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 (EXPERIMENTAL)"
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.
195 source "drivers/md/bcache/Kconfig"
197 config BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN
201 tristate "Device mapper support"
202 select BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN
205 Device-mapper is a low level volume manager. It works by allowing
206 people to specify mappings for ranges of logical sectors. Various
207 mapping types are available, in addition people may write their own
208 modules containing custom mappings if they wish.
210 Higher level volume managers such as LVM2 use this driver.
212 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
218 bool "request-based DM: use blk-mq I/O path by default"
219 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
221 This option enables the blk-mq based I/O path for request-based
222 DM devices by default. With the option the dm_mod.use_blk_mq
223 module/boot option defaults to Y, without it to N, but it can
224 still be overriden either way.
229 bool "Device mapper debugging support"
230 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
232 Enable this for messages that may help debug device-mapper problems.
238 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
240 This interface allows you to do buffered I/O on a device and acts
241 as a cache, holding recently-read blocks in memory and performing
244 config DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_MANAGER_LOCKING
245 bool "Block manager locking"
248 Block manager locking can catch various metadata corruption issues.
252 config DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_STACK_TRACING
253 bool "Keep stack trace of persistent data block lock holders"
254 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_MANAGER_LOCKING
257 Enable this for messages that may help debug problems with the
258 block manager locking used by thin provisioning and caching.
264 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
266 Some bio locking schemes used by other device-mapper targets
267 including thin provisioning.
269 source "drivers/md/persistent-data/Kconfig"
272 tristate "Crypt target support"
273 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
277 This device-mapper target allows you to create a device that
278 transparently encrypts the data on it. You'll need to activate
279 the ciphers you're going to use in the cryptoapi configuration.
281 For further information on dm-crypt and userspace tools see:
282 <https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/wikis/DMCrypt>
284 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
290 tristate "Snapshot target"
291 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
294 Allow volume managers to take writable snapshots of a device.
296 config DM_THIN_PROVISIONING
297 tristate "Thin provisioning target"
298 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
299 select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
302 Provides thin provisioning and snapshots that share a data store.
305 tristate "Cache target (EXPERIMENTAL)"
306 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
308 select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
311 dm-cache attempts to improve performance of a block device by
312 moving frequently used data to a smaller, higher performance
313 device. Different 'policy' plugins can be used to change the
314 algorithms used to select which blocks are promoted, demoted,
315 cleaned etc. It supports writeback and writethrough modes.
318 tristate "Stochastic MQ Cache Policy (EXPERIMENTAL)"
322 A cache policy that uses a multiqueue ordered by recent hits
323 to select which blocks should be promoted and demoted.
324 This is meant to be a general purpose policy. It prioritises
325 reads over writes. This SMQ policy (vs MQ) offers the promise
326 of less memory utilization, improved performance and increased
327 adaptability in the face of changing workloads.
330 tristate "Era target (EXPERIMENTAL)"
331 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
333 select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
336 dm-era tracks which parts of a block device are written to
337 over time. Useful for maintaining cache coherency when using
341 tristate "Mirror target"
342 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
344 Allow volume managers to mirror logical volumes, also
345 needed for live data migration tools such as 'pvmove'.
347 config DM_LOG_USERSPACE
348 tristate "Mirror userspace logging"
349 depends on DM_MIRROR && NET
352 The userspace logging module provides a mechanism for
353 relaying the dm-dirty-log API to userspace. Log designs
354 which are more suited to userspace implementation (e.g.
355 shared storage logs) or experimental logs can be implemented
356 by leveraging this framework.
359 tristate "RAID 1/4/5/6/10 target"
360 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
367 A dm target that supports RAID1, RAID10, RAID4, RAID5 and RAID6 mappings
369 A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides
370 the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure
371 of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives
372 contain data sectors, and one drive contains the parity protection.
373 For a RAID-4 set, the parity blocks are present on a single drive,
374 while a RAID-5 set distributes the parity across the drives in one
375 of the available parity distribution methods.
377 A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive
378 provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects
379 against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector
380 (row) number, (N - 2) drives contain data sectors, and two
381 drives contains two independent redundancy syndromes. Like
382 RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives
383 in one of the available parity distribution methods.
386 tristate "Zero target"
387 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
389 A target that discards writes, and returns all zeroes for
390 reads. Useful in some recovery situations.
393 tristate "Multipath target"
394 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
395 # nasty syntax but means make DM_MULTIPATH independent
396 # of SCSI_DH if the latter isn't defined but if
397 # it is, DM_MULTIPATH must depend on it. We get a build
398 # error if SCSI_DH=m and DM_MULTIPATH=y
399 depends on !SCSI_DH || SCSI
401 Allow volume managers to support multipath hardware.
403 config DM_MULTIPATH_QL
404 tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the number of in-flight I/Os"
405 depends on DM_MULTIPATH
407 This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects
408 the path with the least number of in-flight I/Os.
412 config DM_MULTIPATH_ST
413 tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the service time"
414 depends on DM_MULTIPATH
416 This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects
417 the path expected to complete the incoming I/O in the shortest
423 tristate "I/O delaying target"
424 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
426 A target that delays reads and/or writes and can send
427 them to different devices. Useful for testing.
433 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
435 Generate udev events for DM events.
438 tristate "Flakey target"
439 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
441 A target that intermittently fails I/O for debugging purposes.
444 tristate "Verity target support"
445 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
450 This device-mapper target creates a read-only device that
451 transparently validates the data on one underlying device against
452 a pre-generated tree of cryptographic checksums stored on a second
455 You'll need to activate the digests you're going to use in the
456 cryptoapi configuration.
458 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
464 bool "Verity forward error correction support"
467 select REED_SOLOMON_DEC8
469 Add forward error correction support to dm-verity. This option
470 makes it possible to use pre-generated error correction data to
471 recover from corrupted blocks.
476 tristate "Switch target support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
477 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
479 This device-mapper target creates a device that supports an arbitrary
480 mapping of fixed-size regions of I/O across a fixed set of paths.
481 The path used for any specific region can be switched dynamically
482 by sending the target a message.
484 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
490 tristate "Log writes target support"
491 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
493 This device-mapper target takes two devices, one device to use
494 normally, one to log all write operations done to the first device.
495 This is for use by file system developers wishing to verify that
496 their fs is writing a consistent file system at all times by allowing
497 them to replay the log in a variety of ways and to check the
500 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
501 be called dm-log-writes.
506 tristate "Integrity target support"
507 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
508 select BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
513 This device-mapper target emulates a block device that has
514 additional per-sector tags that can be used for storing
515 integrity information.
517 This integrity target is used with the dm-crypt target to
518 provide authenticated disk encryption or it can be used
521 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
522 be called dm-integrity.
525 tristate "Drive-managed zoned block device target support"
526 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
527 depends on BLK_DEV_ZONED
529 This device-mapper target takes a host-managed or host-aware zoned
530 block device and exposes most of its capacity as a regular block
531 device (drive-managed zoned block device) without any write
532 constraints. This is mainly intended for use with file systems that
533 do not natively support zoned block devices but still want to
534 benefit from the increased capacity offered by SMR disks. Other uses
535 by applications using raw block devices (for example object stores)
538 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will