diff --git a/src/ee/anticache/AntiCacheDB.h b/src/ee/anticache/AntiCacheDB.h
index e27aec5711..1b715979b8 100644
--- a/src/ee/anticache/AntiCacheDB.h
+++ b/src/ee/anticache/AntiCacheDB.h
@@ -315,6 +315,10 @@ class AntiCacheDB {
             return evictedTupleInBlock[blockId];
         }
 
+        inline string getDBDir() {
+            return m_dbDir;
+        }
+
     protected:
         ExecutorContext *m_executorContext;
         string m_dbDir;
diff --git a/src/ee/anticache/NVMEvictedTable.cpp b/src/ee/anticache/NVMEvictedTable.cpp
index a26936ca54..0bff02a2cd 100644
--- a/src/ee/anticache/NVMEvictedTable.cpp
+++ b/src/ee/anticache/NVMEvictedTable.cpp
@@ -33,7 +33,13 @@ namespace voltdb {
 NVMEvictedTable::NVMEvictedTable(ExecutorContext *ctx, const std::string name) : PersistentTable(ctx, false) {
  
   delete m_pool;
-  m_pool = new Pool(1024 * 1024 * 1024, 1024, m_executorContext->getDBDir() + "/" + name, true);
+  std::string dbName;
+  if (m_executorContext->getAntiCacheDB(0)->getDBType() == ANTICACHEDB_ALLOCATORNVM)
+      dbName = m_executorContext->getAntiCacheDB(0)->getDBDir();
+  else
+      dbName = m_executorContext->getDBDir();
+  //VOLT_ERROR("dbname: %s\n", dbName.c_str());
+  m_pool = new Pool(1024 * 1024 * 1024, 1024, dbName + "/" + name, true);
     
 }
     
diff --git a/src/ee/common/executorcontext.hpp b/src/ee/common/executorcontext.hpp
index 0d2296729e..615182401e 100644
--- a/src/ee/common/executorcontext.hpp
+++ b/src/ee/common/executorcontext.hpp
@@ -124,8 +124,8 @@ namespace voltdb {
 
         inline std::string getDBDir() const {
             if (m_MMAPDir.empty())
-                return "/mnt/pmfs/mmap_file";          // Default : "/tmp"
-                //return "/tmp";          // Default : "/tmp"
+                //return "/mnt/pmfs/mmap_file";          // Default : "/tmp"
+                return "/tmp";          // Default : "/tmp"
             return (m_MMAPDir);
         }