Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/2] blockdev: Overlays are not snapshots

2019-06-13 Thread Max Reitz
On 03.06.19 22:22, Max Reitz wrote: > QEMU’s always been confused over what a snapshot is: Is it the overlay? > Is it the backing image? > > Confusion is rarely a good thing. I can’t think of any objective reason > why the overlay would be a snapshot. A snapshot is something that does > not chan

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/2] blockdev: Overlays are not snapshots

2019-06-03 Thread Max Reitz
QEMU’s always been confused over what a snapshot is: Is it the overlay? Is it the backing image? Confusion is rarely a good thing. I can’t think of any objective reason why the overlay would be a snapshot. A snapshot is something that does not change over time; the overlay does. (I suppose hist