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Message-ID: <47BE9872.5090706@firstfloor.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:40:02 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
CC: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: [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@...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.
>>
>> Doing it automatically is the only acceptable way, IMO.
>
> When and where?
Al, how would you solve the problem?
-Andi
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