Re: [Libguestfs] virt-sparsify & TMPDIR
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.
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