openstack team mailing list archive
-
openstack team
-
Mailing list archive
-
Message #14052
Re: How do I stop image-create from using /tmp?
Sorry to go back in the tread, but just wanted to ask a possibly dumb question.
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> In the particular case of the qemu-img command described in earlier in this
> thread, I'm not convinced we need a new option. Instead of using /tmp
> when extracting a snapshot from an existing disk image, it could just use the
> path where the source image already resides. ie the existing
> FLAGS.instances_path directory, which can be assumed to be a suitably large
> persistent data store.
Would that not be a bad idea for those having FLAGS.instances_path on a shared file system, like gluster?
Cheers,
John
Follow ups
References