Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:44:35 +0100 (CET)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make sysctl a separate filesystem
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On Feb 15 2008 12:35, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>Andi Kleen writes:
> > Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> 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.

For time being only.

The kernel (currently) only auto-mounts invisible filesystems.
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