2012/7/1 Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars at seas.harvard.edu>: >> So, maybe setting any of this environment variables for nova-compute >> to desired value sholuld help. > > Yeah, I was expecting that. > > Given that this could easily take out a compute host I'd like to see > it get an explicit configuration value (or default to instance_dir, I > guess). > > If I can sort out the corporate contributor agreement stuff I may try > to submit a patch... > > -- > Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars at seas.harvard.edu> | > Senior Technologist | http://ac.seas.harvard.edu/ > Academic Computing | http://code.seas.harvard.edu/ > Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences | https://review.openstack.org/#/c/9239/ Wrote patch for it. We had same issue with our OpenStack installation before and this behavior is quite surprise for people who believe that nobody will store Big Files in /tmp.