Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] block: use /var/tmp instead of /tmp for -snapshot

[Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>]

On (Thu) 27 Feb 2014 [11:18:15], Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> 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....

You mean I can relax my crossed fingers now?

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

Thanks!

		Amit