Re: TeX and NFS

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From: John Bunda
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1989 23:32

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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

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Subject: Re: TeX and NFS
Summary: mapped files
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