Re: [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

Re: 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 ?

Re: 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,

Re: 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

Re: 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