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+[submodule "ceph-object-corpus"]
+	path = ceph-object-corpus
+	url = git://ceph.newdream.net/git/ceph-object-corpus.git
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+Subproject commit bbfb894fdbd2611c08f234f07420ad3a7e0c58a0