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To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 10/12/2010 08:16 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>
>> Well, the protocol is currently encoded in the file name, separated by a
>> colon. Of course, we want to get rid of that, but we still don't know
>> what we want instead. It's completely unrelated to the backing file
>> format, though, it's about the format of the backing file name.
>>      
> I agree with Kevin.  There's no need to have the ill-defined backing
> format AFAICT.
>    

Yeah, I've now convinced myself we don't need backing format name too.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Stefan
>