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@@ -240,6 +240,30 @@ config DM_MIRROR
Allow volume managers to mirror logical volumes, also
needed for live data migration tools such as 'pvmove'.
+config DM_RAID
+ tristate "RAID 4/5/6 target (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on BLK_DEV_DM && EXPERIMENTAL
+ select MD_RAID456
+ select BLK_DEV_MD
+ ---help---
+ A dm target that supports RAID4, RAID5 and RAID6 mappings
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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.
+
config DM_LOG_USERSPACE
tristate "Mirror userspace logging (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on DM_MIRROR && EXPERIMENTAL && NET