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    dm exception store: add merge specific methods · 4454a621
    Mikulas Patocka authored
    Add functions that decide how many consecutive chunks of snapshot to
    merge back into the origin next and to update the metadata afterwards.
    
    prepare_merge provides a pointer to the most recent still-to-be-merged
    chunk and returns how many previous ones are consecutive and can be
    processed together.
    
    commit_merge removes the nr_merged most-recent chunks permanently from
    the exception store.  The number must not exceed that returned by
    prepare_merge.
    
    Introduce NUM_SNAPSHOT_HDR_CHUNKS to show where the snapshot header
    chunk is accounted for.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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