On Thu 02 Nov 2017 11:06:28 PM CET, Eric Blake wrote: >>>> Using this option, one can directly override what bdrv_dirname() >>>> will return. This is useful if one uses e.g. qcow2 on top of quorum >>>> (with only protocol BDSs under the quorum BDS) and wants to be able >>>> to use relative backing filenames. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mre...@redhat.com> >>> >>> Who would be using this option in practice? I understand that >>>management tools should be using always absolute filenames, and this >>>API doesn't seem so convenient for humans. >> >> Hmmm. I seem to recall Eric liked it a couple of years ago when he >> was still more on the libvirt side of things. :-) > > Ideally, libvirt should be using node names rather than filenames > (whether absolute or relative); but I still think it could be > something that turns out to be useful.
But what would be the use case? For a management tool it's not more convenient to use relative file names, or is it? Berto
