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| author | Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> | 2018-06-07 17:11:31 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-06-07 17:34:39 -0700 |
| commit | 2a3ae0a1212dc5a0f40d79e05b9de3846663e973 (patch) | |
| tree | e7060afdd770b0b8cf25f07f3c1c531b738f2a62 /fs/autofs/Kconfig | |
| parent | 8547190490759608dfa51987374ada2ce8a2331d (diff) | |
| download | linux-2a3ae0a1212dc5a0f40d79e05b9de3846663e973.tar.bz2 | |
autofs: create autofs Kconfig and Makefile
Create Makefile and Kconfig for autofs module.
[raven@themaw.net: make autofs4 Kconfig depend on AUTOFS_FS]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152687649097.8263.7046086367407522029.stgit@pluto.themaw.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152626705591.28589.356365986974038383.stgit@pluto.themaw.net
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/autofs/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/autofs/Kconfig | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/autofs/Kconfig b/fs/autofs/Kconfig new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..6a2064eb3b27 --- /dev/null +++ b/fs/autofs/Kconfig @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +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. |