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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Make sysctl a separate filesystem
Al Viro writes:
> 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?

I don't really care, as long as existing user-space doesn't get broken.


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