0001 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
0002 config AUTOFS4_FS
0003 tristate "Old Kconfig name for Kernel automounter support"
0004 select AUTOFS_FS
0005 help
0006 This name exists for people to just automatically pick up the
0007 new name of the autofs Kconfig option. All it does is select
0008 the new option name.
0009
0010 It will go away in a release or two as people have
0011 transitioned to just plain AUTOFS_FS.
0012
0013 config AUTOFS_FS
0014 tristate "Kernel automounter support (supports v3, v4 and v5)"
0015 default n
0016 help
0017 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
0018 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
0019 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
0020 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
0021
0022 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from
0023 <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/>; you also want
0024 to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
0025
0026 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
0027 called autofs.
0028
0029 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or
0030 don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the
0031 local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say
0032 N here.
