Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH] builder: create temporary images in the cachedir (RHBZ#1288201)

Temporary images can be quite big, more than the space available in $TMPDIR when it's on a tmpfs; hence, place them in our cachedir instead. --- builder/builder.ml | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/builder/builder.ml b/builder/builder.ml index 957bc37..3750e5f 100644 --- a/builder/builder.ml +++ b/builder/builder.ml @@ -378,6 +378,8 @@ let main () = goal_must, goal_must_not in + let cache_dir = (open_guestfs ())#get_cachedir () in + (* Planner: Transitions. *) let transitions itags = let is t = List.mem_assoc t itags in @@ -394,7 +396,7 @@ let main () = (* Since the final plan won't run in parallel, we don't only need * to choose unique tempfiles per transition, so this is OK: *) - let tempfile = Filename.temp_file "vb" ".img" in + let tempfile = Filename.temp_file ~temp_dir:cache_dir "vb" ".img" in unlink_on_exit tempfile; (* Always possible to copy from one place to another. The only