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Subject: Re: [9fans] troff problem
From: Sape Mullender <sape@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 09:04:37 -0500
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> This shows that lp expects a filesystem named ``other'' on the file server;
> see /sys/lib/lp/bin/lpscratch and look for other.
>
> Probably a fix would be to hack /sys/lib/lp/bin/lpscratch

Indeed.  This is a leftover from the days when we used another file system
to avoid getting leftover temporary files in the daily dump.  These days,
nearly every machine has enough ram to use ramfs for temporaries.
I advice replacing mounting other by starting ramfs (If it's not already
running).

	Sape