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1#
2# Block device driver configuration
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4
afd44034 5menuconfig MD
1da177e4 6 bool "Multiple devices driver support (RAID and LVM)"
afd44034 7 depends on BLOCK
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8 help
9 Support multiple physical spindles through a single logical device.
10 Required for RAID and logical volume management.
11
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12if MD
13
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14config BLK_DEV_MD
15 tristate "RAID support"
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16 ---help---
17 This driver lets you combine several hard disk partitions into one
18 logical block device. This can be used to simply append one
19 partition to another one or to combine several redundant hard disks
20 into a RAID1/4/5 device so as to provide protection against hard
21 disk failures. This is called "Software RAID" since the combining of
22 the partitions is done by the kernel. "Hardware RAID" means that the
23 combining is done by a dedicated controller; if you have such a
24 controller, you do not need to say Y here.
25
26 More information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the
27 Software RAID mini-HOWTO, available from
28 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also learn
29 where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools.
30
31 If unsure, say N.
32
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33config MD_AUTODETECT
34 bool "Autodetect RAID arrays during kernel boot"
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36 default y
37 ---help---
38 If you say Y here, then the kernel will try to autodetect raid
39 arrays as part of its boot process.
40
41 If you don't use raid and say Y, this autodetection can cause
42 a several-second delay in the boot time due to various
43 synchronisation steps that are part of this step.
44
45 If unsure, say Y.
46
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47config MD_LINEAR
48 tristate "Linear (append) mode"
49 depends on BLK_DEV_MD
50 ---help---
51 If you say Y here, then your multiple devices driver will be able to
52 use the so-called linear mode, i.e. it will combine the hard disk
53 partitions by simply appending one to the other.
54
55 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module
56 will be called linear.
57
58 If unsure, say Y.
59
60config MD_RAID0
61 tristate "RAID-0 (striping) mode"
62 depends on BLK_DEV_MD
63 ---help---
64 If you say Y here, then your multiple devices driver will be able to
65 use the so-called raid0 mode, i.e. it will combine the hard disk
66 partitions into one logical device in such a fashion as to fill them
67 up evenly, one chunk here and one chunk there. This will increase
68 the throughput rate if the partitions reside on distinct disks.
69
70 Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the
71 Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from
72 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also
73 learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools.
74
75 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module
76 will be called raid0.
77
78 If unsure, say Y.
79
80config MD_RAID1
81 tristate "RAID-1 (mirroring) mode"
82 depends on BLK_DEV_MD
83 ---help---
84 A RAID-1 set consists of several disk drives which are exact copies
85 of each other. In the event of a mirror failure, the RAID driver
86 will continue to use the operational mirrors in the set, providing
87 an error free MD (multiple device) to the higher levels of the
88 kernel. In a set with N drives, the available space is the capacity
89 of a single drive, and the set protects against a failure of (N - 1)
90 drives.
91
92 Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the
93 Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from
94 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also
95 learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools.
96
97 If you want to use such a RAID-1 set, say Y. To compile this code
98 as a module, choose M here: the module will be called raid1.
99
100 If unsure, say Y.
101
102config MD_RAID10
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103 tristate "RAID-10 (mirrored striping) mode"
104 depends on BLK_DEV_MD
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105 ---help---
106 RAID-10 provides a combination of striping (RAID-0) and
4d2554d0 107 mirroring (RAID-1) with easier configuration and more flexible
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108 layout.
109 Unlike RAID-0, but like RAID-1, RAID-10 requires all devices to
110 be the same size (or at least, only as much as the smallest device
111 will be used).
112 RAID-10 provides a variety of layouts that provide different levels
113 of redundancy and performance.
114
115 RAID-10 requires mdadm-1.7.0 or later, available at:
116
117 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
118
119 If unsure, say Y.
120
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121config MD_RAID456
122 tristate "RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 mode"
1da177e4 123 depends on BLK_DEV_MD
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125 select ASYNC_MEMCPY
126 select ASYNC_XOR
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127 select ASYNC_PQ
128 select ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
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129 ---help---
130 A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides
131 the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure
132 of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives
133 contain data sectors, and one drive contains the parity protection.
134 For a RAID-4 set, the parity blocks are present on a single drive,
135 while a RAID-5 set distributes the parity across the drives in one
136 of the available parity distribution methods.
137
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138 A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive
139 provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects
140 against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector
141 (row) number, (N - 2) drives contain data sectors, and two
142 drives contains two independent redundancy syndromes. Like
143 RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives
144 in one of the available parity distribution methods.
145
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146 Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the
147 Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from
148 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also
149 learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools.
150
16a53ecc 151 If you want to use such a RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 set, say Y. To
1da177e4 152 compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module
16a53ecc 153 will be called raid456.
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154
155 If unsure, say Y.
156
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157config MULTICORE_RAID456
158 bool "RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 Multicore processing (EXPERIMENTAL)"
159 depends on MD_RAID456
160 depends on SMP
161 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
162 ---help---
163 Enable the raid456 module to dispatch per-stripe raid operations to a
164 thread pool.
165
166 If unsure, say N.
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168config MD_MULTIPATH
169 tristate "Multipath I/O support"
170 depends on BLK_DEV_MD
171 help
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172 MD_MULTIPATH provides a simple multi-path personality for use
173 the MD framework. It is not under active development. New
174 projects should consider using DM_MULTIPATH which has more
175 features and more testing.
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176
177 If unsure, say N.
178
179config MD_FAULTY
180 tristate "Faulty test module for MD"
181 depends on BLK_DEV_MD
182 help
183 The "faulty" module allows for a block device that occasionally returns
184 read or write errors. It is useful for testing.
185
186 In unsure, say N.
187
188config BLK_DEV_DM
189 tristate "Device mapper support"
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190 ---help---
191 Device-mapper is a low level volume manager. It works by allowing
192 people to specify mappings for ranges of logical sectors. Various
193 mapping types are available, in addition people may write their own
194 modules containing custom mappings if they wish.
195
196 Higher level volume managers such as LVM2 use this driver.
197
198 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
199 called dm-mod.
200
201 If unsure, say N.
202
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203config DM_DEBUG
204 boolean "Device mapper debugging support"
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206 ---help---
207 Enable this for messages that may help debug device-mapper problems.
208
209 If unsure, say N.
210
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211config DM_BUFIO
212 tristate
213 depends on BLK_DEV_DM && EXPERIMENTAL
214 ---help---
215 This interface allows you to do buffered I/O on a device and acts
216 as a cache, holding recently-read blocks in memory and performing
217 delayed writes.
218
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219source "drivers/md/persistent-data/Kconfig"
220
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221config DM_CRYPT
222 tristate "Crypt target support"
0149e57f 223 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
1da177e4 224 select CRYPTO
3263263f 225 select CRYPTO_CBC
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226 ---help---
227 This device-mapper target allows you to create a device that
228 transparently encrypts the data on it. You'll need to activate
229 the ciphers you're going to use in the cryptoapi configuration.
230
231 Information on how to use dm-crypt can be found on
232
233 <http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/>
234
235 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
236 be called dm-crypt.
237
238 If unsure, say N.
239
240config DM_SNAPSHOT
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241 tristate "Snapshot target"
242 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
1da177e4 243 ---help---
4d2554d0 244 Allow volume managers to take writable snapshots of a device.
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246config DM_THIN_PROVISIONING
247 tristate "Thin provisioning target (EXPERIMENTAL)"
248 depends on BLK_DEV_DM && EXPERIMENTAL
249 select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
250 ---help---
251 Provides thin provisioning and snapshots that share a data store.
252
253config DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_STACK_TRACING
254 boolean "Keep stack trace of thin provisioning block lock holders"
255 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && DM_THIN_PROVISIONING
256 select STACKTRACE
257 ---help---
258 Enable this for messages that may help debug problems with the
259 block manager locking used by thin provisioning.
260
261 If unsure, say N.
262
263config DM_DEBUG_SPACE_MAPS
264 boolean "Extra validation for thin provisioning space maps"
265 depends on DM_THIN_PROVISIONING
266 ---help---
267 Enable this for messages that may help debug problems with the
268 space maps used by thin provisioning.
269
270 If unsure, say N.
271
1da177e4 272config DM_MIRROR
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273 tristate "Mirror target"
274 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
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275 ---help---
276 Allow volume managers to mirror logical volumes, also
277 needed for live data migration tools such as 'pvmove'.
278
9d09e663 279config DM_RAID
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280 tristate "RAID 1/4/5/6 target"
281 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
b12d437b 282 select MD_RAID1
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283 select MD_RAID456
284 select BLK_DEV_MD
285 ---help---
b12d437b 286 A dm target that supports RAID1, RAID4, RAID5 and RAID6 mappings
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287
288 A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides
289 the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure
290 of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives
291 contain data sectors, and one drive contains the parity protection.
292 For a RAID-4 set, the parity blocks are present on a single drive,
293 while a RAID-5 set distributes the parity across the drives in one
294 of the available parity distribution methods.
295
296 A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive
297 provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects
298 against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector
299 (row) number, (N - 2) drives contain data sectors, and two
300 drives contains two independent redundancy syndromes. Like
301 RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives
302 in one of the available parity distribution methods.
303
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304config DM_LOG_USERSPACE
305 tristate "Mirror userspace logging (EXPERIMENTAL)"
306 depends on DM_MIRROR && EXPERIMENTAL && NET
307 select CONNECTOR
308 ---help---
309 The userspace logging module provides a mechanism for
310 relaying the dm-dirty-log API to userspace. Log designs
311 which are more suited to userspace implementation (e.g.
312 shared storage logs) or experimental logs can be implemented
313 by leveraging this framework.
314
1da177e4 315config DM_ZERO
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316 tristate "Zero target"
317 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
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318 ---help---
319 A target that discards writes, and returns all zeroes for
320 reads. Useful in some recovery situations.
321
322config DM_MULTIPATH
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323 tristate "Multipath target"
324 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
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325 # nasty syntax but means make DM_MULTIPATH independent
326 # of SCSI_DH if the latter isn't defined but if
327 # it is, DM_MULTIPATH must depend on it. We get a build
328 # error if SCSI_DH=m and DM_MULTIPATH=y
329 depends on SCSI_DH || !SCSI_DH
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330 ---help---
331 Allow volume managers to support multipath hardware.
332
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333config DM_MULTIPATH_QL
334 tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the number of in-flight I/Os"
335 depends on DM_MULTIPATH
336 ---help---
337 This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects
338 the path with the least number of in-flight I/Os.
339
340 If unsure, say N.
341
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342config DM_MULTIPATH_ST
343 tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the service time"
344 depends on DM_MULTIPATH
345 ---help---
346 This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects
347 the path expected to complete the incoming I/O in the shortest
348 time.
349
350 If unsure, say N.
351
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352config DM_DELAY
353 tristate "I/O delaying target (EXPERIMENTAL)"
354 depends on BLK_DEV_DM && EXPERIMENTAL
355 ---help---
356 A target that delays reads and/or writes and can send
357 them to different devices. Useful for testing.
358
359 If unsure, say N.
360
51e5b2bd 361config DM_UEVENT
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362 bool "DM uevents"
363 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
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364 ---help---
365 Generate udev events for DM events.
366
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367config DM_FLAKEY
368 tristate "Flakey target (EXPERIMENTAL)"
369 depends on BLK_DEV_DM && EXPERIMENTAL
370 ---help---
371 A target that intermittently fails I/O for debugging purposes.
372
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373config DM_VERITY
374 tristate "Verity target support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
375 depends on BLK_DEV_DM && EXPERIMENTAL
376 select CRYPTO
377 select CRYPTO_HASH
378 select DM_BUFIO
379 ---help---
380 This device-mapper target creates a read-only device that
381 transparently validates the data on one underlying device against
382 a pre-generated tree of cryptographic checksums stored on a second
383 device.
384
385 You'll need to activate the digests you're going to use in the
386 cryptoapi configuration.
387
388 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
389 be called dm-verity.
390
391 If unsure, say N.
392
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