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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: block: format vs. protocol, and how they stack
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Cc: Christoph Hellwig <chellwig@redhat.com>, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

On 06/21/2010 09:51 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> This is the difference between a protocol and a format.
>
>
> I can appreciate the desire to keep protocols and formats as an 
> internal distinction but as a user visible concept,

but *not* as a user visible concept.  /me heads for the second cup of 
coffee.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori