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