On Mon 03 Jun 2019 10:22:34 PM CEST, 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.
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