Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764122AbYBOKry (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:47:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933489AbYBOKrn (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:47:43 -0500 Received: from mx1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:50187 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933472AbYBOKrl (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:47:41 -0500 To: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Andrew Morton , Al Viro , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alexey Dobriyan Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make sysctl a separate filesystem From: Andi Kleen References: <47B56BF2.4020600@openvz.org> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:47:39 +0100 In-Reply-To: <47B56BF2.4020600@openvz.org> (Pavel Emelyanov's message of "Fri\, 15 Feb 2008 13\:39\:46 +0300") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 828 Lines: 24 Pavel Emelyanov writes: > this subdir; > 3. sysctl inodes are now smaller than the procfs ones. That's always a good thing. > Note: update your initscripts to mount sysctl filesystem > right after the proc is mounted in order not to lose your > /etc/sysctl.conf configuration (and optionally fstab). That will break about everybody's init scripts I suspect. I think you would need to go through some deprecation period for this at least, with printks warning people to fix their init scripts. Or better find some way to do the mount automatically. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/