1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 21da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 31da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Block device driver configuration 41da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 51da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6afd44034SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MD 71da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Multiple devices driver support (RAID and LVM)" 8afd44034SJan Engelhardt depends on BLOCK 91da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 101da177e4SLinus Torvalds Support multiple physical spindles through a single logical device. 111da177e4SLinus Torvalds Required for RAID and logical volume management. 121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13afd44034SJan Engelhardtif MD 14afd44034SJan Engelhardt 151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BLK_DEV_MD 161da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "RAID support" 17c66fd019SChristoph Hellwig select BLOCK_HOLDER_DEPRECATED if SYSFS 18925c86a1SChristoph Hellwig select BUFFER_HEAD 196c0f5898SNeilBrown # BLOCK_LEGACY_AUTOLOAD requirement should be removed 206c0f5898SNeilBrown # after relevant mdadm enhancements - to make "names=yes" 216c0f5898SNeilBrown # the default - are widely available. 226c0f5898SNeilBrown select BLOCK_LEGACY_AUTOLOAD 23a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 241da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver lets you combine several hard disk partitions into one 251da177e4SLinus Torvalds logical block device. This can be used to simply append one 261da177e4SLinus Torvalds partition to another one or to combine several redundant hard disks 271da177e4SLinus Torvalds into a RAID1/4/5 device so as to provide protection against hard 281da177e4SLinus Torvalds disk failures. This is called "Software RAID" since the combining of 291da177e4SLinus Torvalds the partitions is done by the kernel. "Hardware RAID" means that the 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds combining is done by a dedicated controller; if you have such a 311da177e4SLinus Torvalds controller, you do not need to say Y here. 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds More information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds Software RAID mini-HOWTO, available from 356f3bc22bSAlexander A. Klimov <https://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also learn 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools. 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 40a364092aSArjan van de Venconfig MD_AUTODETECT 41a364092aSArjan van de Ven bool "Autodetect RAID arrays during kernel boot" 42ce52aebdSAlan Jenkins depends on BLK_DEV_MD=y 43a364092aSArjan van de Ven default y 44a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 45a364092aSArjan van de Ven If you say Y here, then the kernel will try to autodetect raid 46a364092aSArjan van de Ven arrays as part of its boot process. 47a364092aSArjan van de Ven 48a364092aSArjan van de Ven If you don't use raid and say Y, this autodetection can cause 49a364092aSArjan van de Ven a several-second delay in the boot time due to various 50a364092aSArjan van de Ven synchronisation steps that are part of this step. 51a364092aSArjan van de Ven 52a364092aSArjan van de Ven If unsure, say Y. 53a364092aSArjan van de Ven 54a34d4ef8SChristoph Hellwigconfig MD_BITMAP_FILE 550ae1c9d3SChristoph Hellwig bool "MD bitmap file support (deprecated)" 56a34d4ef8SChristoph Hellwig default y 57a34d4ef8SChristoph Hellwig help 58a34d4ef8SChristoph Hellwig If you say Y here, support for write intent bitmaps in files on an 59a34d4ef8SChristoph Hellwig external file system is enabled. This is an alternative to the internal 60a34d4ef8SChristoph Hellwig bitmaps near the MD superblock, and very problematic code that abuses 61a34d4ef8SChristoph Hellwig various kernel APIs and can only work with files on a file system not 62a34d4ef8SChristoph Hellwig actually sitting on the MD device. 63a34d4ef8SChristoph Hellwig 641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_LINEAR 65608f52e3SGuoqing Jiang tristate "Linear (append) mode (deprecated)" 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 67a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, then your multiple devices driver will be able to 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds use the so-called linear mode, i.e. it will combine the hard disk 701da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions by simply appending one to the other. 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called linear. 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_RAID0 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "RAID-0 (striping) mode" 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 80a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, then your multiple devices driver will be able to 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds use the so-called raid0 mode, i.e. it will combine the hard disk 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions into one logical device in such a fashion as to fill them 841da177e4SLinus Torvalds up evenly, one chunk here and one chunk there. This will increase 851da177e4SLinus Torvalds the throughput rate if the partitions reside on distinct disks. 861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 871da177e4SLinus Torvalds Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the 881da177e4SLinus Torvalds Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from 896f3bc22bSAlexander A. Klimov <https://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also 901da177e4SLinus Torvalds learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools. 911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 921da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module 931da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called raid0. 941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 951da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_RAID1 981da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "RAID-1 (mirroring) mode" 991da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 100a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1011da177e4SLinus Torvalds A RAID-1 set consists of several disk drives which are exact copies 1021da177e4SLinus Torvalds of each other. In the event of a mirror failure, the RAID driver 1031da177e4SLinus Torvalds will continue to use the operational mirrors in the set, providing 1041da177e4SLinus Torvalds an error free MD (multiple device) to the higher levels of the 1051da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel. In a set with N drives, the available space is the capacity 1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds of a single drive, and the set protects against a failure of (N - 1) 1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds drives. 1081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1091da177e4SLinus Torvalds Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the 1101da177e4SLinus Torvalds Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from 1116f3bc22bSAlexander A. Klimov <https://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also 1121da177e4SLinus Torvalds learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools. 1131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1141da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to use such a RAID-1 set, say Y. To compile this code 1151da177e4SLinus Torvalds as a module, choose M here: the module will be called raid1. 1161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1171da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 1181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_RAID10 12008fb730cSNeilBrown tristate "RAID-10 (mirrored striping) mode" 12108fb730cSNeilBrown depends on BLK_DEV_MD 122a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1231da177e4SLinus Torvalds RAID-10 provides a combination of striping (RAID-0) and 1244d2554d0SJustin Piszcz mirroring (RAID-1) with easier configuration and more flexible 1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds layout. 1261da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unlike RAID-0, but like RAID-1, RAID-10 requires all devices to 1271da177e4SLinus Torvalds be the same size (or at least, only as much as the smallest device 1281da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be used). 1291da177e4SLinus Torvalds RAID-10 provides a variety of layouts that provide different levels 1301da177e4SLinus Torvalds of redundancy and performance. 1311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1321da177e4SLinus Torvalds RAID-10 requires mdadm-1.7.0 or later, available at: 1331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1344f6cce39SSeongJae Park https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ 1351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1361da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 1371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13816a53eccSNeilBrownconfig MD_RAID456 13916a53eccSNeilBrown tristate "RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 mode" 1401da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 141f5e70d0fSDavid Woodhouse select RAID6_PQ 14214f09e2fSArnd Bergmann select LIBCRC32C 1439bc89cd8SDan Williams select ASYNC_MEMCPY 1449bc89cd8SDan Williams select ASYNC_XOR 145ac6b53b6SDan Williams select ASYNC_PQ 146ac6b53b6SDan Williams select ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 147a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1481da177e4SLinus Torvalds A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides 1491da177e4SLinus Torvalds the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure 1501da177e4SLinus Torvalds of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives 1511da177e4SLinus Torvalds contain data sectors, and one drive contains the parity protection. 1521da177e4SLinus Torvalds For a RAID-4 set, the parity blocks are present on a single drive, 1531da177e4SLinus Torvalds while a RAID-5 set distributes the parity across the drives in one 1541da177e4SLinus Torvalds of the available parity distribution methods. 1551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15616a53eccSNeilBrown A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive 15716a53eccSNeilBrown provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects 15816a53eccSNeilBrown against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector 15916a53eccSNeilBrown (row) number, (N - 2) drives contain data sectors, and two 16016a53eccSNeilBrown drives contains two independent redundancy syndromes. Like 16116a53eccSNeilBrown RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives 16216a53eccSNeilBrown in one of the available parity distribution methods. 16316a53eccSNeilBrown 1641da177e4SLinus Torvalds Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the 1651da177e4SLinus Torvalds Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from 1666f3bc22bSAlexander A. Klimov <https://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also 1671da177e4SLinus Torvalds learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools. 1681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16916a53eccSNeilBrown If you want to use such a RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 set, say Y. To 1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module 17116a53eccSNeilBrown will be called raid456. 1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1731da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 1741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_MULTIPATH 176608f52e3SGuoqing Jiang tristate "Multipath I/O support (deprecated)" 1771da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 1781da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17993bd89a6SNeilBrown MD_MULTIPATH provides a simple multi-path personality for use 18093bd89a6SNeilBrown the MD framework. It is not under active development. New 18193bd89a6SNeilBrown projects should consider using DM_MULTIPATH which has more 18293bd89a6SNeilBrown features and more testing. 1831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1841da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 1851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_FAULTY 187608f52e3SGuoqing Jiang tristate "Faulty test module for MD (deprecated)" 1881da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 1891da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1901da177e4SLinus Torvalds The "faulty" module allows for a block device that occasionally returns 1911da177e4SLinus Torvalds read or write errors. It is useful for testing. 1921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1931da177e4SLinus Torvalds In unsure, say N. 1941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1958e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues 1968e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodriguesconfig MD_CLUSTER 197f0e230adSGuoqing Jiang tristate "Cluster Support for MD" 1988e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues depends on BLK_DEV_MD 1998e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues depends on DLM 2008e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues default n 201a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2028e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues Clustering support for MD devices. This enables locking and 2038e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues synchronization across multiple systems on the cluster, so all 2048e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues nodes in the cluster can access the MD devices simultaneously. 2058e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues 2068e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues This brings the redundancy (and uptime) of RAID levels across the 207f0e230adSGuoqing Jiang nodes of the cluster. Currently, it can work with raid1 and raid10 208f0e230adSGuoqing Jiang (limited support). 2098e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues 2108e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues If unsure, say N. 2118e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues 212cafe5635SKent Overstreetsource "drivers/md/bcache/Kconfig" 213cafe5635SKent Overstreet 2142995fa78SMikulas Patockaconfig BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN 2156341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 2162995fa78SMikulas Patocka 2171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BLK_DEV_DM 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Device mapper support" 219c66fd019SChristoph Hellwig select BLOCK_HOLDER_DEPRECATED if SYSFS 2202995fa78SMikulas Patocka select BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN 221248c7933SChristoph Hellwig select BLK_MQ_STACKING 222976431b0SDan Williams depends on DAX || DAX=n 223a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Device-mapper is a low level volume manager. It works by allowing 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds people to specify mappings for ranges of logical sectors. Various 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds mapping types are available, in addition people may write their own 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules containing custom mappings if they wish. 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds Higher level volume managers such as LVM2 use this driver. 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds called dm-mod. 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 236cc109201SBryn Reevesconfig DM_DEBUG 2376341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Device mapper debugging support" 2380149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 239a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 240cc109201SBryn Reeves Enable this for messages that may help debug device-mapper problems. 241cc109201SBryn Reeves 242cc109201SBryn Reeves If unsure, say N. 243cc109201SBryn Reeves 24495d402f0SMikulas Patockaconfig DM_BUFIO 24595d402f0SMikulas Patocka tristate 246d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 247a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 24895d402f0SMikulas Patocka This interface allows you to do buffered I/O on a device and acts 24995d402f0SMikulas Patocka as a cache, holding recently-read blocks in memory and performing 25095d402f0SMikulas Patocka delayed writes. 25195d402f0SMikulas Patocka 2522e8ed711SJoe Thornberconfig DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_MANAGER_LOCKING 2532e8ed711SJoe Thornber bool "Block manager locking" 2542e8ed711SJoe Thornber depends on DM_BUFIO 255a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2562e8ed711SJoe Thornber Block manager locking can catch various metadata corruption issues. 2572e8ed711SJoe Thornber 2582e8ed711SJoe Thornber If unsure, say N. 2592e8ed711SJoe Thornber 26086bad0c7SMikulas Patockaconfig DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_STACK_TRACING 26186bad0c7SMikulas Patocka bool "Keep stack trace of persistent data block lock holders" 2622e8ed711SJoe Thornber depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_MANAGER_LOCKING 26386bad0c7SMikulas Patocka select STACKTRACE 264a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 26586bad0c7SMikulas Patocka Enable this for messages that may help debug problems with the 26686bad0c7SMikulas Patocka block manager locking used by thin provisioning and caching. 26786bad0c7SMikulas Patocka 26886bad0c7SMikulas Patocka If unsure, say N. 2693f068040SMike Snitzer 2704f81a417SMike Snitzerconfig DM_BIO_PRISON 2714f81a417SMike Snitzer tristate 272d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 273a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2744f81a417SMike Snitzer Some bio locking schemes used by other device-mapper targets 2754f81a417SMike Snitzer including thin provisioning. 2764f81a417SMike Snitzer 277991d9fa0SJoe Thornbersource "drivers/md/persistent-data/Kconfig" 278991d9fa0SJoe Thornber 27918a5bf27SScott Bauerconfig DM_UNSTRIPED 28018a5bf27SScott Bauer tristate "Unstriped target" 28118a5bf27SScott Bauer depends on BLK_DEV_DM 282a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 28318a5bf27SScott Bauer Unstripes I/O so it is issued solely on a single drive in a HW 28418a5bf27SScott Bauer RAID0 or dm-striped target. 28518a5bf27SScott Bauer 2861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DM_CRYPT 2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Crypt target support" 2880149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 28927f5411aSDmitry Baryshkov depends on (ENCRYPTED_KEYS || ENCRYPTED_KEYS=n) 290363880c4SAhmad Fatoum depends on (TRUSTED_KEYS || TRUSTED_KEYS=n) 2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO 2923263263fSHerbert Xu select CRYPTO_CBC 293a1a262b6SArd Biesheuvel select CRYPTO_ESSIV 294a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds This device-mapper target allows you to create a device that 2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds transparently encrypts the data on it. You'll need to activate 2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds the ciphers you're going to use in the cryptoapi configuration. 2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 299cf352487SLoic Pefferkorn For further information on dm-crypt and userspace tools see: 3006ed443c0SBaruch Siach <https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/wikis/DMCrypt> 3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds be called dm-crypt. 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DM_SNAPSHOT 3080149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Snapshot target" 3090149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 31055494bf2SMikulas Patocka select DM_BUFIO 311a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3124d2554d0SJustin Piszcz Allow volume managers to take writable snapshots of a device. 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 314991d9fa0SJoe Thornberconfig DM_THIN_PROVISIONING 315d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Thin provisioning target" 316d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 317991d9fa0SJoe Thornber select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA 3184f81a417SMike Snitzer select DM_BIO_PRISON 319a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 320991d9fa0SJoe Thornber Provides thin provisioning and snapshots that share a data store. 321991d9fa0SJoe Thornber 322c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornberconfig DM_CACHE 323c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber tristate "Cache target (EXPERIMENTAL)" 324c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber depends on BLK_DEV_DM 325c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber default n 326c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA 327c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber select DM_BIO_PRISON 328a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 329c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber dm-cache attempts to improve performance of a block device by 330c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber moving frequently used data to a smaller, higher performance 331c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber device. Different 'policy' plugins can be used to change the 332c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber algorithms used to select which blocks are promoted, demoted, 333c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber cleaned etc. It supports writeback and writethrough modes. 334c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber 33566a63635SJoe Thornberconfig DM_CACHE_SMQ 33666a63635SJoe Thornber tristate "Stochastic MQ Cache Policy (EXPERIMENTAL)" 33766a63635SJoe Thornber depends on DM_CACHE 33866a63635SJoe Thornber default y 339a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 34066a63635SJoe Thornber A cache policy that uses a multiqueue ordered by recent hits 34166a63635SJoe Thornber to select which blocks should be promoted and demoted. 34266a63635SJoe Thornber This is meant to be a general purpose policy. It prioritises 34366a63635SJoe Thornber reads over writes. This SMQ policy (vs MQ) offers the promise 34466a63635SJoe Thornber of less memory utilization, improved performance and increased 34566a63635SJoe Thornber adaptability in the face of changing workloads. 34666a63635SJoe Thornber 34748debafeSMikulas Patockaconfig DM_WRITECACHE 34848debafeSMikulas Patocka tristate "Writecache target" 34948debafeSMikulas Patocka depends on BLK_DEV_DM 350a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 35148debafeSMikulas Patocka The writecache target caches writes on persistent memory or SSD. 35248debafeSMikulas Patocka It is intended for databases or other programs that need extremely 35348debafeSMikulas Patocka low commit latency. 35448debafeSMikulas Patocka 35548debafeSMikulas Patocka The writecache target doesn't cache reads because reads are supposed 35648debafeSMikulas Patocka to be cached in standard RAM. 35748debafeSMikulas Patocka 358d3c7b35cSHeinz Mauelshagenconfig DM_EBS 359d3c7b35cSHeinz Mauelshagen tristate "Emulated block size target (EXPERIMENTAL)" 3601c277e50SChristoph Hellwig depends on BLK_DEV_DM && !HIGHMEM 361d3c7b35cSHeinz Mauelshagen select DM_BUFIO 362d3c7b35cSHeinz Mauelshagen help 363d3c7b35cSHeinz Mauelshagen dm-ebs emulates smaller logical block size on backing devices 364d3c7b35cSHeinz Mauelshagen with larger ones (e.g. 512 byte sectors on 4K native disks). 365d3c7b35cSHeinz Mauelshagen 366eec40579SJoe Thornberconfig DM_ERA 367eec40579SJoe Thornber tristate "Era target (EXPERIMENTAL)" 368eec40579SJoe Thornber depends on BLK_DEV_DM 369eec40579SJoe Thornber default n 370eec40579SJoe Thornber select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA 371eec40579SJoe Thornber select DM_BIO_PRISON 372a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 373eec40579SJoe Thornber dm-era tracks which parts of a block device are written to 374eec40579SJoe Thornber over time. Useful for maintaining cache coherency when using 375eec40579SJoe Thornber vendor snapshots. 376eec40579SJoe Thornber 3777431b783SNikos Tsironisconfig DM_CLONE 3787431b783SNikos Tsironis tristate "Clone target (EXPERIMENTAL)" 3797431b783SNikos Tsironis depends on BLK_DEV_DM 3807431b783SNikos Tsironis default n 3817431b783SNikos Tsironis select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA 382a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3837431b783SNikos Tsironis dm-clone produces a one-to-one copy of an existing, read-only source 3847431b783SNikos Tsironis device into a writable destination device. The cloned device is 3857431b783SNikos Tsironis visible/mountable immediately and the copy of the source device to the 3867431b783SNikos Tsironis destination device happens in the background, in parallel with user 3877431b783SNikos Tsironis I/O. 3887431b783SNikos Tsironis 3897431b783SNikos Tsironis If unsure, say N. 3907431b783SNikos Tsironis 3911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DM_MIRROR 3920149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Mirror target" 3930149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 394a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3951da177e4SLinus Torvalds Allow volume managers to mirror logical volumes, also 3961da177e4SLinus Torvalds needed for live data migration tools such as 'pvmove'. 3971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3985442851eSMikulas Patockaconfig DM_LOG_USERSPACE 3995442851eSMikulas Patocka tristate "Mirror userspace logging" 4005442851eSMikulas Patocka depends on DM_MIRROR && NET 4015442851eSMikulas Patocka select CONNECTOR 402a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4035442851eSMikulas Patocka The userspace logging module provides a mechanism for 4045442851eSMikulas Patocka relaying the dm-dirty-log API to userspace. Log designs 4055442851eSMikulas Patocka which are more suited to userspace implementation (e.g. 4065442851eSMikulas Patocka shared storage logs) or experimental logs can be implemented 4075442851eSMikulas Patocka by leveraging this framework. 4085442851eSMikulas Patocka 4099d09e663SNeilBrownconfig DM_RAID 410d9f691c3SNeilBrown tristate "RAID 1/4/5/6/10 target" 411035220b3SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 4127b81ef8bSMikulas Patocka select MD_RAID0 413b12d437bSJonathan Brassow select MD_RAID1 414d9f691c3SNeilBrown select MD_RAID10 4159d09e663SNeilBrown select MD_RAID456 4169d09e663SNeilBrown select BLK_DEV_MD 417a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 418d9f691c3SNeilBrown A dm target that supports RAID1, RAID10, RAID4, RAID5 and RAID6 mappings 4199d09e663SNeilBrown 4209d09e663SNeilBrown A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides 4219d09e663SNeilBrown the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure 4229d09e663SNeilBrown of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives 4239d09e663SNeilBrown contain data sectors, and one drive contains the parity protection. 4249d09e663SNeilBrown For a RAID-4 set, the parity blocks are present on a single drive, 4259d09e663SNeilBrown while a RAID-5 set distributes the parity across the drives in one 4269d09e663SNeilBrown of the available parity distribution methods. 4279d09e663SNeilBrown 4289d09e663SNeilBrown A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive 4299d09e663SNeilBrown provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects 4309d09e663SNeilBrown against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector 4319d09e663SNeilBrown (row) number, (N - 2) drives contain data sectors, and two 4329d09e663SNeilBrown drives contains two independent redundancy syndromes. Like 4339d09e663SNeilBrown RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives 4349d09e663SNeilBrown in one of the available parity distribution methods. 4359d09e663SNeilBrown 4361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DM_ZERO 4370149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Zero target" 4380149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 439a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4401da177e4SLinus Torvalds A target that discards writes, and returns all zeroes for 4411da177e4SLinus Torvalds reads. Useful in some recovery situations. 4421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DM_MULTIPATH 4440149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Multipath target" 4450149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 446fe9233fbSChandra Seetharaman # nasty syntax but means make DM_MULTIPATH independent 447fe9233fbSChandra Seetharaman # of SCSI_DH if the latter isn't defined but if 448fe9233fbSChandra Seetharaman # it is, DM_MULTIPATH must depend on it. We get a build 449fe9233fbSChandra Seetharaman # error if SCSI_DH=m and DM_MULTIPATH=y 450294ab783SChristoph Hellwig depends on !SCSI_DH || SCSI 451a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4521da177e4SLinus Torvalds Allow volume managers to support multipath hardware. 4531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 454fd5e0339SKiyoshi Uedaconfig DM_MULTIPATH_QL 455fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the number of in-flight I/Os" 456fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda depends on DM_MULTIPATH 457a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 458fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects 459fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda the path with the least number of in-flight I/Os. 460fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda 461fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda If unsure, say N. 462fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda 463f392ba88SKiyoshi Uedaconfig DM_MULTIPATH_ST 464f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the service time" 465f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda depends on DM_MULTIPATH 466a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 467f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects 468f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda the path expected to complete the incoming I/O in the shortest 469f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda time. 470f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda 471f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda If unsure, say N. 472f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda 4732613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykovconfig DM_MULTIPATH_HST 4742613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov tristate "I/O Path Selector based on historical service time" 4752613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov depends on DM_MULTIPATH 4762613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov help 4772613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects 4782613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov the path expected to complete the incoming I/O in the shortest 4792613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov time by comparing estimated service time (based on historical 4802613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov service time). 4812613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov 4822613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov If unsure, say N. 4832613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov 484e4d2e82bSMike Christieconfig DM_MULTIPATH_IOA 485e4d2e82bSMike Christie tristate "I/O Path Selector based on CPU submission" 486e4d2e82bSMike Christie depends on DM_MULTIPATH 487e4d2e82bSMike Christie help 488e4d2e82bSMike Christie This path selector selects the path based on the CPU the IO is 489e4d2e82bSMike Christie executed on and the CPU to path mapping setup at path addition time. 490e4d2e82bSMike Christie 491e4d2e82bSMike Christie If unsure, say N. 492e4d2e82bSMike Christie 49326b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagenconfig DM_DELAY 494d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon tristate "I/O delaying target" 495d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 496a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 49726b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen A target that delays reads and/or writes and can send 49826b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen them to different devices. Useful for testing. 49926b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen 50026b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen If unsure, say N. 50126b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen 502e4f3fabdSBryan Gurneyconfig DM_DUST 503e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney tristate "Bad sector simulation target" 504e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney depends on BLK_DEV_DM 505a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 506e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney A target that simulates bad sector behavior. 507e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney Useful for testing. 508e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney 509e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney If unsure, say N. 510e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney 5116bbc923dSHelen Koikeconfig DM_INIT 5126bbc923dSHelen Koike bool "DM \"dm-mod.create=\" parameter support" 5136bbc923dSHelen Koike depends on BLK_DEV_DM=y 514a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 5156bbc923dSHelen Koike Enable "dm-mod.create=" parameter to create mapped devices at init time. 5166bbc923dSHelen Koike This option is useful to allow mounting rootfs without requiring an 5176bbc923dSHelen Koike initramfs. 5186cf2a73cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-init.rst for dm-mod.create="..." 5196bbc923dSHelen Koike format. 5206bbc923dSHelen Koike 5216bbc923dSHelen Koike If unsure, say N. 5226bbc923dSHelen Koike 52351e5b2bdSMike Andersonconfig DM_UEVENT 524e0b215daSAlasdair G Kergon bool "DM uevents" 525e0b215daSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 526a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 52751e5b2bdSMike Anderson Generate udev events for DM events. 52851e5b2bdSMike Anderson 5293407ef52SJosef Bacikconfig DM_FLAKEY 530d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Flakey target" 531d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 532a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 5333407ef52SJosef Bacik A target that intermittently fails I/O for debugging purposes. 5343407ef52SJosef Bacik 535a4ffc152SMikulas Patockaconfig DM_VERITY 536d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Verity target support" 537d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 538a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka select CRYPTO 539a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka select CRYPTO_HASH 540a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka select DM_BUFIO 541a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 542a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka This device-mapper target creates a read-only device that 543a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka transparently validates the data on one underlying device against 544a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka a pre-generated tree of cryptographic checksums stored on a second 545a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka device. 546a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka 547a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka You'll need to activate the digests you're going to use in the 548a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka cryptoapi configuration. 549a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka 550a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 551a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka be called dm-verity. 552a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka 553a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka If unsure, say N. 554a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka 55588cd3e6cSJaskaran Khuranaconfig DM_VERITY_VERIFY_ROOTHASH_SIG 55688cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana def_bool n 55788cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana bool "Verity data device root hash signature verification support" 55888cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana depends on DM_VERITY 55988cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 56088cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana help 56188cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana Add ability for dm-verity device to be validated if the 56288cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana pre-generated tree of cryptographic checksums passed has a pkcs#7 56388cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana signature file that can validate the roothash of the tree. 5644da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün 5654da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün By default, rely on the builtin trusted keyring. 5664da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün 5674da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün If unsure, say N. 5684da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün 5694da8f8c8SMickaël Salaünconfig DM_VERITY_VERIFY_ROOTHASH_SIG_SECONDARY_KEYRING 5704da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün bool "Verity data device root hash signature verification with secondary keyring" 5714da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün depends on DM_VERITY_VERIFY_ROOTHASH_SIG 5724da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün depends on SECONDARY_TRUSTED_KEYRING 5734da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün help 5744da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün Rely on the secondary trusted keyring to verify dm-verity signatures. 57588cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana 57688cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana If unsure, say N. 57788cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana 578a739ff3fSSami Tolvanenconfig DM_VERITY_FEC 579a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen bool "Verity forward error correction support" 580a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen depends on DM_VERITY 581a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen select REED_SOLOMON 582a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen select REED_SOLOMON_DEC8 583a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 584a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen Add forward error correction support to dm-verity. This option 585a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen makes it possible to use pre-generated error correction data to 586a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen recover from corrupted blocks. 587a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen 588a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen If unsure, say N. 589a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen 5909d0eb0abSJim Ramsayconfig DM_SWITCH 5919d0eb0abSJim Ramsay tristate "Switch target support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 5929d0eb0abSJim Ramsay depends on BLK_DEV_DM 593a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 5949d0eb0abSJim Ramsay This device-mapper target creates a device that supports an arbitrary 5959d0eb0abSJim Ramsay mapping of fixed-size regions of I/O across a fixed set of paths. 5969d0eb0abSJim Ramsay The path used for any specific region can be switched dynamically 5979d0eb0abSJim Ramsay by sending the target a message. 5989d0eb0abSJim Ramsay 5999d0eb0abSJim Ramsay To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 6009d0eb0abSJim Ramsay be called dm-switch. 6019d0eb0abSJim Ramsay 6029d0eb0abSJim Ramsay If unsure, say N. 6039d0eb0abSJim Ramsay 6040e9cebe7SJosef Bacikconfig DM_LOG_WRITES 6050e9cebe7SJosef Bacik tristate "Log writes target support" 6060e9cebe7SJosef Bacik depends on BLK_DEV_DM 607a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 6080e9cebe7SJosef Bacik This device-mapper target takes two devices, one device to use 6090e9cebe7SJosef Bacik normally, one to log all write operations done to the first device. 6100e9cebe7SJosef Bacik This is for use by file system developers wishing to verify that 61157d42487SGeert Uytterhoeven their fs is writing a consistent file system at all times by allowing 6120e9cebe7SJosef Bacik them to replay the log in a variety of ways and to check the 6130e9cebe7SJosef Bacik contents. 6140e9cebe7SJosef Bacik 6150e9cebe7SJosef Bacik To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 6160e9cebe7SJosef Bacik be called dm-log-writes. 6170e9cebe7SJosef Bacik 6180e9cebe7SJosef Bacik If unsure, say N. 6190e9cebe7SJosef Bacik 6207eada909SMikulas Patockaconfig DM_INTEGRITY 6217ab84db6SMike Snitzer tristate "Integrity target support" 6227eada909SMikulas Patocka depends on BLK_DEV_DM 6237eada909SMikulas Patocka select BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY 6247eada909SMikulas Patocka select DM_BUFIO 6257eada909SMikulas Patocka select CRYPTO 626f7b347acSAnthony Iliopoulos select CRYPTO_SKCIPHER 6277eada909SMikulas Patocka select ASYNC_XOR 62882bb8599SMichael Weiß select DM_AUDIT if AUDIT 629a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 6307ab84db6SMike Snitzer This device-mapper target emulates a block device that has 6317ab84db6SMike Snitzer additional per-sector tags that can be used for storing 6327ab84db6SMike Snitzer integrity information. 6337ab84db6SMike Snitzer 6347ab84db6SMike Snitzer This integrity target is used with the dm-crypt target to 6357ab84db6SMike Snitzer provide authenticated disk encryption or it can be used 6367ab84db6SMike Snitzer standalone. 6377ab84db6SMike Snitzer 6387ab84db6SMike Snitzer To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 6397ab84db6SMike Snitzer be called dm-integrity. 6407ab84db6SMike Snitzer 6413b1a94c8SDamien Le Moalconfig DM_ZONED 6423b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal tristate "Drive-managed zoned block device target support" 6433b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal depends on BLK_DEV_DM 6443b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal depends on BLK_DEV_ZONED 645b690bd54SArnd Bergmann select CRC32 646a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 6473b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal This device-mapper target takes a host-managed or host-aware zoned 6483b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal block device and exposes most of its capacity as a regular block 6493b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal device (drive-managed zoned block device) without any write 6503b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal constraints. This is mainly intended for use with file systems that 6513b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal do not natively support zoned block devices but still want to 6523b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal benefit from the increased capacity offered by SMR disks. Other uses 6533b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal by applications using raw block devices (for example object stores) 6543b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal are also possible. 6553b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal 6563b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 6573b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal be called dm-zoned. 6583b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal 6597ab84db6SMike Snitzer If unsure, say N. 6607eada909SMikulas Patocka 6612cc1ae48SMichael Weißconfig DM_AUDIT 6622cc1ae48SMichael Weiß bool "DM audit events" 663*8d6bda0fSMike Snitzer depends on BLK_DEV_DM 6642cc1ae48SMichael Weiß depends on AUDIT 6652cc1ae48SMichael Weiß help 6662cc1ae48SMichael Weiß Generate audit events for device-mapper. 6672cc1ae48SMichael Weiß 6682cc1ae48SMichael Weiß Enables audit logging of several security relevant events in the 6692cc1ae48SMichael Weiß particular device-mapper targets, especially the integrity target. 6702cc1ae48SMichael Weiß 671afd44034SJan Engelhardtendif # MD 672