Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Nov 2002 23:19:02 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.46: duplicate statistics being gathered |
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On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 09:27:08PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > The <unknown quantity of> applications out there which are reading > the disk info from /proc/stat need to be taught to go fishing in > /name-of-the-day-fs. > > And that's hard. /driverfs? /sys? /sysfs? /kernfs? AFAIK we don't > even have a recommended mountpoint for the thing, do we? One way > to resolve that is for the monitoring application to locate the > mountpoint by consulting /proc/mounts on startup.
It's now called sysfs and should be mounted at /sys. I do not think the name will change anymore (famous last words...)
Unless you want to be different and mount it somewhere else :)
And yes, any application relying on data within it, should be able to determine its location (through /proc/mounts, or some other such format.)
thanks,
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