From d7fddc2db12ab5b74cb7a41b12cd881ca0a195bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Russ Allbery Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:13:29 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * Add a hint to README.Debian on what to do about the cache partition if running ReiserFS or XFS without a spare partition. --- debian/README.Debian | 9 +++++++-- debian/changelog | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian index d894d1fa4..6456353dd 100644 --- 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 , Tue Dec 6 21:11:14 2005 + -- Russ Allbery , Sat Dec 10 20:11:43 2005 diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 0046df7b9..9a732d316 100644 --- 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) -- 2.39.5