From: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-block@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/4] block: Add 'ignore-backing' field to BlockdevOptionsGenericCOWFormat
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 19:33:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55F31075.7090101@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150911172854.GC5164@noname.redhat.com>
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On 11.09.2015 19:28, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> 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.
I read the patch, it was part of the context. ;-)
Max
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-11 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-10 13:39 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/4] Add 'blockdev-snapshot' command Alberto Garcia
2015-09-10 13:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/4] block: rename BlockdevSnapshot to BlockdevSnapshotSync Alberto Garcia
2015-09-11 17:15 ` Max Reitz
2015-09-10 13:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/4] block: Add 'ignore-backing' field to BlockdevOptionsGenericCOWFormat Alberto Garcia
2015-09-11 17:21 ` Max Reitz
2015-09-11 17:28 ` Kevin Wolf
2015-09-11 17:33 ` Max Reitz [this message]
2015-09-14 5:54 ` Alberto Garcia
2015-09-14 8:45 ` Kevin Wolf
2015-09-14 14:20 ` Alberto Garcia
2015-09-11 17:28 ` Eric Blake
2015-09-11 17:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] " Eric Blake
2015-09-10 13:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 3/4] block: add a 'blockdev-snapshot' QMP command Alberto Garcia
2015-09-11 17:58 ` Eric Blake
2015-09-14 14:08 ` Alberto Garcia
2015-09-11 18:11 ` Max Reitz
2015-09-10 13:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 4/4] block: add tests for the 'blockdev-snapshot' command Alberto Garcia
2015-09-11 18:02 ` Eric Blake
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