2 # Block layer core configuration
5 bool "Enable the block layer" if EXPERT
8 Provide block layer support for the kernel.
10 Disable this option to remove the block layer support from the
11 kernel. This may be useful for embedded devices.
13 If this option is disabled:
15 - block device files will become unusable
16 - some filesystems (such as ext3) will become unavailable.
18 Also, SCSI character devices and USB storage will be disabled since
19 they make use of various block layer definitions and facilities.
21 Say Y here unless you know you really don't want to mount disks and
27 bool "Support for large (2TB+) block devices and files"
31 Enable block devices or files of size 2TB and larger.
33 This option is required to support the full capacity of large
34 (2TB+) block devices, including RAID, disk, Network Block Device,
35 Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and loopback.
37 This option also enables support for single files larger than
40 The ext4 filesystem requires that this feature be enabled in
41 order to support filesystems that have the huge_file feature
42 enabled. Otherwise, it will refuse to mount in the read-write
43 mode any filesystems that use the huge_file feature, which is
44 enabled by default by mke2fs.ext4.
46 The GFS2 filesystem also requires this feature.
51 bool "Block layer SG support v4"
54 Saying Y here will enable generic SG (SCSI generic) v4 support
57 Unlike SG v3 (aka block/scsi_ioctl.c drivers/scsi/sg.c), SG v4
58 can handle complicated SCSI commands: tagged variable length cdbs
59 with bidirectional data transfers and generic request/response
60 protocols (e.g. Task Management Functions and SMP in Serial
63 This option is required by recent UDEV versions to properly
64 access device serial numbers, etc.
68 config BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
69 bool "Block layer data integrity support"
71 Some storage devices allow extra information to be
72 stored/retrieved to help protect the data. The block layer
73 data integrity option provides hooks which can be used by
74 filesystems to ensure better data integrity.
76 Say yes here if you have a storage device that provides the
77 T10/SCSI Data Integrity Field or the T13/ATA External Path
78 Protection. If in doubt, say N.
80 config BLK_DEV_THROTTLING
81 bool "Block layer bio throttling support"
82 depends on BLK_CGROUP=y && EXPERIMENTAL
85 Block layer bio throttling support. It can be used to limit
86 the IO rate to a device. IO rate policies are per cgroup and
87 one needs to mount and use blkio cgroup controller for creating
88 cgroups and specifying per device IO rate policies.
90 See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
96 depends on BLOCK && COMPAT
99 source block/Kconfig.iosched