| Hi Salvatore, Thanks for the follow-up.
DM_CLONE is useful to have available in certain circumstances. I have successfully used it more than once over the years to do live data migrations. It was a hassle to build custom kernels just for this, but in the end quite worth it. Having DM_CLONE available as a module in Debian by default would greatly simplify the lives of others finding themselves in similar situations. The fact that more than one bug was filed requesting it shows there is interest. Although marked experimental, I have experienced no problems with it. I note that DM_CACHE is also marked experimental, yet already enabled in Debian despite this. Thanks for your consideration. -- Rob Leslie rob@mars.org |