[Devel] Re: gentoo baselayout 1.13 openvz modifications

[Benedikt Böhm]

On Friday 26 January 2007 17:02, Roy Marples wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:58:05 +0300
>
> Kir Kolyshkin <kir at openvz.org> wrote:
> > I was checking the stuff added to Gentoo's baselayout 1.13 to make it
> > compatible with VPS systems like Linux-VServer or OpenVZ.
> >
> > Everything looks great, the only minor problem I found is this code
> > in bootmisc:
> >
> >         if [[ $(uname) == "Linux" ]]  && ! is_vps_sys ; then
> >                 # BSD has it's own sysctl init script
> >                 if [[ -e /etc/sysctl.conf ]] ; then
> >                         ebegin $"Configuring kernel parameters"
> >                         sysctl -q -p /etc/sysctl.conf
> >                         eend $?
> >                 fi
> >         fi
> >
> > The problem here is in OpenVZ some of sysctl variables are
> > virtualized, i.e. you can set it from inside your VE. Usually this is
> > not needed, and not too many people do that, but still if there
> > is /etc/sysctl.conf people expect that it will be applied during VE
> > start.
>
> Hollow asked for that for a reason. I'll assume that he's on the
> vserver-devs at gentoo.org mailing list and he'll tell me why.
>
> Otherwise I have no problem with punting it myself.
>
> Thanks
>
> Roy

Yeah, we can punt that...