Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] docs: Make the recommendation for the backing file name position a requirement

2014-07-21 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 21.07.2014 um 13:16 hat Maria Kustova geschrieben: > The current version of the qcow2 specification recommends to save the backing > file name in the end of the first cluster. It follows that the backing file > name can be saved somewhere in the image, but the first cluster, which > contradicts

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] docs: Make the recommendation for the backing file name position a requirement

2014-07-21 Thread Maria Kustova
The current version of the qcow2 specification recommends to save the backing file name in the end of the first cluster. It follows that the backing file name can be saved somewhere in the image, but the first cluster, which contradicts the current QEMU implementation. The patch makes the backing