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 19*6c0f5898SNeilBrown # BLOCK_LEGACY_AUTOLOAD requirement should be removed 20*6c0f5898SNeilBrown # after relevant mdadm enhancements - to make "names=yes" 21*6c0f5898SNeilBrown # the default - are widely available. 22*6c0f5898SNeilBrown 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 541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_LINEAR 55608f52e3SGuoqing Jiang tristate "Linear (append) mode (deprecated)" 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 57a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, then your multiple devices driver will be able to 591da177e4SLinus Torvalds use the so-called linear mode, i.e. it will combine the hard disk 601da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions by simply appending one to the other. 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called linear. 641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 651da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_RAID0 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "RAID-0 (striping) mode" 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 70a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, then your multiple devices driver will be able to 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds use the so-called raid0 mode, i.e. it will combine the hard disk 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions into one logical device in such a fashion as to fill them 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds up evenly, one chunk here and one chunk there. This will increase 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds the throughput rate if the partitions reside on distinct disks. 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from 796f3bc22bSAlexander A. Klimov <https://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools. 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called raid0. 841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 851da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_RAID1 881da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "RAID-1 (mirroring) mode" 891da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 90a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 911da177e4SLinus Torvalds A RAID-1 set consists of several disk drives which are exact copies 921da177e4SLinus Torvalds of each other. In the event of a mirror failure, the RAID driver 931da177e4SLinus Torvalds will continue to use the operational mirrors in the set, providing 941da177e4SLinus Torvalds an error free MD (multiple device) to the higher levels of the 951da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel. In a set with N drives, the available space is the capacity 961da177e4SLinus Torvalds of a single drive, and the set protects against a failure of (N - 1) 971da177e4SLinus Torvalds drives. 981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 991da177e4SLinus Torvalds Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the 1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from 1016f3bc22bSAlexander A. Klimov <https://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also 1021da177e4SLinus Torvalds learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools. 1031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1041da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to use such a RAID-1 set, say Y. To compile this code 1051da177e4SLinus Torvalds as a module, choose M here: the module will be called raid1. 1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 1081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_RAID10 11008fb730cSNeilBrown tristate "RAID-10 (mirrored striping) mode" 11108fb730cSNeilBrown depends on BLK_DEV_MD 112a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1131da177e4SLinus Torvalds RAID-10 provides a combination of striping (RAID-0) and 1144d2554d0SJustin Piszcz mirroring (RAID-1) with easier configuration and more flexible 1151da177e4SLinus Torvalds layout. 1161da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unlike RAID-0, but like RAID-1, RAID-10 requires all devices to 1171da177e4SLinus Torvalds be the same size (or at least, only as much as the smallest device 1181da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be used). 1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds RAID-10 provides a variety of layouts that provide different levels 1201da177e4SLinus Torvalds of redundancy and performance. 1211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1221da177e4SLinus Torvalds RAID-10 requires mdadm-1.7.0 or later, available at: 1231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1244f6cce39SSeongJae Park https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ 1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1261da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 1271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12816a53eccSNeilBrownconfig MD_RAID456 12916a53eccSNeilBrown tristate "RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 mode" 1301da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 131f5e70d0fSDavid Woodhouse select RAID6_PQ 13214f09e2fSArnd Bergmann select LIBCRC32C 1339bc89cd8SDan Williams select ASYNC_MEMCPY 1349bc89cd8SDan Williams select ASYNC_XOR 135ac6b53b6SDan Williams select ASYNC_PQ 136ac6b53b6SDan Williams select ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 137a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1381da177e4SLinus Torvalds A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides 1391da177e4SLinus Torvalds the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure 1401da177e4SLinus Torvalds of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives 1411da177e4SLinus Torvalds contain data sectors, and one drive contains the parity protection. 1421da177e4SLinus Torvalds For a RAID-4 set, the parity blocks are present on a single drive, 1431da177e4SLinus Torvalds while a RAID-5 set distributes the parity across the drives in one 1441da177e4SLinus Torvalds of the available parity distribution methods. 1451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14616a53eccSNeilBrown A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive 14716a53eccSNeilBrown provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects 14816a53eccSNeilBrown against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector 14916a53eccSNeilBrown (row) number, (N - 2) drives contain data sectors, and two 15016a53eccSNeilBrown drives contains two independent redundancy syndromes. Like 15116a53eccSNeilBrown RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives 15216a53eccSNeilBrown in one of the available parity distribution methods. 15316a53eccSNeilBrown 1541da177e4SLinus Torvalds Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the 1551da177e4SLinus Torvalds Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from 1566f3bc22bSAlexander A. Klimov <https://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also 1571da177e4SLinus Torvalds learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools. 1581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15916a53eccSNeilBrown If you want to use such a RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 set, say Y. To 1601da177e4SLinus Torvalds compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module 16116a53eccSNeilBrown will be called raid456. 1621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1631da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 1641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_MULTIPATH 166608f52e3SGuoqing Jiang tristate "Multipath I/O support (deprecated)" 1671da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 1681da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16993bd89a6SNeilBrown MD_MULTIPATH provides a simple multi-path personality for use 17093bd89a6SNeilBrown the MD framework. It is not under active development. New 17193bd89a6SNeilBrown projects should consider using DM_MULTIPATH which has more 17293bd89a6SNeilBrown features and more testing. 1731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1741da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 1751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_FAULTY 177608f52e3SGuoqing Jiang tristate "Faulty test module for MD (deprecated)" 1781da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 1791da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1801da177e4SLinus Torvalds The "faulty" module allows for a block device that occasionally returns 1811da177e4SLinus Torvalds read or write errors. It is useful for testing. 1821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1831da177e4SLinus Torvalds In unsure, say N. 1841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1858e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues 1868e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodriguesconfig MD_CLUSTER 187f0e230adSGuoqing Jiang tristate "Cluster Support for MD" 1888e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues depends on BLK_DEV_MD 1898e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues depends on DLM 1908e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues default n 191a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 1928e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues Clustering support for MD devices. This enables locking and 1938e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues synchronization across multiple systems on the cluster, so all 1948e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues nodes in the cluster can access the MD devices simultaneously. 1958e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues 1968e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues This brings the redundancy (and uptime) of RAID levels across the 197f0e230adSGuoqing Jiang nodes of the cluster. Currently, it can work with raid1 and raid10 198f0e230adSGuoqing Jiang (limited support). 1998e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues 2008e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues If unsure, say N. 2018e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues 202cafe5635SKent Overstreetsource "drivers/md/bcache/Kconfig" 203cafe5635SKent Overstreet 2042995fa78SMikulas Patockaconfig BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN 2056341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 2062995fa78SMikulas Patocka 2071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BLK_DEV_DM 2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Device mapper support" 209c66fd019SChristoph Hellwig select BLOCK_HOLDER_DEPRECATED if SYSFS 2102995fa78SMikulas Patocka select BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN 211248c7933SChristoph Hellwig select BLK_MQ_STACKING 212976431b0SDan Williams depends on DAX || DAX=n 213a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds Device-mapper is a low level volume manager. It works by allowing 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds people to specify mappings for ranges of logical sectors. Various 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds mapping types are available, in addition people may write their own 2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules containing custom mappings if they wish. 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds Higher level volume managers such as LVM2 use this driver. 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds called dm-mod. 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 226cc109201SBryn Reevesconfig DM_DEBUG 2276341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Device mapper debugging support" 2280149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 229a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 230cc109201SBryn Reeves Enable this for messages that may help debug device-mapper problems. 231cc109201SBryn Reeves 232cc109201SBryn Reeves If unsure, say N. 233cc109201SBryn Reeves 23495d402f0SMikulas Patockaconfig DM_BUFIO 23595d402f0SMikulas Patocka tristate 236d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 237a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 23895d402f0SMikulas Patocka This interface allows you to do buffered I/O on a device and acts 23995d402f0SMikulas Patocka as a cache, holding recently-read blocks in memory and performing 24095d402f0SMikulas Patocka delayed writes. 24195d402f0SMikulas Patocka 2422e8ed711SJoe Thornberconfig DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_MANAGER_LOCKING 2432e8ed711SJoe Thornber bool "Block manager locking" 2442e8ed711SJoe Thornber depends on DM_BUFIO 245a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2462e8ed711SJoe Thornber Block manager locking can catch various metadata corruption issues. 2472e8ed711SJoe Thornber 2482e8ed711SJoe Thornber If unsure, say N. 2492e8ed711SJoe Thornber 25086bad0c7SMikulas Patockaconfig DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_STACK_TRACING 25186bad0c7SMikulas Patocka bool "Keep stack trace of persistent data block lock holders" 2522e8ed711SJoe Thornber depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_MANAGER_LOCKING 25386bad0c7SMikulas Patocka select STACKTRACE 254a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 25586bad0c7SMikulas Patocka Enable this for messages that may help debug problems with the 25686bad0c7SMikulas Patocka block manager locking used by thin provisioning and caching. 25786bad0c7SMikulas Patocka 25886bad0c7SMikulas Patocka If unsure, say N. 2593f068040SMike Snitzer 2604f81a417SMike Snitzerconfig DM_BIO_PRISON 2614f81a417SMike Snitzer tristate 262d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 263a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2644f81a417SMike Snitzer Some bio locking schemes used by other device-mapper targets 2654f81a417SMike Snitzer including thin provisioning. 2664f81a417SMike Snitzer 267991d9fa0SJoe Thornbersource "drivers/md/persistent-data/Kconfig" 268991d9fa0SJoe Thornber 26918a5bf27SScott Bauerconfig DM_UNSTRIPED 27018a5bf27SScott Bauer tristate "Unstriped target" 27118a5bf27SScott Bauer depends on BLK_DEV_DM 272a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 27318a5bf27SScott Bauer Unstripes I/O so it is issued solely on a single drive in a HW 27418a5bf27SScott Bauer RAID0 or dm-striped target. 27518a5bf27SScott Bauer 2761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DM_CRYPT 2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Crypt target support" 2780149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 27927f5411aSDmitry Baryshkov depends on (ENCRYPTED_KEYS || ENCRYPTED_KEYS=n) 280363880c4SAhmad Fatoum depends on (TRUSTED_KEYS || TRUSTED_KEYS=n) 2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO 2823263263fSHerbert Xu select CRYPTO_CBC 283a1a262b6SArd Biesheuvel select CRYPTO_ESSIV 284a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds This device-mapper target allows you to create a device that 2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds transparently encrypts the data on it. You'll need to activate 2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds the ciphers you're going to use in the cryptoapi configuration. 2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 289cf352487SLoic Pefferkorn For further information on dm-crypt and userspace tools see: 2906ed443c0SBaruch Siach <https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/wikis/DMCrypt> 2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds be called dm-crypt. 2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DM_SNAPSHOT 2980149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Snapshot target" 2990149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 30055494bf2SMikulas Patocka select DM_BUFIO 301a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3024d2554d0SJustin Piszcz Allow volume managers to take writable snapshots of a device. 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 304991d9fa0SJoe Thornberconfig DM_THIN_PROVISIONING 305d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Thin provisioning target" 306d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 307991d9fa0SJoe Thornber select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA 3084f81a417SMike Snitzer select DM_BIO_PRISON 309a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 310991d9fa0SJoe Thornber Provides thin provisioning and snapshots that share a data store. 311991d9fa0SJoe Thornber 312c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornberconfig DM_CACHE 313c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber tristate "Cache target (EXPERIMENTAL)" 314c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber depends on BLK_DEV_DM 315c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber default n 316c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA 317c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber select DM_BIO_PRISON 318a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 319c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber dm-cache attempts to improve performance of a block device by 320c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber moving frequently used data to a smaller, higher performance 321c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber device. Different 'policy' plugins can be used to change the 322c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber algorithms used to select which blocks are promoted, demoted, 323c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber cleaned etc. It supports writeback and writethrough modes. 324c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber 32566a63635SJoe Thornberconfig DM_CACHE_SMQ 32666a63635SJoe Thornber tristate "Stochastic MQ Cache Policy (EXPERIMENTAL)" 32766a63635SJoe Thornber depends on DM_CACHE 32866a63635SJoe Thornber default y 329a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 33066a63635SJoe Thornber A cache policy that uses a multiqueue ordered by recent hits 33166a63635SJoe Thornber to select which blocks should be promoted and demoted. 33266a63635SJoe Thornber This is meant to be a general purpose policy. It prioritises 33366a63635SJoe Thornber reads over writes. This SMQ policy (vs MQ) offers the promise 33466a63635SJoe Thornber of less memory utilization, improved performance and increased 33566a63635SJoe Thornber adaptability in the face of changing workloads. 33666a63635SJoe Thornber 33748debafeSMikulas Patockaconfig DM_WRITECACHE 33848debafeSMikulas Patocka tristate "Writecache target" 33948debafeSMikulas Patocka depends on BLK_DEV_DM 340a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 34148debafeSMikulas Patocka The writecache target caches writes on persistent memory or SSD. 34248debafeSMikulas Patocka It is intended for databases or other programs that need extremely 34348debafeSMikulas Patocka low commit latency. 34448debafeSMikulas Patocka 34548debafeSMikulas Patocka The writecache target doesn't cache reads because reads are supposed 34648debafeSMikulas Patocka to be cached in standard RAM. 34748debafeSMikulas Patocka 348d3c7b35cSHeinz Mauelshagenconfig DM_EBS 349d3c7b35cSHeinz Mauelshagen tristate "Emulated block size target (EXPERIMENTAL)" 3501c277e50SChristoph Hellwig depends on BLK_DEV_DM && !HIGHMEM 351d3c7b35cSHeinz Mauelshagen select DM_BUFIO 352d3c7b35cSHeinz Mauelshagen help 353d3c7b35cSHeinz Mauelshagen dm-ebs emulates smaller logical block size on backing devices 354d3c7b35cSHeinz Mauelshagen with larger ones (e.g. 512 byte sectors on 4K native disks). 355d3c7b35cSHeinz Mauelshagen 356eec40579SJoe Thornberconfig DM_ERA 357eec40579SJoe Thornber tristate "Era target (EXPERIMENTAL)" 358eec40579SJoe Thornber depends on BLK_DEV_DM 359eec40579SJoe Thornber default n 360eec40579SJoe Thornber select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA 361eec40579SJoe Thornber select DM_BIO_PRISON 362a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 363eec40579SJoe Thornber dm-era tracks which parts of a block device are written to 364eec40579SJoe Thornber over time. Useful for maintaining cache coherency when using 365eec40579SJoe Thornber vendor snapshots. 366eec40579SJoe Thornber 3677431b783SNikos Tsironisconfig DM_CLONE 3687431b783SNikos Tsironis tristate "Clone target (EXPERIMENTAL)" 3697431b783SNikos Tsironis depends on BLK_DEV_DM 3707431b783SNikos Tsironis default n 3717431b783SNikos Tsironis select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA 372a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3737431b783SNikos Tsironis dm-clone produces a one-to-one copy of an existing, read-only source 3747431b783SNikos Tsironis device into a writable destination device. The cloned device is 3757431b783SNikos Tsironis visible/mountable immediately and the copy of the source device to the 3767431b783SNikos Tsironis destination device happens in the background, in parallel with user 3777431b783SNikos Tsironis I/O. 3787431b783SNikos Tsironis 3797431b783SNikos Tsironis If unsure, say N. 3807431b783SNikos Tsironis 3811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DM_MIRROR 3820149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Mirror target" 3830149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 384a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3851da177e4SLinus Torvalds Allow volume managers to mirror logical volumes, also 3861da177e4SLinus Torvalds needed for live data migration tools such as 'pvmove'. 3871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3885442851eSMikulas Patockaconfig DM_LOG_USERSPACE 3895442851eSMikulas Patocka tristate "Mirror userspace logging" 3905442851eSMikulas Patocka depends on DM_MIRROR && NET 3915442851eSMikulas Patocka select CONNECTOR 392a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3935442851eSMikulas Patocka The userspace logging module provides a mechanism for 3945442851eSMikulas Patocka relaying the dm-dirty-log API to userspace. Log designs 3955442851eSMikulas Patocka which are more suited to userspace implementation (e.g. 3965442851eSMikulas Patocka shared storage logs) or experimental logs can be implemented 3975442851eSMikulas Patocka by leveraging this framework. 3985442851eSMikulas Patocka 3999d09e663SNeilBrownconfig DM_RAID 400d9f691c3SNeilBrown tristate "RAID 1/4/5/6/10 target" 401035220b3SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 4027b81ef8bSMikulas Patocka select MD_RAID0 403b12d437bSJonathan Brassow select MD_RAID1 404d9f691c3SNeilBrown select MD_RAID10 4059d09e663SNeilBrown select MD_RAID456 4069d09e663SNeilBrown select BLK_DEV_MD 407a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 408d9f691c3SNeilBrown A dm target that supports RAID1, RAID10, RAID4, RAID5 and RAID6 mappings 4099d09e663SNeilBrown 4109d09e663SNeilBrown A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides 4119d09e663SNeilBrown the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure 4129d09e663SNeilBrown of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives 4139d09e663SNeilBrown contain data sectors, and one drive contains the parity protection. 4149d09e663SNeilBrown For a RAID-4 set, the parity blocks are present on a single drive, 4159d09e663SNeilBrown while a RAID-5 set distributes the parity across the drives in one 4169d09e663SNeilBrown of the available parity distribution methods. 4179d09e663SNeilBrown 4189d09e663SNeilBrown A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive 4199d09e663SNeilBrown provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects 4209d09e663SNeilBrown against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector 4219d09e663SNeilBrown (row) number, (N - 2) drives contain data sectors, and two 4229d09e663SNeilBrown drives contains two independent redundancy syndromes. Like 4239d09e663SNeilBrown RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives 4249d09e663SNeilBrown in one of the available parity distribution methods. 4259d09e663SNeilBrown 4261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DM_ZERO 4270149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Zero target" 4280149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 429a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4301da177e4SLinus Torvalds A target that discards writes, and returns all zeroes for 4311da177e4SLinus Torvalds reads. Useful in some recovery situations. 4321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DM_MULTIPATH 4340149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Multipath target" 4350149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 436fe9233fbSChandra Seetharaman # nasty syntax but means make DM_MULTIPATH independent 437fe9233fbSChandra Seetharaman # of SCSI_DH if the latter isn't defined but if 438fe9233fbSChandra Seetharaman # it is, DM_MULTIPATH must depend on it. We get a build 439fe9233fbSChandra Seetharaman # error if SCSI_DH=m and DM_MULTIPATH=y 440294ab783SChristoph Hellwig depends on !SCSI_DH || SCSI 441a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4421da177e4SLinus Torvalds Allow volume managers to support multipath hardware. 4431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 444fd5e0339SKiyoshi Uedaconfig DM_MULTIPATH_QL 445fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the number of in-flight I/Os" 446fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda depends on DM_MULTIPATH 447a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 448fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects 449fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda the path with the least number of in-flight I/Os. 450fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda 451fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda If unsure, say N. 452fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda 453f392ba88SKiyoshi Uedaconfig DM_MULTIPATH_ST 454f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the service time" 455f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda depends on DM_MULTIPATH 456a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 457f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects 458f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda the path expected to complete the incoming I/O in the shortest 459f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda time. 460f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda 461f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda If unsure, say N. 462f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda 4632613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykovconfig DM_MULTIPATH_HST 4642613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov tristate "I/O Path Selector based on historical service time" 4652613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov depends on DM_MULTIPATH 4662613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov help 4672613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects 4682613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov the path expected to complete the incoming I/O in the shortest 4692613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov time by comparing estimated service time (based on historical 4702613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov service time). 4712613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov 4722613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov If unsure, say N. 4732613eab1SKhazhismel Kumykov 474e4d2e82bSMike Christieconfig DM_MULTIPATH_IOA 475e4d2e82bSMike Christie tristate "I/O Path Selector based on CPU submission" 476e4d2e82bSMike Christie depends on DM_MULTIPATH 477e4d2e82bSMike Christie help 478e4d2e82bSMike Christie This path selector selects the path based on the CPU the IO is 479e4d2e82bSMike Christie executed on and the CPU to path mapping setup at path addition time. 480e4d2e82bSMike Christie 481e4d2e82bSMike Christie If unsure, say N. 482e4d2e82bSMike Christie 48326b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagenconfig DM_DELAY 484d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon tristate "I/O delaying target" 485d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 486a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 48726b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen A target that delays reads and/or writes and can send 48826b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen them to different devices. Useful for testing. 48926b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen 49026b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen If unsure, say N. 49126b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen 492e4f3fabdSBryan Gurneyconfig DM_DUST 493e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney tristate "Bad sector simulation target" 494e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney depends on BLK_DEV_DM 495a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 496e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney A target that simulates bad sector behavior. 497e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney Useful for testing. 498e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney 499e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney If unsure, say N. 500e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney 5016bbc923dSHelen Koikeconfig DM_INIT 5026bbc923dSHelen Koike bool "DM \"dm-mod.create=\" parameter support" 5036bbc923dSHelen Koike depends on BLK_DEV_DM=y 504a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 5056bbc923dSHelen Koike Enable "dm-mod.create=" parameter to create mapped devices at init time. 5066bbc923dSHelen Koike This option is useful to allow mounting rootfs without requiring an 5076bbc923dSHelen Koike initramfs. 5086cf2a73cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-init.rst for dm-mod.create="..." 5096bbc923dSHelen Koike format. 5106bbc923dSHelen Koike 5116bbc923dSHelen Koike If unsure, say N. 5126bbc923dSHelen Koike 51351e5b2bdSMike Andersonconfig DM_UEVENT 514e0b215daSAlasdair G Kergon bool "DM uevents" 515e0b215daSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 516a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 51751e5b2bdSMike Anderson Generate udev events for DM events. 51851e5b2bdSMike Anderson 5193407ef52SJosef Bacikconfig DM_FLAKEY 520d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Flakey target" 521d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 522a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 5233407ef52SJosef Bacik A target that intermittently fails I/O for debugging purposes. 5243407ef52SJosef Bacik 525a4ffc152SMikulas Patockaconfig DM_VERITY 526d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Verity target support" 527d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 528a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka select CRYPTO 529a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka select CRYPTO_HASH 530a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka select DM_BUFIO 531a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 532a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka This device-mapper target creates a read-only device that 533a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka transparently validates the data on one underlying device against 534a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka a pre-generated tree of cryptographic checksums stored on a second 535a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka device. 536a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka 537a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka You'll need to activate the digests you're going to use in the 538a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka cryptoapi configuration. 539a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka 540a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 541a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka be called dm-verity. 542a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka 543a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka If unsure, say N. 544a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka 54588cd3e6cSJaskaran Khuranaconfig DM_VERITY_VERIFY_ROOTHASH_SIG 54688cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana def_bool n 54788cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana bool "Verity data device root hash signature verification support" 54888cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana depends on DM_VERITY 54988cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 55088cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana help 55188cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana Add ability for dm-verity device to be validated if the 55288cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana pre-generated tree of cryptographic checksums passed has a pkcs#7 55388cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana signature file that can validate the roothash of the tree. 5544da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün 5554da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün By default, rely on the builtin trusted keyring. 5564da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün 5574da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün If unsure, say N. 5584da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün 5594da8f8c8SMickaël Salaünconfig DM_VERITY_VERIFY_ROOTHASH_SIG_SECONDARY_KEYRING 5604da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün bool "Verity data device root hash signature verification with secondary keyring" 5614da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün depends on DM_VERITY_VERIFY_ROOTHASH_SIG 5624da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün depends on SECONDARY_TRUSTED_KEYRING 5634da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün help 5644da8f8c8SMickaël Salaün Rely on the secondary trusted keyring to verify dm-verity signatures. 56588cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana 56688cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana If unsure, say N. 56788cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana 568a739ff3fSSami Tolvanenconfig DM_VERITY_FEC 569a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen bool "Verity forward error correction support" 570a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen depends on DM_VERITY 571a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen select REED_SOLOMON 572a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen select REED_SOLOMON_DEC8 573a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 574a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen Add forward error correction support to dm-verity. This option 575a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen makes it possible to use pre-generated error correction data to 576a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen recover from corrupted blocks. 577a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen 578a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen If unsure, say N. 579a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen 5809d0eb0abSJim Ramsayconfig DM_SWITCH 5819d0eb0abSJim Ramsay tristate "Switch target support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 5829d0eb0abSJim Ramsay depends on BLK_DEV_DM 583a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 5849d0eb0abSJim Ramsay This device-mapper target creates a device that supports an arbitrary 5859d0eb0abSJim Ramsay mapping of fixed-size regions of I/O across a fixed set of paths. 5869d0eb0abSJim Ramsay The path used for any specific region can be switched dynamically 5879d0eb0abSJim Ramsay by sending the target a message. 5889d0eb0abSJim Ramsay 5899d0eb0abSJim Ramsay To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 5909d0eb0abSJim Ramsay be called dm-switch. 5919d0eb0abSJim Ramsay 5929d0eb0abSJim Ramsay If unsure, say N. 5939d0eb0abSJim Ramsay 5940e9cebe7SJosef Bacikconfig DM_LOG_WRITES 5950e9cebe7SJosef Bacik tristate "Log writes target support" 5960e9cebe7SJosef Bacik depends on BLK_DEV_DM 597a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 5980e9cebe7SJosef Bacik This device-mapper target takes two devices, one device to use 5990e9cebe7SJosef Bacik normally, one to log all write operations done to the first device. 6000e9cebe7SJosef Bacik This is for use by file system developers wishing to verify that 60157d42487SGeert Uytterhoeven their fs is writing a consistent file system at all times by allowing 6020e9cebe7SJosef Bacik them to replay the log in a variety of ways and to check the 6030e9cebe7SJosef Bacik contents. 6040e9cebe7SJosef Bacik 6050e9cebe7SJosef Bacik To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 6060e9cebe7SJosef Bacik be called dm-log-writes. 6070e9cebe7SJosef Bacik 6080e9cebe7SJosef Bacik If unsure, say N. 6090e9cebe7SJosef Bacik 6107eada909SMikulas Patockaconfig DM_INTEGRITY 6117ab84db6SMike Snitzer tristate "Integrity target support" 6127eada909SMikulas Patocka depends on BLK_DEV_DM 6137eada909SMikulas Patocka select BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY 6147eada909SMikulas Patocka select DM_BUFIO 6157eada909SMikulas Patocka select CRYPTO 616f7b347acSAnthony Iliopoulos select CRYPTO_SKCIPHER 6177eada909SMikulas Patocka select ASYNC_XOR 61882bb8599SMichael Weiß select DM_AUDIT if AUDIT 619a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 6207ab84db6SMike Snitzer This device-mapper target emulates a block device that has 6217ab84db6SMike Snitzer additional per-sector tags that can be used for storing 6227ab84db6SMike Snitzer integrity information. 6237ab84db6SMike Snitzer 6247ab84db6SMike Snitzer This integrity target is used with the dm-crypt target to 6257ab84db6SMike Snitzer provide authenticated disk encryption or it can be used 6267ab84db6SMike Snitzer standalone. 6277ab84db6SMike Snitzer 6287ab84db6SMike Snitzer To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 6297ab84db6SMike Snitzer be called dm-integrity. 6307ab84db6SMike Snitzer 6313b1a94c8SDamien Le Moalconfig DM_ZONED 6323b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal tristate "Drive-managed zoned block device target support" 6333b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal depends on BLK_DEV_DM 6343b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal depends on BLK_DEV_ZONED 635b690bd54SArnd Bergmann select CRC32 636a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 6373b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal This device-mapper target takes a host-managed or host-aware zoned 6383b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal block device and exposes most of its capacity as a regular block 6393b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal device (drive-managed zoned block device) without any write 6403b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal constraints. This is mainly intended for use with file systems that 6413b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal do not natively support zoned block devices but still want to 6423b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal benefit from the increased capacity offered by SMR disks. Other uses 6433b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal by applications using raw block devices (for example object stores) 6443b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal are also possible. 6453b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal 6463b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 6473b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal be called dm-zoned. 6483b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal 6497ab84db6SMike Snitzer If unsure, say N. 6507eada909SMikulas Patocka 6512cc1ae48SMichael Weißconfig DM_AUDIT 6522cc1ae48SMichael Weiß bool "DM audit events" 6532cc1ae48SMichael Weiß depends on AUDIT 6542cc1ae48SMichael Weiß help 6552cc1ae48SMichael Weiß Generate audit events for device-mapper. 6562cc1ae48SMichael Weiß 6572cc1ae48SMichael Weiß Enables audit logging of several security relevant events in the 6582cc1ae48SMichael Weiß particular device-mapper targets, especially the integrity target. 6592cc1ae48SMichael Weiß 660afd44034SJan Engelhardtendif # MD 661