fer is certainly good if he needs to worry about
performance. Testing actual performance in your own exact hardware is
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at that data
size? I can back up to a single external USB disk (I have 3 I rotate),
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he old
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a.
I make and keep off-site backups, formerly on optical media, moving
towards external disk drives.
> So where they had been separate pools, where one might fill up while
> another stayed fairly empty, if they were all in a single pool none
> would fill up until they all filled up.
Yes, th
3
I have problems using incremental replication streams that sound similar
(hands, IO system disruption). I'm on build 111b, that is, 2009.06. I'm
hoping things will clear up when 2010.$Spring comes out, which should be
soon. Your data point is not helping my confidence there, though!
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the same physical place on each drive; in a ZFS mirror it won't, it'll
just go *somewhere* on each drive.
In the end, RAID produces a block device that you then run a filesystem
on, whereas ZFS includes the filesystem (and other things; including block
devices you can run other filesystems
sleading enough to be dangerous; the differences can be explicated
later.
YMMV :-)
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;t know that it makes sense to. There are lots of existing filter
packages that do compression; so if you want compression, just put them in
your pipeline. That way you're not limited by what zfs send has
implemented, either. When they implement bzip98 with a new compression
technology
h can cause a default
import to not find all the pieces of a pool.
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ereas incrementals fail even though they're
pushing a lot less data and take a lot less time, I'm not inclined to
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Pho
On Fri, March 19, 2010 12:25, Darren J Moffat wrote:
> On 19/03/2010 17:19, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, March 19, 2010 11:33, Darren J Moffat wrote:
>>> On 19/03/2010 16:11, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote:
>>>> Darren J Moffat wrote:
ed to. Now I think more in terms of getting it from a snapshot
maintained online on the original storage server.
The overall storage strategy has to include retrieving files lost due to
user error over some time period, whether that's months or years. And
having to restore an entire 100TB
On Fri, March 19, 2010 09:49, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>>
>> However, these legacy mechanisms aren't guaranteed to give you the
>> less-than-one-wrong-bit-in-10^15 level of accuracy people tend to want
>> for
>>
reasons you should have backups *in addition* to using
redundant vdevs). This has driven people to develop higher levels of
redundancy in parity schemes, such as RAIDZ2 (and RAIDZ3).
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ck
turns the data over to the application), if undetected, could leave you
with corrupted data; not sure what the probability is there.
Every scheme has SOME weak spots. The well-designed ones at least tell
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have to wonder if I should be trying it on
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On 3/17/2010 17:53, Ian Collins wrote:
On 03/18/10 03:53 AM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
Also, snapshots. For my purposes, I find snapshots at some level a very
important part of the backup process. My old scheme was to rsync from
primary ZFS pool to backup ZFS pool, and snapshot both pools
scale. When you go to much bigger setups, the trade-offs change;
the value of the space in the safe starts to show up as significant, the
drive cost becomes less of an issue, and so forth.
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important part of the backup process. My old scheme was to rsync from
primary ZFS pool to backup ZFS pool, and snapshot both pools (with
somewhat different retention schedules). My new scheme, forced by the ACL
issues, is to use ZFS send/receive (but I haven't been able to make it
wo
On 3/16/2010 23:21, Erik Trimble wrote:
On 3/16/2010 8:29 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
On 3/16/2010 17:45, Erik Trimble wrote:
David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
On Tue, March 16, 2010 14:59, Erik Trimble wrote:
Has there been a consideration by anyone to do a class-action lawsuit
for false
On 3/16/2010 17:45, Erik Trimble wrote:
David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
On Tue, March 16, 2010 14:59, Erik Trimble wrote:
Has there been a consideration by anyone to do a class-action lawsuit
for false advertising on this? I know they now have to include the
"1GB
= 1,000,000,000 bytes"
rked with pre-dated that period); but I
think we need to recognize that this is our own weird local usage of
terminology, and that we can't expect the rest of the world to change to
our way of doing things.
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ub was in
progress. If that's the case, then they have a real problem, they're not
just looking for more peace of mind in a hypothetical situation.
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ower (on the 220v side) drops.
Strangely enough, running up to the limit is hard on components, yes.
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e changed cables, changed the sata ports the drives are attached to, I
> always get the same outcome. The drives are new. Is this likely a drive
> problem?
Given what you've already changed, it's sounding like it could well be a
drive problem. The one other thing that comes to mi
he
allegedly-corrupted copy against that. This can fairly easily give you a
pretty reliable indication if the file is truly corrupted or not.
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;m sometimes a bit ham-tongued doing that kind of thing,
too.
> That's great to know. Time to soldier on with the build!
Sounds like. I'm very happy with my rather smaller setup.
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ata is rewritten, usage will gradually even out across
the vdevs in the pool. Having the data across more spindles can,
obviously, potentially increase performance, depending on what the
existing limiting factors are.
So, if that says about the same thing you said, then the answer to your
question is
e the space; since I think in terms of disks rather
than tapes for backups, that's not my issue.
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"-s" switch is documented to STOP a scrub, though I've never used it.
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On 3/7/2010 2:08 PM, Richard Elling wrote:
On Mar 5, 2010, at 7:32 AM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
sending from @bup-4hr-20100228-04CST to
zp1/l...@bup-4hr-20100228-08cst
received 312B stream in 1 seconds (312B/sec)
receiving incremental stream of zp1/l...@bup-4hr-20100224-12cst
l with the same flaw. So a
singly-redundant 8-drive group of large drives is thought to be very
risky by many people here; people prefer double redundancy in groups
that big with large drives.
These days everybody is all excited about clever ways you can use SSDs
with ZFS (as read cache, and as i
On 3/7/2010 11:23 AM, Tomas Ögren wrote:
On 07 March, 2010 - David Dyer-Bennet sent me these 1,1K bytes:
There isn't some syntax I'm missing to use wildcards in zfs list to list
snapshots, is there? I find nothing in the man page, and nothing I've
tried works (yes, I do
quot;@" and use grep to filter the output from zfs list.
(I'm running 2009.06, which is based on snv_111b, so if this capability
has appeared since then in some form, I'd really like to know; I'll be
updating to the next stable release.)
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it was nowhere near finished. But nothing was full,
nothing crashed.
Anybody got a spare clue? It shouldn't, as I understand it, be possible
for a full replication stream going into a newly-created filesystem to get
this error.
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On Wed, March 3, 2010 10:23, Paul B. Henson wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>
>> It's the normal way to do it; not sure where in the Linux world it
>> arose,
>> but I first saw it in some early distribution. It's done automatically
>
On Tue, March 2, 2010 15:12, Paul B. Henson wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>
>> Hmmm; the "lack of flexibility" you talk about comes from not using the
>> security model sensibly -- having per-person groups is very useful in
>> that
exceedingly
> difficult to actually use ACL's for their intended purpose?
It's precisely to avoid having shell access being a poor stepchild that
I'm resisting ACLs. As currently implemented, they relegate my primary
access to the system to second-class status.
And NFSv4 is m
quot;.
I see that, if you're using volumes and such, that thinking starts to
diverge more noticeably from reality. But I'm not, in my data pool, which
is the one I care about.
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On Mon, March 1, 2010 15:50, Miles Nordin wrote:
>>>>>> "dd" == David Dyer-Bennet writes:
>
> dd> Okay, but the argument goes the other way just as well -- when
> dd> I run "chmod 6400 foobar", I want the permissions set that
>
s.
So the difference between "used" in adjacent datasets is my #3, at least
roughly.
(And I understand that there are timing issues involved in testing
expecting to see exact numbers.)
I guess this stuff is decently documented; at least unless I misunderstood
a bunch. Let me know i
my environment has few enough filesystems that I'm not feeling the
pain from doing it; so I may not have thought it through completely.
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On 2/26/2010 8:45 PM, Paul B. Henson wrote:
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
So, even if you're willing to completely discard 30 years of legacy
scripts and applications -- how to you propose that a NEW script or
application should be written so as to work in this brav
On 2/26/2010 6:52 PM, Paul B. Henson wrote:
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
chown ddb /path/to/file
chmod 640 /path/to/file
I'll tell you, if I type that and then find I (I'm "ddb") *can't* read the
file, I'm going to be REALLY unhappy.
pected regardless of the permissions of the file in its
original location.
Okay, but the argument goes the other way just as well -- when I run
"chmod 6400 foobar", I want the permissions set that specific way, and I
don't want some magic background feature blocking me. Particu
seems reasonable that changes to permissions for "other" should
not override ACL entries for specific users. Changes to permissions for
"owner" SHOULD override ACL entries for the user that's the same as the
current owner, if any exist. I'm not terribly sanguine a
em.
Standard Unix permissions are simple and clear and can easily do
everything I've ever needed, and about 10 times more; ACLs are pure pain.
First thing I've encountered that makes me feel like a dinosaur, and
I've been in the industry 40 years.
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han a
month usually), but it's nice to have more info about one of the bits I
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backup.
And THAT is one of the reasons why backups are important even with
redundant safe fileservers. (Software bugs, physical destruction, and
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On 2/24/2010 4:11 PM, Stefan Walk wrote:
On 24 Feb 2010, at 22:57, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
On Wed, February 24, 2010 14:39, Nicolas Williams wrote:
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 02:09:42PM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
I have a directory here containing a million files and it has not
caused any
s that can still easily
overlow the argument limit.)
There really ought to be an option to make ls not sort, at least.
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0xd1 14 Edg IPIall 1 - cbe_fire
210 0xd3 14 Edg IPIall 1 - cbe_fire
240 0xe0 15 Edg IPIall 1 - xc_serv
241 0xe1 15 Edg IPIall 1 - apic_error_intr
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filesystems expected boot information to be outside the filesystem space
(my understanding is that ZFS is set up to not overwrite where the boot
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hing, so lots of it hasn't been tested for real yet.)
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On 2/22/2010 3:31 AM, Darren J Moffat wrote:
On 22/02/2010 00:23, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
I thought this was simple. Turns out not to be.
bash-3.2$ zfs list -t snapshot zp1
cannot open 'zp1': operation not applicable to datasets of this type
Fails equally on all the variants of
asn't in OpenSolaris
2009.06: use the -d switch and set recursion to 1 level. That seems
like it will work, when a stable version including that option is
released. I'll note it in my code for use then.
On 2/21/10 5:23 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
I thought this was simple. Turn
It's easy, of
course, with grep, to get the bigger list and then filter out the subset
you want).
Am I missing something? Has this been added after snv_111b?
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On Fri, February 19, 2010 16:21, Daniel Carosone wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 01:15:17PM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, February 19, 2010 13:09, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>>
>> > Anybody know what the proper geometry is for a WD1600BEKT-6-1A13?
>
On Fri, February 19, 2010 13:50, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>
>>> Too bad, I'm getting ~1000 IOPS with an Intel X25-M G2 MLC and around
>>> 300 with a regular USB stick, so 50 IOPS is really poor for an SLC SSD.
>>
On Fri, February 19, 2010 13:09, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
> Anybody know what the proper geometry is for a WD1600BEKT-6-1A13? It's
> not even in the data sheets any more!
One further point -- I can't seem to enter the geometry the second disk
has manually for the first; when I
0 (0/0/0) 0
6usrwm 1 - 152614 149.04GB(152614/0/0) 312553472
7 unassignedwm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
8 bootwu 0 - 01.00MB(1/0/0) 2048
9 alternateswm 0
(earlier high-performance drives were hideously expensive and
rather brute force). Which was relatively recently. The industry is
still evolving rapidly.
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isk boot order in your bios?
I know that I succeeded in booting off the third (of four) disks in a
mirror group Wednesday evening, but only after altering the disk boot
order in the bios. Using that exact controller card, come to think of
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good way back when, getting
stronger every week). Hmmm; apparently I needed to emphasize ZFS more in
my search (which I deliberately didn't do, figuring that a non-ZFS
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d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0
errors: No known data errors
Once I decide that these
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Well, I'd certainly chase through the symbolic links to find if the
device files were pointing the wrong places in the end, or if the
problem is lower in the stack than that. Since it's a clean install
it's a Solaris bug at some level either way, sounds like.
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into the send / receive command (mine are local USB disks rather than a
remote system, so things are just a bit different). I haven't found a
better solution yet, but I'm still back on build 111b, so I don't have the
new property replication capabilities (or complexities) to
do people handle this? And how did
this particular standard come to have competition?
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mes, but only at the cost of grotesque confusion).
What I would dearly love is an option to disable all ACL suppport.
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On 2/10/2010 7:21 PM, Daniel Carosone wrote:
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 05:36:10PM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
That's all about *ME* picking the suitable base snapshot, as I understand
it.
Correct.
I understood the recent reference to be suggesting that I didn't hav
On Wed, February 10, 2010 16:51, Tim Cook wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:31 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, February 10, 2010 16:15, Tim Cook wrote:
>> > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Terry Hull wrote:
>> >
>> >> Thanks for th
ry wouldn't hurt anything,
> either.
That's useful general advice for increasing I/O I think, but he clearly
has something other than a "general" problem. Did you read the numbers he
gave on his iSCSI performance? That can't be explained just by
overly-large RAIDZ grou
imary server. Is that correct?
>>
>> --
>> Terry
>>
>>
>
> I think a better way of stating it is that it picks the newest common
> snapshot.
That can't be right, zfe send-receive communicate unidirectionally, so
nobody can "pick" the newest common snapshot.
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Nobody has any ideas? It's still hung after work.
I wonder what it will take to stop the backup and export the pool? Well,
that's nice; a straight "kill" terminated the processes, at least.
zpool status shows no errors. zfs list shows backup filesystems mounted.
zpool export -f is running...n
0K -
zp1/raph...@bup-20100102-184101utc 0 -20K -
zp1/raph...@bup-20100208-050707gmt 0 -20K -
zp1/raph...@bup-20100208-050907gmt 0 -20K -
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my
current chassis with modern drives; I'm just still using the 400GB drives
I put in originally, and have two more sitting around for the upgrade I'm
heading towards.
Which is to say that 45 drives is really quite a lot for a HOME NAS.
Particularly when you then think about backing
o?target=opensolaris
When I follow that through, it only offers me extras and HA Cluster;
nothing about ordinary OpenSolaris updates that I can find.
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o a full, can't do incrementals). I suspect I'll go to bleeding
edge, find one that works (which I hope will be the first week I try!),
and then stay there until the next stable is out, and flip back to
stable. Shouldn't need new features for a while :-).
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On Tue, February 2, 2010 17:34, James C. McPherson wrote:
> On 3/02/10 09:31 AM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>>
>> Can anybody who can see the CR online figure out what release build the
>> fix was / will be in? Speaking of what build I should upgrade to :-).
>
ody who can see the CR online figure out what release build the
fix was / will be in? Speaking of what build I should upgrade to :-).
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hence asking here.
To put it differently:
If I wanted to upgrade to build 124, say, or 130, how would I do that?
What would I type?
And the other half of the question, what's the best stable built around
this week?
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On Tue, February 2, 2010 14:21, Tim Cook wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:14 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>
>>
>> On Tue, February 2, 2010 11:26, Richard Elling wrote:
>> > On Feb 2, 2010, at 8:49 AM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>> >> On Tue, February 2, 20
On Tue, February 2, 2010 11:26, Richard Elling wrote:
> On Feb 2, 2010, at 8:49 AM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>> On Tue, February 2, 2010 10:21, Marc Nicholas wrote:
>>> I agree wholeheartedlyyou're paying to make the problem "go away"
>>> in
>>
lockin.
I've seen people down extra days while locked-in parts are shipped to
them; the parts were essentially identical to what you could buy that day
at retail locally, but the locally-available version wouldn't work.
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culous capacity based licensing on
> software.
It works great for me personally -- I'm using the software with other
people's hardware, for free.
But why should people who need a lot of storage pay proportionally more?
I don't get that, that's grossly wrong.
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uy, neither
management nor marketing nor hardware engineering.
Also, if they really are charging 10x, then they can easily cut prices to
compete with any upstarts, a fact that potential investors would take note
of.
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th disk drives. In fact
drives most often die for me when the equipment is power-cycled).
(I've still got the corpse of at least one 300MB drive from long ago that
I paid $1500 for, come to think of it!)
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to get ECC memory in my home ZFS fileserver. But my Windows desktops both
at home and at work, and my laptop, use regular memory.
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two small partitions and a data pool from the two large partitions,
thus keeping data and root separate and still providing redundancy to
both, within the two drive constraint.
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On Fri, January 29, 2010 12:31, Richard Elling wrote:
> A 4 TB media server is kinda small, though.
I do so love living in the future :-).
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check the length first, though. And they're listed on
Amazon. (Supermicro either doesn't, or at least makes it very hard, to
buy direct from their web site, or even check a price.)
(This is a big Chenbro case, I think it's really a rack 4u system being
used as a tower.)
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rom the same bad batch!
Google is working heavily with the philosophy that things WILL fail, so
they plan for it, and have enough redundance to survive it -- and then
save lots of money by not paying for premium components. I like that
approach.
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On 1/26/2010 9:39 PM, Daniel Carosone wrote:
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 07:32:05PM -0800, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
Okay, so this SuperMicro AOC-USAS-L8i is an "SAS" card? I've never
done SAS; is it essentially a controller as flexible as SCSI that
then talks to SATA dis
Okay, so this SuperMicro AOC-USAS-L8i is an "SAS" card? I've never done SAS;
is it essentially a controller as flexible as SCSI that then talks to SATA
disks out the back?
Amazon seems to be the only obvious place to buy it (Newegg and Tiger Direct
have nothing).
And do I understand that
as well. However, the namespace doesn't seem to have any
possibility of overlapping the names of the disks in hot-swap SATA
enclosures, so it can't overwrite any of them by any mechanism I can find.
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#x27;t think double
>> redundancy is worth
>> much to me in this case (daily backups to two or more
>> external media sets,
>> and hot-swap so I don't wait to replace a bad drive).
>
> Indeed, and often forgotten by home builders, is that if you have
> dependable
ng 3 way mirrors instead of 2
> as this gives extra protection.
6 or 8 hot-swap bays and enough controllers gives me relatively few
interesting choices. 6: 2 three-way, or three two-way; 8: four two-way,
or...still only 2 three-way. I don't think double redundancy is worth
much to me in this
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