* Stop recommending against memcache. It's more stable now. Include a

  sample memcache options line in afs.conf.

diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian
index 5a0c0bf516279ea4b2932a29debb2e5839a4a3f0..dfb97df2cb99092deba61d4103d032ea7d5b8fb6 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/README.Debian
+++ b/debian/README.Debian
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ Introduction
   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.
+  to afsd 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.
 
   FAM does not work correctly with AFS except for directories that are
   world-readable since it does not run in the user's security context and
@@ -138,4 +138,4 @@ PAM Authentication
   the openafs-kpasswd package to get the administrative utilities for
   managing those Kerberos accounts.
 
- -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>, Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:32:58 z
+ -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>, Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:38:32 -0700

diff --git a/debian/afs.conf b/debian/afs.conf
index f3eeb76f3b54dd82d9b65d18be727a02915bf981..e88a00abc2dcf6edb60b0d0b92be81387e229b2e 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/afs.conf
+++ b/debian/afs.conf
@@ -53,15 +53,17 @@ VERBOSE=
 #   -waitclose  Make close calls always synchronous (slows them down, though)
 #   -files_per_subdir   Number of files per cache subdir (Default: 2048).
 #
-# Using the memory cache is not recommended.  It's less stable than the disk
-# cache and doesn't improve performance as much as it might sound.
-#
-# The default behavior is to let afsd automatically choose an apporpriate set
-# of flags.  This should produce reasonable behavior for most working sets
-# provided that one is using a modern AFS client (1.4.2 or later).
+# The default behavior is to use a disk cache and let afsd automatically
+# choose an apporpriate set of flags.  This should produce reasonable behavior
+# for most working sets provided that one is using a modern AFS client (1.4.2
+# or later).
 #
 # You can override that default behavior by setting OPTIONS to a specific set
-# of flags.
+# of flags.  For example, to use a 32MB memory cache, try:
+#
+#     OPTIONS="-memcache -chunksize 15 -dcache 1024"
+#
+# (2^15 * 1024 bytes of cache.)
 OPTIONS=AUTOMATIC
 
 # The default value for the client sysname (as returned by fs sysname) is

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index afbc42ad61bfd6ca38058d02154bc6053ed745ba..33df6defbaae67d0fb51cea324774bc674a927f1 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+openafs (1.4.4.dfsg1-8) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+  * Stop recommending against memcache.  It's more stable now.  Include a
+    sample memcache options line in afs.conf.
+
+ -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:39:22 -0700
+
 openafs (1.4.4.dfsg1-7) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Switch to quilt for managing patches to the upstream source.