Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] qapi/block-core: Overlays are not snapshots

2019-06-04 Thread Markus Armbruster
Max Reitz writes: > A snapshot is something that reflects the state of something at a > certain point in time. It does not change. > > The file our snapshot commands create (or the node they install) is not > a snapshot, as it does change over time. It is an overlay. We cannot > do anything ab

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] qapi/block-core: Overlays are not snapshots

2019-06-03 Thread Max Reitz
A snapshot is something that reflects the state of something at a certain point in time. It does not change. The file our snapshot commands create (or the node they install) is not a snapshot, as it does change over time. It is an overlay. We cannot do anything about the parameter names, but we