[linux-2.6-block.git] / fs / autofs / Kconfig

# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
config AUTOFS_FS
	tristate "Kernel automounter support (supports v3, v4 and v5)"
	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.
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ec8f24b7	1	# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
2a3ae0a1 IK	2	config AUTOFS_FS
2a3ae0a1 IK	3	tristate "Kernel automounter support (supports v3, v4 and v5)"
2a3ae0a1 IK	4	help
	5	The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
	6	on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
	7	overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
	8	automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
	9
	10	To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from
	11	<https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/>; you also want
	12	to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
	13
	14	To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
	15	called autofs.
	16
	17	If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or
	18	don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the
	19	local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say
	20	N here.