2 # Block layer core configuration
5 bool "Enable the block layer" if EXPERT
9 Provide block layer support for the kernel.
11 Disable this option to remove the block layer support from the
12 kernel. This may be useful for embedded devices.
14 If this option is disabled:
16 - block device files will become unusable
17 - some filesystems (such as ext3) will become unavailable.
19 Also, SCSI character devices and USB storage will be disabled since
20 they make use of various block layer definitions and facilities.
22 Say Y here unless you know you really don't want to mount disks and
28 bool "Support for large (2TB+) block devices and files"
32 Enable block devices or files of size 2TB and larger.
34 This option is required to support the full capacity of large
35 (2TB+) block devices, including RAID, disk, Network Block Device,
36 Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and loopback.
38 This option also enables support for single files larger than
41 The ext4 filesystem requires that this feature be enabled in
42 order to support filesystems that have the huge_file feature
43 enabled. Otherwise, it will refuse to mount in the read-write
44 mode any filesystems that use the huge_file feature, which is
45 enabled by default by mke2fs.ext4.
47 The GFS2 filesystem also requires this feature.
52 bool "Block layer SG support v4"
55 Saying Y here will enable generic SG (SCSI generic) v4 support
58 Unlike SG v3 (aka block/scsi_ioctl.c drivers/scsi/sg.c), SG v4
59 can handle complicated SCSI commands: tagged variable length cdbs
60 with bidirectional data transfers and generic request/response
61 protocols (e.g. Task Management Functions and SMP in Serial
64 This option is required by recent UDEV versions to properly
65 access device serial numbers, etc.
70 bool "Block layer SG support v4 helper lib"
74 Subsystems will normally enable this if needed. Users will not
75 normally need to manually enable this.
79 config BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
80 bool "Block layer data integrity support"
81 select CRC_T10DIF if BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
83 Some storage devices allow extra information to be
84 stored/retrieved to help protect the data. The block layer
85 data integrity option provides hooks which can be used by
86 filesystems to ensure better data integrity.
88 Say yes here if you have a storage device that provides the
89 T10/SCSI Data Integrity Field or the T13/ATA External Path
90 Protection. If in doubt, say N.
92 config BLK_DEV_THROTTLING
93 bool "Block layer bio throttling support"
94 depends on BLK_CGROUP=y
97 Block layer bio throttling support. It can be used to limit
98 the IO rate to a device. IO rate policies are per cgroup and
99 one needs to mount and use blkio cgroup controller for creating
100 cgroups and specifying per device IO rate policies.
102 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
104 config BLK_CMDLINE_PARSER
105 bool "Block device command line partition parser"
108 Enabling this option allows you to specify the partition layout from
109 the kernel boot args. This is typically of use for embedded devices
110 which don't otherwise have any standardized method for listing the
111 partitions on a block device.
113 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt for more information.
115 menu "Partition Types"
117 source "block/partitions/Kconfig"
125 depends on BLOCK && COMPAT
130 depends on BLOCK && PCI
133 source block/Kconfig.iosched