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
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
204 Device-mapper is a low level volume manager. It works by allowing
205 people to specify mappings for ranges of logical sectors. Various
206 mapping types are available, in addition people may write their own
207 modules containing custom mappings if they wish.
209 Higher level volume managers such as LVM2 use this driver.
211 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
217 bool "request-based DM: use blk-mq I/O path by default"
218 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
220 This option enables the blk-mq based I/O path for request-based
221 DM devices by default. With the option the dm_mod.use_blk_mq
222 module/boot option defaults to Y, without it to N, but it can
223 still be overriden either way.
228 bool "Device mapper debugging support"
229 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
231 Enable this for messages that may help debug device-mapper problems.
237 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
239 This interface allows you to do buffered I/O on a device and acts
240 as a cache, holding recently-read blocks in memory and performing
243 config DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_MANAGER_LOCKING
244 bool "Block manager locking"
247 Block manager locking can catch various metadata corruption issues.
251 config DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_STACK_TRACING
252 bool "Keep stack trace of persistent data block lock holders"
253 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_MANAGER_LOCKING
256 Enable this for messages that may help debug problems with the
257 block manager locking used by thin provisioning and caching.
263 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
265 Some bio locking schemes used by other device-mapper targets
266 including thin provisioning.
268 source "drivers/md/persistent-data/Kconfig"
271 tristate "Crypt target support"
272 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
276 This device-mapper target allows you to create a device that
277 transparently encrypts the data on it. You'll need to activate
278 the ciphers you're going to use in the cryptoapi configuration.
280 For further information on dm-crypt and userspace tools see:
281 <https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/wikis/DMCrypt>
283 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
289 tristate "Snapshot target"
290 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
293 Allow volume managers to take writable snapshots of a device.
295 config DM_THIN_PROVISIONING
296 tristate "Thin provisioning target"
297 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
298 select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
301 Provides thin provisioning and snapshots that share a data store.
304 tristate "Cache target (EXPERIMENTAL)"
305 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
307 select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
310 dm-cache attempts to improve performance of a block device by
311 moving frequently used data to a smaller, higher performance
312 device. Different 'policy' plugins can be used to change the
313 algorithms used to select which blocks are promoted, demoted,
314 cleaned etc. It supports writeback and writethrough modes.
317 tristate "Stochastic MQ Cache Policy (EXPERIMENTAL)"
321 A cache policy that uses a multiqueue ordered by recent hits
322 to select which blocks should be promoted and demoted.
323 This is meant to be a general purpose policy. It prioritises
324 reads over writes. This SMQ policy (vs MQ) offers the promise
325 of less memory utilization, improved performance and increased
326 adaptability in the face of changing workloads.
328 config DM_CACHE_CLEANER
329 tristate "Cleaner Cache Policy (EXPERIMENTAL)"
333 A simple cache policy that writes back all data to the
334 origin. Used when decommissioning a dm-cache.
337 tristate "Era target (EXPERIMENTAL)"
338 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
340 select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
343 dm-era tracks which parts of a block device are written to
344 over time. Useful for maintaining cache coherency when using
348 tristate "Mirror target"
349 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
351 Allow volume managers to mirror logical volumes, also
352 needed for live data migration tools such as 'pvmove'.
354 config DM_LOG_USERSPACE
355 tristate "Mirror userspace logging"
356 depends on DM_MIRROR && NET
359 The userspace logging module provides a mechanism for
360 relaying the dm-dirty-log API to userspace. Log designs
361 which are more suited to userspace implementation (e.g.
362 shared storage logs) or experimental logs can be implemented
363 by leveraging this framework.
366 tristate "RAID 1/4/5/6/10 target"
367 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
373 A dm target that supports RAID1, RAID10, RAID4, RAID5 and RAID6 mappings
375 A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides
376 the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure
377 of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives
378 contain data sectors, and one drive contains the parity protection.
379 For a RAID-4 set, the parity blocks are present on a single drive,
380 while a RAID-5 set distributes the parity across the drives in one
381 of the available parity distribution methods.
383 A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive
384 provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects
385 against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector
386 (row) number, (N - 2) drives contain data sectors, and two
387 drives contains two independent redundancy syndromes. Like
388 RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives
389 in one of the available parity distribution methods.
392 tristate "Zero target"
393 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
395 A target that discards writes, and returns all zeroes for
396 reads. Useful in some recovery situations.
399 tristate "Multipath target"
400 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
401 # nasty syntax but means make DM_MULTIPATH independent
402 # of SCSI_DH if the latter isn't defined but if
403 # it is, DM_MULTIPATH must depend on it. We get a build
404 # error if SCSI_DH=m and DM_MULTIPATH=y
405 depends on !SCSI_DH || SCSI
407 Allow volume managers to support multipath hardware.
409 config DM_MULTIPATH_QL
410 tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the number of in-flight I/Os"
411 depends on DM_MULTIPATH
413 This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects
414 the path with the least number of in-flight I/Os.
418 config DM_MULTIPATH_ST
419 tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the service time"
420 depends on DM_MULTIPATH
422 This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects
423 the path expected to complete the incoming I/O in the shortest
429 tristate "I/O delaying target"
430 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
432 A target that delays reads and/or writes and can send
433 them to different devices. Useful for testing.
439 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
441 Generate udev events for DM events.
444 tristate "Flakey target"
445 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
447 A target that intermittently fails I/O for debugging purposes.
450 tristate "Verity target support"
451 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
456 This device-mapper target creates a read-only device that
457 transparently validates the data on one underlying device against
458 a pre-generated tree of cryptographic checksums stored on a second
461 You'll need to activate the digests you're going to use in the
462 cryptoapi configuration.
464 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
470 bool "Verity forward error correction support"
473 select REED_SOLOMON_DEC8
475 Add forward error correction support to dm-verity. This option
476 makes it possible to use pre-generated error correction data to
477 recover from corrupted blocks.
482 tristate "Switch target support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
483 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
485 This device-mapper target creates a device that supports an arbitrary
486 mapping of fixed-size regions of I/O across a fixed set of paths.
487 The path used for any specific region can be switched dynamically
488 by sending the target a message.
490 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
496 tristate "Log writes target support"
497 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
499 This device-mapper target takes two devices, one device to use
500 normally, one to log all write operations done to the first device.
501 This is for use by file system developers wishing to verify that
502 their fs is writing a consistent file system at all times by allowing
503 them to replay the log in a variety of ways and to check the
506 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
507 be called dm-log-writes.