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Message-ID: <20100722191200.GA5609@suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:12:00 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
Cc:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	Lennart Poettering <lennart@...ttering.net>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Ben Blum <bblum@...rew.cmu.edu>,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cgroupfs: create /sys/fs/cgroup to mount cgroupfs on

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:07:43PM -0700, Paul Menage wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:
> >
> > If you are using /dev/cgroup/ that's nice, but I don't think that people
> > are expecting a whole filesystem under a /dev/ subdirectory.
> 
> Sure - as I said that's just for historical reasons from when we
> migrated from cpusets which were traditionally mounted at /dev/cpuset,
> so it involved less change. There's no particular reason to mount it
> there (although having said that, what about /dev/pts and /dev/shm?).

Yeah, /dev/pts and /dev/shm are long-time users of the /dev filesystem.
I don't know if we want to encourage that as a mount point, do you?

What are the different names you are giving to your mount points now for
cgroupfs so I can get an idea of how it is used currently?

thanks,

greg k-h
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