linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Make sysctl a separate filesystem

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Message-ID: <p73ejbe1ook.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
Date:	Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:47:39 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make sysctl a separate filesystem

Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.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.

-Andi
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