2012/7/2 Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com>: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 10:24:02AM -0700, Matt Joyce wrote: >> I like the idea of making this a flagfile option. > > 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. > > Other uses of temporary files should be analysed ona case > by case basis to figure out a suitable storage location. > This might perhaps identify a need for a generic temp > file location for nova, such as /var/run/nova/ or > /var/cache/nova or both (depending on use case). > > Regards, > Daniel > -- > |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| > |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| > |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| > |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Sure, we can place snapshots inside instances_path. At least, just separate them from instances and place them in %instances_path%/snapshots. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
