Backing chains can end on a network protocol, such as nbd:xxx; we
should not attempt to probe the file system in this case.
* src/storage/storage_backend_fs.c (virStorageBackendProbeTarget):
Only probe files.
if (meta->backingStore) {
*backingStore = meta->backingStore;
meta->backingStore = NULL;
- if (meta->backingStoreFormat == VIR_STORAGE_FILE_AUTO) {
+ if (meta->backingStoreFormat == VIR_STORAGE_FILE_AUTO &&
+ meta->backingStoreIsFile) {
if ((ret = virStorageFileProbeFormat(*backingStore)) < 0) {
/* If the backing file is currently unavailable, only log an error,
* but continue. Returning -1 here would disable the whole storage