[Devel] Re: cgroup mount point

Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo cascardo at minaslivre.org
Tue Feb 3 04:57:45 PST 2009


On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:44:00PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 07:41:53PM -0200, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> > > So, we have some more options now: /cgroups, /containers,
> > > /dev/cpuset, /dev/cpuctl, /opt/cgroup, /opt/cpuset.
> > 
> > Putting new mount points in / is not really acceptable, so that rules
> > out the first two. /opt is just totally wrong, since that is intended
> > for add on software packages. /dev/ feels a little odd, since it is
> > not really device nodes
> 
> 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.

The message you quoted is from Daniel Berrange, not me. Could you also
tell your rationale for not agreeing with /?

Regards,
Cascardo.

> Since they're a filesystem mapping “for browsing and manipulation
> from user space” of a kernel facility, I think ‘/sys/cgroups/’ is
> appropriate.
> 
> -- 
>  \     “It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner |
>   `\                  need to complain.” —Jane Wagner, via Lily Tomlin |
> _o__)                                                                  |
> Ben Finney
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