Re: [PATCH] Make sysctl a separate filesystem

[Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>]

Al Viro wrote:
> 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?

Al, how would you solve the problem?

-Andi