Am 11.09.2015 um 19:21 hat Max Reitz geschrieben:
> On 10.09.2015 15:39, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> > If set to true, the image will be opened with the BDRV_O_NO_BACKING
> > flag. This is useful for creating snapshots using images opened with
> > blockdev-add, since they are not supposed to have a backing image
> > before the operation.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
> > ---
> >  block.c              | 5 +++++
> >  qapi/block-core.json | 6 +++++-
> >  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Ignorant of any possible previous discussion that might have taken
> place: The documentation for @backing says it may be set to the empty
> string in order to achieve exactly that.
> 
> So why do we need the new flag? Because "backing: ''" is ugly?

I guess it's just because you're the only one who actually reads the
documentation. When discussing this, I didn't remember that we already
had a way to express this (an additional bool wouldn't have been my
favourite solution anyway). Thanks for catching this.

Kevin