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Date:	Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:08:53 +0200
From:	Dhaval Giani <dhaval.lists@...gianis.in>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>, 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 8:36 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:31:07AM -0700, Paul Menage wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:
>> > We really shouldn't be asking userspace to create new root filesystems.
>> > So follow along with all of the other in-kernel filesystems, and provide
>> > a mount point in sysfs.
>> >
>> > For cgroupfs, this should be in /sys/fs/cgroup/  This change provides
>> > that mount point when the cgroup filesystem is registered in the kernel.
>>
>> But cgroups will typically have multiple mounts, with different
>> resource controllers/options on each mount. That doesn't really fit in
>> with this scheme.
>
> Really?  I see systems mounting it at /cgroups/ in the filesystem today.
> Where are you expecting it to be mounted at?
>

Not really. It is getting mounted at /cgroups/<name of resource
controller>/ at a number of places. Keeping it in sysfs loses us a lot
of this flexibility. Unless you are ready to keep adding a new
mountpoint for each subsystem, it will not really work out in the long
term.

Dhaval
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