1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 22a3ae0a1SIan Kentconfig AUTOFS_FS 32a3ae0a1SIan Kent tristate "Kernel automounter support (supports v3, v4 and v5)" 42a3ae0a1SIan Kent help 52a3ae0a1SIan Kent The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems 62a3ae0a1SIan Kent on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce 72a3ae0a1SIan Kent overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD 82a3ae0a1SIan Kent automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. 92a3ae0a1SIan Kent 102a3ae0a1SIan Kent To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from 112a3ae0a1SIan Kent <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/>; you also want 122a3ae0a1SIan Kent to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. 132a3ae0a1SIan Kent 142a3ae0a1SIan Kent To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be 152a3ae0a1SIan Kent called autofs. 162a3ae0a1SIan Kent 172a3ae0a1SIan Kent If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or 182a3ae0a1SIan Kent don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the 192a3ae0a1SIan Kent local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say 202a3ae0a1SIan Kent N here. 21