[linux.git] / fs / autofs / Kconfig

config AUTOFS4_FS
	tristate "Old Kconfig name for Kernel automounter support"
	select AUTOFS_FS
	help
	   This name exists for people to just automatically pick up the
	   new name of the autofs Kconfig option. All it does is select
	   the new option name.

	   It will go away in a release or two as people have
	   transitioned to just plain AUTOFS_FS.

config AUTOFS_FS
	tristate "Kernel automounter support (supports v3, v4 and v5)"
	default n
	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
	   <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/>; 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 autofs.

	   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.
Commit	Line	Data
a2225d93 LT	1	config AUTOFS4_FS
	2	tristate "Old Kconfig name for Kernel automounter support"
	3	select AUTOFS_FS
	4	help
	5	This name exists for people to just automatically pick up the
	6	new name of the autofs Kconfig option. All it does is select
ea8781e5	7	the new option name.
a2225d93 LT	8
	9	It will go away in a release or two as people have
	10	transitioned to just plain AUTOFS_FS.
	11
2a3ae0a1 IK	12	config AUTOFS_FS
	13	tristate "Kernel automounter support (supports v3, v4 and v5)"
	14	default n
	15	help
	16	The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
	17	on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
	18	overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
	19	automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
	20
	21	To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from
	22	<https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/>; you also want
	23	to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
	24
	25	To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
	26	called autofs.
	27
	28	If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or
	29	don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the
	30	local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say
	31	N here.