^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 1) # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 2) config AUTOFS4_FS
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 3) tristate "Old Kconfig name for Kernel automounter support"
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 4) select AUTOFS_FS
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 5) help
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 6) This name exists for people to just automatically pick up the
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 7) new name of the autofs Kconfig option. All it does is select
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 8) the new option name.
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 9)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 10) It will go away in a release or two as people have
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 11) transitioned to just plain AUTOFS_FS.
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 12)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 13) config AUTOFS_FS
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 14) tristate "Kernel automounter support (supports v3, v4 and v5)"
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 15) default n
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 16) help
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 17) The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 18) on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 19) overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 20) automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 21)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 22) To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 23) <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/>; you also want
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 24) to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 25)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 26) To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 27) called autofs.
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 28)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 29) If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 30) don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 31) local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 32) N here.