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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-01-26 10:08:50 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-01-26 10:08:50 -0800 |
commit | a1c70a756f8d756668acdbfd61dfc14de12fbaea (patch) | |
tree | 5e52ff5fae536b8096f73b792112bcfd812d3edd /fs/sysv/Kconfig | |
parent | 3632dee2f8b8a9720329f29eeaa4ec4669a3aff8 (diff) | |
parent | 0fcb44088970b18eaf2df4579d64840be6e3bf39 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'Kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/misc
* 'Kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/misc: (36 commits)
fs/Kconfig: move 9p out
fs/Kconfig: move afs out
fs/Kconfig: move coda out
fs/Kconfig: move the rest of ncpfs out
fs/Kconfig: move smbfs out
fs/Kconfig: move sunrpc out
fs/Kconfig: move nfsd out
fs/Kconfig: move nfs out
fs/Kconfig: move ufs out
fs/Kconfig: move sysv out
fs/Kconfig: move romfs out
fs/Kconfig: move qnx4 out
fs/Kconfig: move hpfs out
fs/Kconfig: move omfs out
fs/Kconfig: move minix out
fs/Kconfig: move vxfs out
fs/Kconfig: move squashfs out
fs/Kconfig: move cramfs out
fs/Kconfig: move efs out
fs/Kconfig: move bfs out
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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/sysv/Kconfig')
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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. |