Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:25:30 +0000
From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make sysctl a separate filesystem
Message-ID: <20080222012530.GD27894@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
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On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 12:35:23PM +0100, 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.

When and where?
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