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Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH: Control over drive open modes for backing file
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Jamie Lokier |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH: Control over drive open modes for backing file |
Date: |
Fri, 1 Aug 2008 08:46:07 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >Can I arbitrarily branch off different snapshots within a single qcow2
> >file? Can I delete the 'base' snapshots safely? Most important: what
> >happens if I have snapshots in a qcow2 file which has a base file, and
> >I type 'commit'? Does it corrupt all the snapshots, effectively?
>
> snapshots are linear, not branching. And they are only every
> saved/loaded from the highest level qcow2 file.
So if I understand that right, the 'commit' command (to write to the
base image) _will_ corrupt all the snapshots since they depend on the
base image and it just changed??
-- Jamie
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