18c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 28c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ciconfig AUTOFS4_FS 38c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci tristate "Old Kconfig name for Kernel automounter support" 48c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci select AUTOFS_FS 58c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci help 68c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci This name exists for people to just automatically pick up the 78c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci new name of the autofs Kconfig option. All it does is select 88c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci the new option name. 98c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci 108c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci It will go away in a release or two as people have 118c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci transitioned to just plain AUTOFS_FS. 128c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci 138c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ciconfig AUTOFS_FS 148c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci tristate "Kernel automounter support (supports v3, v4 and v5)" 158c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci default n 168c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci help 178c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems 188c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce 198c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD 208c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. 218c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci 228c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from 238c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/>; you also want 248c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. 258c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci 268c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be 278c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci called autofs. 288c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci 298c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or 308c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the 318c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say 328c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci N here. 33