* Add a hint to README.Debian on what to do about the cache partition if

    running ReiserFS or XFS without a spare partition.

diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian
index d894d1fa4c340fe3236121f8f78e66a78e172350..6456353dd6783337ab8b4458470d53ff8c6e7cf2 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/README.Debian
+++ b/debian/README.Debian
@@ -13,7 +13,12 @@ Introduction
   The AFS client cache must be on an ext2 or ext3 partition.  Other file
   systems often do not support the semantics required by the AFS kernel
   module and will cause afsd to abort (to avoid kernel panics).  In
-  particular, XFS, ReiserFS, and tmpfs will NOT work.
+  particular, XFS, ReiserFS, and tmpfs will NOT work.  If you are using
+  one of those file systems and don't have a spare partition for a
+  separate file system for the cache, you need to use the -memcache option
+  to afsd (although this is not always stable) or create a large file with
+  dd, create an ext2 file system in it with mkfs, and then mount it with
+  mount -o loop for use as a cache partition.
 
   For information on how to set up an OpenAFS server, read README.servers.
   You will want the openafs-fileserver package for a file server and,
@@ -115,4 +120,4 @@ PAM Authentication
   the openafs-kpasswd package to get the administrative utilities for
   managing those Kerberos accounts.
 
- -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>, Tue Dec  6 21:11:14 2005
+ -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>, Sat Dec 10 20:11:43 2005

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 0046df7b9f5954d8aa6006d3d205a9410cdd7a2b..9a732d31644439b7c4722e0ce14f9ecf8ce6c522 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+openafs (1.4.0-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Add a hint to README.Debian on what to do about the cache partition if
+    running ReiserFS or XFS without a spare partition.
+
+ --
+
 openafs (1.4.0-2) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Install more of the standard OpenAFS utilities.  (Closes: #138851)