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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/Kconfig')
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1 files changed, 31 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig index 781b47d2f9f2..219ec06a8c7e 100644 --- a/fs/Kconfig +++ b/fs/Kconfig @@ -236,6 +236,7 @@ config JBD_DEBUG config JBD2 tristate + select CRC32 help This is a generic journaling layer for block devices that support both 32-bit and 64-bit block numbers. It is currently used by @@ -440,14 +441,8 @@ config OCFS2_FS Tools web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools OCFS2 mailing lists: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/mailman/ - Note: Features which OCFS2 does not support yet: - - extended attributes - - quotas - - cluster aware flock - - Directory change notification (F_NOTIFY) - - Distributed Caching (F_SETLEASE/F_GETLEASE/break_lease) - - POSIX ACLs - - readpages / writepages (not user visible) + For more information on OCFS2, see the file + <file:Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt>. config OCFS2_DEBUG_MASKLOG bool "OCFS2 logging support" @@ -1028,8 +1023,8 @@ config HUGETLB_PAGE def_bool HUGETLBFS config CONFIGFS_FS - tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem (EXPERIMENTAL)" - depends on SYSFS && EXPERIMENTAL + tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem" + depends on SYSFS help configfs is a ram-based filesystem that provides the converse of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based @@ -1905,13 +1900,15 @@ config CIFS file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4 and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited - support for OS/2 and Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well. - - The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced - network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers, - including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user - session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional - packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements. + support for OS/2 and Windows ME and similar servers is provided as + well. + + The cifs module provides an advanced network file system + client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers. It includes + support for DFS (hierarchical name space), secure per-user + session establishment via Kerberos or NTLM or NTLMv2, + safe distributed caching (oplock), optional packet + signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements. If you need to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y. config CIFS_STATS @@ -1943,7 +1940,8 @@ config CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH (since 1997) support stronger NTLM (and even NTLMv2 and Kerberos) security mechanisms. These hash the password more securely than the mechanisms used in the older LANMAN version of the - SMB protocol needed to establish sessions with old SMB servers. + SMB protocol but LANMAN based authentication is needed to + establish sessions with some old SMB servers. Enabling this option allows the cifs module to mount to older LANMAN based servers such as OS/2 and Windows 95, but such @@ -1951,8 +1949,8 @@ config CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH security mechanisms if you are on a public network. Unless you have a need to access old SMB servers (and are on a private network) you probably want to say N. Even if this support - is enabled in the kernel build, they will not be used - automatically. At runtime LANMAN mounts are disabled but + is enabled in the kernel build, LANMAN authentication will not be + used automatically. At runtime LANMAN mounts are disabled but can be set to required (or optional) either in /proc/fs/cifs (see fs/cifs/README for more detail) or via an option on the mount command. This support is disabled by @@ -2018,12 +2016,22 @@ config CIFS_UPCALL depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL depends on KEYS help - Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which will be used to contact - userspace helper utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged Kerberos - tickets which are needed to mount to certain secure servers + Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which accesses + userspace helper utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged (RFC 4178) + Kerberos tickets which are needed to mount to certain secure servers (for which more secure Kerberos authentication is required). If unsure, say N. +config CIFS_DFS_UPCALL + bool "DFS feature support (EXPERIMENTAL)" + depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL + depends on KEYS + help + Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which contacts userspace + helper utilities to provide server name resolution (host names to + IP addresses) which is needed for implicit mounts of DFS junction + points. If unsure, say N. + config NCP_FS tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)" depends on IPX!=n || INET @@ -2130,4 +2138,3 @@ source "fs/nls/Kconfig" source "fs/dlm/Kconfig" endmenu - |