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Re: 8.2.17/8.2.18 patch release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Feb 2 19:04:00 1999
To: f_l@MIT.EDU, network@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Feb 1999 17:47:03 EST."
<199902022247.RAA25965@m2-032-1.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 18:58:46 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Last time this came up someone grumbled about having a debate in view
of the people making the request. So I'm quoting this request for
release-team (which didn't get it) and including the IS mailing lists
which did get it. My take on the conversation is not the same as
Tom's; I thought all of the responses were not in favor of making the
change he requested (excepting my own, which was noncommittal).
I certainly don't want to put this into 8.2.17, which is already too
complicated. It's not clear to me that we want to make his change at
all, or what forum it is best to make that decision in. (Certainly I
can't make it by myself.) Given Grayson's position, I'd prefer if
someone at Mike or Bill's level sent a response.
> Message-Id: <199902022247.RAA25965@m2-032-1.mit.edu>
> To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Cc: f_l@MIT.EDU, network@MIT.EDU, 11.520staff@MIT.EDU, phils@MIT.EDU,
> karen@MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: 8.2.17/8.2.18 patch release
> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Feb 1999 14:07:52 EST."
> <199902021907.OAA06613@small-gods.mit.edu>
> Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 17:47:03 EST
> From: "Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU>
>
> Greg,
>
> I have an important request for the new Athena release, if it is
> not already in there (I didn't see it in your list). Please
> change the standard Athena file /etc/athena/attach.conf to remove
> the small nfs rsize and wsize parameters (currently 1024).
> Allowing 'attach' to use the NFS mount defaults greatly improves
> NFS performance. Our class 11.520/11.188/11.523/11.524 this term
> will be using ArcView and large GIS datasets which reside in
> NFS-based lockers. We lose a lot of time at the beginning of
> weekly labs when students wait for ArcView, a 10.7 MB executable,
> to launch over the network. Unfortunately, hacking the
> attach.conf file on a public workstation appears to get undone
> overnight. Hence, I'd really like to see this in the release.
> There was some debate a couple of months ago on this subject, and
> there appeared to be agreement that this was a good idea.
>
> Here's a sample of a corrected attach.conf file:
>
> #
> # Attach configuration file
> #
> # $Id: attach.conf,v 1.4 1997/05/08 07:30:30 ghudson Exp $
> #
> aklog /bin/athena/aklog
> # The order of the nomountpoint and mountpoint lines below is important.
> nomountpoint ^/afs ^/bin ^/core ^/dev ^/devices ^/etc ^/export
> nomountpoint ^/home ^/hsfsboot ^/kadb ^/kernel ^/lib ^/lost+found
> nomountpoint ^/opt ^/os ^/platform ^/proc ^/sbin ^/srvd ^/tmp
> nomountpoint ^/ufsboot ^/usr ^/var ^/vol ^/mit/[^/]*/. ^/\.
> mountpoint /mit/[^/]*
> nomountpoint /mit
> nosetuid .
> options {nfs}:.* soft
>
>
> Tom Grayson
> GIS/Database Specialist
> Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning
