Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 16/25] block: Add 'base-directory' BDS option

[Alberto Garcia]

On Fri 29 Sep 2017 06:53:38 PM CEST, Max Reitz wrote:
> Using this option, one can directly override what bdrv_dirname() will
> return. This is useful if one uses e.g. qcow2 on top of quorum (with
> only protocol BDSs under the quorum BDS) and wants to be able to use
> relative backing filenames.
>
> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <address@hidden>

Who would be using this option in practice? I understand that management
tools should be using always absolute filenames, and this API doesn't
seem so convenient for humans.

Berto