Bug#572733: support for mounting other kernel filesystems

2010-06-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 06, Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it wrote: Currently the initscripts package mounts some well known kernel file systems like proc, sys and devpts, but there are a few others which AFAIK no package currently deals with: Are there any news about this? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc

Bug#572733: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#572733: support for mounting other kernel filesystems

2010-06-06 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Marco d'Itri] Are there any news about this? Nope. No-one spend time to investigate how other distros handle this, nor to check if existing packages already handle the file systems in question. It would be great if you or someone else took the time to investiage this. There is also URL:

Bug#572733: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#572733: support for mounting other kernel filesystems

2010-03-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 06 Mar 2010, Mike Hommey wrote: /dev/something just feels so wrong. /dev contains block and character devices, and almost nothing else (except some udev and initramfs files) Not really. There's the whole /dev/shm crap (which one is not supposed to access directly anyway). Why should

Bug#572733: support for mounting other kernel filesystems

2010-03-07 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 02:51:11AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: /dev/something just feels so wrong. /dev contains block and character devices, and almost nothing else (except some udev and initramfs files) Why should cgroups control files, which are hardly device files, be found under /dev ?

Bug#572733: support for mounting other kernel filesystems

2010-03-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 07, Mike Hommey m...@glandium.org wrote: Why not? /dev/pts/ is a kernel filesystem mounted below /dev, and /dev itself is a kernel filesystem (tmpfs or devtmpfs). And both only contain character or block devices (or occasional directories). Nothing else. I meant /dev/shm. -- ciao,

Bug#572733: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#572733: support for mounting other kernel filesystems

2010-03-06 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Marco d'Itri] Currently the initscripts package mounts some well known kernel file systems like proc, sys and devpts, but there are a few others which AFAIK no package currently deals with: - cgroups (needed for accounting and management of system resources) I thought the libcgroup package

Bug#572733: support for mounting other kernel filesystems

2010-03-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 06, Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com wrote: - cgroups (needed for accounting and management of system resources) I thought the libcgroup package handled this one, but might be wrong. I understand that the cgconfig program from cgroup-bin does mount it (in /mnt/cgroups/cpu, which I

Bug#572733: support for mounting other kernel filesystems

2010-03-05 Thread Marco d'Itri
Package: initscripts Version: 2.87dsf-8.1 Severity: normal I am tentatively opening this bug on initscripts to start a discussion, but I am unsure about the best way to solve the problem. Still, I believe it is important to solve it in time for the next release because it is a prerequisite of

Bug#572733: support for mounting other kernel filesystems

2010-03-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 05:03:05AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: Do we agree to mount these filesystems on /dev/ subdirectories? Fedora[1] uses /dev/hugepages/ for hugetlbfs, and while we had a discussion on debian-devel@ about where cgroups should be mounted there was no clear winner. The