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 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
123 tristate "RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 mode"
124 depends on BLK_DEV_MD
129 select ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
131 A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides
132 the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure
133 of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives
134 contain data sectors, and one drive contains the parity protection.
135 For a RAID-4 set, the parity blocks are present on a single drive,
136 while a RAID-5 set distributes the parity across the drives in one
137 of the available parity distribution methods.
139 A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive
140 provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects
141 against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector
142 (row) number, (N - 2) drives contain data sectors, and two
143 drives contains two independent redundancy syndromes. Like
144 RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives
145 in one of the available parity distribution methods.
147 Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the
148 Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from
149 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also
150 learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools.
152 If you want to use such a RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 set, say Y. To
153 compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module
154 will be called raid456.
159 tristate "Multipath I/O support"
160 depends on BLK_DEV_MD
162 MD_MULTIPATH provides a simple multi-path personality for use
163 the MD framework. It is not under active development. New
164 projects should consider using DM_MULTIPATH which has more
165 features and more testing.
170 tristate "Faulty test module for MD"
171 depends on BLK_DEV_MD
173 The "faulty" module allows for a block device that occasionally returns
174 read or write errors. It is useful for testing.
178 source "drivers/md/bcache/Kconfig"
180 config BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN
184 tristate "Device mapper support"
185 select BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN
187 Device-mapper is a low level volume manager. It works by allowing
188 people to specify mappings for ranges of logical sectors. Various
189 mapping types are available, in addition people may write their own
190 modules containing custom mappings if they wish.
192 Higher level volume managers such as LVM2 use this driver.
194 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
200 bool "Device mapper debugging support"
201 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
203 Enable this for messages that may help debug device-mapper problems.
209 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
211 This interface allows you to do buffered I/O on a device and acts
212 as a cache, holding recently-read blocks in memory and performing
217 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
219 Some bio locking schemes used by other device-mapper targets
220 including thin provisioning.
222 source "drivers/md/persistent-data/Kconfig"
225 tristate "Crypt target support"
226 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
230 This device-mapper target allows you to create a device that
231 transparently encrypts the data on it. You'll need to activate
232 the ciphers you're going to use in the cryptoapi configuration.
234 For further information on dm-crypt and userspace tools see:
235 <http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/wiki/DMCrypt>
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.
258 tristate "Cache target (EXPERIMENTAL)"
259 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
261 select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
264 dm-cache attempts to improve performance of a block device by
265 moving frequently used data to a smaller, higher performance
266 device. Different 'policy' plugins can be used to change the
267 algorithms used to select which blocks are promoted, demoted,
268 cleaned etc. It supports writeback and writethrough modes.
271 tristate "MQ Cache Policy (EXPERIMENTAL)"
275 A cache policy that uses a multiqueue ordered by recent hit
276 count to select which blocks should be promoted and demoted.
277 This is meant to be a general purpose policy. It prioritises
280 config DM_CACHE_CLEANER
281 tristate "Cleaner Cache Policy (EXPERIMENTAL)"
285 A simple cache policy that writes back all data to the
286 origin. Used when decommissioning a dm-cache.
289 tristate "Era target (EXPERIMENTAL)"
290 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
292 select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
295 dm-era tracks which parts of a block device are written to
296 over time. Useful for maintaining cache coherency when using
300 tristate "Mirror target"
301 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
303 Allow volume managers to mirror logical volumes, also
304 needed for live data migration tools such as 'pvmove'.
306 config DM_LOG_USERSPACE
307 tristate "Mirror userspace logging"
308 depends on DM_MIRROR && NET
311 The userspace logging module provides a mechanism for
312 relaying the dm-dirty-log API to userspace. Log designs
313 which are more suited to userspace implementation (e.g.
314 shared storage logs) or experimental logs can be implemented
315 by leveraging this framework.
318 tristate "RAID 1/4/5/6/10 target"
319 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
325 A dm target that supports RAID1, RAID10, RAID4, RAID5 and RAID6 mappings
327 A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides
328 the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure
329 of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives
330 contain data sectors, and one drive contains the parity protection.
331 For a RAID-4 set, the parity blocks are present on a single drive,
332 while a RAID-5 set distributes the parity across the drives in one
333 of the available parity distribution methods.
335 A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive
336 provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects
337 against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector
338 (row) number, (N - 2) drives contain data sectors, and two
339 drives contains two independent redundancy syndromes. Like
340 RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives
341 in one of the available parity distribution methods.
344 tristate "Zero target"
345 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
347 A target that discards writes, and returns all zeroes for
348 reads. Useful in some recovery situations.
351 tristate "Multipath target"
352 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
353 # nasty syntax but means make DM_MULTIPATH independent
354 # of SCSI_DH if the latter isn't defined but if
355 # it is, DM_MULTIPATH must depend on it. We get a build
356 # error if SCSI_DH=m and DM_MULTIPATH=y
357 depends on SCSI_DH || !SCSI_DH
359 Allow volume managers to support multipath hardware.
361 config DM_MULTIPATH_QL
362 tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the number of in-flight I/Os"
363 depends on DM_MULTIPATH
365 This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects
366 the path with the least number of in-flight I/Os.
370 config DM_MULTIPATH_ST
371 tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the service time"
372 depends on DM_MULTIPATH
374 This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects
375 the path expected to complete the incoming I/O in the shortest
381 tristate "I/O delaying target"
382 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
384 A target that delays reads and/or writes and can send
385 them to different devices. Useful for testing.
391 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
393 Generate udev events for DM events.
396 tristate "Flakey target"
397 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
399 A target that intermittently fails I/O for debugging purposes.
402 tristate "Verity target support"
403 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
408 This device-mapper target creates a read-only device that
409 transparently validates the data on one underlying device against
410 a pre-generated tree of cryptographic checksums stored on a second
413 You'll need to activate the digests you're going to use in the
414 cryptoapi configuration.
416 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
422 tristate "Switch target support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
423 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
425 This device-mapper target creates a device that supports an arbitrary
426 mapping of fixed-size regions of I/O across a fixed set of paths.
427 The path used for any specific region can be switched dynamically
428 by sending the target a message.
430 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will