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Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/Kconfig | 39 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/sysv/Kconfig | 36 |
2 files changed, 37 insertions, 38 deletions
diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig index d8672ccdc69e..e1cdb8310647 100644 --- a/fs/Kconfig +++ b/fs/Kconfig @@ -220,44 +220,7 @@ source "fs/omfs/Kconfig" source "fs/hpfs/Kconfig" source "fs/qnx4/Kconfig" source "fs/romfs/Kconfig" - -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. - +source "fs/sysv/Kconfig" config UFS_FS tristate "UFS file system support (read only)" diff --git a/fs/sysv/Kconfig b/fs/sysv/Kconfig new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..33aeb4b75db1 --- /dev/null +++ b/fs/sysv/Kconfig @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +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. |
