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

[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 change over time; the overlay does.
> 
> (I suppose historically the reason is that “Taking an overlay” makes no
> sense, so the operations are called “Taking a snapshot”.  Somehow, this
> meaning carried over to the new file that is created during that
> operation; if “Creating a snapshot” creates a file, that file must be
> the snapshot, right?  Well, no, it isn’t.)
> 
> Let’s fix this as best as we can.  Better Nate than lever.

Applied to my block branch.

Max

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