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Why HF_HOME Points To Ephemeral Storage On RunPod By Default And How To Fix It

If you have ever run a HuggingFace model download on RunPod and come back to find your cache gone, this is why. The default is wrong for rented GPU pods HuggingFace sets HF_HOME to ~/.cache/huggingface when no environment variable overrides it. On a standard Linux machine that is fine your home dir…

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  1. 2026-10-11 14:23 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Why HF_HOME Points To Ephemeral Storage On RunPod By Default And How To Fix It

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