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Removing the block manager v1. This is the initial piece of prefix-caching-centric design. In order to achieve prefix-caching-centric design, we need to simplify the code path so that we only use v2 block manager (which has much higher performance on prefix caching).

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[Core] Add an environment variable which needs to be set explicitly to allow BlockSpaceManagerV1 (#9149)