From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] troff problem From: mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca In-Reply-To: <036ce64b3aa36360cece78d9fcb998bb@plan9.bell-labs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 08:40:32 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9195985c-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >> 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 we went through this once already: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&threadm=Pine.LNX.4.44.0306271304260.32274-100000%40fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca&rnum=3&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dlp%2Bmirtchov%2Bgroup:comp.os.plan9%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26safe%3Doff%26scoring%3Dd%26selm%3DPine.LNX.4.44.0306271304260.32274-100000%2540fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca%26rnum%3D3 here's my fix: plan9% diff /sys/lib/lp/bin/lpscratch /n/sources/plan9/sys/lib/lp/bin/lpscratch 20,21c20 < SCRATCHFILESYSTEM='' < --- > SCRATCHFILESYSTEM=other plan9% echo $fileserver plan9 plan9% cheers, andrey