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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reworked dm-switch target
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 08:09:55 +0100
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On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 06:36:55PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> For example "dmsetup message switch 0 set-table 0-15:0 16-31:1 32-33:2"

What I think we need to know now is how large this makes a typical message to
set up the table.  Set up can be split between several messages.
Or is typical data sufficiently random and large that a more-compact
might be a better idea?
 
Alasdair