1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
3 tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)"
6 Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it
7 enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them
8 with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard
9 disk. Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for
10 disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server
11 replication, security model for authentication and encryption,
12 persistent client caches and write back caching.
14 If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda
15 *client*. You will need user level code as well, both for the
16 client and server. Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need
17 no kernel support. Please read
18 <file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.rst> and check out the Coda
19 home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>.
21 To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the
22 module will be called coda.