[libvirt] [PATCH 13/14] util: storagefile: Don't traverse storage sources unusable by VM

[Ján Tomko]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 12:39:34PM +0200, Peter Krempa wrote:
>virStorageFileGetMetadataRecurse would include in the backing chain
>files which would not really be usable by libvirt directly e.g. when

include files in the backing chain

>such file would be promoted to the top layer by a active block commit as

an active

>for example inline authentication data can't be represented in the VM
>xml file. The idea is to use secrets for this.
>
>With the changes to the backing store string parsers we can report and
>propagate if such a thing is present in the configuration and thus start
>skipping those files in the backing chain traversal code. This approach
>still allows to report the appropriate backing store string in the
>storage driver which doesn't directly use the backing file.
>
>Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa at redhat.com>
>---
> src/util/virstoragefile.c | 8 +++++++-
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>

Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko at redhat.com>

Jano
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