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