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| author | Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> | 2009-01-22 11:04:23 +0300 | 
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| committer | Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> | 2009-01-22 13:15:59 +0300 | 
| commit | 8af915ba1d1eae1f9f31fa8c5db8040492dc4785 (patch) | |
| tree | 1303dd120bad2f4cde57eb8e38f844da47675b15 /fs/sysv | |
| parent | 41810246df2e65c66dc1f0da79b282a95b664fc7 (diff) | |
| download | linux-8af915ba1d1eae1f9f31fa8c5db8040492dc4785.tar.bz2 | |
fs/Kconfig: move sysv out
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/sysv')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/sysv/Kconfig | 36 | 
1 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sysv/Kconfig b/fs/sysv/Kconfig new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..33aeb4b75db1 --- /dev/null +++ b/fs/sysv/Kconfig @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +config SYSV_FS +	tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support" +	depends on BLOCK +	help +	  SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel +	  machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y +	  here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk +	  partitions. + +	  If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely +	  that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order +	  to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is +	  a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse, +	  UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux.  It is +	  available via FTP (user: ftp) from +	  <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>). +	  NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems; +	  PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-) + +	  If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the +	  network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support +	  (but you need NFS file system support obviously). + +	  Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a +	  good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes +	  (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man +	  tar" or preferably "info tar").  Note also that this option has +	  nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about +	  the System V file system in +	  <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>. +	  Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB. + +	  To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called +	  sysv. + +	  If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.  |