Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] savevm: prevent snapshot overwriting and generate a default name

[Markus Armbruster]

Luiz Capitulino <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:34:57 +0200
> Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > This patch address two issues.
>> >
>> > 1) When savevm is run using an previously saved snapshot id or name, it 
>> > will
>> > delete the original and create a new one, using the same id and name and 
>> > not
>> > prompting the user of what just happened.
>> >
>> > This behaviour is not good, IMHO.
>> 
>> Debatable.
>
> Automatically destroying previously saved data without any notice seems
> a quite bad behavior to me.

See cp, mv ;)

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