Re: [Xen-devel] qdisk vs. file as vbd type

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2014-01-10 at 15:40 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> What is the reason the backend 'type' property of a configured disk is
> now "qdisk" instead of "file"?

Because qdisk is the backend instead of loop+blk (==file) I think this
just happens naturally.

>  Would the guest really care about that
> detail?  For example block-front currently just checks for "phy" and
> "file" when deciding if discard should be enabled.

That sounds entirely bogus, it should be checking for some sort of
feature-discard.

> I wonder if that guest-visible change was well thought.
> 
> Olaf
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