On 10/12/2012 08:09 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> The qemu-img info --backing-chain option enumerates the backing file
> chain.  For example, for base.qcow2 <- snap1.qcow2 <- snap2.qcow2 the
> output becomes:
> 
>   $ qemu-img info --backing-chain snap2.qcow2
>   image: snap2.qcow2
>   file format: qcow2
>   virtual size: 100M (104857600 bytes)
>   disk size: 196K
>   cluster_size: 65536
>   backing file: snap1.qcow2
>   backing file format: qcow2
> 
>   image: snap1.qcow2
>   file format: qcow2
>   virtual size: 100M (104857600 bytes)
>   disk size: 196K
>   cluster_size: 65536
>   backing file: base.qcow2
>   backing file format: qcow2
> 
>   image: base.qcow2
>   file format: qcow2
>   virtual size: 100M (104857600 bytes)
>   disk size: 136K
>   cluster_size: 65536
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com>

Very useful.

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>

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