1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
3 # Block device driver configuration
11 Say Y here to get to see options for various different block device
12 drivers. This option alone does not add any kernel code.
14 If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled;
15 only do this if you know what you are doing.
19 source "drivers/block/null_blk/Kconfig"
22 tristate "Normal floppy disk support"
23 depends on ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC
25 If you want to use the floppy disk drive(s) of your PC under Linux,
26 say Y. Information about this driver, especially important for IBM
27 Thinkpad users, is contained in
28 <file:Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst>.
29 That file also contains the location of the Floppy driver FAQ as
30 well as location of the fdutils package used to configure additional
31 parameters of the driver at run time.
33 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
34 module will be called floppy.
36 config BLK_DEV_FD_RAWCMD
37 bool "Support for raw floppy disk commands (DEPRECATED)"
40 If you want to use actual physical floppies and expect to do
41 special low-level hardware accesses to them (access and use
42 non-standard formats, for example), then enable this.
44 Note that the code enabled by this option is rarely used and
45 might be unstable or insecure, and distros should not enable it.
47 Note: FDRAWCMD is deprecated and will be removed from the kernel
53 tristate "Amiga floppy support"
57 tristate "Atari floppy support"
61 tristate "Support for PowerMac floppy"
62 depends on PPC_PMAC && !PPC_PMAC64
64 If you have a SWIM-3 (Super Woz Integrated Machine 3; from Apple)
65 floppy controller, say Y here. Most commonly found in PowerMacs.
68 tristate "Support for SWIM Macintosh floppy"
69 depends on M68K && MAC && !HIGHMEM
71 You should select this option if you want floppy support
72 and you don't have a II, IIfx, Q900, Q950 or AV series.
75 tristate "Amiga Zorro II ramdisk support"
78 This enables support for using Chip RAM and Zorro II RAM as a
79 ramdisk or as a swap partition. Say Y if you want to include this
82 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
83 module will be called z2ram.
86 bool "N64 cart support"
87 depends on MACH_NINTENDO64
89 Support for the N64 cart.
95 tristate "SEGA Dreamcast GD-ROM drive"
96 depends on SH_DREAMCAST
99 A standard SEGA Dreamcast comes with a modified CD ROM drive called a
100 "GD-ROM" by SEGA to signify it is capable of reading special disks
101 with up to 1 GB of data. This drive will also read standard CD ROM
102 disks. Select this option to access any disks in your GD ROM drive.
103 Most users will want to say "Y" here.
104 You can also build this as a module which will be called gdrom.
106 source "drivers/block/mtip32xx/Kconfig"
108 source "drivers/block/zram/Kconfig"
111 bool "Virtual block device"
114 The User-Mode Linux port includes a driver called UBD which will let
115 you access arbitrary files on the host computer as block devices.
116 Unless you know that you do not need such virtual block devices say
119 config BLK_DEV_UBD_SYNC
120 bool "Always do synchronous disk IO for UBD"
121 depends on BLK_DEV_UBD
123 Writes to the virtual block device are not immediately written to the
124 host's disk; this may cause problems if, for example, the User-Mode
125 Linux 'Virtual Machine' uses a journalling filesystem and the host
128 Synchronous operation (i.e. always writing data to the host's disk
129 immediately) is configurable on a per-UBD basis by using a special
130 kernel command line option. Alternatively, you can say Y here to
131 turn on synchronous operation by default for all block devices.
133 If you're running a journalling file system (like reiserfs, for
134 example) in your virtual machine, you will want to say Y here. If
135 you care for the safety of the data in your virtual machine, Y is a
136 wise choice too. In all other cases (for example, if you're just
137 playing around with User-Mode Linux) you can choose N.
139 config BLK_DEV_COW_COMMON
144 tristate "Loopback device support"
146 Saying Y here will allow you to use a regular file as a block
147 device; you can then create a file system on that block device and
148 mount it just as you would mount other block devices such as hard
149 drive partitions, CD-ROM drives or floppy drives. The loop devices
150 are block special device files with major number 7 and typically
151 called /dev/loop0, /dev/loop1 etc.
153 This is useful if you want to check an ISO 9660 file system before
154 burning the CD, or if you want to use floppy images without first
155 writing them to floppy. Furthermore, some Linux distributions avoid
156 the need for a dedicated Linux partition by keeping their complete
157 root file system inside a DOS FAT file using this loop device
160 To use the loop device, you need the losetup utility, found in the
161 util-linux package, see
162 <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.
164 The loop device driver can also be used to "hide" a file system in
165 a disk partition, floppy, or regular file, either using encryption
166 (scrambling the data) or steganography (hiding the data in the low
167 bits of, say, a sound file). This is also safe if the file resides
168 on a remote file server.
170 Note that this loop device has nothing to do with the loopback
171 device used for network connections from the machine to itself.
173 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
174 module will be called loop.
176 Most users will answer N here.
178 config BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT
179 int "Number of loop devices to pre-create at init time"
180 depends on BLK_DEV_LOOP
183 Static number of loop devices to be unconditionally pre-created
186 This default value can be overwritten on the kernel command
187 line or with module-parameter loop.max_loop.
189 The historic default is 8. If a late 2011 version of losetup(8)
190 is used, it can be set to 0, since needed loop devices can be
191 dynamically allocated with the /dev/loop-control interface.
193 source "drivers/block/drbd/Kconfig"
196 tristate "Network block device support"
199 Saying Y here will allow your computer to be a client for network
200 block devices, i.e. it will be able to use block devices exported by
201 servers (mount file systems on them etc.). Communication between
202 client and server works over TCP/IP networking, but to the client
203 program this is hidden: it looks like a regular local file access to
204 a block device special file such as /dev/nd0.
206 Network block devices also allows you to run a block-device in
207 userland (making server and client physically the same computer,
208 communicating using the loopback network device).
210 Read <file:Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/nbd.rst> for more information,
211 especially about where to find the server code, which runs in user
212 space and does not need special kernel support.
214 Note that this has nothing to do with the network file systems NFS
215 or Coda; you can say N here even if you intend to use NFS or Coda.
217 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
218 module will be called nbd.
223 tristate "RAM block device support"
225 Saying Y here will allow you to use a portion of your RAM memory as
226 a block device, so that you can make file systems on it, read and
227 write to it and do all the other things that you can do with normal
228 block devices (such as hard drives). It is usually used to load and
229 store a copy of a minimal root file system off of a floppy into RAM
230 during the initial install of Linux.
232 Note that the kernel command line option "ramdisk=XX" is now obsolete.
233 For details, read <file:Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst>.
235 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
236 module will be called brd. An alias "rd" has been defined
237 for historical reasons.
239 Most normal users won't need the RAM disk functionality, and can
242 config BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT
243 int "Default number of RAM disks"
245 depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
247 The default value is 16 RAM disks. Change this if you know what you
248 are doing. If you boot from a filesystem that needs to be extracted
249 in memory, you will need at least one RAM disk (e.g. root on cramfs).
251 config BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE
252 int "Default RAM disk size (kbytes)"
253 depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
256 The default value is 4096 kilobytes. Only change this if you know
260 tristate "Packet writing on CD/DVD media (DEPRECATED)"
265 Note: This driver is deprecated and will be removed from the
266 kernel in the near future!
268 If you have a CDROM/DVD drive that supports packet writing, say
269 Y to include support. It should work with any MMC/Mt Fuji
270 compliant ATAPI or SCSI drive, which is just about any newer
273 Currently only writing to CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVDRAM discs
275 DVD-RW disks must be in restricted overwrite mode.
277 See the file <file:Documentation/cdrom/packet-writing.rst>
278 for further information on the use of this driver.
280 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
281 module will be called pktcdvd.
283 config CDROM_PKTCDVD_BUFFERS
284 int "Free buffers for data gathering"
285 depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD
288 This controls the maximum number of active concurrent packets. More
289 concurrent packets can increase write performance, but also require
290 more memory. Each concurrent packet will require approximately 64Kb
291 of non-swappable kernel memory, memory which will be allocated when
292 a disc is opened for writing.
294 config CDROM_PKTCDVD_WCACHE
295 bool "Enable write caching"
296 depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD
298 If enabled, write caching will be set for the CD-R/W device. For now
299 this option is dangerous unless the CD-RW media is known good, as we
300 don't do deferred write error handling yet.
303 tristate "ATA over Ethernet support"
306 This driver provides Support for ATA over Ethernet block
307 devices like the Coraid EtherDrive (R) Storage Blade.
310 tristate "Sun Virtual Disk Client support"
313 Support for virtual disk devices as a client under Sun
316 source "drivers/s390/block/Kconfig"
318 config XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND
319 tristate "Xen virtual block device support"
322 select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND
324 This driver implements the front-end of the Xen virtual
325 block device driver. It communicates with a back-end driver
326 in another domain which drives the actual block device.
328 config XEN_BLKDEV_BACKEND
329 tristate "Xen block-device backend driver"
330 depends on XEN_BACKEND
332 The block-device backend driver allows the kernel to export its
333 block devices to other guests via a high-performance shared-memory
336 The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the
337 CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND configuration option.
339 The backend driver attaches itself to a any block device specified
340 in the XenBus configuration. There are no limits to what the block
341 device as long as it has a major and minor.
343 If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen block backend driver
344 domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To
345 compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module
346 will be called xen-blkback.
350 tristate "Virtio block driver"
354 This is the virtual block driver for virtio. It can be used with
355 QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M.
358 tristate "Rados block device (RBD)"
359 depends on INET && BLOCK
365 Say Y here if you want include the Rados block device, which stripes
366 a block device over objects stored in the Ceph distributed object
369 More information at http://ceph.newdream.net/.
374 tristate "Userspace block driver (Experimental)"
377 io_uring based userspace block driver. Together with ublk server, ublk
378 has been working well, but interface with userspace or command data
379 definition isn't finalized yet, and might change according to future
380 requirement, so mark is as experimental now.
382 Say Y if you want to get better performance because task_work_add()
383 can be used in IO path for replacing io_uring cmd, which will become
384 shared between IO tasks and ubq daemon, meantime task_work_add() can
385 can handle batch more effectively, but task_work_add() isn't exported
386 for module, so ublk has to be built to kernel.
388 source "drivers/block/rnbd/Kconfig"