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Alexey Dobriyan90ffd462009-01-22 10:31:56 +03001config AUTOFS_FS
2 tristate "Kernel automounter support"
3 help
4 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
5 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
6 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
7 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
8
9 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs
10 package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>.
11 You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
12
13 If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more
14 features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support",
15 below.
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17 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
18 called autofs.
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20 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you
21 probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here.