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Message-ID: <18366.39762.445478.210383@alkaid.it.uu.se>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:52:18 +0100
From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>
To: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>,
Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
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 writes:
> 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?
I don't really care, as long as existing user-space doesn't get broken.
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