Re: [PATCH] Make sysctl a separate filesystem

[Mikael Pettersson]

Andi Kleen writes:
 > Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.
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