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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/Kconfig')
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1 files changed, 31 insertions, 9 deletions
@@ -1587,9 +1587,10 @@ config CIFS 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, @@ -1600,7 +1601,7 @@ config CIFS 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" @@ -1609,8 +1610,22 @@ config CIFS_STATS 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 @@ -1622,11 +1637,11 @@ config CIFS_XATTR 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 @@ -1641,8 +1656,15 @@ config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL help - Enables cifs features under testing. These features - are highly experimental. If unsure, say N. + 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 NCP_FS tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)" |
