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 "request-based DM: use blk-mq I/O path by default"
201 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
203 This option enables the blk-mq based I/O path for request-based
204 DM devices by default. With the option the dm_mod.use_blk_mq
205 module/boot option defaults to Y, without it to N, but it can
206 still be overriden either way.
211 bool "Device mapper debugging support"
212 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
214 Enable this for messages that may help debug device-mapper problems.
220 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
222 This interface allows you to do buffered I/O on a device and acts
223 as a cache, holding recently-read blocks in memory and performing
228 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
230 Some bio locking schemes used by other device-mapper targets
231 including thin provisioning.
233 source "drivers/md/persistent-data/Kconfig"
236 tristate "Crypt target support"
237 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
241 This device-mapper target allows you to create a device that
242 transparently encrypts the data on it. You'll need to activate
243 the ciphers you're going to use in the cryptoapi configuration.
245 For further information on dm-crypt and userspace tools see:
246 <http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/wiki/DMCrypt>
248 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
254 tristate "Snapshot target"
255 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
258 Allow volume managers to take writable snapshots of a device.
260 config DM_THIN_PROVISIONING
261 tristate "Thin provisioning target"
262 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
263 select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
266 Provides thin provisioning and snapshots that share a data store.
269 tristate "Cache target (EXPERIMENTAL)"
270 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
272 select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
275 dm-cache attempts to improve performance of a block device by
276 moving frequently used data to a smaller, higher performance
277 device. Different 'policy' plugins can be used to change the
278 algorithms used to select which blocks are promoted, demoted,
279 cleaned etc. It supports writeback and writethrough modes.
282 tristate "MQ Cache Policy (EXPERIMENTAL)"
286 A cache policy that uses a multiqueue ordered by recent hit
287 count to select which blocks should be promoted and demoted.
288 This is meant to be a general purpose policy. It prioritises
291 config DM_CACHE_CLEANER
292 tristate "Cleaner Cache Policy (EXPERIMENTAL)"
296 A simple cache policy that writes back all data to the
297 origin. Used when decommissioning a dm-cache.
300 tristate "Era target (EXPERIMENTAL)"
301 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
303 select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
306 dm-era tracks which parts of a block device are written to
307 over time. Useful for maintaining cache coherency when using
311 tristate "Mirror target"
312 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
314 Allow volume managers to mirror logical volumes, also
315 needed for live data migration tools such as 'pvmove'.
317 config DM_LOG_USERSPACE
318 tristate "Mirror userspace logging"
319 depends on DM_MIRROR && NET
322 The userspace logging module provides a mechanism for
323 relaying the dm-dirty-log API to userspace. Log designs
324 which are more suited to userspace implementation (e.g.
325 shared storage logs) or experimental logs can be implemented
326 by leveraging this framework.
329 tristate "RAID 1/4/5/6/10 target"
330 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
336 A dm target that supports RAID1, RAID10, RAID4, RAID5 and RAID6 mappings
338 A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides
339 the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure
340 of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives
341 contain data sectors, and one drive contains the parity protection.
342 For a RAID-4 set, the parity blocks are present on a single drive,
343 while a RAID-5 set distributes the parity across the drives in one
344 of the available parity distribution methods.
346 A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive
347 provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects
348 against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector
349 (row) number, (N - 2) drives contain data sectors, and two
350 drives contains two independent redundancy syndromes. Like
351 RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives
352 in one of the available parity distribution methods.
355 tristate "Zero target"
356 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
358 A target that discards writes, and returns all zeroes for
359 reads. Useful in some recovery situations.
362 tristate "Multipath target"
363 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
364 # nasty syntax but means make DM_MULTIPATH independent
365 # of SCSI_DH if the latter isn't defined but if
366 # it is, DM_MULTIPATH must depend on it. We get a build
367 # error if SCSI_DH=m and DM_MULTIPATH=y
368 depends on SCSI_DH || !SCSI_DH
370 Allow volume managers to support multipath hardware.
372 config DM_MULTIPATH_QL
373 tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the number of in-flight I/Os"
374 depends on DM_MULTIPATH
376 This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects
377 the path with the least number of in-flight I/Os.
381 config DM_MULTIPATH_ST
382 tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the service time"
383 depends on DM_MULTIPATH
385 This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects
386 the path expected to complete the incoming I/O in the shortest
392 tristate "I/O delaying target"
393 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
395 A target that delays reads and/or writes and can send
396 them to different devices. Useful for testing.
402 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
404 Generate udev events for DM events.
407 tristate "Flakey target"
408 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
410 A target that intermittently fails I/O for debugging purposes.
413 tristate "Verity target support"
414 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
419 This device-mapper target creates a read-only device that
420 transparently validates the data on one underlying device against
421 a pre-generated tree of cryptographic checksums stored on a second
424 You'll need to activate the digests you're going to use in the
425 cryptoapi configuration.
427 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
433 tristate "Switch target support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
434 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
436 This device-mapper target creates a device that supports an arbitrary
437 mapping of fixed-size regions of I/O across a fixed set of paths.
438 The path used for any specific region can be switched dynamically
439 by sending the target a message.
441 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
447 tristate "Log writes target support"
448 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
450 This device-mapper target takes two devices, one device to use
451 normally, one to log all write operations done to the first device.
452 This is for use by file system developers wishing to verify that
453 their fs is writing a consitent file system at all times by allowing
454 them to replay the log in a variety of ways and to check the
457 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
458 be called dm-log-writes.