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<subtitle>Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel.</subtitle>
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<title>dm: add clone target</title>
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<name>Nikos Tsironis</name>
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<published>2019-09-11T14:36:40Z</published>
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Add the dm-clone target, which allows cloning of arbitrary block
devices.

dm-clone produces a one-to-one copy of an existing, read-only source
device into a writable destination device: It presents a virtual block
device which makes all data appear immediately, and redirects reads and
writes accordingly.

The main use case of dm-clone is to clone a potentially remote,
high-latency, read-only, archival-type block device into a writable,
fast, primary-type device for fast, low-latency I/O. The cloned device
is visible/mountable immediately and the copy of the source device to
the destination device happens in the background, in parallel with user
I/O.

When the cloning completes, the dm-clone table can be removed altogether
and be replaced, e.g., by a linear table, mapping directly to the
destination device.

For further information and examples of how to use dm-clone, please read
Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-clone.rst

Suggested-by: Vangelis Koukis &lt;vkoukis@arrikto.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Ilias Tsitsimpis &lt;iliastsi@arrikto.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilias Tsitsimpis &lt;iliastsi@arrikto.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nikos Tsironis &lt;ntsironis@arrikto.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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