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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Make sysctl a separate filesystem
Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 12:35:23PM +0100, 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.
>
> When and where?

Al, how would you solve the problem?

-Andi




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