From d1dcdf5718977c93805f9300b6c79f039db84c8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: merge Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 00:22:54 +0000 Subject: MERGE-via-pending-tracking-hist-MERGE-via-stable-tracking-MERGE-via-mokopatches-tracking-MERGE-via-master-MERGE-via-master-hist-1232625318-1233879011-1233879414-1233879505 pending-tracking-hist top was MERGE-via-stable-tracking-MERGE-via-mokopatches-tracking-MERGE-via-master-MERGE-via-master-hist-1232625318-1233879011-1233879414-1233879505 / 1c405b6ccee468298e7ccbfd9a3a3f4d123207b0 ... parent commitmessage: From: merge MERGE-via-stable-tracking-hist-MERGE-via-mokopatches-tracking-MERGE-via-master-MERGE-via-master-hist-1232625318-1233879011-1233879414 stable-tracking-hist top was MERGE-via-mokopatches-tracking-MERGE-via-master-MERGE-via-master-hist-1232625318-1233879011-1233879414 / 71be0a45396066b1f8f27f8f4f87937247a129e1 ... parent commitmessage: From: merge MERGE-via-mokopatches-tracking-hist-MERGE-via-master-MERGE-via-master-hist-1232625318-1233879011 mokopatches-tracking-hist top was MERGE-via-master-MERGE-via-master-hist-1232625318-1233879011 / 1be1b01373f572a02c6f1f99863c8c11ed2f9f5b ... parent commitmessage: From: merge MERGE-via-master-MERGE-via-master-hist-1232625318 master top was MERGE-via-master-hist-1232625318 / dd4b117123ae66451695810017eb72fbdfc05df5 ... parent commitmessage: From: merge MERGE-master-patchset-edits --- fs/sysv/Kconfig | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+) create mode 100644 fs/sysv/Kconfig (limited to 'fs/sysv') diff --git a/fs/sysv/Kconfig b/fs/sysv/Kconfig new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..33aeb4b75db --- /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 + ). + 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 + . + 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. -- cgit v1.2.3