1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
3 # Block device driver configuration
7 bool "Multiple devices driver support (RAID and LVM)"
11 Support multiple physical spindles through a single logical device.
12 Required for RAID and logical volume management.
17 tristate "RAID support"
19 This driver lets you combine several hard disk partitions into one
20 logical block device. This can be used to simply append one
21 partition to another one or to combine several redundant hard disks
22 into a RAID1/4/5 device so as to provide protection against hard
23 disk failures. This is called "Software RAID" since the combining of
24 the partitions is done by the kernel. "Hardware RAID" means that the
25 combining is done by a dedicated controller; if you have such a
26 controller, you do not need to say Y here.
28 More information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the
29 Software RAID mini-HOWTO, available from
30 <https://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also learn
31 where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools.
36 bool "Autodetect RAID arrays during kernel boot"
37 depends on BLK_DEV_MD=y
40 If you say Y here, then the kernel will try to autodetect raid
41 arrays as part of its boot process.
43 If you don't use raid and say Y, this autodetection can cause
44 a several-second delay in the boot time due to various
45 synchronisation steps that are part of this step.
50 tristate "Linear (append) mode"
53 If you say Y here, then your multiple devices driver will be able to
54 use the so-called linear mode, i.e. it will combine the hard disk
55 partitions by simply appending one to the other.
57 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module
58 will be called linear.
63 tristate "RAID-0 (striping) mode"
66 If you say Y here, then your multiple devices driver will be able to
67 use the so-called raid0 mode, i.e. it will combine the hard disk
68 partitions into one logical device in such a fashion as to fill them
69 up evenly, one chunk here and one chunk there. This will increase
70 the throughput rate if the partitions reside on distinct disks.
72 Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the
73 Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from
74 <https://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also
75 learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools.
77 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module
83 tristate "RAID-1 (mirroring) mode"
86 A RAID-1 set consists of several disk drives which are exact copies
87 of each other. In the event of a mirror failure, the RAID driver
88 will continue to use the operational mirrors in the set, providing
89 an error free MD (multiple device) to the higher levels of the
90 kernel. In a set with N drives, the available space is the capacity
91 of a single drive, and the set protects against a failure of (N - 1)
94 Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the
95 Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from
96 <https://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also
97 learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools.
99 If you want to use such a RAID-1 set, say Y. To compile this code
100 as a module, choose M here: the module will be called raid1.
105 tristate "RAID-10 (mirrored striping) mode"
106 depends on BLK_DEV_MD
108 RAID-10 provides a combination of striping (RAID-0) and
109 mirroring (RAID-1) with easier configuration and more flexible
111 Unlike RAID-0, but like RAID-1, RAID-10 requires all devices to
112 be the same size (or at least, only as much as the smallest device
114 RAID-10 provides a variety of layouts that provide different levels
115 of redundancy and performance.
117 RAID-10 requires mdadm-1.7.0 or later, available at:
119 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
124 tristate "RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 mode"
125 depends on BLK_DEV_MD
131 select ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
133 A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides
134 the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure
135 of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives
136 contain data sectors, and one drive contains the parity protection.
137 For a RAID-4 set, the parity blocks are present on a single drive,
138 while a RAID-5 set distributes the parity across the drives in one
139 of the available parity distribution methods.
141 A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive
142 provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects
143 against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector
144 (row) number, (N - 2) drives contain data sectors, and two
145 drives contains two independent redundancy syndromes. Like
146 RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives
147 in one of the available parity distribution methods.
149 Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the
150 Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from
151 <https://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also
152 learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools.
154 If you want to use such a RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 set, say Y. To
155 compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module
156 will be called raid456.
161 tristate "Multipath I/O support"
162 depends on BLK_DEV_MD
164 MD_MULTIPATH provides a simple multi-path personality for use
165 the MD framework. It is not under active development. New
166 projects should consider using DM_MULTIPATH which has more
167 features and more testing.
172 tristate "Faulty test module for MD"
173 depends on BLK_DEV_MD
175 The "faulty" module allows for a block device that occasionally returns
176 read or write errors. It is useful for testing.
182 tristate "Cluster Support for MD"
183 depends on BLK_DEV_MD
187 Clustering support for MD devices. This enables locking and
188 synchronization across multiple systems on the cluster, so all
189 nodes in the cluster can access the MD devices simultaneously.
191 This brings the redundancy (and uptime) of RAID levels across the
192 nodes of the cluster. Currently, it can work with raid1 and raid10
197 source "drivers/md/bcache/Kconfig"
199 config BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN
203 tristate "Device mapper support"
204 select BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN
205 depends on DAX || DAX=n
207 Device-mapper is a low level volume manager. It works by allowing
208 people to specify mappings for ranges of logical sectors. Various
209 mapping types are available, in addition people may write their own
210 modules containing custom mappings if they wish.
212 Higher level volume managers such as LVM2 use this driver.
214 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
220 bool "Device mapper debugging support"
221 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
223 Enable this for messages that may help debug device-mapper problems.
229 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
231 This interface allows you to do buffered I/O on a device and acts
232 as a cache, holding recently-read blocks in memory and performing
235 config DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_MANAGER_LOCKING
236 bool "Block manager locking"
239 Block manager locking can catch various metadata corruption issues.
243 config DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_STACK_TRACING
244 bool "Keep stack trace of persistent data block lock holders"
245 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_MANAGER_LOCKING
248 Enable this for messages that may help debug problems with the
249 block manager locking used by thin provisioning and caching.
255 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
257 Some bio locking schemes used by other device-mapper targets
258 including thin provisioning.
260 source "drivers/md/persistent-data/Kconfig"
263 tristate "Unstriped target"
264 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
266 Unstripes I/O so it is issued solely on a single drive in a HW
267 RAID0 or dm-striped target.
270 tristate "Crypt target support"
271 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
272 depends on (ENCRYPTED_KEYS || ENCRYPTED_KEYS=n)
277 This device-mapper target allows you to create a device that
278 transparently encrypts the data on it. You'll need to activate
279 the ciphers you're going to use in the cryptoapi configuration.
281 For further information on dm-crypt and userspace tools see:
282 <https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/wikis/DMCrypt>
284 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
290 tristate "Snapshot target"
291 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
294 Allow volume managers to take writable snapshots of a device.
296 config DM_THIN_PROVISIONING
297 tristate "Thin provisioning target"
298 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
299 select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
302 Provides thin provisioning and snapshots that share a data store.
305 tristate "Cache target (EXPERIMENTAL)"
306 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
308 select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
311 dm-cache attempts to improve performance of a block device by
312 moving frequently used data to a smaller, higher performance
313 device. Different 'policy' plugins can be used to change the
314 algorithms used to select which blocks are promoted, demoted,
315 cleaned etc. It supports writeback and writethrough modes.
318 tristate "Stochastic MQ Cache Policy (EXPERIMENTAL)"
322 A cache policy that uses a multiqueue ordered by recent hits
323 to select which blocks should be promoted and demoted.
324 This is meant to be a general purpose policy. It prioritises
325 reads over writes. This SMQ policy (vs MQ) offers the promise
326 of less memory utilization, improved performance and increased
327 adaptability in the face of changing workloads.
330 tristate "Writecache target"
331 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
333 The writecache target caches writes on persistent memory or SSD.
334 It is intended for databases or other programs that need extremely
337 The writecache target doesn't cache reads because reads are supposed
338 to be cached in standard RAM.
341 tristate "Emulated block size target (EXPERIMENTAL)"
342 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
345 dm-ebs emulates smaller logical block size on backing devices
346 with larger ones (e.g. 512 byte sectors on 4K native disks).
349 tristate "Era target (EXPERIMENTAL)"
350 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
352 select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
355 dm-era tracks which parts of a block device are written to
356 over time. Useful for maintaining cache coherency when using
360 tristate "Clone target (EXPERIMENTAL)"
361 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
363 select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
365 dm-clone produces a one-to-one copy of an existing, read-only source
366 device into a writable destination device. The cloned device is
367 visible/mountable immediately and the copy of the source device to the
368 destination device happens in the background, in parallel with user
374 tristate "Mirror target"
375 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
377 Allow volume managers to mirror logical volumes, also
378 needed for live data migration tools such as 'pvmove'.
380 config DM_LOG_USERSPACE
381 tristate "Mirror userspace logging"
382 depends on DM_MIRROR && NET
385 The userspace logging module provides a mechanism for
386 relaying the dm-dirty-log API to userspace. Log designs
387 which are more suited to userspace implementation (e.g.
388 shared storage logs) or experimental logs can be implemented
389 by leveraging this framework.
392 tristate "RAID 1/4/5/6/10 target"
393 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
400 A dm target that supports RAID1, RAID10, RAID4, RAID5 and RAID6 mappings
402 A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides
403 the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure
404 of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives
405 contain data sectors, and one drive contains the parity protection.
406 For a RAID-4 set, the parity blocks are present on a single drive,
407 while a RAID-5 set distributes the parity across the drives in one
408 of the available parity distribution methods.
410 A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive
411 provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects
412 against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector
413 (row) number, (N - 2) drives contain data sectors, and two
414 drives contains two independent redundancy syndromes. Like
415 RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives
416 in one of the available parity distribution methods.
419 tristate "Zero target"
420 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
422 A target that discards writes, and returns all zeroes for
423 reads. Useful in some recovery situations.
426 tristate "Multipath target"
427 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
428 # nasty syntax but means make DM_MULTIPATH independent
429 # of SCSI_DH if the latter isn't defined but if
430 # it is, DM_MULTIPATH must depend on it. We get a build
431 # error if SCSI_DH=m and DM_MULTIPATH=y
432 depends on !SCSI_DH || SCSI
434 Allow volume managers to support multipath hardware.
436 config DM_MULTIPATH_QL
437 tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the number of in-flight I/Os"
438 depends on DM_MULTIPATH
440 This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects
441 the path with the least number of in-flight I/Os.
445 config DM_MULTIPATH_ST
446 tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the service time"
447 depends on DM_MULTIPATH
449 This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects
450 the path expected to complete the incoming I/O in the shortest
455 config DM_MULTIPATH_HST
456 tristate "I/O Path Selector based on historical service time"
457 depends on DM_MULTIPATH
459 This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects
460 the path expected to complete the incoming I/O in the shortest
461 time by comparing estimated service time (based on historical
467 tristate "I/O delaying target"
468 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
470 A target that delays reads and/or writes and can send
471 them to different devices. Useful for testing.
476 tristate "Bad sector simulation target"
477 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
479 A target that simulates bad sector behavior.
485 bool "DM \"dm-mod.create=\" parameter support"
486 depends on BLK_DEV_DM=y
488 Enable "dm-mod.create=" parameter to create mapped devices at init time.
489 This option is useful to allow mounting rootfs without requiring an
491 See Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-init.rst for dm-mod.create="..."
498 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
500 Generate udev events for DM events.
503 tristate "Flakey target"
504 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
506 A target that intermittently fails I/O for debugging purposes.
509 tristate "Verity target support"
510 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
515 This device-mapper target creates a read-only device that
516 transparently validates the data on one underlying device against
517 a pre-generated tree of cryptographic checksums stored on a second
520 You'll need to activate the digests you're going to use in the
521 cryptoapi configuration.
523 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
528 config DM_VERITY_VERIFY_ROOTHASH_SIG
530 bool "Verity data device root hash signature verification support"
532 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
534 Add ability for dm-verity device to be validated if the
535 pre-generated tree of cryptographic checksums passed has a pkcs#7
536 signature file that can validate the roothash of the tree.
541 bool "Verity forward error correction support"
544 select REED_SOLOMON_DEC8
546 Add forward error correction support to dm-verity. This option
547 makes it possible to use pre-generated error correction data to
548 recover from corrupted blocks.
553 tristate "Switch target support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
554 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
556 This device-mapper target creates a device that supports an arbitrary
557 mapping of fixed-size regions of I/O across a fixed set of paths.
558 The path used for any specific region can be switched dynamically
559 by sending the target a message.
561 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
567 tristate "Log writes target support"
568 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
570 This device-mapper target takes two devices, one device to use
571 normally, one to log all write operations done to the first device.
572 This is for use by file system developers wishing to verify that
573 their fs is writing a consistent file system at all times by allowing
574 them to replay the log in a variety of ways and to check the
577 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
578 be called dm-log-writes.
583 tristate "Integrity target support"
584 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
585 select BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
590 This device-mapper target emulates a block device that has
591 additional per-sector tags that can be used for storing
592 integrity information.
594 This integrity target is used with the dm-crypt target to
595 provide authenticated disk encryption or it can be used
598 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
599 be called dm-integrity.
602 tristate "Drive-managed zoned block device target support"
603 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
604 depends on BLK_DEV_ZONED
606 This device-mapper target takes a host-managed or host-aware zoned
607 block device and exposes most of its capacity as a regular block
608 device (drive-managed zoned block device) without any write
609 constraints. This is mainly intended for use with file systems that
610 do not natively support zoned block devices but still want to
611 benefit from the increased capacity offered by SMR disks. Other uses
612 by applications using raw block devices (for example object stores)
615 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will