1# 2# Block device driver configuration 3# 4 5menuconfig MD 6 bool "Multiple devices driver support (RAID and LVM)" 7 depends on BLOCK 8 help 9 Support multiple physical spindles through a single logical device. 10 Required for RAID and logical volume management. 11 12if MD 13 14config BLK_DEV_MD 15 tristate "RAID support" 16 ---help--- 17 This driver lets you combine several hard disk partitions into one 18 logical block device. This can be used to simply append one 19 partition to another one or to combine several redundant hard disks 20 into a RAID1/4/5 device so as to provide protection against hard 21 disk failures. This is called "Software RAID" since the combining of 22 the partitions is done by the kernel. "Hardware RAID" means that the 23 combining is done by a dedicated controller; if you have such a 24 controller, you do not need to say Y here. 25 26 More information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the 27 Software RAID mini-HOWTO, available from 28 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also learn 29 where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools. 30 31 If unsure, say N. 32 33config MD_AUTODETECT 34 bool "Autodetect RAID arrays during kernel boot" 35 depends on BLK_DEV_MD=y 36 default y 37 ---help--- 38 If you say Y here, then the kernel will try to autodetect raid 39 arrays as part of its boot process. 40 41 If you don't use raid and say Y, this autodetection can cause 42 a several-second delay in the boot time due to various 43 synchronisation steps that are part of this step. 44 45 If unsure, say Y. 46 47config MD_LINEAR 48 tristate "Linear (append) mode" 49 depends on BLK_DEV_MD 50 ---help--- 51 If you say Y here, then your multiple devices driver will be able to 52 use the so-called linear mode, i.e. it will combine the hard disk 53 partitions by simply appending one to the other. 54 55 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module 56 will be called linear. 57 58 If unsure, say Y. 59 60config MD_RAID0 61 tristate "RAID-0 (striping) mode" 62 depends on BLK_DEV_MD 63 ---help--- 64 If you say Y here, then your multiple devices driver will be able to 65 use the so-called raid0 mode, i.e. it will combine the hard disk 66 partitions into one logical device in such a fashion as to fill them 67 up evenly, one chunk here and one chunk there. This will increase 68 the throughput rate if the partitions reside on distinct disks. 69 70 Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the 71 Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from 72 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also 73 learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools. 74 75 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module 76 will be called raid0. 77 78 If unsure, say Y. 79 80config MD_RAID1 81 tristate "RAID-1 (mirroring) mode" 82 depends on BLK_DEV_MD 83 ---help--- 84 A RAID-1 set consists of several disk drives which are exact copies 85 of each other. In the event of a mirror failure, the RAID driver 86 will continue to use the operational mirrors in the set, providing 87 an error free MD (multiple device) to the higher levels of the 88 kernel. In a set with N drives, the available space is the capacity 89 of a single drive, and the set protects against a failure of (N - 1) 90 drives. 91 92 Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the 93 Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from 94 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also 95 learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools. 96 97 If you want to use such a RAID-1 set, say Y. To compile this code 98 as a module, choose M here: the module will be called raid1. 99 100 If unsure, say Y. 101 102config MD_RAID10 103 tristate "RAID-10 (mirrored striping) mode" 104 depends on BLK_DEV_MD 105 ---help--- 106 RAID-10 provides a combination of striping (RAID-0) and 107 mirroring (RAID-1) with easier configuration and more flexible 108 layout. 109 Unlike RAID-0, but like RAID-1, RAID-10 requires all devices to 110 be the same size (or at least, only as much as the smallest device 111 will be used). 112 RAID-10 provides a variety of layouts that provide different levels 113 of redundancy and performance. 114 115 RAID-10 requires mdadm-1.7.0 or later, available at: 116 117 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ 118 119 If unsure, say Y. 120 121config MD_RAID456 122 tristate "RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 mode" 123 depends on BLK_DEV_MD 124 select RAID6_PQ 125 select ASYNC_MEMCPY 126 select ASYNC_XOR 127 select ASYNC_PQ 128 select ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 129 ---help--- 130 A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides 131 the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure 132 of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives 133 contain data sectors, and one drive contains the parity protection. 134 For a RAID-4 set, the parity blocks are present on a single drive, 135 while a RAID-5 set distributes the parity across the drives in one 136 of the available parity distribution methods. 137 138 A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive 139 provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects 140 against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector 141 (row) number, (N - 2) drives contain data sectors, and two 142 drives contains two independent redundancy syndromes. Like 143 RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives 144 in one of the available parity distribution methods. 145 146 Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the 147 Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from 148 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also 149 learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools. 150 151 If you want to use such a RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 set, say Y. To 152 compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module 153 will be called raid456. 154 155 If unsure, say Y. 156 157config MD_MULTIPATH 158 tristate "Multipath I/O support" 159 depends on BLK_DEV_MD 160 help 161 MD_MULTIPATH provides a simple multi-path personality for use 162 the MD framework. It is not under active development. New 163 projects should consider using DM_MULTIPATH which has more 164 features and more testing. 165 166 If unsure, say N. 167 168config MD_FAULTY 169 tristate "Faulty test module for MD" 170 depends on BLK_DEV_MD 171 help 172 The "faulty" module allows for a block device that occasionally returns 173 read or write errors. It is useful for testing. 174 175 In unsure, say N. 176 177source "drivers/md/bcache/Kconfig" 178 179config BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN 180 boolean 181 182config BLK_DEV_DM 183 tristate "Device mapper support" 184 select BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN 185 ---help--- 186 Device-mapper is a low level volume manager. It works by allowing 187 people to specify mappings for ranges of logical sectors. Various 188 mapping types are available, in addition people may write their own 189 modules containing custom mappings if they wish. 190 191 Higher level volume managers such as LVM2 use this driver. 192 193 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 194 called dm-mod. 195 196 If unsure, say N. 197 198config DM_DEBUG 199 boolean "Device mapper debugging support" 200 depends on BLK_DEV_DM 201 ---help--- 202 Enable this for messages that may help debug device-mapper problems. 203 204 If unsure, say N. 205 206config DM_BUFIO 207 tristate 208 depends on BLK_DEV_DM 209 ---help--- 210 This interface allows you to do buffered I/O on a device and acts 211 as a cache, holding recently-read blocks in memory and performing 212 delayed writes. 213 214config DM_BIO_PRISON 215 tristate 216 depends on BLK_DEV_DM 217 ---help--- 218 Some bio locking schemes used by other device-mapper targets 219 including thin provisioning. 220 221source "drivers/md/persistent-data/Kconfig" 222 223config DM_CRYPT 224 tristate "Crypt target support" 225 depends on BLK_DEV_DM 226 select CRYPTO 227 select CRYPTO_CBC 228 ---help--- 229 This device-mapper target allows you to create a device that 230 transparently encrypts the data on it. You'll need to activate 231 the ciphers you're going to use in the cryptoapi configuration. 232 233 Information on how to use dm-crypt can be found on 234 235 <http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/> 236 237 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 238 be called dm-crypt. 239 240 If unsure, say N. 241 242config DM_SNAPSHOT 243 tristate "Snapshot target" 244 depends on BLK_DEV_DM 245 select DM_BUFIO 246 ---help--- 247 Allow volume managers to take writable snapshots of a device. 248 249config DM_THIN_PROVISIONING 250 tristate "Thin provisioning target" 251 depends on BLK_DEV_DM 252 select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA 253 select DM_BIO_PRISON 254 ---help--- 255 Provides thin provisioning and snapshots that share a data store. 256 257config DM_CACHE 258 tristate "Cache target (EXPERIMENTAL)" 259 depends on BLK_DEV_DM 260 default n 261 select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA 262 select DM_BIO_PRISON 263 ---help--- 264 dm-cache attempts to improve performance of a block device by 265 moving frequently used data to a smaller, higher performance 266 device. Different 'policy' plugins can be used to change the 267 algorithms used to select which blocks are promoted, demoted, 268 cleaned etc. It supports writeback and writethrough modes. 269 270config DM_CACHE_MQ 271 tristate "MQ Cache Policy (EXPERIMENTAL)" 272 depends on DM_CACHE 273 default y 274 ---help--- 275 A cache policy that uses a multiqueue ordered by recent hit 276 count to select which blocks should be promoted and demoted. 277 This is meant to be a general purpose policy. It prioritises 278 reads over writes. 279 280config DM_CACHE_CLEANER 281 tristate "Cleaner Cache Policy (EXPERIMENTAL)" 282 depends on DM_CACHE 283 default y 284 ---help--- 285 A simple cache policy that writes back all data to the 286 origin. Used when decommissioning a dm-cache. 287 288config DM_ERA 289 tristate "Era target (EXPERIMENTAL)" 290 depends on BLK_DEV_DM 291 default n 292 select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA 293 select DM_BIO_PRISON 294 ---help--- 295 dm-era tracks which parts of a block device are written to 296 over time. Useful for maintaining cache coherency when using 297 vendor snapshots. 298 299config DM_MIRROR 300 tristate "Mirror target" 301 depends on BLK_DEV_DM 302 ---help--- 303 Allow volume managers to mirror logical volumes, also 304 needed for live data migration tools such as 'pvmove'. 305 306config DM_LOG_USERSPACE 307 tristate "Mirror userspace logging" 308 depends on DM_MIRROR && NET 309 select CONNECTOR 310 ---help--- 311 The userspace logging module provides a mechanism for 312 relaying the dm-dirty-log API to userspace. Log designs 313 which are more suited to userspace implementation (e.g. 314 shared storage logs) or experimental logs can be implemented 315 by leveraging this framework. 316 317config DM_RAID 318 tristate "RAID 1/4/5/6/10 target" 319 depends on BLK_DEV_DM 320 select MD_RAID1 321 select MD_RAID10 322 select MD_RAID456 323 select BLK_DEV_MD 324 ---help--- 325 A dm target that supports RAID1, RAID10, RAID4, RAID5 and RAID6 mappings 326 327 A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides 328 the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure 329 of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives 330 contain data sectors, and one drive contains the parity protection. 331 For a RAID-4 set, the parity blocks are present on a single drive, 332 while a RAID-5 set distributes the parity across the drives in one 333 of the available parity distribution methods. 334 335 A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive 336 provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects 337 against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector 338 (row) number, (N - 2) drives contain data sectors, and two 339 drives contains two independent redundancy syndromes. Like 340 RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives 341 in one of the available parity distribution methods. 342 343config DM_ZERO 344 tristate "Zero target" 345 depends on BLK_DEV_DM 346 ---help--- 347 A target that discards writes, and returns all zeroes for 348 reads. Useful in some recovery situations. 349 350config DM_MULTIPATH 351 tristate "Multipath target" 352 depends on BLK_DEV_DM 353 # nasty syntax but means make DM_MULTIPATH independent 354 # of SCSI_DH if the latter isn't defined but if 355 # it is, DM_MULTIPATH must depend on it. We get a build 356 # error if SCSI_DH=m and DM_MULTIPATH=y 357 depends on SCSI_DH || !SCSI_DH 358 ---help--- 359 Allow volume managers to support multipath hardware. 360 361config DM_MULTIPATH_QL 362 tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the number of in-flight I/Os" 363 depends on DM_MULTIPATH 364 ---help--- 365 This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects 366 the path with the least number of in-flight I/Os. 367 368 If unsure, say N. 369 370config DM_MULTIPATH_ST 371 tristate "I/O Path Selector based on the service time" 372 depends on DM_MULTIPATH 373 ---help--- 374 This path selector is a dynamic load balancer which selects 375 the path expected to complete the incoming I/O in the shortest 376 time. 377 378 If unsure, say N. 379 380config DM_DELAY 381 tristate "I/O delaying target" 382 depends on BLK_DEV_DM 383 ---help--- 384 A target that delays reads and/or writes and can send 385 them to different devices. Useful for testing. 386 387 If unsure, say N. 388 389config DM_UEVENT 390 bool "DM uevents" 391 depends on BLK_DEV_DM 392 ---help--- 393 Generate udev events for DM events. 394 395config DM_FLAKEY 396 tristate "Flakey target" 397 depends on BLK_DEV_DM 398 ---help--- 399 A target that intermittently fails I/O for debugging purposes. 400 401config DM_VERITY 402 tristate "Verity target support" 403 depends on BLK_DEV_DM 404 select CRYPTO 405 select CRYPTO_HASH 406 select DM_BUFIO 407 ---help--- 408 This device-mapper target creates a read-only device that 409 transparently validates the data on one underlying device against 410 a pre-generated tree of cryptographic checksums stored on a second 411 device. 412 413 You'll need to activate the digests you're going to use in the 414 cryptoapi configuration. 415 416 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 417 be called dm-verity. 418 419 If unsure, say N. 420 421config DM_SWITCH 422 tristate "Switch target support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 423 depends on BLK_DEV_DM 424 ---help--- 425 This device-mapper target creates a device that supports an arbitrary 426 mapping of fixed-size regions of I/O across a fixed set of paths. 427 The path used for any specific region can be switched dynamically 428 by sending the target a message. 429 430 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 431 be called dm-switch. 432 433 If unsure, say N. 434 435endif # MD 436