From 69a3617c2637c7ba383cfb0758eecbc5e920990e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aaron Jacobs Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 10:52:45 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Call out that the user needs temporary space for writing large files. Fixes #88. --- README.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 613db4dcd2..0921a9addc 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -120,6 +120,11 @@ due to the staging of data in a local temporary file, as discussed above. [issue-22]: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcsfuse/issues/22 +Note that new and modified files are also fully staged in the local temporary +directory until they are written out to GCS due to being closed or fsync'd. +Therefore the user must ensure that there is enough free space available to +handle staged content when writing large files. + ## Rate limiting If you would like to rate limit traffic to/from GCS in order to set limits on