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