config SYSV_FS | |
tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support" | |
depends on BLOCK | |
help | |
SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel | |
machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y | |
here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk | |
partitions. | |
If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely | |
that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order | |
to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is | |
a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse, | |
UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux. It is | |
available via FTP (user: ftp) from | |
<ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>). | |
NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems; | |
PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-) | |
If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the | |
network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support | |
(but you need NFS file system support obviously). | |
Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a | |
good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes | |
(and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man | |
tar" or preferably "info tar"). Note also that this option has | |
nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about | |
the System V file system in | |
<file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>. | |
Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB. | |
To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called | |
sysv. | |
If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. |