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 :|