On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Gustavo Noronha <k...@debian.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 23:44 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: >> I agree with all that Thadeu Lima says here. I would add that cgroups >> are nothing to do with device nodes, so definitely don't belong in >> '/dev/' either. >> >> Since they're a filesystem mapping "for browsing and manipulation >> from user space" of a kernel facility, I think '/sys/cgroups/' is >> appropriate. > > I agree with this point of view. I believe /sys/cgroups is the way to > go. Now, of course this has the drawback of shadowing something future > versions of Linux would make available at that same path, but I am > pretty sure they would be careful not to do that after distributions > have settled on a standard path.
Having one virtual filesystem mounted on top of another virtual filesystem seems like a recipe for problems. /dev/cgroup or /dev/cgroup/<hierarchy_name> sounds more reasonable to me (although if anyone is still using devfs that would suffer from the same drawbacks) Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
