config AUTOFS_FS | |
tristate "Kernel automounter support (supports v3, v4 and v5)" | |
default n | |
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. |