Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:12:00 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>,
        Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>,
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        Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>, containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] cgroupfs: create /sys/fs/cgroup to mount cgroupfs on
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On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:07:43PM -0700, Paul Menage wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > If you are using /dev/cgroup/ that's nice, but I don't think that people
> > are expecting a whole filesystem under a /dev/ subdirectory.
> 
> Sure - as I said that's just for historical reasons from when we
> migrated from cpusets which were traditionally mounted at /dev/cpuset,
> so it involved less change. There's no particular reason to mount it
> there (although having said that, what about /dev/pts and /dev/shm?).

Yeah, /dev/pts and /dev/shm are long-time users of the /dev filesystem.
I don't know if we want to encourage that as a mount point, do you?

What are the different names you are giving to your mount points now for
cgroupfs so I can get an idea of how it is used currently?

thanks,

greg k-h
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