On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:12:54PM +0200, Evaggelos Balaskas wrote: > I use my "custom" TMPDIR variable with virt-sparsify. > > I just type: > > export -p TMPDIR=/mnt/vm/tmpdir > > I do that for a couple reasons: > either my /tmp is on a ramdisk or /tmp is on my (ssd) rootfs and i > dont want to "full" my / with the temporally files. > > > Thats said, i was thinking to "ask" OR sending a patch for adding a > tmpdir OPTION for virt-sparsify > like > > virt-sparsify -t /mnt/vm/tmpdir f18.qcow2 f18.qcow2.spars > > before contribute .... i was eager to ask for your thoughts. > > Do you believe this would be useful or too much trouble for nothing ? > Do you believe that we could use a TMPDIR option for liguestfs in general ?
I think this would be a useful option. Also because it could set just the tmpdir for the huge qcow2 images (not for libguestfs itself) so it would be more efficient than setting $TMPDIR. It doesn't look as if '-t' is used for anything else. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
