Re: [PATCH] Make sysctl a separate filesystem

[Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>]

Al Viro writes:
 > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 12:35:23PM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
 > > Andi Kleen writes:
 > >  > Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.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.