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Subject: Re: [PATCHSET v2] Add support for write life time hints
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> >From my perspective, all I really care about is the 4 hints. It's a
> simple enough interface that applications can understand and use it, and
> we don't need any management of actual stream IDs. I think that has the
> highest chance of success. Modifying an application to use it is
> trivial, even something like RocksDB (if you havehad to make changes
> to RocksDB, you'll get this).

Btw, are your current RocksDB patches available somewhere?