linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Mount point suggestions for cgroup

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Date:	Wed, 4 Nov 2009 21:35:30 +0530
From:	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Jan Safranek <jsafrane@...hat.com>
Cc:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Dhaval Giani <dhaval@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Bharata B Rao <bharata.rao@...ibm.com>,
	libcg-devel <libcg-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	"menage@...gle.com" <menage@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Mount point suggestions for cgroup

* Jan Safranek <jsafrane@...hat.com> [2009-11-04 17:02:22]:

> On 11/04/2009 04:21 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> >On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 13:46 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:
> >>The reason I liked /dev/cgroup was because cpusets could be
> >>mounted at /dev/cpuset or /dev/cgroup/cpuset. My concern with /cgroup
> >>is that a ls "/" now becomes larger in size. But I'll take your vote
> >>for it as +1 for /cgroup.
> >
> >/dev/pts is a decent precedent for doing it under /dev, although it does
> >deal with actual devices.  cgroups do not.
> 
> There is also /dev/shm, but IMHO that's not reason to pollute /dev
> with filesystems that are not devices.
>

Yep, but hasn't the pollution already occured with /dev/cpuset today? 
sysfs would require work for changes to /sys, so do we go with Kame's
suggestion of /cgroup?

-- 
	Balbir
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