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On Fri, Dec 08, 2023 at 10:11:10AM -0800, Song Liu wrote:
> We marked it as deprecated about 2.5 years ago. But to be honest,
> I currently don't have a plan to remove it. I guess I should start thinking
> about it.

Let's just kill it off ASAP.  It never had a large user base and based
by dm-multipath not long after it has been added.  It also doesn't
support any uniqueue hardware and has no on-disk format.

If you want any blame deflected from you I'd be happy to send the patch
to remove it.