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)
273 depends on (TRUSTED_KEYS || TRUSTED_KEYS=n)
278 This device-mapper target allows you to create a device that
279 transparently encrypts the data on it. You'll need to activate
280 the ciphers you're going to use in the cryptoapi configuration.
282 For further information on dm-crypt and userspace tools see:
283 <https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/wikis/DMCrypt>
285 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
291 tristate "Snapshot target"
292 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
295 Allow volume managers to take writable snapshots of a device.
297 config DM_THIN_PROVISIONING
298 tristate "Thin provisioning target"
299 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
300 select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
303 Provides thin provisioning and snapshots that share a data store.
306 tristate "Cache target (EXPERIMENTAL)"
307 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
309 select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
312 dm-cache attempts to improve performance of a block device by
313 moving frequently used data to a smaller, higher performance
314 device. Different 'policy' plugins can be used to change the
315 algorithms used to select which blocks are promoted, demoted,
316 cleaned etc. It supports writeback and writethrough modes.
319 tristate "Stochastic MQ Cache Policy (EXPERIMENTAL)"
323 A cache policy that uses a multiqueue ordered by recent hits
324 to select which blocks should be promoted and demoted.
325 This is meant to be a general purpose policy. It prioritises
326 reads over writes. This SMQ policy (vs MQ) offers the promise
327 of less memory utilization, improved performance and increased
328 adaptability in the face of changing workloads.
331 tristate "Writecache target"
332 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
334 The writecache target caches writes on persistent memory or SSD.
335 It is intended for databases or other programs that need extremely
338 The writecache target doesn't cache reads because reads are supposed
339 to be cached in standard RAM.
342 tristate "Emulated block size target (EXPERIMENTAL)"
343 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
346 dm-ebs emulates smaller logical block size on backing devices
347 with larger ones (e.g. 512 byte sectors on 4K native disks).
350 tristate "Era target (EXPERIMENTAL)"
351 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
353 select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
356 dm-era tracks which parts of a block device are written to
357 over time. Useful for maintaining cache coherency when using
361 tristate "Clone target (EXPERIMENTAL)"
362 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
364 select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA
366 dm-clone produces a one-to-one copy of an existing, read-only source
367 device into a writable destination device. The cloned device is
368 visible/mountable immediately and the copy of the source device to the
369 destination device happens in the background, in parallel with user
375 tristate "Mirror target"
376 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
378 Allow volume managers to mirror logical volumes, also
379 needed for live data migration tools such as 'pvmove'.
381 config DM_LOG_USERSPACE
382 tristate "Mirror userspace logging"
383 depends on DM_MIRROR && NET
386 The userspace logging module provides a mechanism for
387 relaying the dm-dirty-log API to userspace. Log designs
388 which are more suited to userspace implementation (e.g.
389 shared storage logs) or experimental logs can be implemented
390 by leveraging this framework.
393 tristate "RAID 1/4/5/6/10 target"
394 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
401 A dm target that supports RAID1, RAID10, RAID4, RAID5 and RAID6 mappings
403 A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides
404 the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure
405 of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives
406 contain data sectors, and one drive contains the parity protection.
407 For a RAID-4 set, the parity blocks are present on a single drive,
408 while a RAID-5 set distributes the parity across the drives in one
409 of the available parity distribution methods.
411 A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive
412 provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects
413 against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector
414 (row) number, (N - 2) drives contain data sectors, and two
415 drives contains two independent redundancy syndromes. Like
416 RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives
417 in one of the available parity distribution methods.
420 tristate "Zero target"
421 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
423 A target that discards writes, and returns all zeroes for
424 reads. Useful in some recovery situations.
427 tristate "Multipath target"
428 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
429 # nasty syntax but means make DM_MULTIPATH independent
430 # of SCSI_DH if the latter isn't defined but if
431 # it is, DM_MULTIPATH must depend on it. We get a build
432 # error if SCSI_DH=m and DM_MULTIPATH=y
433 depends on !SCSI_DH || SCSI
435 Allow volume managers to support multipath hardware.
437 config DM_MULTIPATH_QL
438 tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the number of in-flight I/Os"
439 depends on DM_MULTIPATH
441 This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects
442 the path with the least number of in-flight I/Os.
446 config DM_MULTIPATH_ST
447 tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the service time"
448 depends on DM_MULTIPATH
450 This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects
451 the path expected to complete the incoming I/O in the shortest
456 config DM_MULTIPATH_HST
457 tristate "I/O Path Selector based on historical service time"
458 depends on DM_MULTIPATH
460 This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects
461 the path expected to complete the incoming I/O in the shortest
462 time by comparing estimated service time (based on historical
467 config DM_MULTIPATH_IOA
468 tristate "I/O Path Selector based on CPU submission"
469 depends on DM_MULTIPATH
471 This path selector selects the path based on the CPU the IO is
472 executed on and the CPU to path mapping setup at path addition time.
477 tristate "I/O delaying target"
478 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
480 A target that delays reads and/or writes and can send
481 them to different devices. Useful for testing.
486 tristate "Bad sector simulation target"
487 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
489 A target that simulates bad sector behavior.
495 bool "DM \"dm-mod.create=\" parameter support"
496 depends on BLK_DEV_DM=y
498 Enable "dm-mod.create=" parameter to create mapped devices at init time.
499 This option is useful to allow mounting rootfs without requiring an
501 See Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-init.rst for dm-mod.create="..."
508 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
510 Generate udev events for DM events.
513 tristate "Flakey target"
514 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
516 A target that intermittently fails I/O for debugging purposes.
519 tristate "Verity target support"
520 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
525 This device-mapper target creates a read-only device that
526 transparently validates the data on one underlying device against
527 a pre-generated tree of cryptographic checksums stored on a second
530 You'll need to activate the digests you're going to use in the
531 cryptoapi configuration.
533 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
538 config DM_VERITY_VERIFY_ROOTHASH_SIG
540 bool "Verity data device root hash signature verification support"
542 select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
544 Add ability for dm-verity device to be validated if the
545 pre-generated tree of cryptographic checksums passed has a pkcs#7
546 signature file that can validate the roothash of the tree.
548 By default, rely on the builtin trusted keyring.
552 config DM_VERITY_VERIFY_ROOTHASH_SIG_SECONDARY_KEYRING
553 bool "Verity data device root hash signature verification with secondary keyring"
554 depends on DM_VERITY_VERIFY_ROOTHASH_SIG
555 depends on SECONDARY_TRUSTED_KEYRING
557 Rely on the secondary trusted keyring to verify dm-verity signatures.
562 bool "Verity forward error correction support"
565 select REED_SOLOMON_DEC8
567 Add forward error correction support to dm-verity. This option
568 makes it possible to use pre-generated error correction data to
569 recover from corrupted blocks.
574 tristate "Switch target support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
575 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
577 This device-mapper target creates a device that supports an arbitrary
578 mapping of fixed-size regions of I/O across a fixed set of paths.
579 The path used for any specific region can be switched dynamically
580 by sending the target a message.
582 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
588 tristate "Log writes target support"
589 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
591 This device-mapper target takes two devices, one device to use
592 normally, one to log all write operations done to the first device.
593 This is for use by file system developers wishing to verify that
594 their fs is writing a consistent file system at all times by allowing
595 them to replay the log in a variety of ways and to check the
598 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
599 be called dm-log-writes.
604 tristate "Integrity target support"
605 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
606 select BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
609 select CRYPTO_SKCIPHER
612 This device-mapper target emulates a block device that has
613 additional per-sector tags that can be used for storing
614 integrity information.
616 This integrity target is used with the dm-crypt target to
617 provide authenticated disk encryption or it can be used
620 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
621 be called dm-integrity.
624 tristate "Drive-managed zoned block device target support"
625 depends on BLK_DEV_DM
626 depends on BLK_DEV_ZONED
629 This device-mapper target takes a host-managed or host-aware zoned
630 block device and exposes most of its capacity as a regular block
631 device (drive-managed zoned block device) without any write
632 constraints. This is mainly intended for use with file systems that
633 do not natively support zoned block devices but still want to
634 benefit from the increased capacity offered by SMR disks. Other uses
635 by applications using raw block devices (for example object stores)
638 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will