A big THANKS to everyone who responded to my question about setting up a
"public disk":
Selden E Ball Jr.
Doug Berry
Andrew Gallatin
Drew Kramer
Dr. Tom Blinn
Alan Rollow (Dr. File System's Home for Wayward Inodes)
Jean-Francois Vibert
Dale Cook
Kent Adams
Andrew Lloyd
David Bannon
Summary of Reponses:
A. Have them use the existing /var/tmp (this could cause a problem if I
use a filesystem that needs space available for logging purposes.)
B. Attach /tmp to a large disk. It's world readable and writable.
Also, all files are removed on a reboot.
C. Set up an anonymous FTP.
D. Set up a /usr/users/scratch directory with protection of 777 a+rwx
E. Set up a public area just like /tmp and set the "sticky" bit on the
directory. (It was noted that quotas can be set on this directory; I
would also have to have some mechanism for removing files.) This too
could cause a problem if the filesystem runs out of logging space.
F. Split the /dev/rz3 drive into a 'g' and 'h' partition.
We'll probably wind up splitting /dev/rz3 into a 'g' and 'h' partition.
Thank you to Dr. Thomas Blinn for nifty directions!!! I'll let everyone
know how it goes
Mary W. Aplin
Academic Computing Services
Loyola University, New Orleans
"16 more days till Mardi Gras..."
Received on Sun Feb 12 1995 - 22:31:31 NZDT