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[Boris Filippov <bfilippov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2012/7/1 Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> So, maybe setting any of this environment variables for nova-compute
>> to desired value sholuld help.
>
> Yeah, I was expecting that.
>
> Given that this could easily take out a compute host I'd like to see
> it get an explicit configuration value (or default to instance_dir, I
> guess).
>
> If I can sort out the corporate contributor agreement stuff I may try
> to submit a patch...
>
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> Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>       |
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https://review.openstack.org/#/c/9239/

Wrote patch for it. We had same issue with our OpenStack installation
before and this behavior is quite surprise for people who believe that
nobody will store Big Files in /tmp.