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This adds the dm-vdo target. The dm-vdo target provides inline deduplication, compression, and zero-block elimination, allowing applications to consume less actual storage than a normal target. By layering it with other device mapper targets, it can add these features to any storage stack. It can also provide a common deduplication pool for groups of targets. The vdo target does not protect against data corruption, relying instead on integrity protection of the storage below it. Co-developed-by: J. corwin Coburn <corwin@hurlbutnet.net> Signed-off-by: J. corwin Coburn <corwin@hurlbutnet.net> Co-developed-by: Michael Sclafani <dm-devel@lists.linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Michael Sclafani <dm-devel@lists.linux.dev> Co-developed-by: Sweet Tea Dorminy <sweettea-kernel@dorminy.me> Signed-off-by: Sweet Tea Dorminy <sweettea-kernel@dorminy.me> Co-developed-by: Bruce Johnston <bjohnsto@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Bruce Johnston <bjohnsto@redhat.com> Co-developed-by: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Matthew Sakai <msakai@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
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