental)"
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depends on INET && NET_9P && EXPERIMENTAL
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help
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If you say Y here, you will get experimental support for
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Plan 9 resource sharing via the 9P2000 protocol.
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See <http://v9fs.sf.net> for more information.
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If unsure, say N.
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endmenu
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if BLOCK
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menu "Partition Types"
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source "fs/partitions/Kconfig"
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endmenu
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endif
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source "fs/nls/Kconfig"
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source "fs/dlm/Kconfig"
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endmenu
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