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