Ext2 is a standard Linux file system for hard disks.
To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
- module will be called ext2. Be aware however that the file system
- of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot
- be compiled as a module, and so this could be dangerous.
+ module will be called ext2.
If unsure, say Y.
(available at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/e2fsprogs/>).
To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
- module will be called ext3. Be aware however that the file system
- of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot
- be compiled as a module, and so this may be dangerous.
+ module will be called ext3.
config EXT3_FS_XATTR
bool "Ext3 extended attributes"
features will be added to ext4dev gradually.
To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here. The
- module will be called ext4dev. Be aware, however, that the filesystem
- of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot
- be compiled as a module, and so this could be dangerous.
+ module will be called ext4dev.
If unsure, say N.
config JBD2_DEBUG
bool "JBD2 (ext4dev/ext4) debugging support"
- depends on JBD2
+ depends on JBD2 && DEBUG_FS
help
If you are using the ext4dev/ext4 journaled file system (or
potentially any other filesystem/device using JBD2), this option
By default, the debugging output will be turned off.
If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging
- with "echo N > /proc/sys/fs/jbd2-debug", where N is a number between
- 1 and 5. The higher the number, the more debugging output is
- generated. To turn debugging off again, do
- "echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/jbd2-debug".
+ with "echo N > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd2/jbd2-debug", where N is a
+ number between 1 and 5. The higher the number, the more debugging
+ output is generated. To turn debugging off again, do
+ "echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/jbd2/jbd2-debug".
config FS_MBCACHE
# Meta block cache for Extended Attributes (ext2/ext3/ext4)
config REISERFS_PROC_INFO
bool "Stats in /proc/fs/reiserfs"
- depends on REISERFS_FS
+ depends on REISERFS_FS && PROC_FS
help
Create under /proc/fs/reiserfs a hierarchy of files, displaying
various ReiserFS statistics and internal data at the expense of
select CONFIGFS_FS
select JBD
select CRC32
- select INET
help
OCFS2 is a general purpose extent based shared disk cluster file
system with many similarities to ext3. It supports 64 bit inode
Note: Features which OCFS2 does not support yet:
- extended attributes
- - shared writeable mmap
- - loopback is supported, but data written will not
- be cluster coherent.
- quotas
- cluster aware flock
- Directory change notification (F_NOTIFY)
necessary to create such a filesystem. Say Y here if you want to be
able to read such compressed CD-ROMs.
-config ZISOFS_FS
-# for fs/nls/Config.in
- tristate
- depends on ZISOFS
- default ISO9660_FS
-
config UDF_FS
tristate "UDF file system support"
help
file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program
available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar").
- It is now also becoming possible to read and write compressed FAT
- file systems; read <file:Documentation/filesystems/fat_cvf.txt> for
- details.
-
The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure,
say Y.
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 persistantly naming devices.
+ 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
config HUGETLBFS
bool "HugeTLB file system support"
- depends X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || BROKEN
+ depends on X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || (SUPERH && MMU) || BROKEN
help
hugetlbfs is a filesystem backing for HugeTLB pages, based on
ramfs. For architectures that support it, say Y here and read
config ECRYPT_FS
tristate "eCrypt filesystem layer support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- depends on EXPERIMENTAL && KEYS && CRYPTO
+ depends on EXPERIMENTAL && KEYS && CRYPTO && NET
help
Encrypted filesystem that operates on the VFS layer. See
<file:Documentation/ecryptfs.txt> to learn more about
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 indeces on selected
+ 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.
To compile the EFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called efs.
-config JFFS_FS
- tristate "Journalling Flash File System (JFFS) support"
- depends on MTD && BLOCK
- help
- JFFS is the Journalling Flash File System developed by Axis
- Communications in Sweden, aimed at providing a crash/powerdown-safe
- file system for disk-less embedded devices. Further information is
- available at (<http://developer.axis.com/software/jffs/>).
-
-config JFFS_FS_VERBOSE
- int "JFFS debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 3 = noisy)"
- depends on JFFS_FS
- default "0"
- help
- Determines the verbosity level of the JFFS debugging messages.
-
-config JFFS_PROC_FS
- bool "JFFS stats available in /proc filesystem"
- depends on JFFS_FS && PROC_FS
- help
- Enabling this option will cause statistics from mounted JFFS file systems
- to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jffs/ directory.
-
config JFFS2_FS
tristate "Journalling Flash File System v2 (JFFS2) support"
select CRC32
config NFSD_V4
bool "Provide NFSv4 server support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- depends on NFSD_V3 && EXPERIMENTAL
+ depends on NFSD && NFSD_V3 && EXPERIMENTAL
+ select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
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
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
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 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.
+ 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,
+ 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,
- and optional Winbind (nsswitch) integration. You do not need to enable
- 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 from this machine, say Y.
+ 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 && 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.
+ 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)"
For most cases you probably want to say N.
config AFS_FS
-# for fs/nls/Config.in
- tristate "Andrew File System support (AFS) (Experimental)"
+ tristate "Andrew File System support (AFS) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL
- select RXRPC
+ select AF_RXRPC
help
If you say Y here, you will get an experimental Andrew File System
driver. It currently only supports unsecured read-only AFS access.
If unsure, say N.
-config RXRPC
- tristate
+config AFS_DEBUG
+ bool "AFS dynamic debugging"
+ depends on AFS_FS
+ help
+ Say Y here to make runtime controllable debugging messages appear.
+
+ See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
config 9P_FS
tristate "Plan 9 Resource Sharing Support (9P2000) (Experimental)"
- depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL
+ depends on INET && NET_9P && EXPERIMENTAL
help
If you say Y here, you will get experimental support for
Plan 9 resource sharing via the 9P2000 protocol.