CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS: Old Kconfig name for Kernel automounter support

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS has multiple definitions:

Old Kconfig name for Kernel automounter support found in fs/autofs/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS:

• prompt: Old Kconfig name for Kernel automounter support
• type: tristate
• depends on: (none)
• defined in fs/autofs/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 4.18–4.20, 5.0–5.19, 6.0–6.4, 6.5-rc+HEAD
• modules built: autofs4, autofs4

Help text

This name exists for people to just automatically pick up the new name of the autofs Kconfig option. All it does is select the new option name.

It will go away in a release or two as people have transitioned to just plain AUTOFS_FS.

Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3) found in fs/autofs4/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS:

• prompt: Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)
• type: tristate
• depends on: (none)
• defined in fs/autofs4/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 2.6.29–2.6.39, 3.0–3.19, 4.0–4.17
• modules built: autofs4, autofs4

Help text

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/v4/; 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 autofs4. You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your modules configuration file.

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.

Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3) found in fs/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS:

• prompt: Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)
• type: tristate
• depends on: (none)
• defined in fs/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 2.5.45–2.5.75, 2.6.0–2.6.28
• modules built: autofs4, autofs4

Help text

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 <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/>; 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 autofs4. You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your modules configuration file.

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.

Hardware

LKDDb

Raw data from LKDDb:

• lkddb fs "autofs" : CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS : fs/autofs4/init.c # in 2.5.45–2.5.75, 2.6.0–2.6.39, 3.0–3.19, 4.0–4.17
• lkddb module autofs4 CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS : fs/Kconfig : "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)" # in 2.5.45–2.5.75, 2.6.0–2.6.28
• lkddb module autofs4 CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS : fs/autofs4/Kconfig : "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)" # in 2.6.29–2.6.39, 3.0–3.19, 4.0–4.17

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This page is automaticly generated with free (libre, open) software lkddb(see lkddb-sources).

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• Linux Kernel Driver DataBase (LKDDb)

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