From: gdmr@dcs.ed.ac.uk (George Ross)
Subject: Re: Keeping X going after fileserver system crash??
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 16:58:24 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.181118.5523@nas.nasa.gov>, irvin@buffett.nas.nasa.gov (Timothy B. Irvin) writes:
> ...
>
> So, we decided to move some of the X stuff to local disk, to see if most
> of X could survive lossing the fileserver.  I moved X, twm, and xterm to the
> local disk.  But with the dynamically linked libraries still on the fileserver
> this didn't buy us much.  So, I moved, libX11.so.4.3, libXaw.so.4.0, 
> libXmu.so.4.0, and libXt.so.4.0 to the local disk.  

You might find the stuff in ftp.dcs.ed.ac.uk:pub/lfu/ interesting.  We use it
to manage this kind of thing automatically.

> ...
> 
> Now the question:
> Does anyone know what file the server is trying to access, so we can move it
> to local disk (if not to big).  Or how to get the server to close this file and 
> reopen it (which would then use the replicated fileserver)?  Or any other
> suggestions which might help us out?

I've appended a listing of all the (X) things which lfu has cached on my local
disc and which I've accessed in the last week or so.  That might give you some
pointers.  The cache partition currently has 74867 Kb used out of 94519 Kb
available, btw.
-- 
George D M Ross, Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh
     Kings Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH9 3JZ
Tel: 031-650 5147   Internet: gdmr@dcs.ed.ac.uk   JANET: gdmr@uk.ac.ed.dcs

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