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Subject: Re: nf_conntrack.acct has no effect
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Krzysztof Oledzki wrote:
>> I'd say it has been long enough, but Jan raised a valid point.
>> We can't use the Kconfig selection anymore once we remove that
>> option, so we need a replacement to automatically enable counters.
> 
> So loading connbytes should enable accounting automatically. Fine, it is 
> doable. But how we want to handle it WRT to NS? Should it be enabled in 
> all NameSpaces or...?

Just the ones it is actually used in I'd say (i.e. in the checkentry
function for the current namespace).