Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756208AbYBOQ6K (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:58:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751473AbYBOQ55 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:57:57 -0500 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.157]:51984 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750798AbYBOQ54 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:57:56 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=kCUaKAWUfzIcPc3fXjEcXMCf61Vfbur1CZ/+2AJAviRhiGbMfWTm5yptddGAyXOQlDc0+Vliqwof+XoIEG3/PL1U4S0F0MDInd4mRq0aEzI3Z9GU8i4eO5Z9LkE1bhKJvP0O39ES5keVE2ry8E84T9PgW11sUMyRxN7uDHu9SgM= Message-ID: <6101e8c40802150857h656efbf9of2646e9ae8c07a5b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:57:53 +0100 From: "Oliver Pinter" To: "Jan Engelhardt" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make sysctl a separate filesystem Cc: "Mikael Pettersson" , "Andi Kleen" , "Pavel Emelyanov" , "Andrew Morton" , "Al Viro" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , "Alexey Dobriyan" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <47B56BF2.4020600@openvz.org> <18357.30971.334517.722985@harpo.it.uu.se> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1550 Lines: 44 On 2/15/08, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Feb 15 2008 12:35, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > >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. > > For time being only. > > The kernel (currently) only auto-mounts invisible filesystems. and /selinux with selinuxfs, it is automounted ... but it is visible fs > -- > 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/ > -- Thanks, Oliver -- 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/