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 <http://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 <http://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 <http://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 <http://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
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.
329 tristate "Writecache target"
330 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
332 The writecache target caches writes on persistent memory or SSD.
333 It is intended for databases or other programs that need extremely
336 The writecache target doesn't cache reads because reads are supposed
337 to be cached in standard RAM.
340 tristate "Era target (EXPERIMENTAL)"
341 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
343 select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
346 dm-era tracks which parts of a block device are written to
347 over time. Useful for maintaining cache coherency when using
351 tristate "Clone target (EXPERIMENTAL)"
352 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
354 select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
356 dm-clone produces a one-to-one copy of an existing, read-only source
357 device into a writable destination device. The cloned device is
358 visible/mountable immediately and the copy of the source device to the
359 destination device happens in the background, in parallel with user
365 tristate "Mirror target"
366 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
368 Allow volume managers to mirror logical volumes, also
369 needed for live data migration tools such as 'pvmove'.
371 config DM_LOG_USERSPACE
372 tristate "Mirror userspace logging"
373 depends on DM_MIRROR && NET
376 The userspace logging module provides a mechanism for
377 relaying the dm-dirty-log API to userspace. Log designs
378 which are more suited to userspace implementation (e.g.
379 shared storage logs) or experimental logs can be implemented
380 by leveraging this framework.
383 tristate "RAID 1/4/5/6/10 target"
384 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
391 A dm target that supports RAID1, RAID10, RAID4, RAID5 and RAID6 mappings
393 A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides
394 the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure
395 of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives
396 contain data sectors, and one drive contains the parity protection.
397 For a RAID-4 set, the parity blocks are present on a single drive,
398 while a RAID-5 set distributes the parity across the drives in one
399 of the available parity distribution methods.
401 A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive
402 provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects
403 against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector
404 (row) number, (N - 2) drives contain data sectors, and two
405 drives contains two independent redundancy syndromes. Like
406 RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives
407 in one of the available parity distribution methods.
410 tristate "Zero target"
411 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
413 A target that discards writes, and returns all zeroes for
414 reads. Useful in some recovery situations.
417 tristate "Multipath target"
418 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
419 # nasty syntax but means make DM_MULTIPATH independent
420 # of SCSI_DH if the latter isn't defined but if
421 # it is, DM_MULTIPATH must depend on it. We get a build
422 # error if SCSI_DH=m and DM_MULTIPATH=y
423 depends on !SCSI_DH || SCSI
425 Allow volume managers to support multipath hardware.
427 config DM_MULTIPATH_QL
428 tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the number of in-flight I/Os"
429 depends on DM_MULTIPATH
431 This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects
432 the path with the least number of in-flight I/Os.
436 config DM_MULTIPATH_ST
437 tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the service time"
438 depends on DM_MULTIPATH
440 This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects
441 the path expected to complete the incoming I/O in the shortest
447 tristate "I/O delaying target"
448 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
450 A target that delays reads and/or writes and can send
451 them to different devices. Useful for testing.
456 tristate "Bad sector simulation target"
457 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
459 A target that simulates bad sector behavior.
465 bool "DM \"dm-mod.create=\" parameter support"
466 depends on BLK_DEV_DM=y
468 Enable "dm-mod.create=" parameter to create mapped devices at init time.
469 This option is useful to allow mounting rootfs without requiring an
471 See Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-init.rst for dm-mod.create="..."
478 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
480 Generate udev events for DM events.
483 tristate "Flakey target"
484 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
486 A target that intermittently fails I/O for debugging purposes.
489 tristate "Verity target support"
490 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
495 This device-mapper target creates a read-only device that
496 transparently validates the data on one underlying device against
497 a pre-generated tree of cryptographic checksums stored on a second
500 You'll need to activate the digests you're going to use in the
501 cryptoapi configuration.
503 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
508 config DM_VERITY_VERIFY_ROOTHASH_SIG
510 bool "Verity data device root hash signature verification support"
512 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
514 Add ability for dm-verity device to be validated if the
515 pre-generated tree of cryptographic checksums passed has a pkcs#7
516 signature file that can validate the roothash of the tree.
521 bool "Verity forward error correction support"
524 select REED_SOLOMON_DEC8
526 Add forward error correction support to dm-verity. This option
527 makes it possible to use pre-generated error correction data to
528 recover from corrupted blocks.
533 tristate "Switch target support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
534 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
536 This device-mapper target creates a device that supports an arbitrary
537 mapping of fixed-size regions of I/O across a fixed set of paths.
538 The path used for any specific region can be switched dynamically
539 by sending the target a message.
541 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
547 tristate "Log writes target support"
548 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
550 This device-mapper target takes two devices, one device to use
551 normally, one to log all write operations done to the first device.
552 This is for use by file system developers wishing to verify that
553 their fs is writing a consistent file system at all times by allowing
554 them to replay the log in a variety of ways and to check the
557 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
558 be called dm-log-writes.
563 tristate "Integrity target support"
564 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
565 select BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
570 This device-mapper target emulates a block device that has
571 additional per-sector tags that can be used for storing
572 integrity information.
574 This integrity target is used with the dm-crypt target to
575 provide authenticated disk encryption or it can be used
578 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
579 be called dm-integrity.
582 tristate "Drive-managed zoned block device target support"
583 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
584 depends on BLK_DEV_ZONED
586 This device-mapper target takes a host-managed or host-aware zoned
587 block device and exposes most of its capacity as a regular block
588 device (drive-managed zoned block device) without any write
589 constraints. This is mainly intended for use with file systems that
590 do not natively support zoned block devices but still want to
591 benefit from the increased capacity offered by SMR disks. Other uses
592 by applications using raw block devices (for example object stores)
595 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will