Hi Rob, On Mon, May 05, 2025 at 02:43:53PM -0500, Rob Leslie wrote: > Hi Salvatore, > > Thanks for the follow-up. > > > On May 4, 2025, at 4:27 PM, Salvatore Bonaccorso <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Thanks for following up on > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1073979#12 > > > > this misses some explanations. DM_CLONE is still marked experimental > > (since the initial commit and never got removed) upstream, can you > > elaborate why it is believed we should enable this despite in the > > Debian provided kernel? > > > 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.
Thanks for sharing the background. I will repare a merge request for the version which will be included in forky and in the next experimental upload including the configuration change. Regards, Salvatore
