On 26.03.19 20:58, Sam Eiderman wrote:
> Commit fb2105b ("vmdk: Support version=3 in VMDK descriptor files") fixed
> the probe function to correctly guess vmdk descriptors with version=3.
> 
> This solves the issue where vmdk snapshot with parent vmdk descriptor
> containing "version=3" would be treated as raw instead vmdk.
> 
> In the future case where a new vmdk version is introduced, we will again
> experience this issue, even if the user will provide "-f vmdk" it will
> only apply to the tip image and not to the underlying "misprobed" parent
> image.
> 
> The code in vmdk.c already assumes that the backing file of vmdk must be
> vmdk (see vmdk_is_cid_valid which returns 0 if backing file is not
> vmdk).
> 
> So let's make it official by supplying the backing_format as vmdk.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Mark Kanda <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-By: Liran Alon <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Arbel Moshe <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Shmuel Eiderman <[email protected]>
> ---
>  block/vmdk.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

Because this is not in master yet, maybe it’s still time for me to say
that this breaks iotests 110 and 126 (requires a trivial fix to the
reference output).

Max

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