From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] [persistent-data] Add a
	transactional	array.
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:11:06 +0000
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