2 # Block device driver configuration
6 bool "Multiple devices driver support (RAID and LVM)"
10 Support multiple physical spindles through a single logical device.
11 Required for RAID and logical volume management.
16 tristate "RAID support"
18 This driver lets you combine several hard disk partitions into one
19 logical block device. This can be used to simply append one
20 partition to another one or to combine several redundant hard disks
21 into a RAID1/4/5 device so as to provide protection against hard
22 disk failures. This is called "Software RAID" since the combining of
23 the partitions is done by the kernel. "Hardware RAID" means that the
24 combining is done by a dedicated controller; if you have such a
25 controller, you do not need to say Y here.
27 More information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the
28 Software RAID mini-HOWTO, available from
29 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also learn
30 where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools.
35 bool "Autodetect RAID arrays during kernel boot"
36 depends on BLK_DEV_MD=y
39 If you say Y here, then the kernel will try to autodetect raid
40 arrays as part of its boot process.
42 If you don't use raid and say Y, this autodetection can cause
43 a several-second delay in the boot time due to various
44 synchronisation steps that are part of this step.
49 tristate "Linear (append) mode"
52 If you say Y here, then your multiple devices driver will be able to
53 use the so-called linear mode, i.e. it will combine the hard disk
54 partitions by simply appending one to the other.
56 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module
57 will be called linear.
62 tristate "RAID-0 (striping) mode"
65 If you say Y here, then your multiple devices driver will be able to
66 use the so-called raid0 mode, i.e. it will combine the hard disk
67 partitions into one logical device in such a fashion as to fill them
68 up evenly, one chunk here and one chunk there. This will increase
69 the throughput rate if the partitions reside on distinct disks.
71 Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the
72 Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from
73 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also
74 learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools.
76 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module
82 tristate "RAID-1 (mirroring) mode"
85 A RAID-1 set consists of several disk drives which are exact copies
86 of each other. In the event of a mirror failure, the RAID driver
87 will continue to use the operational mirrors in the set, providing
88 an error free MD (multiple device) to the higher levels of the
89 kernel. In a set with N drives, the available space is the capacity
90 of a single drive, and the set protects against a failure of (N - 1)
93 Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the
94 Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from
95 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also
96 learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools.
98 If you want to use such a RAID-1 set, say Y. To compile this code
99 as a module, choose M here: the module will be called raid1.
104 tristate "RAID-10 (mirrored striping) mode"
105 depends on BLK_DEV_MD
107 RAID-10 provides a combination of striping (RAID-0) and
108 mirroring (RAID-1) with easier configuration and more flexible
110 Unlike RAID-0, but like RAID-1, RAID-10 requires all devices to
111 be the same size (or at least, only as much as the smallest device
113 RAID-10 provides a variety of layouts that provide different levels
114 of redundancy and performance.
116 RAID-10 requires mdadm-1.7.0 or later, available at:
118 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
123 tristate "RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 mode"
124 depends on BLK_DEV_MD
130 select ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
132 A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides
133 the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure
134 of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives
135 contain data sectors, and one drive contains the parity protection.
136 For a RAID-4 set, the parity blocks are present on a single drive,
137 while a RAID-5 set distributes the parity across the drives in one
138 of the available parity distribution methods.
140 A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive
141 provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects
142 against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector
143 (row) number, (N - 2) drives contain data sectors, and two
144 drives contains two independent redundancy syndromes. Like
145 RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives
146 in one of the available parity distribution methods.
148 Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the
149 Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from
150 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also
151 learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools.
153 If you want to use such a RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 set, say Y. To
154 compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module
155 will be called raid456.
160 tristate "Multipath I/O support"
161 depends on BLK_DEV_MD
163 MD_MULTIPATH provides a simple multi-path personality for use
164 the MD framework. It is not under active development. New
165 projects should consider using DM_MULTIPATH which has more
166 features and more testing.
171 tristate "Faulty test module for MD"
172 depends on BLK_DEV_MD
174 The "faulty" module allows for a block device that occasionally returns
175 read or write errors. It is useful for testing.
181 tristate "Cluster Support for MD"
182 depends on BLK_DEV_MD
186 Clustering support for MD devices. This enables locking and
187 synchronization across multiple systems on the cluster, so all
188 nodes in the cluster can access the MD devices simultaneously.
190 This brings the redundancy (and uptime) of RAID levels across the
191 nodes of the cluster. Currently, it can work with raid1 and raid10
196 source "drivers/md/bcache/Kconfig"
198 config BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN
202 tristate "Device mapper support"
203 select BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN
204 depends on DAX || DAX=n
206 Device-mapper is a low level volume manager. It works by allowing
207 people to specify mappings for ranges of logical sectors. Various
208 mapping types are available, in addition people may write their own
209 modules containing custom mappings if they wish.
211 Higher level volume managers such as LVM2 use this driver.
213 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
219 bool "request-based DM: use blk-mq I/O path by default"
220 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
222 This option enables the blk-mq based I/O path for request-based
223 DM devices by default. With the option the dm_mod.use_blk_mq
224 module/boot option defaults to Y, without it to N, but it can
225 still be overriden either way.
230 bool "Device mapper debugging support"
231 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
233 Enable this for messages that may help debug device-mapper problems.
239 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
241 This interface allows you to do buffered I/O on a device and acts
242 as a cache, holding recently-read blocks in memory and performing
245 config DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_MANAGER_LOCKING
246 bool "Block manager locking"
249 Block manager locking can catch various metadata corruption issues.
253 config DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_STACK_TRACING
254 bool "Keep stack trace of persistent data block lock holders"
255 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_MANAGER_LOCKING
258 Enable this for messages that may help debug problems with the
259 block manager locking used by thin provisioning and caching.
265 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
267 Some bio locking schemes used by other device-mapper targets
268 including thin provisioning.
270 source "drivers/md/persistent-data/Kconfig"
273 tristate "Unstriped target"
274 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
276 Unstripes I/O so it is issued solely on a single drive in a HW
277 RAID0 or dm-striped target.
280 tristate "Crypt target support"
281 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
285 This device-mapper target allows you to create a device that
286 transparently encrypts the data on it. You'll need to activate
287 the ciphers you're going to use in the cryptoapi configuration.
289 For further information on dm-crypt and userspace tools see:
290 <https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/wikis/DMCrypt>
292 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
298 tristate "Snapshot target"
299 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
302 Allow volume managers to take writable snapshots of a device.
304 config DM_THIN_PROVISIONING
305 tristate "Thin provisioning target"
306 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
307 select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
310 Provides thin provisioning and snapshots that share a data store.
313 tristate "Cache target (EXPERIMENTAL)"
314 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
316 select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
319 dm-cache attempts to improve performance of a block device by
320 moving frequently used data to a smaller, higher performance
321 device. Different 'policy' plugins can be used to change the
322 algorithms used to select which blocks are promoted, demoted,
323 cleaned etc. It supports writeback and writethrough modes.
326 tristate "Stochastic MQ Cache Policy (EXPERIMENTAL)"
330 A cache policy that uses a multiqueue ordered by recent hits
331 to select which blocks should be promoted and demoted.
332 This is meant to be a general purpose policy. It prioritises
333 reads over writes. This SMQ policy (vs MQ) offers the promise
334 of less memory utilization, improved performance and increased
335 adaptability in the face of changing workloads.
338 tristate "Writecache target"
339 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
341 The writecache target caches writes on persistent memory or SSD.
342 It is intended for databases or other programs that need extremely
345 The writecache target doesn't cache reads because reads are supposed
346 to be cached in standard RAM.
349 tristate "Era target (EXPERIMENTAL)"
350 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
352 select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
355 dm-era tracks which parts of a block device are written to
356 over time. Useful for maintaining cache coherency when using
360 tristate "Mirror target"
361 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
363 Allow volume managers to mirror logical volumes, also
364 needed for live data migration tools such as 'pvmove'.
366 config DM_LOG_USERSPACE
367 tristate "Mirror userspace logging"
368 depends on DM_MIRROR && NET
371 The userspace logging module provides a mechanism for
372 relaying the dm-dirty-log API to userspace. Log designs
373 which are more suited to userspace implementation (e.g.
374 shared storage logs) or experimental logs can be implemented
375 by leveraging this framework.
378 tristate "RAID 1/4/5/6/10 target"
379 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
386 A dm target that supports RAID1, RAID10, RAID4, RAID5 and RAID6 mappings
388 A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides
389 the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure
390 of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives
391 contain data sectors, and one drive contains the parity protection.
392 For a RAID-4 set, the parity blocks are present on a single drive,
393 while a RAID-5 set distributes the parity across the drives in one
394 of the available parity distribution methods.
396 A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive
397 provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects
398 against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector
399 (row) number, (N - 2) drives contain data sectors, and two
400 drives contains two independent redundancy syndromes. Like
401 RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives
402 in one of the available parity distribution methods.
405 tristate "Zero target"
406 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
408 A target that discards writes, and returns all zeroes for
409 reads. Useful in some recovery situations.
412 tristate "Multipath target"
413 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
414 # nasty syntax but means make DM_MULTIPATH independent
415 # of SCSI_DH if the latter isn't defined but if
416 # it is, DM_MULTIPATH must depend on it. We get a build
417 # error if SCSI_DH=m and DM_MULTIPATH=y
418 depends on !SCSI_DH || SCSI
420 Allow volume managers to support multipath hardware.
422 config DM_MULTIPATH_QL
423 tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the number of in-flight I/Os"
424 depends on DM_MULTIPATH
426 This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects
427 the path with the least number of in-flight I/Os.
431 config DM_MULTIPATH_ST
432 tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the service time"
433 depends on DM_MULTIPATH
435 This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects
436 the path expected to complete the incoming I/O in the shortest
442 tristate "I/O delaying target"
443 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
445 A target that delays reads and/or writes and can send
446 them to different devices. Useful for testing.
452 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
454 Generate udev events for DM events.
457 tristate "Flakey target"
458 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
460 A target that intermittently fails I/O for debugging purposes.
463 tristate "Verity target support"
464 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
469 This device-mapper target creates a read-only device that
470 transparently validates the data on one underlying device against
471 a pre-generated tree of cryptographic checksums stored on a second
474 You'll need to activate the digests you're going to use in the
475 cryptoapi configuration.
477 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
483 bool "Verity forward error correction support"
486 select REED_SOLOMON_DEC8
488 Add forward error correction support to dm-verity. This option
489 makes it possible to use pre-generated error correction data to
490 recover from corrupted blocks.
495 tristate "Switch target support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
496 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
498 This device-mapper target creates a device that supports an arbitrary
499 mapping of fixed-size regions of I/O across a fixed set of paths.
500 The path used for any specific region can be switched dynamically
501 by sending the target a message.
503 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
509 tristate "Log writes target support"
510 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
512 This device-mapper target takes two devices, one device to use
513 normally, one to log all write operations done to the first device.
514 This is for use by file system developers wishing to verify that
515 their fs is writing a consistent file system at all times by allowing
516 them to replay the log in a variety of ways and to check the
519 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
520 be called dm-log-writes.
525 tristate "Integrity target support"
526 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
527 select BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
532 This device-mapper target emulates a block device that has
533 additional per-sector tags that can be used for storing
534 integrity information.
536 This integrity target is used with the dm-crypt target to
537 provide authenticated disk encryption or it can be used
540 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
541 be called dm-integrity.
544 tristate "Drive-managed zoned block device target support"
545 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
546 depends on BLK_DEV_ZONED
548 This device-mapper target takes a host-managed or host-aware zoned
549 block device and exposes most of its capacity as a regular block
550 device (drive-managed zoned block device) without any write
551 constraints. This is mainly intended for use with file systems that
552 do not natively support zoned block devices but still want to
553 benefit from the increased capacity offered by SMR disks. Other uses
554 by applications using raw block devices (for example object stores)
557 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will