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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/Kconfig')
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@@ -236,6 +236,7 @@ config JBD_DEBUG config JBD2 tristate + select CRC32 help This is a generic journaling layer for block devices that support both 32-bit and 64-bit block numbers. It is currently used by @@ -440,14 +441,8 @@ config OCFS2_FS Tools web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools OCFS2 mailing lists: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/mailman/ - Note: Features which OCFS2 does not support yet: - - extended attributes - - quotas - - cluster aware flock - - Directory change notification (F_NOTIFY) - - Distributed Caching (F_SETLEASE/F_GETLEASE/break_lease) - - POSIX ACLs - - readpages / writepages (not user visible) + For more information on OCFS2, see the file + <file:Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt>. config OCFS2_DEBUG_MASKLOG bool "OCFS2 logging support" @@ -1028,8 +1023,8 @@ config HUGETLB_PAGE def_bool HUGETLBFS config CONFIGFS_FS - tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem (EXPERIMENTAL)" - depends on SYSFS && EXPERIMENTAL + tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem" + depends on SYSFS help configfs is a ram-based filesystem that provides the converse of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based @@ -1112,8 +1107,8 @@ config HFS_FS 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. + Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/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. @@ -1157,7 +1152,7 @@ config BEFS_DEBUG depends on BEFS_FS help If you say Y here, you can use the 'debug' mount option to enable - debugging output from the driver. + debugging output from the driver. config BFS_FS tristate "BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" @@ -1268,7 +1263,7 @@ config JFFS2_FS_XATTR 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 @@ -1279,10 +1274,10 @@ config JFFS2_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 @@ -1294,7 +1289,7 @@ config JFFS2_FS_SECURITY 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. @@ -1679,6 +1674,8 @@ config NFSD select CRYPTO_MD5 if NFSD_V4 select CRYPTO if NFSD_V4 select FS_POSIX_ACL if NFSD_V4 + select PROC_FS if NFSD_V4 + select PROC_FS if SUNRPC_GSS 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 @@ -1838,7 +1835,7 @@ config RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3 If unsure, say N. config SMB_FS - tristate "SMB file system support (to mount Windows shares etc.)" + tristate "SMB file system support (OBSOLETE, please use CIFS)" depends on INET select NLS help @@ -1861,8 +1858,8 @@ config SMB_FS 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. + 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" @@ -1894,7 +1891,7 @@ config SMB_NLS_REMOTE 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)" + tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem, SMBFS successor)" depends on INET select NLS help @@ -1905,13 +1902,15 @@ config CIFS 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. + support for OS/2 and Windows ME and similar servers is provided as + well. + + The cifs module provides an advanced network file system + client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers. It includes + support for DFS (hierarchical name space), secure per-user + session establishment via Kerberos or NTLM or NTLMv2, + 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 @@ -1943,22 +1942,23 @@ config CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH (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. + SMB protocol but LANMAN based authentication is needed to + establish sessions with some 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 + 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 + is enabled in the kernel build, LANMAN authentication 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 + 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 @@ -1999,7 +1999,7 @@ config CIFS_DEBUG2 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 @@ -2018,12 +2018,22 @@ config CIFS_UPCALL depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL depends on KEYS 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 + Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which accesses + userspace helper utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged (RFC 4178) + Kerberos tickets which are needed to mount to certain secure servers (for which more secure Kerberos authentication is required). If unsure, say N. +config CIFS_DFS_UPCALL + bool "DFS feature support (EXPERIMENTAL)" + depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL + depends on KEYS + help + Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which contacts userspace + helper utilities to provide server name resolution (host names to + IP addresses) which is needed for implicit mounts of DFS junction + points. If unsure, say N. + config NCP_FS tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)" depends on IPX!=n || INET @@ -2080,7 +2090,7 @@ config CODA_FS_OLD_API However this new API is not backward compatible with older clients. If you really need to run the old Coda userspace cache manager then say Y. - + For most cases you probably want to say N. config AFS_FS @@ -2130,4 +2140,3 @@ source "fs/nls/Kconfig" source "fs/dlm/Kconfig" endmenu - |
