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 983fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 101da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 111da177e4SLinus Torvalds Support multiple physical spindles through a single logical device. 121da177e4SLinus Torvalds Required for RAID and logical volume management. 131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14afd44034SJan Engelhardtif MD 15afd44034SJan Engelhardt 161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BLK_DEV_MD 171da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "RAID support" 18c66fd019SChristoph Hellwig select BLOCK_HOLDER_DEPRECATED if SYSFS 19a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 201da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver lets you combine several hard disk partitions into one 211da177e4SLinus Torvalds logical block device. This can be used to simply append one 221da177e4SLinus Torvalds partition to another one or to combine several redundant hard disks 231da177e4SLinus Torvalds into a RAID1/4/5 device so as to provide protection against hard 241da177e4SLinus Torvalds disk failures. This is called "Software RAID" since the combining of 251da177e4SLinus Torvalds the partitions is done by the kernel. "Hardware RAID" means that the 261da177e4SLinus Torvalds combining is done by a dedicated controller; if you have such a 271da177e4SLinus Torvalds controller, you do not need to say Y here. 281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 291da177e4SLinus Torvalds More information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds Software RAID mini-HOWTO, available from 316f3bc22bSAlexander A. Klimov <https://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also learn 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools. 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 36a364092aSArjan van de Venconfig MD_AUTODETECT 37a364092aSArjan van de Ven bool "Autodetect RAID arrays during kernel boot" 38ce52aebdSAlan Jenkins depends on BLK_DEV_MD=y 39a364092aSArjan van de Ven default y 40a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 41a364092aSArjan van de Ven If you say Y here, then the kernel will try to autodetect raid 42a364092aSArjan van de Ven arrays as part of its boot process. 43a364092aSArjan van de Ven 44a364092aSArjan van de Ven If you don't use raid and say Y, this autodetection can cause 45a364092aSArjan van de Ven a several-second delay in the boot time due to various 46a364092aSArjan van de Ven synchronisation steps that are part of this step. 47a364092aSArjan van de Ven 48a364092aSArjan van de Ven If unsure, say Y. 49a364092aSArjan van de Ven 501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_LINEAR 51608f52e3SGuoqing Jiang tristate "Linear (append) mode (deprecated)" 521da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 53a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, then your multiple devices driver will be able to 551da177e4SLinus Torvalds use the so-called linear mode, i.e. it will combine the hard disk 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions by simply appending one to the other. 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module 591da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called linear. 601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_RAID0 641da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "RAID-0 (striping) mode" 651da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 66a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 671da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, then your multiple devices driver will be able to 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds use the so-called raid0 mode, i.e. it will combine the hard disk 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions into one logical device in such a fashion as to fill them 701da177e4SLinus Torvalds up evenly, one chunk here and one chunk there. This will increase 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds the throughput rate if the partitions reside on distinct disks. 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from 756f3bc22bSAlexander A. Klimov <https://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools. 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called raid0. 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_RAID1 841da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "RAID-1 (mirroring) mode" 851da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 86a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 871da177e4SLinus Torvalds A RAID-1 set consists of several disk drives which are exact copies 881da177e4SLinus Torvalds of each other. In the event of a mirror failure, the RAID driver 891da177e4SLinus Torvalds will continue to use the operational mirrors in the set, providing 901da177e4SLinus Torvalds an error free MD (multiple device) to the higher levels of the 911da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel. In a set with N drives, the available space is the capacity 921da177e4SLinus Torvalds of a single drive, and the set protects against a failure of (N - 1) 931da177e4SLinus Torvalds drives. 941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 951da177e4SLinus Torvalds Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the 961da177e4SLinus Torvalds Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from 976f3bc22bSAlexander A. Klimov <https://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also 981da177e4SLinus Torvalds learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools. 991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to use such a RAID-1 set, say Y. To compile this code 1011da177e4SLinus Torvalds as a module, choose M here: the module will be called raid1. 1021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1031da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 1041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_RAID10 10608fb730cSNeilBrown tristate "RAID-10 (mirrored striping) mode" 10708fb730cSNeilBrown depends on BLK_DEV_MD 108a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1091da177e4SLinus Torvalds RAID-10 provides a combination of striping (RAID-0) and 1104d2554d0SJustin Piszcz mirroring (RAID-1) with easier configuration and more flexible 1111da177e4SLinus Torvalds layout. 1121da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unlike RAID-0, but like RAID-1, RAID-10 requires all devices to 1131da177e4SLinus Torvalds be the same size (or at least, only as much as the smallest device 1141da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be used). 1151da177e4SLinus Torvalds RAID-10 provides a variety of layouts that provide different levels 1161da177e4SLinus Torvalds of redundancy and performance. 1171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1181da177e4SLinus Torvalds RAID-10 requires mdadm-1.7.0 or later, available at: 1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1204f6cce39SSeongJae Park https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ 1211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1221da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 1231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12416a53eccSNeilBrownconfig MD_RAID456 12516a53eccSNeilBrown tristate "RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 mode" 1261da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 127f5e70d0fSDavid Woodhouse select RAID6_PQ 12814f09e2fSArnd Bergmann select LIBCRC32C 1299bc89cd8SDan Williams select ASYNC_MEMCPY 1309bc89cd8SDan Williams select ASYNC_XOR 131ac6b53b6SDan Williams select ASYNC_PQ 132ac6b53b6SDan Williams select ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 133a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1341da177e4SLinus Torvalds A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides 1351da177e4SLinus Torvalds the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure 1361da177e4SLinus Torvalds of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives 1371da177e4SLinus Torvalds contain data sectors, and one drive contains the parity protection. 1381da177e4SLinus Torvalds For a RAID-4 set, the parity blocks are present on a single drive, 1391da177e4SLinus Torvalds while a RAID-5 set distributes the parity across the drives in one 1401da177e4SLinus Torvalds of the available parity distribution methods. 1411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14216a53eccSNeilBrown A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive 14316a53eccSNeilBrown provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects 14416a53eccSNeilBrown against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector 14516a53eccSNeilBrown (row) number, (N - 2) drives contain data sectors, and two 14616a53eccSNeilBrown drives contains two independent redundancy syndromes. Like 14716a53eccSNeilBrown RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives 14816a53eccSNeilBrown in one of the available parity distribution methods. 14916a53eccSNeilBrown 1501da177e4SLinus Torvalds Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the 1511da177e4SLinus Torvalds Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from 1526f3bc22bSAlexander A. Klimov <https://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also 1531da177e4SLinus Torvalds learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools. 1541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15516a53eccSNeilBrown If you want to use such a RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 set, say Y. To 1561da177e4SLinus Torvalds compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module 15716a53eccSNeilBrown will be called raid456. 1581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1591da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 1601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_MULTIPATH 162608f52e3SGuoqing Jiang tristate "Multipath I/O support (deprecated)" 1631da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 1641da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16593bd89a6SNeilBrown MD_MULTIPATH provides a simple multi-path personality for use 16693bd89a6SNeilBrown the MD framework. It is not under active development. New 16793bd89a6SNeilBrown projects should consider using DM_MULTIPATH which has more 16893bd89a6SNeilBrown features and more testing. 1691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 1711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_FAULTY 173608f52e3SGuoqing Jiang tristate "Faulty test module for MD (deprecated)" 1741da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 1751da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1761da177e4SLinus Torvalds The "faulty" module allows for a block device that occasionally returns 1771da177e4SLinus Torvalds read or write errors. It is useful for testing. 1781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1791da177e4SLinus Torvalds In unsure, say N. 1801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1818e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues 1828e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodriguesconfig MD_CLUSTER 183f0e230adSGuoqing Jiang tristate "Cluster Support for MD" 1848e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues depends on BLK_DEV_MD 1858e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues depends on DLM 1868e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues default n 187a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1888e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues Clustering support for MD devices. This enables locking and 1898e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues synchronization across multiple systems on the cluster, so all 1908e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues nodes in the cluster can access the MD devices simultaneously. 1918e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues 1928e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues This brings the redundancy (and uptime) of RAID levels across the 193f0e230adSGuoqing Jiang nodes of the cluster. Currently, it can work with raid1 and raid10 194f0e230adSGuoqing Jiang (limited support). 1958e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues 1968e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues If unsure, say N. 1978e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues 198cafe5635SKent Overstreetsource "drivers/md/bcache/Kconfig" 199cafe5635SKent Overstreet 2002995fa78SMikulas Patockaconfig BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN 2016341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 2022995fa78SMikulas Patocka 2031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BLK_DEV_DM 2041da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Device mapper support" 205c66fd019SChristoph Hellwig select BLOCK_HOLDER_DEPRECATED if SYSFS 2062995fa78SMikulas Patocka select BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN 207*248c7933SChristoph Hellwig select BLK_MQ_STACKING 208976431b0SDan Williams depends on DAX || DAX=n 209a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds Device-mapper is a low level volume manager. It works by allowing 2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds people to specify mappings for ranges of logical sectors. Various 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds mapping types are available, in addition people may write their own 2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules containing custom mappings if they wish. 2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds Higher level volume managers such as LVM2 use this driver. 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds called dm-mod. 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 222cc109201SBryn Reevesconfig DM_DEBUG 2236341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Device mapper debugging support" 2240149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 225a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 226cc109201SBryn Reeves Enable this for messages that may help debug device-mapper problems. 227cc109201SBryn Reeves 228cc109201SBryn Reeves If unsure, say N. 229cc109201SBryn Reeves 23095d402f0SMikulas Patockaconfig DM_BUFIO 23195d402f0SMikulas Patocka tristate 232d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 233a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 23495d402f0SMikulas Patocka This interface allows you to do buffered I/O on a device and acts 23595d402f0SMikulas Patocka as a cache, holding recently-read blocks in memory and performing 23695d402f0SMikulas Patocka delayed writes. 23795d402f0SMikulas Patocka 2382e8ed711SJoe Thornberconfig DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_MANAGER_LOCKING 2392e8ed711SJoe Thornber bool "Block manager locking" 2402e8ed711SJoe Thornber depends on DM_BUFIO 241a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2422e8ed711SJoe Thornber Block manager locking can catch various metadata corruption issues. 2432e8ed711SJoe Thornber 2442e8ed711SJoe Thornber If unsure, say N. 2452e8ed711SJoe Thornber 24686bad0c7SMikulas Patockaconfig DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_STACK_TRACING 24786bad0c7SMikulas Patocka bool "Keep stack trace of persistent data block lock holders" 2482e8ed711SJoe Thornber depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_MANAGER_LOCKING 24986bad0c7SMikulas Patocka select STACKTRACE 250a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 25186bad0c7SMikulas Patocka Enable this for messages that may help debug problems with the 25286bad0c7SMikulas Patocka block manager locking used by thin provisioning and caching. 25386bad0c7SMikulas Patocka 25486bad0c7SMikulas Patocka If unsure, say N. 2553f068040SMike Snitzer 2564f81a417SMike Snitzerconfig DM_BIO_PRISON 2574f81a417SMike Snitzer tristate 258d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 259a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2604f81a417SMike Snitzer Some bio locking schemes used by other device-mapper targets 2614f81a417SMike Snitzer including thin provisioning. 2624f81a417SMike Snitzer 263991d9fa0SJoe Thornbersource "drivers/md/persistent-data/Kconfig" 264991d9fa0SJoe Thornber 26518a5bf27SScott Bauerconfig DM_UNSTRIPED 26618a5bf27SScott Bauer tristate "Unstriped target" 26718a5bf27SScott Bauer depends on BLK_DEV_DM 268a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 26918a5bf27SScott Bauer Unstripes I/O so it is issued solely on a single drive in a HW 27018a5bf27SScott Bauer RAID0 or dm-striped target. 27118a5bf27SScott Bauer 2721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DM_CRYPT 2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Crypt target support" 2740149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 27527f5411aSDmitry Baryshkov depends on (ENCRYPTED_KEYS || ENCRYPTED_KEYS=n) 276363880c4SAhmad Fatoum depends on (TRUSTED_KEYS || TRUSTED_KEYS=n) 2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO 2783263263fSHerbert Xu select CRYPTO_CBC 279a1a262b6SArd Biesheuvel select CRYPTO_ESSIV 280a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds This device-mapper target allows you to create a device that 2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds transparently encrypts the data on it. You'll need to activate 2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds the ciphers you're going to use in the cryptoapi configuration. 2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 285cf352487SLoic Pefferkorn For further information on dm-crypt and userspace tools see: 2866ed443c0SBaruch Siach <https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/wikis/DMCrypt> 2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds be called dm-crypt. 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DM_SNAPSHOT 2940149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Snapshot target" 2950149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 29655494bf2SMikulas Patocka select DM_BUFIO 297a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2984d2554d0SJustin Piszcz Allow volume managers to take writable snapshots of a device. 2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 300991d9fa0SJoe Thornberconfig DM_THIN_PROVISIONING 301d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Thin provisioning target" 302d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 303991d9fa0SJoe Thornber select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA 3044f81a417SMike Snitzer select DM_BIO_PRISON 305a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 306991d9fa0SJoe Thornber Provides thin provisioning and snapshots that share a data store. 307991d9fa0SJoe Thornber 308c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornberconfig DM_CACHE 309c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber tristate "Cache target (EXPERIMENTAL)" 310c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber depends on BLK_DEV_DM 311c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber default n 312c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA 313c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber select DM_BIO_PRISON 314a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 315c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber dm-cache attempts to improve performance of a block device by 316c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber moving frequently used data to a smaller, higher performance 317c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber device. Different 'policy' plugins can be used to change the 318c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber algorithms used to select which blocks are promoted, demoted, 319c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber cleaned etc. It supports writeback and writethrough modes. 320c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber 32166a63635SJoe Thornberconfig DM_CACHE_SMQ 32266a63635SJoe Thornber tristate "Stochastic MQ Cache Policy (EXPERIMENTAL)" 32366a63635SJoe Thornber depends on DM_CACHE 32466a63635SJoe Thornber default y 325a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 32666a63635SJoe Thornber A cache policy that uses a multiqueue ordered by recent hits 32766a63635SJoe Thornber to select which blocks should be promoted and demoted. 32866a63635SJoe Thornber This is meant to be a general purpose policy. It prioritises 32966a63635SJoe Thornber reads over writes. This SMQ policy (vs MQ) offers the promise 33066a63635SJoe Thornber of less memory utilization, improved performance and increased 33166a63635SJoe Thornber adaptability in the face of changing workloads. 33266a63635SJoe Thornber 33348debafeSMikulas Patockaconfig DM_WRITECACHE 33448debafeSMikulas Patocka tristate "Writecache target" 33548debafeSMikulas Patocka depends on BLK_DEV_DM 336a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 33748debafeSMikulas Patocka The writecache target caches writes on persistent memory or SSD. 33848debafeSMikulas Patocka It is intended for databases or other programs that need extremely 33948debafeSMikulas Patocka low commit latency. 34048debafeSMikulas Patocka 34148debafeSMikulas Patocka The writecache target doesn't cache reads because reads are supposed 34248debafeSMikulas Patocka to be cached in standard RAM. 34348debafeSMikulas Patocka 344d3c7b35cSHeinz Mauelshagenconfig DM_EBS 345d3c7b35cSHeinz Mauelshagen tristate "Emulated block size target (EXPERIMENTAL)" 3461c277e50SChristoph Hellwig depends on BLK_DEV_DM && !HIGHMEM 347d3c7b35cSHeinz Mauelshagen select DM_BUFIO 348d3c7b35cSHeinz Mauelshagen help 349d3c7b35cSHeinz Mauelshagen dm-ebs emulates smaller logical block size on backing devices 350d3c7b35cSHeinz Mauelshagen with larger ones (e.g. 512 byte sectors on 4K native disks). 351d3c7b35cSHeinz Mauelshagen 352eec40579SJoe Thornberconfig DM_ERA 353eec40579SJoe Thornber tristate "Era target (EXPERIMENTAL)" 354eec40579SJoe Thornber depends on BLK_DEV_DM 355eec40579SJoe Thornber default n 356eec40579SJoe Thornber select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA 357eec40579SJoe Thornber select DM_BIO_PRISON 358a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 359eec40579SJoe Thornber dm-era tracks which parts of a block device are written to 360eec40579SJoe Thornber over time. Useful for maintaining cache coherency when using 361eec40579SJoe Thornber vendor snapshots. 362eec40579SJoe Thornber 3637431b783SNikos Tsironisconfig DM_CLONE 3647431b783SNikos Tsironis tristate "Clone target (EXPERIMENTAL)" 3657431b783SNikos Tsironis depends on BLK_DEV_DM 3667431b783SNikos Tsironis default n 3677431b783SNikos Tsironis select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA 368a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3697431b783SNikos Tsironis dm-clone produces a one-to-one copy of an existing, read-only source 3707431b783SNikos Tsironis device into a writable destination device. The cloned device is 3717431b783SNikos Tsironis visible/mountable immediately and the copy of the source device to the 3727431b783SNikos Tsironis destination device happens in the background, in parallel with user 3737431b783SNikos Tsironis I/O. 3747431b783SNikos Tsironis 3757431b783SNikos Tsironis If unsure, say N. 3767431b783SNikos Tsironis 3771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DM_MIRROR 3780149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Mirror target" 3790149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 380a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3811da177e4SLinus Torvalds Allow volume managers to mirror logical volumes, also 3821da177e4SLinus Torvalds needed for live data migration tools such as 'pvmove'. 3831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3845442851eSMikulas Patockaconfig DM_LOG_USERSPACE 3855442851eSMikulas Patocka tristate "Mirror userspace logging" 3865442851eSMikulas Patocka depends on DM_MIRROR && NET 3875442851eSMikulas Patocka select CONNECTOR 388a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3895442851eSMikulas Patocka The userspace logging module provides a mechanism for 3905442851eSMikulas Patocka relaying the dm-dirty-log API to userspace. Log designs 3915442851eSMikulas Patocka which are more suited to userspace implementation (e.g. 3925442851eSMikulas Patocka shared storage logs) or experimental logs can be implemented 3935442851eSMikulas Patocka by leveraging this framework. 3945442851eSMikulas Patocka 3959d09e663SNeilBrownconfig DM_RAID 396d9f691c3SNeilBrown tristate "RAID 1/4/5/6/10 target" 397035220b3SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 3987b81ef8bSMikulas Patocka select MD_RAID0 399b12d437bSJonathan Brassow select MD_RAID1 400d9f691c3SNeilBrown select MD_RAID10 4019d09e663SNeilBrown select MD_RAID456 4029d09e663SNeilBrown select BLK_DEV_MD 403a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 404d9f691c3SNeilBrown A dm target that supports RAID1, RAID10, RAID4, RAID5 and RAID6 mappings 4059d09e663SNeilBrown 4069d09e663SNeilBrown A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides 4079d09e663SNeilBrown the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure 4089d09e663SNeilBrown of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives 4099d09e663SNeilBrown contain data sectors, and one drive contains the parity protection. 4109d09e663SNeilBrown For a RAID-4 set, the parity blocks are present on a single drive, 4119d09e663SNeilBrown while a RAID-5 set distributes the parity across the drives in one 4129d09e663SNeilBrown of the available parity distribution methods. 4139d09e663SNeilBrown 4149d09e663SNeilBrown A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive 4159d09e663SNeilBrown provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects 4169d09e663SNeilBrown against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector 4179d09e663SNeilBrown (row) number, (N - 2) drives contain data sectors, and two 4189d09e663SNeilBrown drives contains two independent redundancy syndromes. Like 4199d09e663SNeilBrown RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives 4209d09e663SNeilBrown in one of the available parity distribution methods. 4219d09e663SNeilBrown 4221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DM_ZERO 4230149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Zero target" 4240149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 425a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4261da177e4SLinus Torvalds A target that discards writes, and returns all zeroes for 4271da177e4SLinus Torvalds reads. Useful in some recovery situations. 4281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DM_MULTIPATH 4300149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Multipath target" 4310149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 432fe9233fbSChandra Seetharaman # nasty syntax but means make DM_MULTIPATH independent 433fe9233fbSChandra Seetharaman # of SCSI_DH if the latter isn't defined but if 434fe9233fbSChandra Seetharaman # it is, DM_MULTIPATH must depend on it. We get a build 435fe9233fbSChandra Seetharaman # error if SCSI_DH=m and DM_MULTIPATH=y 436294ab783SChristoph Hellwig depends on !SCSI_DH || SCSI 437a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4381da177e4SLinus Torvalds Allow volume managers to support multipath hardware. 4391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 440fd5e0339SKiyoshi Uedaconfig DM_MULTIPATH_QL 441fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the number of in-flight I/Os" 442fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda depends on DM_MULTIPATH 443a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 444fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects 445fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda the path with the least number of in-flight I/Os. 446fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda 447fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda If unsure, say N. 448fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda 449f392ba88SKiyoshi Uedaconfig DM_MULTIPATH_ST 450f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the service time" 451f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda depends on DM_MULTIPATH 452a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 453f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects 454f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda the path expected to complete the incoming I/O in the shortest 455f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda time. 456f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda 457f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda If unsure, say N. 458f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda 4592613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykovconfig DM_MULTIPATH_HST 4602613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov tristate "I/O Path Selector based on historical service time" 4612613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov depends on DM_MULTIPATH 4622613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov help 4632613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects 4642613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov the path expected to complete the incoming I/O in the shortest 4652613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov time by comparing estimated service time (based on historical 4662613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov service time). 4672613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov 4682613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov If unsure, say N. 4692613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov 470e4d2e82bSMike Christieconfig DM_MULTIPATH_IOA 471e4d2e82bSMike Christie tristate "I/O Path Selector based on CPU submission" 472e4d2e82bSMike Christie depends on DM_MULTIPATH 473e4d2e82bSMike Christie help 474e4d2e82bSMike Christie This path selector selects the path based on the CPU the IO is 475e4d2e82bSMike Christie executed on and the CPU to path mapping setup at path addition time. 476e4d2e82bSMike Christie 477e4d2e82bSMike Christie If unsure, say N. 478e4d2e82bSMike Christie 47926b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagenconfig DM_DELAY 480d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon tristate "I/O delaying target" 481d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 482a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 48326b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen A target that delays reads and/or writes and can send 48426b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen them to different devices. Useful for testing. 48526b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen 48626b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen If unsure, say N. 48726b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen 488e4f3fabdSBryan Gurneyconfig DM_DUST 489e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney tristate "Bad sector simulation target" 490e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney depends on BLK_DEV_DM 491a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 492e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney A target that simulates bad sector behavior. 493e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney Useful for testing. 494e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney 495e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney If unsure, say N. 496e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney 4976bbc923dSHelen Koikeconfig DM_INIT 4986bbc923dSHelen Koike bool "DM \"dm-mod.create=\" parameter support" 4996bbc923dSHelen Koike depends on BLK_DEV_DM=y 500a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 5016bbc923dSHelen Koike Enable "dm-mod.create=" parameter to create mapped devices at init time. 5026bbc923dSHelen Koike This option is useful to allow mounting rootfs without requiring an 5036bbc923dSHelen Koike initramfs. 5046cf2a73cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-init.rst for dm-mod.create="..." 5056bbc923dSHelen Koike format. 5066bbc923dSHelen Koike 5076bbc923dSHelen Koike If unsure, say N. 5086bbc923dSHelen Koike 50951e5b2bdSMike Andersonconfig DM_UEVENT 510e0b215daSAlasdair G Kergon bool "DM uevents" 511e0b215daSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 512a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 51351e5b2bdSMike Anderson Generate udev events for DM events. 51451e5b2bdSMike Anderson 5153407ef52SJosef Bacikconfig DM_FLAKEY 516d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Flakey target" 517d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 518a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 5193407ef52SJosef Bacik A target that intermittently fails I/O for debugging purposes. 5203407ef52SJosef Bacik 521a4ffc152SMikulas Patockaconfig DM_VERITY 522d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Verity target support" 523d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 524a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka select CRYPTO 525a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka select CRYPTO_HASH 526a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka select DM_BUFIO 527a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 528a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka This device-mapper target creates a read-only device that 529a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka transparently validates the data on one underlying device against 530a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka a pre-generated tree of cryptographic checksums stored on a second 531a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka device. 532a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka 533a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka You'll need to activate the digests you're going to use in the 534a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka cryptoapi configuration. 535a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka 536a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 537a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka be called dm-verity. 538a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka 539a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka If unsure, say N. 540a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka 54188cd3e6cSJaskaran Khuranaconfig DM_VERITY_VERIFY_ROOTHASH_SIG 54288cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana def_bool n 54388cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana bool "Verity data device root hash signature verification support" 54488cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana depends on DM_VERITY 54588cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 54688cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana help 54788cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana Add ability for dm-verity device to be validated if the 54888cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana pre-generated tree of cryptographic checksums passed has a pkcs#7 54988cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana signature file that can validate the roothash of the tree. 5504da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün 5514da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün By default, rely on the builtin trusted keyring. 5524da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün 5534da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün If unsure, say N. 5544da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün 5554da8f8c8SMickaël Salaünconfig DM_VERITY_VERIFY_ROOTHASH_SIG_SECONDARY_KEYRING 5564da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün bool "Verity data device root hash signature verification with secondary keyring" 5574da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün depends on DM_VERITY_VERIFY_ROOTHASH_SIG 5584da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün depends on SECONDARY_TRUSTED_KEYRING 5594da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün help 5604da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün Rely on the secondary trusted keyring to verify dm-verity signatures. 56188cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana 56288cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana If unsure, say N. 56388cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana 564a739ff3fSSami Tolvanenconfig DM_VERITY_FEC 565a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen bool "Verity forward error correction support" 566a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen depends on DM_VERITY 567a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen select REED_SOLOMON 568a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen select REED_SOLOMON_DEC8 569a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 570a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen Add forward error correction support to dm-verity. This option 571a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen makes it possible to use pre-generated error correction data to 572a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen recover from corrupted blocks. 573a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen 574a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen If unsure, say N. 575a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen 5769d0eb0abSJim Ramsayconfig DM_SWITCH 5779d0eb0abSJim Ramsay tristate "Switch target support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 5789d0eb0abSJim Ramsay depends on BLK_DEV_DM 579a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 5809d0eb0abSJim Ramsay This device-mapper target creates a device that supports an arbitrary 5819d0eb0abSJim Ramsay mapping of fixed-size regions of I/O across a fixed set of paths. 5829d0eb0abSJim Ramsay The path used for any specific region can be switched dynamically 5839d0eb0abSJim Ramsay by sending the target a message. 5849d0eb0abSJim Ramsay 5859d0eb0abSJim Ramsay To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 5869d0eb0abSJim Ramsay be called dm-switch. 5879d0eb0abSJim Ramsay 5889d0eb0abSJim Ramsay If unsure, say N. 5899d0eb0abSJim Ramsay 5900e9cebe7SJosef Bacikconfig DM_LOG_WRITES 5910e9cebe7SJosef Bacik tristate "Log writes target support" 5920e9cebe7SJosef Bacik depends on BLK_DEV_DM 593a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 5940e9cebe7SJosef Bacik This device-mapper target takes two devices, one device to use 5950e9cebe7SJosef Bacik normally, one to log all write operations done to the first device. 5960e9cebe7SJosef Bacik This is for use by file system developers wishing to verify that 59757d42487SGeert Uytterhoeven their fs is writing a consistent file system at all times by allowing 5980e9cebe7SJosef Bacik them to replay the log in a variety of ways and to check the 5990e9cebe7SJosef Bacik contents. 6000e9cebe7SJosef Bacik 6010e9cebe7SJosef Bacik To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 6020e9cebe7SJosef Bacik be called dm-log-writes. 6030e9cebe7SJosef Bacik 6040e9cebe7SJosef Bacik If unsure, say N. 6050e9cebe7SJosef Bacik 6067eada909SMikulas Patockaconfig DM_INTEGRITY 6077ab84db6SMike Snitzer tristate "Integrity target support" 6087eada909SMikulas Patocka depends on BLK_DEV_DM 6097eada909SMikulas Patocka select BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY 6107eada909SMikulas Patocka select DM_BUFIO 6117eada909SMikulas Patocka select CRYPTO 612f7b347acSAnthony Iliopoulos select CRYPTO_SKCIPHER 6137eada909SMikulas Patocka select ASYNC_XOR 61482bb8599SMichael Weiß select DM_AUDIT if AUDIT 615a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 6167ab84db6SMike Snitzer This device-mapper target emulates a block device that has 6177ab84db6SMike Snitzer additional per-sector tags that can be used for storing 6187ab84db6SMike Snitzer integrity information. 6197ab84db6SMike Snitzer 6207ab84db6SMike Snitzer This integrity target is used with the dm-crypt target to 6217ab84db6SMike Snitzer provide authenticated disk encryption or it can be used 6227ab84db6SMike Snitzer standalone. 6237ab84db6SMike Snitzer 6247ab84db6SMike Snitzer To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 6257ab84db6SMike Snitzer be called dm-integrity. 6267ab84db6SMike Snitzer 6273b1a94c8SDamien Le Moalconfig DM_ZONED 6283b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal tristate "Drive-managed zoned block device target support" 6293b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal depends on BLK_DEV_DM 6303b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal depends on BLK_DEV_ZONED 631b690bd54SArnd Bergmann select CRC32 632a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 6333b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal This device-mapper target takes a host-managed or host-aware zoned 6343b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal block device and exposes most of its capacity as a regular block 6353b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal device (drive-managed zoned block device) without any write 6363b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal constraints. This is mainly intended for use with file systems that 6373b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal do not natively support zoned block devices but still want to 6383b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal benefit from the increased capacity offered by SMR disks. Other uses 6393b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal by applications using raw block devices (for example object stores) 6403b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal are also possible. 6413b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal 6423b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 6433b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal be called dm-zoned. 6443b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal 6457ab84db6SMike Snitzer If unsure, say N. 6467eada909SMikulas Patocka 6472cc1ae48SMichael Weißconfig DM_AUDIT 6482cc1ae48SMichael Weiß bool "DM audit events" 6492cc1ae48SMichael Weiß depends on AUDIT 6502cc1ae48SMichael Weiß help 6512cc1ae48SMichael Weiß Generate audit events for device-mapper. 6522cc1ae48SMichael Weiß 6532cc1ae48SMichael Weiß Enables audit logging of several security relevant events in the 6542cc1ae48SMichael Weiß particular device-mapper targets, especially the integrity target. 6552cc1ae48SMichael Weiß 656afd44034SJan Engelhardtendif # MD 657