Message-ID: <47BE9872.5090706@firstfloor.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:40:02 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
CC: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>, Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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       Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make sysctl a separate filesystem
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Al Viro wrote:
> 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?

Al, how would you solve the problem?

-Andi


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