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On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:

> >From a viewpoint of a crash dump user, this merging will make crash dump
> investigation very very very difficult.

The general caches already merge lots of users depending on their sizes. 
So we already have the situation and we have tools to deal with it.