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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.
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