Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] qed: Add QEMU Enhanced Disk format

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 05:29:53PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> If it were just one bit for just raw or not raw, wouldn't that be enough?
> 
> Everything that isn't raw can be probed reliably so we really only need 
> to distinguish between things that are probe-able and things that are 
> not probe-able.

That might work as well.  The important point is to not encode the
formats as strings, which is not a very useful portable encoding.