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| author | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2012-04-18 10:50:32 +0100 |
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| committer | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2012-04-24 10:41:26 +0100 |
| commit | ac4f73acab271972f59f54e1f60790aac4d7a2f0 (patch) | |
| tree | 0ab29da8b855735a980affb7c83486342e87715a | |
| parent | c784a55b721d6492fddaa59036dbca185f5604cd (diff) | |
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sparsify: Add a note about sparsify on tmpfs.
(cherry picked from commit b0b5fdc69f6ee831f325760f95a164627b499f77)
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diff --git a/sparsify/virt-sparsify.pod b/sparsify/virt-sparsify.pod index 31f6e256..a16e4781 100644 --- a/sparsify/virt-sparsify.pod +++ b/sparsify/virt-sparsify.pod @@ -269,6 +269,14 @@ to point to another directory that has enough space. This defaults to C</tmp>. +Note that if C<$TMPDIR> is a tmpfs (eg. if C</tmp> is on tmpfs, or if +you use C<TMPDIR=/dev/shm>), tmpfs defaults to a maximum size of +I<half> of physical RAM. If virt-sparsify exceeds this, it will hang. +The solution is either to use a real disk, or to increase the maximum +size of the tmpfs mountpoint, eg: + + mount -o remount,size=10G /tmp + =back For other environment variables, see L<guestfs(3)/ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES>. |