ec8f24b7faaf3 (Thomas Gleixner 2019-05-19 13:07:45 +0100 1) # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
33a1a6fedf08b (Alexey Dobriyan 2009-01-22 11:15:06 +0300 2) config CODA_FS
33a1a6fedf08b (Alexey Dobriyan 2009-01-22 11:15:06 +0300 3) tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)"
33a1a6fedf08b (Alexey Dobriyan 2009-01-22 11:15:06 +0300 4) depends on INET
33a1a6fedf08b (Alexey Dobriyan 2009-01-22 11:15:06 +0300 5) help
33a1a6fedf08b (Alexey Dobriyan 2009-01-22 11:15:06 +0300 6) Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it
33a1a6fedf08b (Alexey Dobriyan 2009-01-22 11:15:06 +0300 7) enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them
33a1a6fedf08b (Alexey Dobriyan 2009-01-22 11:15:06 +0300 8) with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard
33a1a6fedf08b (Alexey Dobriyan 2009-01-22 11:15:06 +0300 9) disk. Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for
33a1a6fedf08b (Alexey Dobriyan 2009-01-22 11:15:06 +0300 10) disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server
33a1a6fedf08b (Alexey Dobriyan 2009-01-22 11:15:06 +0300 11) replication, security model for authentication and encryption,
33a1a6fedf08b (Alexey Dobriyan 2009-01-22 11:15:06 +0300 12) persistent client caches and write back caching.
33a1a6fedf08b (Alexey Dobriyan 2009-01-22 11:15:06 +0300 13)
33a1a6fedf08b (Alexey Dobriyan 2009-01-22 11:15:06 +0300 14) If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda
33a1a6fedf08b (Alexey Dobriyan 2009-01-22 11:15:06 +0300 15) *client*. You will need user level code as well, both for the
33a1a6fedf08b (Alexey Dobriyan 2009-01-22 11:15:06 +0300 16) client and server. Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need
33a1a6fedf08b (Alexey Dobriyan 2009-01-22 11:15:06 +0300 17) no kernel support. Please read
f476c6ed17d49 (Mauro Carvalho Chehab 2020-04-27 23:17:01 +0200 18) <file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.rst> and check out the Coda
33a1a6fedf08b (Alexey Dobriyan 2009-01-22 11:15:06 +0300 19) home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>.
33a1a6fedf08b (Alexey Dobriyan 2009-01-22 11:15:06 +0300 20)
33a1a6fedf08b (Alexey Dobriyan 2009-01-22 11:15:06 +0300 21) To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the
33a1a6fedf08b (Alexey Dobriyan 2009-01-22 11:15:06 +0300 22) module will be called coda.