config AUTOFS_FS | |
tristate "Kernel automounter support" | |
help | |
The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems | |
on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce | |
overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD | |
automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. | |
To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs | |
package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>. | |
You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. | |
If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more | |
features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support", | |
below. | |
To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be | |
called autofs. | |
If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you | |
probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here. |