18c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
28c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ciconfig SYSV_FS
38c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci	tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support"
48c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci	depends on BLOCK
58c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci	help
68c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci	  SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel
78c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci	  machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y
88c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci	  here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk
98c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci	  partitions.
108c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci
118c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci	  If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely
128c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci	  that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order
138c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci	  to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is
148c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci	  a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse,
158c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci	  UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux.  It is
168c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci	  available via FTP (user: ftp) from
178c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci	  <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>).
188c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci	  NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems;
198c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci	  PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-)
208c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci
218c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci	  If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the
228c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci	  network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support
238c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci	  (but you need NFS file system support obviously).
248c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci
258c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci	  Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
268c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci	  good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
278c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci	  (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
288c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci	  tar" or preferably "info tar").  Note also that this option has
298c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci	  nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about
308c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci	  the System V file system in
318c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci	  <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.rst>.
328c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci	  Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB.
338c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci
348c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci	  To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
358c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci	  sysv.
368c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci
378c2ecf20Sopenharmony_ci	  If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
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