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We're adding enough nfs documentation that it may as well have its own subdirectory. Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
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config NFS_FS
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tristate "NFS client support"
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depends on INET && FILE_LOCKING
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select LOCKD
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select SUNRPC
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select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFS_V3_ACL
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help
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Choose Y here if you want to access files residing on other
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computers using Sun's Network File System protocol. To compile
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this file system support as a module, choose M here: the module
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will be called nfs.
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To mount file systems exported by NFS servers, you also need to
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install the user space mount.nfs command which can be found in
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the Linux nfs-utils package, available from http://linux-nfs.org/.
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Information about using the mount command is available in the
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mount(8) man page. More detail about the Linux NFS client
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implementation is available via the nfs(5) man page.
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Below you can choose which versions of the NFS protocol are
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available in the kernel to mount NFS servers. Support for NFS
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version 2 (RFC 1094) is always available when NFS_FS is selected.
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To configure a system which mounts its root file system via NFS
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at boot time, say Y here, select "Kernel level IP
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autoconfiguration" in the NETWORK menu, and select "Root file
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system on NFS" below. You cannot compile this file system as a
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module in this case.
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If unsure, say N.
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config NFS_V3
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bool "NFS client support for NFS version 3"
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depends on NFS_FS
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help
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This option enables support for version 3 of the NFS protocol
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(RFC 1813) in the kernel's NFS client.
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If unsure, say Y.
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config NFS_V3_ACL
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bool "NFS client support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension"
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depends on NFS_V3
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help
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Some NFS servers support an auxiliary NFSv3 ACL protocol that
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Sun added to Solaris but never became an official part of the
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NFS version 3 protocol. This protocol extension allows
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applications on NFS clients to manipulate POSIX Access Control
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Lists on files residing on NFS servers. NFS servers enforce
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ACLs on local files whether this protocol is available or not.
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Choose Y here if your NFS server supports the Solaris NFSv3 ACL
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protocol extension and you want your NFS client to allow
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applications to access and modify ACLs on files on the server.
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Most NFS servers don't support the Solaris NFSv3 ACL protocol
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extension. You can choose N here or specify the "noacl" mount
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option to prevent your NFS client from trying to use the NFSv3
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ACL protocol.
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If unsure, say N.
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config NFS_V4
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bool "NFS client support for NFS version 4 (EXPERIMENTAL)"
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depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
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select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
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help
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This option enables support for version 4 of the NFS protocol
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(RFC 3530) in the kernel's NFS client.
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To mount NFS servers using NFSv4, you also need to install user
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space programs which can be found in the Linux nfs-utils package,
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available from http://linux-nfs.org/.
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If unsure, say N.
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config NFS_V4_1
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bool "NFS client support for NFSv4.1 (DEVELOPER ONLY)"
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depends on NFS_V4 && EXPERIMENTAL
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help
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This option enables support for minor version 1 of the NFSv4 protocol
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(draft-ietf-nfsv4-minorversion1) in the kernel's NFS client.
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Unless you're an NFS developer, say N.
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config ROOT_NFS
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bool "Root file system on NFS"
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depends on NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP
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help
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If you want your system to mount its root file system via NFS,
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choose Y here. This is common practice for managing systems
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without local permanent storage. For details, read
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<file:Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt>.
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Most people say N here.
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config NFS_FSCACHE
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bool "Provide NFS client caching support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
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depends on EXPERIMENTAL
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depends on NFS_FS=m && FSCACHE || NFS_FS=y && FSCACHE=y
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help
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Say Y here if you want NFS data to be cached locally on disc through
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the general filesystem cache manager
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