On 10.09.2015 15:39, Alberto Garcia wrote: > If set to true, the image will be opened with the BDRV_O_NO_BACKING > flag. This is useful for creating snapshots using images opened with > blockdev-add, since they are not supposed to have a backing image > before the operation. > > Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <be...@igalia.com> > --- > block.c | 5 +++++ > qapi/block-core.json | 6 +++++- > 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Ignorant of any possible previous discussion that might have taken place: The documentation for @backing says it may be set to the empty string in order to achieve exactly that. So why do we need the new flag? Because "backing: ''" is ugly? Max
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