Re: [PATCH v8 35/43] blockdev: Fix active commit choice

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 01.09.2020 um 16:34 hat Max Reitz geschrieben:
> We have to perform an active commit whenever the top node has a parent
> that has taken the WRITE permission on it.
> 
> This means that block-commit's @backing-file parameter is longer allowed

s/longer/no longer/

> for such nodes, and that users will have to issue a block-job-complete
> command.  Neither should pose a problem in practice, because this case
> was basically just broken until now.
> 
> (Since this commit already touches block-commit's documentation, it also
> moves up the chunk explaining general block-commit behavior that for
> some reason was situated under @backing-file.)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>

Kevin