Re: cgroup mount point

[Paul Menage <menage@google.com>]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Gustavo Noronha <kov@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