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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. | ||
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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 ;-) | ||
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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). | ||
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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. | ||
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To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called | ||
sysv. | ||
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If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. |