windley@cheetah.ucdavis.edu (Phil Windley/20000000) (08/16/89)
Has anyone noticed that IBM's TeX and Metafont don't seemed to get along with NFS. I recently tried to put my metafont source files on a remotely mounted directory and MF couldn't find them. I've also noticed that I can't TeX a files that is remotely mounted. Does anyone know why? Is there a PTF for this (he hopes ;-). It is really annoying. -- Phil Windley | windley@iris.ucdavis.edu Division of Computer Science | ucbvax!ucdavis!iris!windley College of Engineering | (916) 752-7324 (or 3168) University of California, Davis | Davis, CA 95616
bunda@cs.utexas.edu (John Bunda) (08/17/89)
In article <WINDLEY.89Aug16084617@Self.cheetah.ucdavis.edu>, windley@cheetah.ucdavis.edu (Phil Windley/20000000) writes: > > with NFS. I recently tried to put my metafont source files on a remotely > mounted directory and MF couldn't find them. I've also noticed that I > can't TeX a files that is remotely mounted. Does anyone know why? The reason for this that I have heard is that the TeX implementation uses mapped files, i.e. the file is treated directly as memory pages (reduces time for loading - the I/O is done on demand). Unfortunately, this requires these files to exist in a native fs. -John -- ...................................................... John Bunda METRIC Project Voice: (512) 471-9710 UT Austin CS Dept. Internet: bunda@cs.utexas.edu Austin, Texas 78712
marcel@duteca (Marcel Mol) (08/19/89)
From article <WINDLEY.89Aug16084617@Self.cheetah.ucdavis.edu>, by windley@cheetah.ucdavis.edu (Phil Windley/20000000): > > Has anyone noticed that IBM's TeX and Metafont don't seemed to get along > with NFS. I recently tried to put my metafont source files on a remotely > mounted directory and MF couldn't find them. I've also noticed that I > can't TeX a files that is remotely mounted. Does anyone know why? Is > there a PTF for this (he hopes ;-). It is really annoying. > The same problem occurs with distributed services. We reported the problem to IBM more than a year ago. I has something to do with 'mapped files'. We haven't heard anything about it since then. Some user up here managed to get source code for tex and compiled it. This tex does work on NFS. -Marcel -- ######################################### # Marcel J.E. Mol # They hate you if your're clever # Delft, University of Technology # And they despise the fool # The Netherlands # Till you're so fucking crazy # UUCP: marcel@duteca.tudelft.nl # You can't follow the rules. # duteca!marcel # ######################################### - Lennon