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.
