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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: Rick Lindsley <ricklind@us.ibm.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.46: duplicate statistics being gathered
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 23:19:02 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021108071901.GB2152@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DCB4B2C.989AA22@digeo.com>

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 09:27:08PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> The <unknown quantity of> applications out there which are reading
> the disk info from /proc/stat need to be taught to go fishing in
> /name-of-the-day-fs.
> 
> And that's hard.  /driverfs? /sys? /sysfs? /kernfs?  AFAIK we don't
> even have a recommended mountpoint for the thing, do we?  One way
> to resolve that is for the monitoring application to locate the
> mountpoint by consulting /proc/mounts on startup.

It's now called sysfs and should be mounted at /sys.  I do not think the
name will change anymore (famous last words...)

Unless you want to be different and mount it somewhere else :)

And yes, any application relying on data within it, should be able to
determine its location (through /proc/mounts, or some other such
format.)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-08  7:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-08  2:08 [PATCH] 2.5.46: duplicate statistics being gathered Rick Lindsley
2002-11-08  5:27 ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-08  7:19   ` Greg KH [this message]
2002-11-08 13:01   ` Rick Lindsley
2002-11-08 13:36     ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-11-08 13:51       ` Zwane Mwaikambo

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