Name
AUTOFS_FS — Kernel automounter support
The automounter is a tool that automatically mounts remote file systems on
demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
overhead when a system is already mounted; this is unlike the BSD
automounter (amd), which is a pure
user space daemon.
To use the automounter, you need the user-space tools from the
autofs package; you can find the
location in Documentation/Changes. You also want to
answer yes to the NFS file system
support option.
If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with
more features, say no here and say yes to the Kernel automounter v4 support option.
If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say no here.
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