Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763462AbYBVJxA (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:53:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934714AbYBVJwg (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:52:36 -0500 Received: from aun.it.uu.se ([130.238.12.36]:35536 "EHLO aun.it.uu.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934667AbYBVJwf (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:52:35 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18366.39762.445478.210383@alkaid.it.uu.se> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:52:18 +0100 From: Mikael Pettersson To: Al Viro Cc: Mikael Pettersson , Andi Kleen , Pavel Emelyanov , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alexey Dobriyan Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make sysctl a separate filesystem In-Reply-To: <20080222012530.GD27894@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <47B56BF2.4020600@openvz.org> <18357.30971.334517.722985@harpo.it.uu.se> <20080222012530.GD27894@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under Emacs 20.7.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1230 Lines: 31 Al Viro writes: > 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? I don't really care, as long as existing user-space doesn't get broken. -- 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/