If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
answer N.
+config INOTIFY
+ bool "Inotify file change notification support"
+ default y
+ ---help---
+ Say Y here to enable inotify support and the associated system
+ calls. Inotify is a file change notification system and a
+ replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes numerous shortcomings in
+ dnotify and introduces several new features. It allows monitoring
+ of both files and directories via a single open fd. Other features
+ include multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount
+ notification.
+
+ For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt
+
+ If unsure, say Y.
+
config QUOTA
bool "Quota support"
help
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. You need additional software in order to use quota support
- (you can download sources from
- <http://www.sf.net/projects/linuxquota/>). For further details, read
- the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from
+ 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.
depends on QUOTA
help
This quota format allows using quotas with 32-bit UIDs/GIDs. If you
- need this functionality say Y here. Note that you will need recent
- quota utilities (>= 3.01) for new quota format with this kernel.
+ need this functionality say Y here.
config QUOTACTL
bool
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.
+
menu "CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems"
config ISO9660_FS
Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space.
-config DEVPTS_FS_XATTR
- bool "/dev/pts Extended Attributes"
- depends on UNIX98_PTYS
- 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 DEVPTS_FS_SECURITY
- bool "/dev/pts Security Labels"
- depends on DEVPTS_FS_XATTR
- 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 /dev/pts filesystem.
-
- If you are not using a security module that requires using
- extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
-
config TMPFS
bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)"
help
See <file:Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> for details.
-config TMPFS_XATTR
- bool "tmpfs Extended Attributes"
- depends on TMPFS
- 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 TMPFS_SECURITY
- bool "tmpfs Security Labels"
- depends on TMPFS_XATTR
- 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 tmpfs filesystem.
- If you are not using a security module that requires using
- extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
-
config HUGETLBFS
bool "HugeTLB file system support"
- depends X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || X86_64 || BROKEN
+ depends X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || BROKEN
config HUGETLB_PAGE
def_bool HUGETLBFS
To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
ramfs.
+config RELAYFS_FS
+ tristate "Relayfs file system support"
+ ---help---
+ Relayfs is a high-speed data relay filesystem designed to provide
+ an efficient mechanism for tools and facilities to relay large
+ amounts of data from kernel space to user space.
+
+ To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be
+ called relayfs.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
endmenu
menu "Miscellaneous filesystems"
config HFS_FS
tristate "Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on 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.
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_NAND
- bool "JFFS2 support for NAND flash"
+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 enables the support for NAND flash in JFFS2. NAND is a newer
- type of flash chip design than the traditional NOR flash, with
- higher density but a handful of characteristics which make it more
- interesting for the file system to use.
+ This feature makes it possible to use summary information
+ for faster filesystem mount.
- Say 'N' unless you have NAND flash.
+ The summary information can be inserted into a filesystem image
+ by the utility 'sumtool'.
-config JFFS2_FS_NOR_ECC
- bool "JFFS2 support for ECC'd NOR flash (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
- default n
- help
- This enables the experimental support for NOR flash with transparent
- ECC for JFFS2. This type of flash chip is not common, however it is
- available from ST Microelectronics.
+ If unsure, say 'N'.
config JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
bool "Advanced compression options for JFFS2"
default y
help
Zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered,
- lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer
+ 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
default JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY
depends on JFFS2_FS
help
- You can set here the default compression mode of JFFS2 from
+ You can set here the default compression mode of JFFS2 from
the available compression modes. Don't touch if unsure.
config JFFS2_CMODE_NONE
config JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY
bool "priority"
help
- Tries the compressors in a predefinied order and chooses the first
+ Tries the compressors in a predefinied 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
+ Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest
result.
endchoice
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). Currently
- you must use the smbfs client filesystem to access older SMB servers
- such as Windows 9x and OS/2.
+ server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited
+ support for Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well.
+ You must use the smbfs client filesystem to access older SMB servers
+ such as OS/2 and DOS.
The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced
network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers,
cifs if running only a (Samba) server. It is possible to enable both
smbfs and cifs (e.g. if you are using CIFS for accessing Windows 2003
and Samba 3 servers, and smbfs for accessing old servers). If you need
- to mount to Samba or Windows 2003 servers from this machine, say Y.
+ to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y.
config CIFS_STATS
bool "CIFS statistics"
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 "CIFS 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_XATTR
- bool "CIFS extended attributes (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ bool "CIFS extended attributes"
depends on CIFS
help
Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
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 (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions"
depends on CIFS_XATTR
help
Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to
config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- depends on CIFS
+ depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL
+ help
+ Enables cifs features under testing. These features are
+ experimental and currently include support for writepages
+ (multipage writebehind performance improvements) and directory
+ change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY) as well as some security
+ improvements. Some also depend on setting at runtime 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 "CIFS Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
+ select CONNECTOR
help
- Enables cifs features under testing. These features
- are highly experimental. If unsure, say N.
+ 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)"
config RXRPC
tristate
+config 9P_FS
+ tristate "Plan 9 Resource Sharing Support (9P2000) (Experimental)"
+ depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL
+ help
+ If you say Y here, you will get experimental support for
+ Plan 9 resource sharing via the 9P2000 protocol.
+
+ See <http://v9fs.sf.net> for more information.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
endmenu
menu "Partition Types"
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