190ffd467SAlexey Dobriyanconfig AUTOFS_FS 290ffd467SAlexey Dobriyan tristate "Kernel automounter support" 3*6de5bd12SArnd Bergmann depends on BKL # unfixable, just use autofs4 490ffd467SAlexey Dobriyan help 590ffd467SAlexey Dobriyan The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems 690ffd467SAlexey Dobriyan on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce 790ffd467SAlexey Dobriyan overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD 890ffd467SAlexey Dobriyan automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. 990ffd467SAlexey Dobriyan 1090ffd467SAlexey Dobriyan To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs 1190ffd467SAlexey Dobriyan package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>. 1290ffd467SAlexey Dobriyan You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. 1390ffd467SAlexey Dobriyan 1490ffd467SAlexey Dobriyan If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more 1590ffd467SAlexey Dobriyan features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support", 1690ffd467SAlexey Dobriyan below. 1790ffd467SAlexey Dobriyan 1890ffd467SAlexey Dobriyan To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be 1990ffd467SAlexey Dobriyan called autofs. 2090ffd467SAlexey Dobriyan 2190ffd467SAlexey Dobriyan If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you 2290ffd467SAlexey Dobriyan probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here. 23