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From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Target and deduplication?
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 08:56:54 -0500
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On Thu, Jan 28 2016 at  3:50am -0500,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 12:44:25AM +0100, Henrik Goldman wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Has anyone (possibly except purestorage) managed to make target work
> > with deduplication?
> 
> The iblock drivers works perfectly fine on top of the dm-dedup driver,
> which unfortunately still hasn't made it to mainline despite looking
> rather solid.

The author(s) fell off the face of the earth.  And in testing it fell
over pretty easily.  So I really have no idea what your view of it
"looking rather solid" is based on.