From: Russ Allbery Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:37:20 +0000 (+0000) Subject: * Stop recommending against memcache. It's more stable now. Include a X-Git-Tag: backports/1.4.4.dfsg1-7.bpo40+1~4 X-Git-Url: https://git.michaelhowe.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f3668f7cd227a16e97b437cb147bd82034c23507;p=packages%2Fo%2Fopenafs.git * 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 5a0c0bf51..dfb97df2c 100644 --- 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 , Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:32:58 z + -- Russ Allbery , Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:38:32 -0700 diff --git a/debian/afs.conf b/debian/afs.conf index f3eeb76f3..e88a00abc 100644 --- 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 afbc42ad6..33df6defb 100644 --- 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 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.