1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
3 # DRBD device driver configuration
6 comment "DRBD disabled because PROC_FS or INET not selected"
7 depends on PROC_FS='n' || INET='n'
10 tristate "DRBD Distributed Replicated Block Device support"
11 depends on PROC_FS && INET
16 NOTE: In order to authenticate connections you have to select
17 CRYPTO_HMAC and a hash function as well.
19 DRBD is a shared-nothing, synchronously replicated block device. It
20 is designed to serve as a building block for high availability
21 clusters and in this context, is a "drop-in" replacement for shared
22 storage. Simplistically, you could see it as a network RAID 1.
24 Each minor device has a role, which can be 'primary' or 'secondary'.
25 On the node with the primary device the application is supposed to
26 run and to access the device (/dev/drbdX). Every write is sent to
27 the local 'lower level block device' and, across the network, to the
28 node with the device in 'secondary' state. The secondary device
29 simply writes the data to its lower level block device.
31 DRBD can also be used in dual-Primary mode (device writable on both
32 nodes), which means it can exhibit shared disk semantics in a
33 shared-nothing cluster. Needless to say, on top of dual-Primary
34 DRBD utilizing a cluster file system is necessary to maintain for
37 For automatic failover you need a cluster manager (e.g. heartbeat).
38 See also: https://www.drbd.org/, http://www.linux-ha.org
42 config DRBD_FAULT_INJECTION
43 bool "DRBD fault injection"
44 depends on BLK_DEV_DRBD
47 Say Y here if you want to simulate IO errors, in order to test DRBD's
50 The actual simulation of IO errors is done by writing 3 values to
51 /sys/module/drbd/parameters/
53 enable_faults: bitmask of...
62 256 allocation of peer_requests
63 512 insert data corruption on receiving side
65 fault_devs: bitmask of minor numbers
66 fault_rate: frequency in percent
68 Example: Simulate data write errors on /dev/drbd0 with a probability of 5%.
69 echo 16 > /sys/module/drbd/parameters/enable_faults
70 echo 1 > /sys/module/drbd/parameters/fault_devs
71 echo 5 > /sys/module/drbd/parameters/fault_rate