Patch to afs.txt about my rootcell file

Pete Zaitcev zaitcev at redhat.com
Fri Jan 16 15:49:44 GMT 2004


--- linux-2.6.1/Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt	2003-07-13 20:35:53.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.1-kafs/Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt	2004-01-16 09:31:54.000000000 -0800
@@ -27,8 +27,15 @@
 The first module is a driver for the RxRPC remote operation protocol, and the
 second is the actual filesystem driver for the AFS filesystem.
 
-Once the module has been loaded, more modules can be added by the following
-procedure:
+An alternative way to configure the root cell is to write the same
+module parameter syntax into /proc/fs/afs/rootcell. This is used mainly
+for kafs with OpenAFS compatibility mode, which must be built statically
+into kernels. Example:
+
+	echo "cambridge.redhat.com:172.16.18.91" > /proc/fs/afs/rootcell
+
+Once the module has been loaded and/or configured, more cells can be added
+by the following procedure:
 
 	echo add grand.central.org 18.7.14.88:128.2.191.224 >/proc/fs/afs/cells
 



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