Hi again, I just realized this so I’m going to pla...
# ask-metaflow
h
Hi again, I just realized this so I’m going to play around with it, but does anyone know if files downloaded using
use_tmpfs=True
can be shared between steps? I have a flow where I’d like to download some images in one step then process them in the following step.
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v
no, by nature tmpfs is ephemeral so it doesn't persist across steps. Crucially, loading from S3 can be faster than using local disk, so it's not obvious that caching locally would help
h
Ok, I figured as much. Thanks for the response. Maybe saving to s3 temporarily is a solution.
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v
let us know if it doesn’t perform well enough. There are a number of knobs to turn