Put non-object tmp files in .git/annex/misctmp, leaving .git/annex/tmp for only partially transferred objects.

This allows eg, putting .git/annex/tmp on a ram disk, if the disk IO
of temp object files is too annoying (and if you don't want to keep
partially transferred objects across reboots).

.git/annex/misctmp must be on the same filesystem as the git work tree,
since files are moved to there in a way that will not work cross-device,
as well as symlinked into there.

I first wanted to put the tmp objects in .git/annex/objects/tmp, but
that would pose transition problems on upgrade when partially transferred
objects existed.

git annex info does not currently show the size of .git/annex/misctemp,
since it should stay small. It would also be ok to make something clean it
out, periodically.
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Joey Hess 2014-02-26 16:52:56 -04:00
parent a19ad12018
commit a1432bce2f
18 changed files with 35 additions and 28 deletions

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@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ runTransfer t file shouldretry a = do
| transferDirection t == Upload =
liftIO $ readMVar metervar
| otherwise = do
f <- fromRepo $ gitAnnexTmpLocation (transferKey t)
f <- fromRepo $ gitAnnexTmpObjectLocation (transferKey t)
liftIO $ catchDefaultIO 0 $
fromIntegral . fileSize <$> getFileStatus f