On 30.07.19 21:10, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 7/30/19 12:25 PM, Max Reitz wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  block/qcow2-snapshot.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
>>
> 
> Same problem as for 9/13 - should we really be throwing away the user's
> data like this?  (9/13 hits if the user has a small number of snapshots,
> but each has enough extra data, that the overall table is bigger than we
> like; 10/13 hits if the user has more snapshots than we like, but
> otherwise they do the same thing).

The same arguments apply (though the “it must be a corruption” argument
applies even more, because having more than 65536 snapshots just isn’t
right.)

Max