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From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
To: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, qemu list <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] block: use /var/tmp instead of /tmp for -snapshot
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:18:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140227101815.GC30387@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <155481d240779c5d25f8195a406d57db613507bc.1393407651.git.amit.shah@redhat.com>

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 03:12:37PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
> If TMPDIR is not specified, the default was to use /tmp for the working
> copy of the block devices.  Update this to /var/tmp instead, so systems
> using tmp-on-tmpfs don't end up inadvertently using RAM for the block
> device.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
> ---
>  block.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Was expecting someone to argue against this because a path change is
always controversial :-).  But I think this makes sense and no one is
protesting....

Thanks, applied to my block tree:
https://github.com/stefanha/qemu/commits/block

Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-27 10:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-26  9:42 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] block: use /var/tmp instead of /tmp for -snapshot Amit Shah
2014-02-27 10:18 ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2014-02-27 11:33   ` Amit Shah
2014-02-27 13:42     ` Eric Blake

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