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Commit 9bd910e2 authored by Hanna Reitz's avatar Hanna Reitz
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block: Allow replacement of a BDS by its overlay


change_parent_backing_link() asserts that the BDS to be replaced is not
used as a backing file. However, we may want to replace a BDS by its
overlay in which case that very link should not be redirected.

For instance, when doing a sync=none drive-mirror operation, we may have
the following BDS/BB forest before block job completion:

  target

  base <- source <- BlockBackend

During job completion, we want to establish the source BDS as the
target's backing node:

          target
            |
            v
  base <- source <- BlockBackend

This makes the target a valid replacement for the source:

          target <- BlockBackend
            |
            v
  base <- source

Without this modification to change_parent_backing_link() we have to
inject the target into the graph before the source is its backing node,
thus temporarily creating a wrong graph:

  target <- BlockBackend

  base <- source

Signed-off-by: default avatarMax Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20160610185750.30956-2-mreitz@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: default avatarKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarFam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMax Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
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