Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764293AbYBOLgY (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:36:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752842AbYBOLgP (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:36:15 -0500 Received: from aun.it.uu.se ([130.238.12.36]:62374 "EHLO aun.it.uu.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752084AbYBOLgO (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:36:14 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18357.30971.334517.722985@harpo.it.uu.se> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:35:23 +0100 From: Mikael Pettersson To: Andi Kleen Cc: Pavel Emelyanov , Andrew Morton , Al Viro , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alexey Dobriyan Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make sysctl a separate filesystem In-Reply-To: References: <47B56BF2.4020600@openvz.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under Emacs 20.7.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 948 Lines: 25 Andi Kleen writes: > 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. Doing it automatically is the only acceptable way, IMO. -- 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/