Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
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+#
+# Block device driver configuration
+#
+
+menu "Multi-device support (RAID and LVM)"
+
+config MD
+ bool "Multiple devices driver support (RAID and LVM)"
+ help
+ Support multiple physical spindles through a single logical device.
+ Required for RAID and logical volume management.
+
+config BLK_DEV_MD
+ tristate "RAID support"
+ depends on MD
+ ---help---
+ This driver lets you combine several hard disk partitions into one
+ logical block device. This can be used to simply append one
+ partition to another one or to combine several redundant hard disks
+ into a RAID1/4/5 device so as to provide protection against hard
+ disk failures. This is called "Software RAID" since the combining of
+ the partitions is done by the kernel. "Hardware RAID" means that the
+ combining is done by a dedicated controller; if you have such a
+ controller, you do not need to say Y here.
+
+ More information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the
+ Software RAID mini-HOWTO, available from
+ <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also learn
+ where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
+config MD_LINEAR
+ tristate "Linear (append) mode"
+ depends on BLK_DEV_MD
+ ---help---
+ If you say Y here, then your multiple devices driver will be able to
+ use the so-called linear mode, i.e. it will combine the hard disk
+ partitions by simply appending one to the other.
+
+ To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module
+ will be called linear.
+
+ If unsure, say Y.
+
+config MD_RAID0
+ tristate "RAID-0 (striping) mode"
+ depends on BLK_DEV_MD
+ ---help---
+ If you say Y here, then your multiple devices driver will be able to
+ use the so-called raid0 mode, i.e. it will combine the hard disk
+ partitions into one logical device in such a fashion as to fill them
+ up evenly, one chunk here and one chunk there. This will increase
+ the throughput rate if the partitions reside on distinct disks.
+
+ Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the
+ Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from
+ <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also
+ learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools.
+
+ To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module
+ will be called raid0.
+
+ If unsure, say Y.
+
+config MD_RAID1
+ tristate "RAID-1 (mirroring) mode"
+ depends on BLK_DEV_MD
+ ---help---
+ A RAID-1 set consists of several disk drives which are exact copies
+ of each other. In the event of a mirror failure, the RAID driver
+ will continue to use the operational mirrors in the set, providing
+ an error free MD (multiple device) to the higher levels of the
+ kernel. In a set with N drives, the available space is the capacity
+ of a single drive, and the set protects against a failure of (N - 1)
+ drives.
+
+ Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the
+ Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from
+ <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also
+ learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools.
+
+ If you want to use such a RAID-1 set, say Y. To compile this code
+ as a module, choose M here: the module will be called raid1.
+
+ If unsure, say Y.
+
+config MD_RAID10
+ tristate "RAID-10 (mirrored striping) mode (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on BLK_DEV_MD && EXPERIMENTAL
+ ---help---
+ RAID-10 provides a combination of striping (RAID-0) and
+ mirroring (RAID-1) with easier configuration and more flexable
+ layout.
+ Unlike RAID-0, but like RAID-1, RAID-10 requires all devices to
+ be the same size (or at least, only as much as the smallest device
+ will be used).
+ RAID-10 provides a variety of layouts that provide different levels
+ of redundancy and performance.
+
+ RAID-10 requires mdadm-1.7.0 or later, available at:
+
+ ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
+
+ If unsure, say Y.
+
+config MD_RAID5
+ tristate "RAID-4/RAID-5 mode"
+ depends on BLK_DEV_MD
+ ---help---
+ A RAID-5 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive provides
+ the capacity of C * (N - 1) MB, and protects against a failure
+ of a single drive. For a given sector (row) number, (N - 1) drives
+ contain data sectors, and one drive contains the parity protection.
+ For a RAID-4 set, the parity blocks are present on a single drive,
+ while a RAID-5 set distributes the parity across the drives in one
+ of the available parity distribution methods.
+
+ Information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the
+ Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available from
+ <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also
+ learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools.
+
+ If you want to use such a RAID-4/RAID-5 set, say Y. To
+ compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module
+ will be called raid5.
+
+ If unsure, say Y.
+
+config MD_RAID6
+ tristate "RAID-6 mode"
+ depends on BLK_DEV_MD
+ ---help---
+ A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive
+ provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects
+ against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector
+ (row) number, (N - 2) drives contain data sectors, and two
+ drives contains two independent redundancy syndromes. Like
+ RAID-5, RAID-6 distributes the syndromes across the drives
+ in one of the available parity distribution methods.
+
+ RAID-6 requires mdadm-1.5.0 or later, available at:
+
+ ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
+
+ If you want to use such a RAID-6 set, say Y. To compile
+ this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be
+ called raid6.
+
+ If unsure, say Y.
+
+config MD_MULTIPATH
+ tristate "Multipath I/O support"
+ depends on BLK_DEV_MD
+ help
+ Multipath-IO is the ability of certain devices to address the same
+ physical disk over multiple 'IO paths'. The code ensures that such
+ paths can be defined and handled at runtime, and ensures that a
+ transparent failover to the backup path(s) happens if a IO errors
+ arrives on the primary path.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
+config MD_FAULTY
+ tristate "Faulty test module for MD"
+ depends on BLK_DEV_MD
+ help
+ The "faulty" module allows for a block device that occasionally returns
+ read or write errors. It is useful for testing.
+
+ In unsure, say N.
+
+config BLK_DEV_DM
+ tristate "Device mapper support"
+ depends on MD
+ ---help---
+ Device-mapper is a low level volume manager. It works by allowing
+ people to specify mappings for ranges of logical sectors. Various
+ mapping types are available, in addition people may write their own
+ modules containing custom mappings if they wish.
+
+ Higher level volume managers such as LVM2 use this driver.
+
+ To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
+ called dm-mod.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
+config DM_CRYPT
+ tristate "Crypt target support"
+ depends on BLK_DEV_DM && EXPERIMENTAL
+ select CRYPTO
+ ---help---
+ This device-mapper target allows you to create a device that
+ transparently encrypts the data on it. You'll need to activate
+ the ciphers you're going to use in the cryptoapi configuration.
+
+ Information on how to use dm-crypt can be found on
+
+ <http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/>
+
+ To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
+ be called dm-crypt.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
+config DM_SNAPSHOT
+ tristate "Snapshot target (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on BLK_DEV_DM && EXPERIMENTAL
+ ---help---
+ Allow volume managers to take writeable snapshots of a device.
+
+config DM_MIRROR
+ tristate "Mirror target (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on BLK_DEV_DM && EXPERIMENTAL
+ ---help---
+ Allow volume managers to mirror logical volumes, also
+ needed for live data migration tools such as 'pvmove'.
+
+config DM_ZERO
+ tristate "Zero target (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on BLK_DEV_DM && EXPERIMENTAL
+ ---help---
+ A target that discards writes, and returns all zeroes for
+ reads. Useful in some recovery situations.
+
+config DM_MULTIPATH
+ tristate "Multipath target (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on BLK_DEV_DM && EXPERIMENTAL
+ ---help---
+ Allow volume managers to support multipath hardware.
+
+config DM_MULTIPATH_EMC
+ tristate "EMC CX/AX multipath support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on DM_MULTIPATH && BLK_DEV_DM && EXPERIMENTAL
+ ---help---
+ Multipath support for EMC CX/AX series hardware.
+
+endmenu
+
