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" 181da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 191da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver lets you combine several hard disk partitions into one 201da177e4SLinus Torvalds logical block device. This can be used to simply append one 211da177e4SLinus Torvalds partition to another one or to combine several redundant hard disks 221da177e4SLinus Torvalds into a RAID1/4/5 device so as to provide protection against hard 231da177e4SLinus Torvalds disk failures. This is called "Software RAID" since the combining of 241da177e4SLinus Torvalds the partitions is done by the kernel. "Hardware RAID" means that the 251da177e4SLinus Torvalds combining is done by a dedicated controller; if you have such a 261da177e4SLinus Torvalds controller, you do not need to say Y here. 271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 281da177e4SLinus Torvalds More information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the 291da177e4SLinus Torvalds Software RAID mini-HOWTO, available from 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also learn 311da177e4SLinus Torvalds where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools. 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 35a364092aSArjan van de Venconfig MD_AUTODETECT 36a364092aSArjan van de Ven bool "Autodetect RAID arrays during kernel boot" 37ce52aebdSAlan Jenkins depends on BLK_DEV_MD=y 38a364092aSArjan van de Ven default y 39a364092aSArjan van de Ven ---help--- 40a364092aSArjan van de Ven If you say Y here, then the kernel will try to autodetect raid 41a364092aSArjan van de Ven arrays as part of its boot process. 42a364092aSArjan van de Ven 43a364092aSArjan van de Ven If you don't use raid and say Y, this autodetection can cause 44a364092aSArjan van de Ven a several-second delay in the boot time due to various 45a364092aSArjan van de Ven synchronisation steps that are part of this step. 46a364092aSArjan van de Ven 47a364092aSArjan van de Ven If unsure, say Y. 48a364092aSArjan van de Ven 491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_LINEAR 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Linear (append) mode" 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 521da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, then your multiple devices driver will be able to 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds use the so-called linear mode, i.e. it will combine the hard disk 551da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions by simply appending one to the other. 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called linear. 591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 601da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_RAID0 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "RAID-0 (striping) mode" 641da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 651da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, then your multiple devices driver will be able to 671da177e4SLinus Torvalds use the so-called raid0 mode, i.e. it will combine the hard disk 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions into one logical device in such a fashion as to fill them 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds up evenly, one chunk here and one chunk there. This will increase 701da177e4SLinus Torvalds the throughput rate if the partitions reside on distinct disks. 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools. 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called raid0. 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_RAID1 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "RAID-1 (mirroring) mode" 841da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 851da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 861da177e4SLinus Torvalds A RAID-1 set consists of several disk drives which are exact copies 871da177e4SLinus Torvalds of each other. In the event of a mirror failure, the RAID driver 881da177e4SLinus Torvalds will continue to use the operational mirrors in the set, providing 891da177e4SLinus Torvalds an error free MD (multiple device) to the higher levels of the 901da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel. In a set with N drives, the available space is the capacity 911da177e4SLinus Torvalds of a single drive, and the set protects against a failure of (N - 1) 921da177e4SLinus Torvalds drives. 931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 941da177e4SLinus Torvalds Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the 951da177e4SLinus Torvalds Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from 961da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also 971da177e4SLinus Torvalds learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools. 981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 991da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to use such a RAID-1 set, say Y. To compile this code 1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds as a module, choose M here: the module will be called raid1. 1011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1021da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 1031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_RAID10 10508fb730cSNeilBrown tristate "RAID-10 (mirrored striping) mode" 10608fb730cSNeilBrown depends on BLK_DEV_MD 1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 1081da177e4SLinus Torvalds RAID-10 provides a combination of striping (RAID-0) and 1094d2554d0SJustin Piszcz mirroring (RAID-1) with easier configuration and more flexible 1101da177e4SLinus Torvalds layout. 1111da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unlike RAID-0, but like RAID-1, RAID-10 requires all devices to 1121da177e4SLinus Torvalds be the same size (or at least, only as much as the smallest device 1131da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be used). 1141da177e4SLinus Torvalds RAID-10 provides a variety of layouts that provide different levels 1151da177e4SLinus Torvalds of redundancy and performance. 1161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1171da177e4SLinus Torvalds RAID-10 requires mdadm-1.7.0 or later, available at: 1181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1194f6cce39SSeongJae Park https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ 1201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1211da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 1221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12316a53eccSNeilBrownconfig MD_RAID456 12416a53eccSNeilBrown tristate "RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 mode" 1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 126f5e70d0fSDavid Woodhouse select RAID6_PQ 12714f09e2fSArnd Bergmann select LIBCRC32C 1289bc89cd8SDan Williams select ASYNC_MEMCPY 1299bc89cd8SDan Williams select ASYNC_XOR 130ac6b53b6SDan Williams select ASYNC_PQ 131ac6b53b6SDan Williams select ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 1321da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 1331da177e4SLinus Torvalds A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides 1341da177e4SLinus Torvalds the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure 1351da177e4SLinus Torvalds of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives 1361da177e4SLinus Torvalds contain data sectors, and one drive contains the parity protection. 1371da177e4SLinus Torvalds For a RAID-4 set, the parity blocks are present on a single drive, 1381da177e4SLinus Torvalds while a RAID-5 set distributes the parity across the drives in one 1391da177e4SLinus Torvalds of the available parity distribution methods. 1401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14116a53eccSNeilBrown A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive 14216a53eccSNeilBrown provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects 14316a53eccSNeilBrown against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector 14416a53eccSNeilBrown (row) number, (N - 2) drives contain data sectors, and two 14516a53eccSNeilBrown drives contains two independent redundancy syndromes. Like 14616a53eccSNeilBrown RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives 14716a53eccSNeilBrown in one of the available parity distribution methods. 14816a53eccSNeilBrown 1491da177e4SLinus Torvalds Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the 1501da177e4SLinus Torvalds Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from 1511da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also 1521da177e4SLinus Torvalds learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools. 1531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15416a53eccSNeilBrown If you want to use such a RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 set, say Y. To 1551da177e4SLinus Torvalds compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module 15616a53eccSNeilBrown will be called raid456. 1571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1581da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 1591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_MULTIPATH 1611da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Multipath I/O support" 1621da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 1631da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16493bd89a6SNeilBrown MD_MULTIPATH provides a simple multi-path personality for use 16593bd89a6SNeilBrown the MD framework. It is not under active development. New 16693bd89a6SNeilBrown projects should consider using DM_MULTIPATH which has more 16793bd89a6SNeilBrown features and more testing. 1681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1691da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MD_FAULTY 1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Faulty test module for MD" 1731da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BLK_DEV_MD 1741da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1751da177e4SLinus Torvalds The "faulty" module allows for a block device that occasionally returns 1761da177e4SLinus Torvalds read or write errors. It is useful for testing. 1771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1781da177e4SLinus Torvalds In unsure, say N. 1791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1808e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues 1818e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodriguesconfig MD_CLUSTER 182f0e230adSGuoqing Jiang tristate "Cluster Support for MD" 1838e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues depends on BLK_DEV_MD 1848e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues depends on DLM 1858e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues default n 1868e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues ---help--- 1878e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues Clustering support for MD devices. This enables locking and 1888e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues synchronization across multiple systems on the cluster, so all 1898e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues nodes in the cluster can access the MD devices simultaneously. 1908e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues 1918e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues This brings the redundancy (and uptime) of RAID levels across the 192f0e230adSGuoqing Jiang nodes of the cluster. Currently, it can work with raid1 and raid10 193f0e230adSGuoqing Jiang (limited support). 1948e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues 1958e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues If unsure, say N. 1968e854e9cSGoldwyn Rodrigues 197cafe5635SKent Overstreetsource "drivers/md/bcache/Kconfig" 198cafe5635SKent Overstreet 1992995fa78SMikulas Patockaconfig BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN 2006341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool 2012995fa78SMikulas Patocka 2021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BLK_DEV_DM 2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Device mapper support" 2042995fa78SMikulas Patocka select BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN 205976431b0SDan Williams depends on DAX || DAX=n 2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds Device-mapper is a low level volume manager. It works by allowing 2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds people to specify mappings for ranges of logical sectors. Various 2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds mapping types are available, in addition people may write their own 2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules containing custom mappings if they wish. 2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds Higher level volume managers such as LVM2 use this driver. 2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds called dm-mod. 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 219cc109201SBryn Reevesconfig DM_DEBUG 2206341e62bSChristoph Jaeger bool "Device mapper debugging support" 2210149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 222cc109201SBryn Reeves ---help--- 223cc109201SBryn Reeves Enable this for messages that may help debug device-mapper problems. 224cc109201SBryn Reeves 225cc109201SBryn Reeves If unsure, say N. 226cc109201SBryn Reeves 22795d402f0SMikulas Patockaconfig DM_BUFIO 22895d402f0SMikulas Patocka tristate 229d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 23095d402f0SMikulas Patocka ---help--- 23195d402f0SMikulas Patocka This interface allows you to do buffered I/O on a device and acts 23295d402f0SMikulas Patocka as a cache, holding recently-read blocks in memory and performing 23395d402f0SMikulas Patocka delayed writes. 23495d402f0SMikulas Patocka 2352e8ed711SJoe Thornberconfig DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_MANAGER_LOCKING 2362e8ed711SJoe Thornber bool "Block manager locking" 2372e8ed711SJoe Thornber depends on DM_BUFIO 2382e8ed711SJoe Thornber ---help--- 2392e8ed711SJoe Thornber Block manager locking can catch various metadata corruption issues. 2402e8ed711SJoe Thornber 2412e8ed711SJoe Thornber If unsure, say N. 2422e8ed711SJoe Thornber 24386bad0c7SMikulas Patockaconfig DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_STACK_TRACING 24486bad0c7SMikulas Patocka bool "Keep stack trace of persistent data block lock holders" 2452e8ed711SJoe Thornber depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_MANAGER_LOCKING 24686bad0c7SMikulas Patocka select STACKTRACE 24786bad0c7SMikulas Patocka ---help--- 24886bad0c7SMikulas Patocka Enable this for messages that may help debug problems with the 24986bad0c7SMikulas Patocka block manager locking used by thin provisioning and caching. 25086bad0c7SMikulas Patocka 25186bad0c7SMikulas Patocka If unsure, say N. 2523f068040SMike Snitzer 2534f81a417SMike Snitzerconfig DM_BIO_PRISON 2544f81a417SMike Snitzer tristate 255d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 2564f81a417SMike Snitzer ---help--- 2574f81a417SMike Snitzer Some bio locking schemes used by other device-mapper targets 2584f81a417SMike Snitzer including thin provisioning. 2594f81a417SMike Snitzer 260991d9fa0SJoe Thornbersource "drivers/md/persistent-data/Kconfig" 261991d9fa0SJoe Thornber 26218a5bf27SScott Bauerconfig DM_UNSTRIPED 26318a5bf27SScott Bauer tristate "Unstriped target" 26418a5bf27SScott Bauer depends on BLK_DEV_DM 26518a5bf27SScott Bauer ---help--- 26618a5bf27SScott Bauer Unstripes I/O so it is issued solely on a single drive in a HW 26718a5bf27SScott Bauer RAID0 or dm-striped target. 26818a5bf27SScott Bauer 2691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DM_CRYPT 2701da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Crypt target support" 2710149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO 2733263263fSHerbert Xu select CRYPTO_CBC 274a1a262b6SArd Biesheuvel select CRYPTO_ESSIV 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 32848debafeSMikulas Patockaconfig DM_WRITECACHE 32948debafeSMikulas Patocka tristate "Writecache target" 33048debafeSMikulas Patocka depends on BLK_DEV_DM 33148debafeSMikulas Patocka ---help--- 33248debafeSMikulas Patocka The writecache target caches writes on persistent memory or SSD. 33348debafeSMikulas Patocka It is intended for databases or other programs that need extremely 33448debafeSMikulas Patocka low commit latency. 33548debafeSMikulas Patocka 33648debafeSMikulas Patocka The writecache target doesn't cache reads because reads are supposed 33748debafeSMikulas Patocka to be cached in standard RAM. 33848debafeSMikulas Patocka 339eec40579SJoe Thornberconfig DM_ERA 340eec40579SJoe Thornber tristate "Era target (EXPERIMENTAL)" 341eec40579SJoe Thornber depends on BLK_DEV_DM 342eec40579SJoe Thornber default n 343eec40579SJoe Thornber select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA 344eec40579SJoe Thornber select DM_BIO_PRISON 345eec40579SJoe Thornber ---help--- 346eec40579SJoe Thornber dm-era tracks which parts of a block device are written to 347eec40579SJoe Thornber over time. Useful for maintaining cache coherency when using 348eec40579SJoe Thornber vendor snapshots. 349eec40579SJoe Thornber 3501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DM_MIRROR 3510149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Mirror target" 3520149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds Allow volume managers to mirror logical volumes, also 3551da177e4SLinus Torvalds needed for live data migration tools such as 'pvmove'. 3561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3575442851eSMikulas Patockaconfig DM_LOG_USERSPACE 3585442851eSMikulas Patocka tristate "Mirror userspace logging" 3595442851eSMikulas Patocka depends on DM_MIRROR && NET 3605442851eSMikulas Patocka select CONNECTOR 3615442851eSMikulas Patocka ---help--- 3625442851eSMikulas Patocka The userspace logging module provides a mechanism for 3635442851eSMikulas Patocka relaying the dm-dirty-log API to userspace. Log designs 3645442851eSMikulas Patocka which are more suited to userspace implementation (e.g. 3655442851eSMikulas Patocka shared storage logs) or experimental logs can be implemented 3665442851eSMikulas Patocka by leveraging this framework. 3675442851eSMikulas Patocka 3689d09e663SNeilBrownconfig DM_RAID 369d9f691c3SNeilBrown tristate "RAID 1/4/5/6/10 target" 370035220b3SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 3717b81ef8bSMikulas Patocka select MD_RAID0 372b12d437bSJonathan Brassow select MD_RAID1 373d9f691c3SNeilBrown select MD_RAID10 3749d09e663SNeilBrown select MD_RAID456 3759d09e663SNeilBrown select BLK_DEV_MD 3769d09e663SNeilBrown ---help--- 377d9f691c3SNeilBrown A dm target that supports RAID1, RAID10, RAID4, RAID5 and RAID6 mappings 3789d09e663SNeilBrown 3799d09e663SNeilBrown A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides 3809d09e663SNeilBrown the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure 3819d09e663SNeilBrown of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives 3829d09e663SNeilBrown contain data sectors, and one drive contains the parity protection. 3839d09e663SNeilBrown For a RAID-4 set, the parity blocks are present on a single drive, 3849d09e663SNeilBrown while a RAID-5 set distributes the parity across the drives in one 3859d09e663SNeilBrown of the available parity distribution methods. 3869d09e663SNeilBrown 3879d09e663SNeilBrown A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive 3889d09e663SNeilBrown provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects 3899d09e663SNeilBrown against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector 3909d09e663SNeilBrown (row) number, (N - 2) drives contain data sectors, and two 3919d09e663SNeilBrown drives contains two independent redundancy syndromes. Like 3929d09e663SNeilBrown RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives 3939d09e663SNeilBrown in one of the available parity distribution methods. 3949d09e663SNeilBrown 3951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DM_ZERO 3960149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Zero target" 3970149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 3981da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3991da177e4SLinus Torvalds A target that discards writes, and returns all zeroes for 4001da177e4SLinus Torvalds reads. Useful in some recovery situations. 4011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DM_MULTIPATH 4030149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Multipath target" 4040149e57fSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 405fe9233fbSChandra Seetharaman # nasty syntax but means make DM_MULTIPATH independent 406fe9233fbSChandra Seetharaman # of SCSI_DH if the latter isn't defined but if 407fe9233fbSChandra Seetharaman # it is, DM_MULTIPATH must depend on it. We get a build 408fe9233fbSChandra Seetharaman # error if SCSI_DH=m and DM_MULTIPATH=y 409294ab783SChristoph Hellwig depends on !SCSI_DH || SCSI 4101da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4111da177e4SLinus Torvalds Allow volume managers to support multipath hardware. 4121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 413fd5e0339SKiyoshi Uedaconfig DM_MULTIPATH_QL 414fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the number of in-flight I/Os" 415fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda depends on DM_MULTIPATH 416fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda ---help--- 417fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects 418fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda the path with the least number of in-flight I/Os. 419fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda 420fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda If unsure, say N. 421fd5e0339SKiyoshi Ueda 422f392ba88SKiyoshi Uedaconfig DM_MULTIPATH_ST 423f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the service time" 424f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda depends on DM_MULTIPATH 425f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda ---help--- 426f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects 427f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda the path expected to complete the incoming I/O in the shortest 428f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda time. 429f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda 430f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda If unsure, say N. 431f392ba88SKiyoshi Ueda 43226b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagenconfig DM_DELAY 433d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon tristate "I/O delaying target" 434d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 43526b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen ---help--- 43626b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen A target that delays reads and/or writes and can send 43726b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen them to different devices. Useful for testing. 43826b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen 43926b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen If unsure, say N. 44026b9f228SHeinz Mauelshagen 441e4f3fabdSBryan Gurneyconfig DM_DUST 442e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney tristate "Bad sector simulation target" 443e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney depends on BLK_DEV_DM 444e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney ---help--- 445e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney A target that simulates bad sector behavior. 446e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney Useful for testing. 447e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney 448e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney If unsure, say N. 449e4f3fabdSBryan Gurney 4506bbc923dSHelen Koikeconfig DM_INIT 4516bbc923dSHelen Koike bool "DM \"dm-mod.create=\" parameter support" 4526bbc923dSHelen Koike depends on BLK_DEV_DM=y 4536bbc923dSHelen Koike ---help--- 4546bbc923dSHelen Koike Enable "dm-mod.create=" parameter to create mapped devices at init time. 4556bbc923dSHelen Koike This option is useful to allow mounting rootfs without requiring an 4566bbc923dSHelen Koike initramfs. 4576cf2a73cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-init.rst for dm-mod.create="..." 4586bbc923dSHelen Koike format. 4596bbc923dSHelen Koike 4606bbc923dSHelen Koike If unsure, say N. 4616bbc923dSHelen Koike 46251e5b2bdSMike Andersonconfig DM_UEVENT 463e0b215daSAlasdair G Kergon bool "DM uevents" 464e0b215daSAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 46551e5b2bdSMike Anderson ---help--- 46651e5b2bdSMike Anderson Generate udev events for DM events. 46751e5b2bdSMike Anderson 4683407ef52SJosef Bacikconfig DM_FLAKEY 469d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Flakey target" 470d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 4713407ef52SJosef Bacik ---help--- 4723407ef52SJosef Bacik A target that intermittently fails I/O for debugging purposes. 4733407ef52SJosef Bacik 474a4ffc152SMikulas Patockaconfig DM_VERITY 475d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon tristate "Verity target support" 476d57916a0SAlasdair G Kergon depends on BLK_DEV_DM 477a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka select CRYPTO 478a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka select CRYPTO_HASH 479a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka select DM_BUFIO 480a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka ---help--- 481a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka This device-mapper target creates a read-only device that 482a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka transparently validates the data on one underlying device against 483a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka a pre-generated tree of cryptographic checksums stored on a second 484a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka device. 485a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka 486a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka You'll need to activate the digests you're going to use in the 487a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka cryptoapi configuration. 488a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka 489a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 490a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka be called dm-verity. 491a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka 492a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka If unsure, say N. 493a4ffc152SMikulas Patocka 49488cd3e6cSJaskaran Khuranaconfig DM_VERITY_VERIFY_ROOTHASH_SIG 49588cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana def_bool n 49688cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana bool "Verity data device root hash signature verification support" 49788cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana depends on DM_VERITY 49888cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION 49988cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana help 50088cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana Add ability for dm-verity device to be validated if the 50188cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana pre-generated tree of cryptographic checksums passed has a pkcs#7 50288cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana signature file that can validate the roothash of the tree. 50388cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana 50488cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana If unsure, say N. 50588cd3e6cSJaskaran Khurana 506a739ff3fSSami Tolvanenconfig DM_VERITY_FEC 507a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen bool "Verity forward error correction support" 508a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen depends on DM_VERITY 509a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen select REED_SOLOMON 510a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen select REED_SOLOMON_DEC8 511a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen ---help--- 512a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen Add forward error correction support to dm-verity. This option 513a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen makes it possible to use pre-generated error correction data to 514a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen recover from corrupted blocks. 515a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen 516a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen If unsure, say N. 517a739ff3fSSami Tolvanen 5189d0eb0abSJim Ramsayconfig DM_SWITCH 5199d0eb0abSJim Ramsay tristate "Switch target support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 5209d0eb0abSJim Ramsay depends on BLK_DEV_DM 5219d0eb0abSJim Ramsay ---help--- 5229d0eb0abSJim Ramsay This device-mapper target creates a device that supports an arbitrary 5239d0eb0abSJim Ramsay mapping of fixed-size regions of I/O across a fixed set of paths. 5249d0eb0abSJim Ramsay The path used for any specific region can be switched dynamically 5259d0eb0abSJim Ramsay by sending the target a message. 5269d0eb0abSJim Ramsay 5279d0eb0abSJim Ramsay To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 5289d0eb0abSJim Ramsay be called dm-switch. 5299d0eb0abSJim Ramsay 5309d0eb0abSJim Ramsay If unsure, say N. 5319d0eb0abSJim Ramsay 5320e9cebe7SJosef Bacikconfig DM_LOG_WRITES 5330e9cebe7SJosef Bacik tristate "Log writes target support" 5340e9cebe7SJosef Bacik depends on BLK_DEV_DM 5350e9cebe7SJosef Bacik ---help--- 5360e9cebe7SJosef Bacik This device-mapper target takes two devices, one device to use 5370e9cebe7SJosef Bacik normally, one to log all write operations done to the first device. 5380e9cebe7SJosef Bacik This is for use by file system developers wishing to verify that 53957d42487SGeert Uytterhoeven their fs is writing a consistent file system at all times by allowing 5400e9cebe7SJosef Bacik them to replay the log in a variety of ways and to check the 5410e9cebe7SJosef Bacik contents. 5420e9cebe7SJosef Bacik 5430e9cebe7SJosef Bacik To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 5440e9cebe7SJosef Bacik be called dm-log-writes. 5450e9cebe7SJosef Bacik 5460e9cebe7SJosef Bacik If unsure, say N. 5470e9cebe7SJosef Bacik 5487eada909SMikulas Patockaconfig DM_INTEGRITY 5497ab84db6SMike Snitzer tristate "Integrity target support" 5507eada909SMikulas Patocka depends on BLK_DEV_DM 5517eada909SMikulas Patocka select BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY 5527eada909SMikulas Patocka select DM_BUFIO 5537eada909SMikulas Patocka select CRYPTO 5547eada909SMikulas Patocka select ASYNC_XOR 5557eada909SMikulas Patocka ---help--- 5567ab84db6SMike Snitzer This device-mapper target emulates a block device that has 5577ab84db6SMike Snitzer additional per-sector tags that can be used for storing 5587ab84db6SMike Snitzer integrity information. 5597ab84db6SMike Snitzer 5607ab84db6SMike Snitzer This integrity target is used with the dm-crypt target to 5617ab84db6SMike Snitzer provide authenticated disk encryption or it can be used 5627ab84db6SMike Snitzer standalone. 5637ab84db6SMike Snitzer 5647ab84db6SMike Snitzer To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 5657ab84db6SMike Snitzer be called dm-integrity. 5667ab84db6SMike Snitzer 5673b1a94c8SDamien Le Moalconfig DM_ZONED 5683b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal tristate "Drive-managed zoned block device target support" 5693b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal depends on BLK_DEV_DM 5703b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal depends on BLK_DEV_ZONED 5713b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal ---help--- 5723b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal This device-mapper target takes a host-managed or host-aware zoned 5733b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal block device and exposes most of its capacity as a regular block 5743b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal device (drive-managed zoned block device) without any write 5753b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal constraints. This is mainly intended for use with file systems that 5763b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal do not natively support zoned block devices but still want to 5773b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal benefit from the increased capacity offered by SMR disks. Other uses 5783b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal by applications using raw block devices (for example object stores) 5793b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal are also possible. 5803b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal 5813b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 5823b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal be called dm-zoned. 5833b1a94c8SDamien Le Moal 5847ab84db6SMike Snitzer If unsure, say N. 5857eada909SMikulas Patocka 586afd44034SJan Engelhardtendif # MD 587