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1*2a3ae0a1SIan Kentconfig AUTOFS_FS
2*2a3ae0a1SIan Kent	tristate "Kernel automounter support (supports v3, v4 and v5)"
3*2a3ae0a1SIan Kent	default n
4*2a3ae0a1SIan Kent	help
5*2a3ae0a1SIan Kent	   The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
6*2a3ae0a1SIan Kent	   on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
7*2a3ae0a1SIan Kent	   overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
8*2a3ae0a1SIan Kent	   automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
9*2a3ae0a1SIan Kent
10*2a3ae0a1SIan Kent	   To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from
11*2a3ae0a1SIan Kent	   <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/>; you also want
12*2a3ae0a1SIan Kent	   to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
13*2a3ae0a1SIan Kent
14*2a3ae0a1SIan Kent	   To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
15*2a3ae0a1SIan Kent	   called autofs.
16*2a3ae0a1SIan Kent
17*2a3ae0a1SIan Kent	   If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or
18*2a3ae0a1SIan Kent	   don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the
19*2a3ae0a1SIan Kent	   local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say
20*2a3ae0a1SIan Kent	   N here.
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