linux-kernel - Re: cgroup mount point

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Message-ID: <20090203161949.GB32677@nostromo.devel.redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 3 Feb 2009 11:19:49 -0500
From:	Bill Nottingham <notting@...hat.com>
To:	Gabor Gombas <gombasg@...aki.hu>
Cc:	"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@...hat.com>,
	debian-devel@...ts.debian.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: cgroup mount point

Gabor Gombas (gombasg@...aki.hu) said: 
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 10:24:16AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 
> > Putting new mount points in / is not really acceptable, so that rules
> > out the first two. /opt is just totally wrong, since that is intended
> > for add on software packages. /dev/ feels a little odd, since it is
> > not really device nodes, but perhaps that doesn't matter. So my pref
> > would be something in /dev/cgroups or /sys/cgroups
> 
> How about /var/lib/cgroup? There's already precedent
> (/var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs) of mounting virtual file systems under
> /var/lib.

Depending on when you need the cgroup filesystem to setup your
containers, /var may not be there.

Bill
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