11da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 21da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Block device driver configuration 31da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 41da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5afd44034SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MD 61da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Multiple devices driver support (RAID and LVM)" 7afd44034SJan Engelhardt depends on BLOCK 883fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 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" 171da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 181da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver lets you combine several hard disk partitions into one 191da177e4SLinus Torvalds logical block device. This can be used to simply append one 201da177e4SLinus Torvalds partition to another one or to combine several redundant hard disks 211da177e4SLinus Torvalds into a RAID1/4/5 device so as to provide protection against hard 221da177e4SLinus Torvalds disk failures. This is called "Software RAID" since the combining of 231da177e4SLinus Torvalds the partitions is done by the kernel. "Hardware RAID" means that the 241da177e4SLinus Torvalds combining is done by a dedicated controller; if you have such a 251da177e4SLinus Torvalds controller, you do not need to say Y here. 261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 271da177e4SLinus Torvalds More information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the 281da177e4SLinus Torvalds Software RAID mini-HOWTO, available from 291da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also learn 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools. 311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 34a364092aSArjan van de Venconfig MD_AUTODETECT 35a364092aSArjan van de Ven bool "Autodetect RAID arrays during kernel boot" 36ce52aebdSAlan Jenkins depends on BLK_DEV_MD=y 37a364092aSArjan van de Ven default y 38a364092aSArjan van de Ven ---help--- 39a364092aSArjan van de Ven If you say Y here, then the kernel will try to autodetect raid 40a364092aSArjan van de Ven arrays as part of its boot process. 41a364092aSArjan van de Ven 42a364092aSArjan van de Ven If you don't use raid and say Y, this autodetection can cause 43a364092aSArjan van de Ven a several-second delay in the boot time due to various 44a364092aSArjan van de Ven synchronisation steps that are part of this step. 45a364092aSArjan van de Ven 46a364092aSArjan van de Ven If unsure, say Y. 47a364092aSArjan van de Ven 481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_LINEAR 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Linear (append) mode" 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 521da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, then your multiple devices driver will be able to 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds use the so-called linear mode, i.e. it will combine the hard disk 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions by simply appending one to the other. 551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called linear. 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 591da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_RAID0 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "RAID-0 (striping) mode" 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 641da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 651da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, then your multiple devices driver will be able to 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds use the so-called raid0 mode, i.e. it will combine the hard disk 671da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions into one logical device in such a fashion as to fill them 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds up evenly, one chunk here and one chunk there. This will increase 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds the throughput rate if the partitions reside on distinct disks. 701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools. 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called raid0. 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_RAID1 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "RAID-1 (mirroring) mode" 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 841da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 851da177e4SLinus Torvalds A RAID-1 set consists of several disk drives which are exact copies 861da177e4SLinus Torvalds of each other. In the event of a mirror failure, the RAID driver 871da177e4SLinus Torvalds will continue to use the operational mirrors in the set, providing 881da177e4SLinus Torvalds an error free MD (multiple device) to the higher levels of the 891da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel. In a set with N drives, the available space is the capacity 901da177e4SLinus Torvalds of a single drive, and the set protects against a failure of (N - 1) 911da177e4SLinus Torvalds drives. 921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 931da177e4SLinus Torvalds Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the 941da177e4SLinus Torvalds Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from 951da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also 961da177e4SLinus Torvalds learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools. 971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 981da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to use such a RAID-1 set, say Y. To compile this code 991da177e4SLinus Torvalds as a module, choose M here: the module will be called raid1. 1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1011da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 1021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_RAID10 10408fb730cSNeilBrown tristate "RAID-10 (mirrored striping) mode" 10508fb730cSNeilBrown depends on BLK_DEV_MD 1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds RAID-10 provides a combination of striping (RAID-0) and 1084d2554d0SJustin Piszcz mirroring (RAID-1) with easier configuration and more flexible 1091da177e4SLinus Torvalds layout. 1101da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unlike RAID-0, but like RAID-1, RAID-10 requires all devices to 1111da177e4SLinus Torvalds be the same size (or at least, only as much as the smallest device 1121da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be used). 1131da177e4SLinus Torvalds RAID-10 provides a variety of layouts that provide different levels 1141da177e4SLinus Torvalds of redundancy and performance. 1151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1161da177e4SLinus Torvalds RAID-10 requires mdadm-1.7.0 or later, available at: 1171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1181da177e4SLinus Torvalds ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ 1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1201da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 1211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12216a53eccSNeilBrownconfig MD_RAID456 12316a53eccSNeilBrown tristate "RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 mode" 1241da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 125f5e70d0fSDavid Woodhouse select RAID6_PQ 12614f09e2fSArnd Bergmann select LIBCRC32C 1279bc89cd8SDan Williams select ASYNC_MEMCPY 1289bc89cd8SDan Williams select ASYNC_XOR 129ac6b53b6SDan Williams select ASYNC_PQ 130ac6b53b6SDan Williams select ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 1311da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 1321da177e4SLinus Torvalds A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides 1331da177e4SLinus Torvalds the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure 1341da177e4SLinus Torvalds of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives 1351da177e4SLinus Torvalds contain data sectors, and one drive contains the parity protection. 1361da177e4SLinus Torvalds For a RAID-4 set, the parity blocks are present on a single drive, 1371da177e4SLinus Torvalds while a RAID-5 set distributes the parity across the drives in one 1381da177e4SLinus Torvalds of the available parity distribution methods. 1391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14016a53eccSNeilBrown A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive 14116a53eccSNeilBrown provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects 14216a53eccSNeilBrown against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector 14316a53eccSNeilBrown (row) number, (N - 2) drives contain data sectors, and two 14416a53eccSNeilBrown drives contains two independent redundancy syndromes. Like 14516a53eccSNeilBrown RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives 14616a53eccSNeilBrown in one of the available parity distribution methods. 14716a53eccSNeilBrown 1481da177e4SLinus Torvalds Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the 1491da177e4SLinus Torvalds Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from 1501da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also 1511da177e4SLinus Torvalds learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools. 1521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15316a53eccSNeilBrown If you want to use such a RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 set, say Y. To 1541da177e4SLinus Torvalds compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module 15516a53eccSNeilBrown will be called raid456. 1561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1571da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 1581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_MULTIPATH 1601da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Multipath I/O support" 1611da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 1621da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16393bd89a6SNeilBrown MD_MULTIPATH provides a simple multi-path personality for use 16493bd89a6SNeilBrown the MD framework. It is not under active development. New 16593bd89a6SNeilBrown projects should consider using DM_MULTIPATH which has more 16693bd89a6SNeilBrown features and more testing. 1671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1681da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 1691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_FAULTY 1711da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Faulty test module for MD" 1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 1731da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1741da177e4SLinus Torvalds The "faulty" module allows for a block device that occasionally returns 1751da177e4SLinus Torvalds read or write errors. It is useful for testing. 1761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1771da177e4SLinus Torvalds In unsure, say N. 1781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1798e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues 1808e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodriguesconfig MD_CLUSTER 1818e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues tristate "Cluster Support for MD (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1828e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues depends on BLK_DEV_MD 1838e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues depends on DLM 1848e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues default n 1858e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues ---help--- 1868e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues Clustering support for MD devices. This enables locking and 1878e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues synchronization across multiple systems on the cluster, so all 1888e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues nodes in the cluster can access the MD devices simultaneously. 1898e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues 1908e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues This brings the redundancy (and uptime) of RAID levels across the 1918e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues nodes of the cluster. 1928e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues 1938e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues If unsure, say N. 1948e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues 195cafe5635SKent Overstreetsource "drivers/md/bcache/Kconfig" 196cafe5635SKent Overstreet 1972995fa78SMikulas Patockaconfig BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN 1986341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 1992995fa78SMikulas Patocka 2001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BLK_DEV_DM 2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Device mapper support" 2022995fa78SMikulas Patocka select BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN 2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2041da177e4SLinus Torvalds Device-mapper is a low level volume manager. It works by allowing 2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds people to specify mappings for ranges of logical sectors. Various 2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds mapping types are available, in addition people may write their own 2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules containing custom mappings if they wish. 2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds Higher level volume managers such as LVM2 use this driver. 2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds called dm-mod. 2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21617e149b8SMike Snitzerconfig DM_MQ_DEFAULT 21717e149b8SMike Snitzer bool "request-based DM: use blk-mq I/O path by default" 21817e149b8SMike Snitzer depends on BLK_DEV_DM 21917e149b8SMike Snitzer ---help--- 22017e149b8SMike Snitzer This option enables the blk-mq based I/O path for request-based 22117e149b8SMike Snitzer DM devices by default. With the option the dm_mod.use_blk_mq 22217e149b8SMike Snitzer module/boot option defaults to Y, without it to N, but it can 22317e149b8SMike Snitzer still be overriden either way. 22417e149b8SMike Snitzer 22517e149b8SMike Snitzer If unsure say N. 22617e149b8SMike Snitzer 227cc109201SBryn Reevesconfig DM_DEBUG 2286341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Device mapper debugging support" 2290149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 230cc109201SBryn Reeves ---help--- 231cc109201SBryn Reeves Enable this for messages that may help debug device-mapper problems. 232cc109201SBryn Reeves 233cc109201SBryn Reeves If unsure, say N. 234cc109201SBryn Reeves 23595d402f0SMikulas Patockaconfig DM_BUFIO 23695d402f0SMikulas Patocka tristate 237d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 23895d402f0SMikulas Patocka ---help--- 23995d402f0SMikulas Patocka This interface allows you to do buffered I/O on a device and acts 24095d402f0SMikulas Patocka as a cache, holding recently-read blocks in memory and performing 24195d402f0SMikulas Patocka delayed writes. 24295d402f0SMikulas Patocka 2432e8ed711SJoe Thornberconfig DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_MANAGER_LOCKING 2442e8ed711SJoe Thornber bool "Block manager locking" 2452e8ed711SJoe Thornber depends on DM_BUFIO 2462e8ed711SJoe Thornber ---help--- 2472e8ed711SJoe Thornber Block manager locking can catch various metadata corruption issues. 2482e8ed711SJoe Thornber 2492e8ed711SJoe Thornber If unsure, say N. 2502e8ed711SJoe Thornber 25186bad0c7SMikulas Patockaconfig DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_STACK_TRACING 25286bad0c7SMikulas Patocka bool "Keep stack trace of persistent data block lock holders" 2532e8ed711SJoe Thornber depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_MANAGER_LOCKING 25486bad0c7SMikulas Patocka select STACKTRACE 25586bad0c7SMikulas Patocka ---help--- 25686bad0c7SMikulas Patocka Enable this for messages that may help debug problems with the 25786bad0c7SMikulas Patocka block manager locking used by thin provisioning and caching. 25886bad0c7SMikulas Patocka 25986bad0c7SMikulas Patocka If unsure, say N. 2603f068040SMike Snitzer 2614f81a417SMike Snitzerconfig DM_BIO_PRISON 2624f81a417SMike Snitzer tristate 263d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 2644f81a417SMike Snitzer ---help--- 2654f81a417SMike Snitzer Some bio locking schemes used by other device-mapper targets 2664f81a417SMike Snitzer including thin provisioning. 2674f81a417SMike Snitzer 268991d9fa0SJoe Thornbersource "drivers/md/persistent-data/Kconfig" 269991d9fa0SJoe Thornber 2701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DM_CRYPT 2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Crypt target support" 2720149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO 2743263263fSHerbert Xu select CRYPTO_CBC 2751da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds This device-mapper target allows you to create a device that 2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds transparently encrypts the data on it. You'll need to activate 2781da177e4SLinus Torvalds the ciphers you're going to use in the cryptoapi configuration. 2791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 280cf352487SLoic Pefferkorn For further information on dm-crypt and userspace tools see: 2816ed443c0SBaruch Siach <https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/wikis/DMCrypt> 2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds be called dm-crypt. 2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DM_SNAPSHOT 2890149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Snapshot target" 2900149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 29155494bf2SMikulas Patocka select DM_BUFIO 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2934d2554d0SJustin Piszcz Allow volume managers to take writable snapshots of a device. 2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 295991d9fa0SJoe Thornberconfig DM_THIN_PROVISIONING 296d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Thin provisioning target" 297d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 298991d9fa0SJoe Thornber select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA 2994f81a417SMike Snitzer select DM_BIO_PRISON 300991d9fa0SJoe Thornber ---help--- 301991d9fa0SJoe Thornber Provides thin provisioning and snapshots that share a data store. 302991d9fa0SJoe Thornber 303c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornberconfig DM_CACHE 304c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber tristate "Cache target (EXPERIMENTAL)" 305c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber depends on BLK_DEV_DM 306c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber default n 307c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA 308c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber select DM_BIO_PRISON 309c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber ---help--- 310c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber dm-cache attempts to improve performance of a block device by 311c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber moving frequently used data to a smaller, higher performance 312c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber device. Different 'policy' plugins can be used to change the 313c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber algorithms used to select which blocks are promoted, demoted, 314c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber cleaned etc. It supports writeback and writethrough modes. 315c6b4fcbaSJoe Thornber 31666a63635SJoe Thornberconfig DM_CACHE_SMQ 31766a63635SJoe Thornber tristate "Stochastic MQ Cache Policy (EXPERIMENTAL)" 31866a63635SJoe Thornber depends on DM_CACHE 31966a63635SJoe Thornber default y 32066a63635SJoe Thornber ---help--- 32166a63635SJoe Thornber A cache policy that uses a multiqueue ordered by recent hits 32266a63635SJoe Thornber to select which blocks should be promoted and demoted. 32366a63635SJoe Thornber This is meant to be a general purpose policy. It prioritises 32466a63635SJoe Thornber reads over writes. This SMQ policy (vs MQ) offers the promise 32566a63635SJoe Thornber of less memory utilization, improved performance and increased 32666a63635SJoe Thornber adaptability in the face of changing workloads. 32766a63635SJoe Thornber 328eec40579SJoe Thornberconfig DM_ERA 329eec40579SJoe Thornber tristate "Era target (EXPERIMENTAL)" 330eec40579SJoe Thornber depends on BLK_DEV_DM 331eec40579SJoe Thornber default n 332eec40579SJoe Thornber select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA 333eec40579SJoe Thornber select DM_BIO_PRISON 334eec40579SJoe Thornber ---help--- 335eec40579SJoe Thornber dm-era tracks which parts of a block device are written to 336eec40579SJoe Thornber over time. Useful for maintaining cache coherency when using 337eec40579SJoe Thornber vendor snapshots. 338eec40579SJoe Thornber 3391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DM_MIRROR 3400149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Mirror target" 3410149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 3421da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds Allow volume managers to mirror logical volumes, also 3441da177e4SLinus Torvalds needed for live data migration tools such as 'pvmove'. 3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3465442851eSMikulas Patockaconfig DM_LOG_USERSPACE 3475442851eSMikulas Patocka tristate "Mirror userspace logging" 3485442851eSMikulas Patocka depends on DM_MIRROR && NET 3495442851eSMikulas Patocka select CONNECTOR 3505442851eSMikulas Patocka ---help--- 3515442851eSMikulas Patocka The userspace logging module provides a mechanism for 3525442851eSMikulas Patocka relaying the dm-dirty-log API to userspace. Log designs 3535442851eSMikulas Patocka which are more suited to userspace implementation (e.g. 3545442851eSMikulas Patocka shared storage logs) or experimental logs can be implemented 3555442851eSMikulas Patocka by leveraging this framework. 3565442851eSMikulas Patocka 3579d09e663SNeilBrownconfig DM_RAID 358d9f691c3SNeilBrown tristate "RAID 1/4/5/6/10 target" 359035220b3SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 3607b81ef8bSMikulas Patocka select MD_RAID0 361b12d437bSJonathan Brassow select MD_RAID1 362d9f691c3SNeilBrown select MD_RAID10 3639d09e663SNeilBrown select MD_RAID456 3649d09e663SNeilBrown select BLK_DEV_MD 3659d09e663SNeilBrown ---help--- 366d9f691c3SNeilBrown A dm target that supports RAID1, RAID10, RAID4, RAID5 and RAID6 mappings 3679d09e663SNeilBrown 3689d09e663SNeilBrown A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides 3699d09e663SNeilBrown the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure 3709d09e663SNeilBrown of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives 3719d09e663SNeilBrown contain data sectors, and one drive contains the parity protection. 3729d09e663SNeilBrown For a RAID-4 set, the parity blocks are present on a single drive, 3739d09e663SNeilBrown while a RAID-5 set distributes the parity across the drives in one 3749d09e663SNeilBrown of the available parity distribution methods. 3759d09e663SNeilBrown 3769d09e663SNeilBrown A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive 3779d09e663SNeilBrown provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects 3789d09e663SNeilBrown against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector 3799d09e663SNeilBrown (row) number, (N - 2) drives contain data sectors, and two 3809d09e663SNeilBrown drives contains two independent redundancy syndromes. Like 3819d09e663SNeilBrown RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives 3829d09e663SNeilBrown in one of the available parity distribution methods. 3839d09e663SNeilBrown 3841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DM_ZERO 3850149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Zero target" 3860149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 3871da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3881da177e4SLinus Torvalds A target that discards writes, and returns all zeroes for 3891da177e4SLinus Torvalds reads. Useful in some recovery situations. 3901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DM_MULTIPATH 3920149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Multipath target" 3930149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 394fe9233fbSChandra Seetharaman # nasty syntax but means make DM_MULTIPATH independent 395fe9233fbSChandra Seetharaman # of SCSI_DH if the latter isn't defined but if 396fe9233fbSChandra Seetharaman # it is, DM_MULTIPATH must depend on it. We get a build 397fe9233fbSChandra Seetharaman # error if SCSI_DH=m and DM_MULTIPATH=y 398294ab783SChristoph Hellwig depends on !SCSI_DH || SCSI 3991da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4001da177e4SLinus Torvalds Allow volume managers to support multipath hardware. 4011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 402fd5e0339SKiyoshi Uedaconfig DM_MULTIPATH_QL 403fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the number of in-flight I/Os" 404fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda depends on DM_MULTIPATH 405fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda ---help--- 406fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects 407fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda the path with the least number of in-flight I/Os. 408fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda 409fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda If unsure, say N. 410fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda 411f392ba88SKiyoshi Uedaconfig DM_MULTIPATH_ST 412f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the service time" 413f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda depends on DM_MULTIPATH 414f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda ---help--- 415f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects 416f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda the path expected to complete the incoming I/O in the shortest 417f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda time. 418f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda 419f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda If unsure, say N. 420f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda 42126b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagenconfig DM_DELAY 422d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon tristate "I/O delaying target" 423d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 42426b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen ---help--- 42526b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen A target that delays reads and/or writes and can send 42626b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen them to different devices. Useful for testing. 42726b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen 42826b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen If unsure, say N. 42926b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen 43051e5b2bdSMike Andersonconfig DM_UEVENT 431e0b215daSAlasdair G Kergon bool "DM uevents" 432e0b215daSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 43351e5b2bdSMike Anderson ---help--- 43451e5b2bdSMike Anderson Generate udev events for DM events. 43551e5b2bdSMike Anderson 4363407ef52SJosef Bacikconfig DM_FLAKEY 437d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Flakey target" 438d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 4393407ef52SJosef Bacik ---help--- 4403407ef52SJosef Bacik A target that intermittently fails I/O for debugging purposes. 4413407ef52SJosef Bacik 442a4ffc152SMikulas Patockaconfig DM_VERITY 443d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Verity target support" 444d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 445a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka select CRYPTO 446a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka select CRYPTO_HASH 447a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka select DM_BUFIO 448a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka ---help--- 449a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka This device-mapper target creates a read-only device that 450a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka transparently validates the data on one underlying device against 451a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka a pre-generated tree of cryptographic checksums stored on a second 452a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka device. 453a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka 454a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka You'll need to activate the digests you're going to use in the 455a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka cryptoapi configuration. 456a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka 457a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 458a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka be called dm-verity. 459a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka 460a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka If unsure, say N. 461a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka 462a739ff3fSSami Tolvanenconfig DM_VERITY_FEC 463a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen bool "Verity forward error correction support" 464a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen depends on DM_VERITY 465a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen select REED_SOLOMON 466a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen select REED_SOLOMON_DEC8 467a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen ---help--- 468a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen Add forward error correction support to dm-verity. This option 469a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen makes it possible to use pre-generated error correction data to 470a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen recover from corrupted blocks. 471a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen 472a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen If unsure, say N. 473a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen 4749d0eb0abSJim Ramsayconfig DM_SWITCH 4759d0eb0abSJim Ramsay tristate "Switch target support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 4769d0eb0abSJim Ramsay depends on BLK_DEV_DM 4779d0eb0abSJim Ramsay ---help--- 4789d0eb0abSJim Ramsay This device-mapper target creates a device that supports an arbitrary 4799d0eb0abSJim Ramsay mapping of fixed-size regions of I/O across a fixed set of paths. 4809d0eb0abSJim Ramsay The path used for any specific region can be switched dynamically 4819d0eb0abSJim Ramsay by sending the target a message. 4829d0eb0abSJim Ramsay 4839d0eb0abSJim Ramsay To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 4849d0eb0abSJim Ramsay be called dm-switch. 4859d0eb0abSJim Ramsay 4869d0eb0abSJim Ramsay If unsure, say N. 4879d0eb0abSJim Ramsay 4880e9cebe7SJosef Bacikconfig DM_LOG_WRITES 4890e9cebe7SJosef Bacik tristate "Log writes target support" 4900e9cebe7SJosef Bacik depends on BLK_DEV_DM 4910e9cebe7SJosef Bacik ---help--- 4920e9cebe7SJosef Bacik This device-mapper target takes two devices, one device to use 4930e9cebe7SJosef Bacik normally, one to log all write operations done to the first device. 4940e9cebe7SJosef Bacik This is for use by file system developers wishing to verify that 49557d42487SGeert Uytterhoeven their fs is writing a consistent file system at all times by allowing 4960e9cebe7SJosef Bacik them to replay the log in a variety of ways and to check the 4970e9cebe7SJosef Bacik contents. 4980e9cebe7SJosef Bacik 4990e9cebe7SJosef Bacik To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 5000e9cebe7SJosef Bacik be called dm-log-writes. 5010e9cebe7SJosef Bacik 5020e9cebe7SJosef Bacik If unsure, say N. 5030e9cebe7SJosef Bacik 5047eada909SMikulas Patockaconfig DM_INTEGRITY 5057eada909SMikulas Patocka tristate "Integrity target" 5067eada909SMikulas Patocka depends on BLK_DEV_DM 5077eada909SMikulas Patocka select BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY 5087eada909SMikulas Patocka select DM_BUFIO 5097eada909SMikulas Patocka select CRYPTO 5107eada909SMikulas Patocka select ASYNC_XOR 5117eada909SMikulas Patocka ---help--- 5127eada909SMikulas Patocka This is the integrity target. 5137eada909SMikulas Patocka 514afd44034SJan Engelhardtendif # MD 515