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