1a2225d93SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUTOFS4_FS 2a2225d93SLinus Torvalds tristate "Old Kconfig name for Kernel automounter support" 3a2225d93SLinus Torvalds select AUTOFS_FS 4a2225d93SLinus Torvalds help 5a2225d93SLinus Torvalds This name exists for people to just automatically pick up the 6a2225d93SLinus Torvalds new name of the autofs Kconfig option. All it does is select 7a2225d93SLinus Torvalds thenew new option name. 8a2225d93SLinus Torvalds 9a2225d93SLinus Torvalds It will go away in a release or two as people have 10a2225d93SLinus Torvalds transitioned to just plain AUTOFS_FS. 11a2225d93SLinus Torvalds 122a3ae0a1SIan Kentconfig AUTOFS_FS 132a3ae0a1SIan Kent tristate "Kernel automounter support (supports v3, v4 and v5)" 142a3ae0a1SIan Kent default n 152a3ae0a1SIan Kent help 162a3ae0a1SIan Kent The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems 172a3ae0a1SIan Kent on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce 182a3ae0a1SIan Kent overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD 192a3ae0a1SIan Kent automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. 202a3ae0a1SIan Kent 212a3ae0a1SIan Kent To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from 222a3ae0a1SIan Kent <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/>; you also want 232a3ae0a1SIan Kent to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. 242a3ae0a1SIan Kent 252a3ae0a1SIan Kent To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be 262a3ae0a1SIan Kent called autofs. 272a3ae0a1SIan Kent 282a3ae0a1SIan Kent If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or 292a3ae0a1SIan Kent don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the 302a3ae0a1SIan Kent local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say 312a3ae0a1SIan Kent N here. 32