1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2config AUTOFS4_FS 3 tristate "Old Kconfig name for Kernel automounter support" 4 select AUTOFS_FS 5 help 6 This name exists for people to just automatically pick up the 7 new name of the autofs Kconfig option. All it does is select 8 the new option name. 9 10 It will go away in a release or two as people have 11 transitioned to just plain AUTOFS_FS. 12 13config AUTOFS_FS 14 tristate "Kernel automounter support (supports v3, v4 and v5)" 15 default n 16 help 17 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems 18 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce 19 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD 20 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. 21 22 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from 23 <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/>; you also want 24 to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. 25 26 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be 27 called autofs. 28 29 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or 30 don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the 31 local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say 32 N here. 33