Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764512AbYBVJib (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:38:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752387AbYBVJiX (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:38:23 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:53957 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752246AbYBVJiW (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:38:22 -0500 Message-ID: <47BE9872.5090706@firstfloor.org> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:40:02 +0100 From: Andi Kleen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070801) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Al Viro CC: Mikael Pettersson , Pavel Emelyanov , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alexey Dobriyan Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make sysctl a separate filesystem References: <47B56BF2.4020600@openvz.org> <18357.30971.334517.722985@harpo.it.uu.se> <20080222012530.GD27894@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20080222012530.GD27894@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1159 Lines: 35 Al Viro wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 12:35:23PM +0100, 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. > > When and where? Al, how would you solve the problem? -Andi -- 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/