fs/autofs/Kconfig

   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
  13 config AUTOFS_FS
  14         tristate "Kernel automounter support (supports v3, v4 and v5)"
  15         default n
  16         help
  17            The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
  18            on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
  19            overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
  20            automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
  21
  22            To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from
  23            <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/>; you also want
  24            to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
  25
  26            To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
  27            called autofs.
  28
  29            If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or
  30            don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the
  31            local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say
  32            N here.