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Fix the documentation which referred to the wrong environment variable. --- docs/virt-v2v.pod | 14 ++++++++------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/virt-v2v.pod b/docs/virt-v2v.pod index ed95fdc8e..3f8cc6564 100644 --- a/docs/virt-v2v.pod +++ b/docs/virt-v2v.pod @@ -1206,8 +1206,9 @@ possible. =head3 Disk space -Virt-v2v places potentially large temporary files in C<$TMPDIR> (which -is F</var/tmp> if you don't set it). Using tmpfs is a bad idea. +Virt-v2v places potenti...

...g shared, /var/tmp is persistent unlike /tmp (which can be tmpfs-backed on some distros/setups), meaning old temporary files will linger way more That said, it is not clear to me why /var/tmp should be shared among containers. > diff --git a/docs/virt-v2v.pod b/docs/virt-v2v.pod > index ed95fdc8e..dbfd10cad 100644 > --- a/docs/virt-v2v.pod > +++ b/docs/virt-v2v.pod > @@ -1206,8 +1206,9 @@ possible. > > =head3 Disk space > > -Virt-v2v places potentially large temporary files in C<$TMPDIR> (which > -is F</var/tmp> if you don't set it). Using tmpfs...

...arse_ova.ml | 5 ++--- v2v/python_script.ml | 3 +-- v2v/utils.ml | 8 ++++++-- v2v/utils.mli | 4 ++++ v2v/v2v.ml | 15 ++++++--------- 12 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/virt-v2v.pod b/docs/virt-v2v.pod index ed95fdc8e..dbfd10cad 100644 --- a/docs/virt-v2v.pod +++ b/docs/virt-v2v.pod @@ -1206,8 +1206,9 @@ possible. =head3 Disk space -Virt-v2v places potentially large temporary files in C<$TMPDIR> (which -is F</var/tmp> if you don't set it). Using tmpfs is a bad idea. +Virt-v2v places potenti...

...sed for volume mounts. So if the administrator of the cluster set it up with NFS, then that's what you have to use. (However using NFS for /var/tmp is still wrong). That's the problem we're trying to solve. > > diff --git a/docs/virt-v2v.pod b/docs/virt-v2v.pod > > index ed95fdc8e..dbfd10cad 100644 > > --- a/docs/virt-v2v.pod > > +++ b/docs/virt-v2v.pod > > @@ -1206,8 +1206,9 @@ possible. > > > > =head3 Disk space > > > > -Virt-v2v places potentially large temporary files in C<$TMPDIR> (which > > -is F</var/tmp&gt...

v1 was here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2020-April/msg00007.html There's a BZ for this now which I forgot to add to the commit message: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1814611 For v2: - Fix incorrect reference to $TMPDIR in existing manual. - Separate handling for small temporary files and large temporary files. Small temporary files go into $TMPDIR