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+/*
+Package admin is a convenience layer to support the administration of
+rbd volumes, snapshots, scheduling etc that is outside of the C api
+for librbd.
+
+Unlike the rbd package this API does not map to APIs provided by
+ceph libraries themselves. This API is not yet stable and is subject
+to change.
+*/
+package admin