2 # Block device driver configuration
6 bool "Multiple devices driver support (RAID and LVM)"
9 Support multiple physical spindles through a single logical device.
10 Required for RAID and logical volume management.
15 tristate "RAID support"
17 This driver lets you combine several hard disk partitions into one
18 logical block device. This can be used to simply append one
19 partition to another one or to combine several redundant hard disks
20 into a RAID1/4/5 device so as to provide protection against hard
21 disk failures. This is called "Software RAID" since the combining of
22 the partitions is done by the kernel. "Hardware RAID" means that the
23 combining is done by a dedicated controller; if you have such a
24 controller, you do not need to say Y here.
26 More information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the
27 Software RAID mini-HOWTO, available from
28 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also learn
29 where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools.
34 bool "Autodetect RAID arrays during kernel boot"
35 depends on BLK_DEV_MD=y
38 If you say Y here, then the kernel will try to autodetect raid
39 arrays as part of its boot process.
41 If you don't use raid and say Y, this autodetection can cause
42 a several-second delay in the boot time due to various
43 synchronisation steps that are part of this step.
48 tristate "Linear (append) mode"
51 If you say Y here, then your multiple devices driver will be able to
52 use the so-called linear mode, i.e. it will combine the hard disk
53 partitions by simply appending one to the other.
55 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module
56 will be called linear.
61 tristate "RAID-0 (striping) mode"
64 If you say Y here, then your multiple devices driver will be able to
65 use the so-called raid0 mode, i.e. it will combine the hard disk
66 partitions into one logical device in such a fashion as to fill them
67 up evenly, one chunk here and one chunk there. This will increase
68 the throughput rate if the partitions reside on distinct disks.
70 Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the
71 Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from
72 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also
73 learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools.
75 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module
81 tristate "RAID-1 (mirroring) mode"
84 A RAID-1 set consists of several disk drives which are exact copies
85 of each other. In the event of a mirror failure, the RAID driver
86 will continue to use the operational mirrors in the set, providing
87 an error free MD (multiple device) to the higher levels of the
88 kernel. In a set with N drives, the available space is the capacity
89 of a single drive, and the set protects against a failure of (N - 1)
92 Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the
93 Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from
94 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also
95 learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools.
97 If you want to use such a RAID-1 set, say Y. To compile this code
98 as a module, choose M here: the module will be called raid1.
103 tristate "RAID-10 (mirrored striping) mode"
104 depends on BLK_DEV_MD
106 RAID-10 provides a combination of striping (RAID-0) and
107 mirroring (RAID-1) with easier configuration and more flexible
109 Unlike RAID-0, but like RAID-1, RAID-10 requires all devices to
110 be the same size (or at least, only as much as the smallest device
112 RAID-10 provides a variety of layouts that provide different levels
113 of redundancy and performance.
115 RAID-10 requires mdadm-1.7.0 or later, available at:
117 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
122 tristate "RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 mode"
123 depends on BLK_DEV_MD
128 select ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
130 A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides
131 the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure
132 of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives
133 contain data sectors, and one drive contains the parity protection.
134 For a RAID-4 set, the parity blocks are present on a single drive,
135 while a RAID-5 set distributes the parity across the drives in one
136 of the available parity distribution methods.
138 A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive
139 provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects
140 against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector
141 (row) number, (N - 2) drives contain data sectors, and two
142 drives contains two independent redundancy syndromes. Like
143 RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives
144 in one of the available parity distribution methods.
146 Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the
147 Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from
148 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also
149 learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools.
151 If you want to use such a RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 set, say Y. To
152 compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module
153 will be called raid456.
158 tristate "Multipath I/O support"
159 depends on BLK_DEV_MD
161 MD_MULTIPATH provides a simple multi-path personality for use
162 the MD framework. It is not under active development. New
163 projects should consider using DM_MULTIPATH which has more
164 features and more testing.
169 tristate "Faulty test module for MD"
170 depends on BLK_DEV_MD
172 The "faulty" module allows for a block device that occasionally returns
173 read or write errors. It is useful for testing.
177 source "drivers/md/bcache/Kconfig"
179 config BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN
183 tristate "Device mapper support"
184 select BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN
186 Device-mapper is a low level volume manager. It works by allowing
187 people to specify mappings for ranges of logical sectors. Various
188 mapping types are available, in addition people may write their own
189 modules containing custom mappings if they wish.
191 Higher level volume managers such as LVM2 use this driver.
193 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
199 boolean "Device mapper debugging support"
200 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
202 Enable this for messages that may help debug device-mapper problems.
208 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
210 This interface allows you to do buffered I/O on a device and acts
211 as a cache, holding recently-read blocks in memory and performing
216 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
218 Some bio locking schemes used by other device-mapper targets
219 including thin provisioning.
221 source "drivers/md/persistent-data/Kconfig"
224 tristate "Crypt target support"
225 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
229 This device-mapper target allows you to create a device that
230 transparently encrypts the data on it. You'll need to activate
231 the ciphers you're going to use in the cryptoapi configuration.
233 Information on how to use dm-crypt can be found on
235 <http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/>
237 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
243 tristate "Snapshot target"
244 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
247 Allow volume managers to take writable snapshots of a device.
249 config DM_THIN_PROVISIONING
250 tristate "Thin provisioning target"
251 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
252 select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
255 Provides thin provisioning and snapshots that share a data store.
257 config DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_STACK_TRACING
258 boolean "Keep stack trace of persistent data block lock holders"
259 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
262 Enable this for messages that may help debug problems with the
263 block manager locking used by thin provisioning and caching.
268 tristate "Cache target (EXPERIMENTAL)"
269 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
271 select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
274 dm-cache attempts to improve performance of a block device by
275 moving frequently used data to a smaller, higher performance
276 device. Different 'policy' plugins can be used to change the
277 algorithms used to select which blocks are promoted, demoted,
278 cleaned etc. It supports writeback and writethrough modes.
281 tristate "MQ Cache Policy (EXPERIMENTAL)"
285 A cache policy that uses a multiqueue ordered by recent hit
286 count to select which blocks should be promoted and demoted.
287 This is meant to be a general purpose policy. It prioritises
290 config DM_CACHE_CLEANER
291 tristate "Cleaner Cache Policy (EXPERIMENTAL)"
295 A simple cache policy that writes back all data to the
296 origin. Used when decommissioning a dm-cache.
299 tristate "Mirror target"
300 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
302 Allow volume managers to mirror logical volumes, also
303 needed for live data migration tools such as 'pvmove'.
305 config DM_LOG_USERSPACE
306 tristate "Mirror userspace logging"
307 depends on DM_MIRROR && NET
310 The userspace logging module provides a mechanism for
311 relaying the dm-dirty-log API to userspace. Log designs
312 which are more suited to userspace implementation (e.g.
313 shared storage logs) or experimental logs can be implemented
314 by leveraging this framework.
317 tristate "RAID 1/4/5/6/10 target"
318 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
324 A dm target that supports RAID1, RAID10, RAID4, RAID5 and RAID6 mappings
326 A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides
327 the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure
328 of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives
329 contain data sectors, and one drive contains the parity protection.
330 For a RAID-4 set, the parity blocks are present on a single drive,
331 while a RAID-5 set distributes the parity across the drives in one
332 of the available parity distribution methods.
334 A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive
335 provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects
336 against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector
337 (row) number, (N - 2) drives contain data sectors, and two
338 drives contains two independent redundancy syndromes. Like
339 RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives
340 in one of the available parity distribution methods.
343 tristate "Zero target"
344 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
346 A target that discards writes, and returns all zeroes for
347 reads. Useful in some recovery situations.
350 tristate "Multipath target"
351 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
352 # nasty syntax but means make DM_MULTIPATH independent
353 # of SCSI_DH if the latter isn't defined but if
354 # it is, DM_MULTIPATH must depend on it. We get a build
355 # error if SCSI_DH=m and DM_MULTIPATH=y
356 depends on SCSI_DH || !SCSI_DH
358 Allow volume managers to support multipath hardware.
360 config DM_MULTIPATH_QL
361 tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the number of in-flight I/Os"
362 depends on DM_MULTIPATH
364 This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects
365 the path with the least number of in-flight I/Os.
369 config DM_MULTIPATH_ST
370 tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the service time"
371 depends on DM_MULTIPATH
373 This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects
374 the path expected to complete the incoming I/O in the shortest
380 tristate "I/O delaying target"
381 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
383 A target that delays reads and/or writes and can send
384 them to different devices. Useful for testing.
390 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
392 Generate udev events for DM events.
395 tristate "Flakey target"
396 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
398 A target that intermittently fails I/O for debugging purposes.
401 tristate "Verity target support"
402 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
407 This device-mapper target creates a read-only device that
408 transparently validates the data on one underlying device against
409 a pre-generated tree of cryptographic checksums stored on a second
412 You'll need to activate the digests you're going to use in the
413 cryptoapi configuration.
415 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
421 tristate "Switch target support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
422 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
424 This device-mapper target creates a device that supports an arbitrary
425 mapping of fixed-size regions of I/O across a fixed set of paths.
426 The path used for any specific region can be switched dynamically
427 by sending the target a message.
429 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will