branches: 1.1.1;
Initial revision

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branches: 1.1.1.1.2; 1.1.1.1.8;
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Rebase to HEAD as of a few days ago.

sync with head.

for a reference, the tree before this commit was tagged
as yamt-pagecache-tag8.

this commit was splitted into small chunks to avoid
a limitation of cvs. ("Protocol error: too many arguments")