On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 06:17:45PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote: > Am 04.04.2023 um 17:07 hat Michael Tokarev geschrieben: > > 04.04.2023 16:57, Kevin Wolf пишет: > Maybe -snapshot should error out if -blockdev is in use. You'd generally > expect that either -blockdev is used primarily and snapshots are done > externally (if the command line is generated by some management tool), > or that -drive is used consistently (by a human who likes the > convenience). In both cases, we wouldn't hit the error path. > > There may be some exceptional cases where you have both -drive and > -blockdev (maybe because a human users needs more control for one > specific disk). This is the case where you can get a nasty surprise and > that would error out. If you legitimately want the -drive images > snapshotted, but not the -blockdev ones, you can still use individual > '-drive snapshot=on' options instead of the global '-snapshot' (and the > error message should mention this).
I didn't know that! I normally use the -snapshot as global option. Is there a reason why -blockdev isn't honouring -snapshot? With regards, Reinoud
