Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:34:28 -0800 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Make sysctl a separate filesystem |
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On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:44:35 +0100 (CET) Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > On Feb 15 2008 12:35, 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. > > For time being only. > > The kernel (currently) only auto-mounts invisible filesystems.
like /root, sysfs, futexfs, pipefs, anon_inodefs, bdev, devpts, hugetlbfs, inotifyfs ?
--- ~Randy
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