1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2config AUTOFS_FS 3 tristate "Kernel automounter support (supports v3, v4 and v5)" 4 help 5 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems 6 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce 7 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD 8 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. 9 10 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from 11 <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/>; you also want 12 to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. 13 14 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be 15 called autofs. 16 17 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or 18 don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the 19 local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say 20 N here. 21