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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] qed: Add QEMU Enhanced Disk format
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 05:29:53PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> If it were just one bit for just raw or not raw, wouldn't that be enough?
> 
> Everything that isn't raw can be probed reliably so we really only need 
> to distinguish between things that are probe-able and things that are 
> not probe-able.

That might work as well.  The important point is to not encode the
formats as strings, which is not a very useful portable encoding.