13a65dfe8SJens Axboe# 23a65dfe8SJens Axboe# Block layer core configuration 33a65dfe8SJens Axboe# 416ed002fSJan Engelhardtmenuconfig BLOCK 551d7513aSJens Axboe bool "Enable the block layer" if EMBEDDED 69361401eSDavid Howells default y 79361401eSDavid Howells help 8ee86418dSNick Andrew Provide block layer support for the kernel. 99361401eSDavid Howells 10ee86418dSNick Andrew Disable this option to remove the block layer support from the 11ee86418dSNick Andrew kernel. This may be useful for embedded devices. 12ee86418dSNick Andrew 13ee86418dSNick Andrew If this option is disabled: 14ee86418dSNick Andrew 15ee86418dSNick Andrew - block device files will become unusable 16ee86418dSNick Andrew - some filesystems (such as ext3) will become unavailable. 17ee86418dSNick Andrew 18ee86418dSNick Andrew Also, SCSI character devices and USB storage will be disabled since 19ee86418dSNick Andrew they make use of various block layer definitions and facilities. 209361401eSDavid Howells 219361401eSDavid Howells Say Y here unless you know you really don't want to mount disks and 229361401eSDavid Howells suchlike. 239361401eSDavid Howells 249361401eSDavid Howellsif BLOCK 259361401eSDavid Howells 263a65dfe8SJens Axboeconfig LBD 273a65dfe8SJens Axboe bool "Support for Large Block Devices" 28e6243863SMatthew Wilcox depends on !64BIT 293a65dfe8SJens Axboe help 30ee86418dSNick Andrew Enable block devices of size 2TB and larger. 31ee86418dSNick Andrew 32ee86418dSNick Andrew This option is required to support the full capacity of large 33ee86418dSNick Andrew (2TB+) block devices, including RAID, disk, Network Block Device, 34ee86418dSNick Andrew Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and loopback. 35ee86418dSNick Andrew 36ee86418dSNick Andrew For example, RAID devices are frequently bigger than the capacity 37ee86418dSNick Andrew of the largest individual hard drive. 38ee86418dSNick Andrew 39ee86418dSNick Andrew This option is not required if you have individual disk drives 40ee86418dSNick Andrew which total 2TB+ and you are not aggregating the capacity into 41ee86418dSNick Andrew a large block device (e.g. using RAID or LVM). 42ee86418dSNick Andrew 43ee86418dSNick Andrew If unsure, say N. 443a65dfe8SJens Axboe 452056a782SJens Axboeconfig BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE 462056a782SJens Axboe bool "Support for tracing block io actions" 4709540e69SJens Axboe depends on SYSFS 482056a782SJens Axboe select RELAY 492056a782SJens Axboe select DEBUG_FS 50*5f3ea37cSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo select TRACEPOINTS 512056a782SJens Axboe help 52ee86418dSNick Andrew Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions 532056a782SJens Axboe on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening 542056a782SJens Axboe on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace 55ee86418dSNick Andrew support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from: 562056a782SJens Axboe 5775ce6facSJens Axboe git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git 582056a782SJens Axboe 59ee86418dSNick Andrew If unsure, say N. 60ee86418dSNick Andrew 61a0f62ac6STakashi Satoconfig LSF 62a0f62ac6STakashi Sato bool "Support for Large Single Files" 63e6243863SMatthew Wilcox depends on !64BIT 64a0f62ac6STakashi Sato help 65ee86418dSNick Andrew Say Y here if you want to be able to handle very large files (2TB 66ee86418dSNick Andrew and larger), otherwise say N. 6788b9adb0STrond Myklebust 6888b9adb0STrond Myklebust If unsure, say Y. 69a0f62ac6STakashi Sato 703d6392cfSJens Axboeconfig BLK_DEV_BSG 71319a7b7fSFUJITA Tomonori bool "Block layer SG support v4 (EXPERIMENTAL)" 7280ed71ceSJames Bottomley depends on EXPERIMENTAL 733d6392cfSJens Axboe ---help--- 74319a7b7fSFUJITA Tomonori Saying Y here will enable generic SG (SCSI generic) v4 support 75319a7b7fSFUJITA Tomonori for any block device. 76319a7b7fSFUJITA Tomonori 77319a7b7fSFUJITA Tomonori Unlike SG v3 (aka block/scsi_ioctl.c drivers/scsi/sg.c), SG v4 78319a7b7fSFUJITA Tomonori can handle complicated SCSI commands: tagged variable length cdbs 79319a7b7fSFUJITA Tomonori with bidirectional data transfers and generic request/response 80319a7b7fSFUJITA Tomonori protocols (e.g. Task Management Functions and SMP in Serial 81319a7b7fSFUJITA Tomonori Attached SCSI). 823d6392cfSJens Axboe 83ee86418dSNick Andrew If unsure, say N. 84ee86418dSNick Andrew 857ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersenconfig BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY 867ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen bool "Block layer data integrity support" 877ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen ---help--- 887ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen Some storage devices allow extra information to be 897ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen stored/retrieved to help protect the data. The block layer 907ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen data integrity option provides hooks which can be used by 917ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen filesystems to ensure better data integrity. 927ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen 937ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen Say yes here if you have a storage device that provides the 947ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen T10/SCSI Data Integrity Field or the T13/ATA External Path 957ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen Protection. If in doubt, say N. 967ba1ba12SMartin K. Petersen 972b9e0aaeSLinus Torvaldsendif # BLOCK 982b9e0aaeSLinus Torvalds 9999874d50SJens Axboeconfig BLOCK_COMPAT 10099874d50SJens Axboe bool 1012b9e0aaeSLinus Torvalds depends on BLOCK && COMPAT 10299874d50SJens Axboe default y 10399874d50SJens Axboe 1043a65dfe8SJens Axboesource block/Kconfig.iosched 105