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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/blkback: Squash the discard support for
 'file' and 'phy' type.
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:33:55 +0000
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On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 22:52 +0000, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> The only reason for the distinction was for the special case of
> 'file' (which is assumed to be loopback device)

Not related to this patch but how feasible would it be to make blkback
able to cope with files directly?

Ian.