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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/Kconfig | 40 |
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig index c9c4108469c3..8855fd41cfa8 100644 --- a/fs/Kconfig +++ b/fs/Kconfig | |||
@@ -1587,9 +1587,10 @@ config CIFS | |||
1587 | PC operating systems. The CIFS protocol is fully supported by | 1587 | PC operating systems. The CIFS protocol is fully supported by |
1588 | file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4 | 1588 | file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4 |
1589 | and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS | 1589 | and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS |
1590 | server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Currently | 1590 | server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited |
1591 | you must use the smbfs client filesystem to access older SMB servers | 1591 | support for Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well. |
1592 | such as Windows 9x and OS/2. | 1592 | You must use the smbfs client filesystem to access older SMB servers |
1593 | such as OS/2 and DOS. | ||
1593 | 1594 | ||
1594 | The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced | 1595 | The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced |
1595 | network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers, | 1596 | network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers, |
@@ -1600,7 +1601,7 @@ config CIFS | |||
1600 | cifs if running only a (Samba) server. It is possible to enable both | 1601 | cifs if running only a (Samba) server. It is possible to enable both |
1601 | smbfs and cifs (e.g. if you are using CIFS for accessing Windows 2003 | 1602 | smbfs and cifs (e.g. if you are using CIFS for accessing Windows 2003 |
1602 | and Samba 3 servers, and smbfs for accessing old servers). If you need | 1603 | and Samba 3 servers, and smbfs for accessing old servers). If you need |
1603 | to mount to Samba or Windows 2003 servers from this machine, say Y. | 1604 | to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y. |
1604 | 1605 | ||
1605 | config CIFS_STATS | 1606 | config CIFS_STATS |
1606 | bool "CIFS statistics" | 1607 | bool "CIFS statistics" |
@@ -1609,8 +1610,22 @@ config CIFS_STATS | |||
1609 | Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share | 1610 | Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share |
1610 | mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats | 1611 | mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats |
1611 | 1612 | ||
1613 | config CIFS_STATS2 | ||
1614 | bool "CIFS extended statistics" | ||
1615 | depends on CIFS_STATS | ||
1616 | help | ||
1617 | Enabling this option will allow more detailed statistics on SMB | ||
1618 | request timing to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData and also | ||
1619 | allow optional logging of slow responses to dmesg (depending on the | ||
1620 | value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI, see fs/cifs/README for more details). | ||
1621 | These additional statistics may have a minor effect on performance | ||
1622 | and memory utilization. | ||
1623 | |||
1624 | Unless you are a developer or are doing network performance analysis | ||
1625 | or tuning, say N. | ||
1626 | |||
1612 | config CIFS_XATTR | 1627 | config CIFS_XATTR |
1613 | bool "CIFS extended attributes (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 1628 | bool "CIFS extended attributes" |
1614 | depends on CIFS | 1629 | depends on CIFS |
1615 | help | 1630 | help |
1616 | Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by | 1631 | Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by |
@@ -1622,11 +1637,11 @@ config CIFS_XATTR | |||
1622 | prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace | 1637 | prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace |
1623 | (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at | 1638 | (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at |
1624 | this time. | 1639 | this time. |
1625 | 1640 | ||
1626 | If unsure, say N. | 1641 | If unsure, say N. |
1627 | 1642 | ||
1628 | config CIFS_POSIX | 1643 | config CIFS_POSIX |
1629 | bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 1644 | bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions" |
1630 | depends on CIFS_XATTR | 1645 | depends on CIFS_XATTR |
1631 | help | 1646 | help |
1632 | Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to | 1647 | Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to |
@@ -1641,8 +1656,15 @@ config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL | |||
1641 | bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 1656 | bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
1642 | depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL | 1657 | depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL |
1643 | help | 1658 | help |
1644 | Enables cifs features under testing. These features | 1659 | Enables cifs features under testing. These features are |
1645 | are highly experimental. If unsure, say N. | 1660 | experimental and currently include support for writepages |
1661 | (multipage writebehind performance improvements) and directory | ||
1662 | change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY) as well as some security | ||
1663 | improvements. Some also depend on setting at runtime the | ||
1664 | pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental (which is disabled by | ||
1665 | default). See the file fs/cifs/README for more details. | ||
1666 | |||
1667 | If unsure, say N. | ||
1646 | 1668 | ||
1647 | config NCP_FS | 1669 | config NCP_FS |
1648 | tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)" | 1670 | tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)" |