[Devel] Re: [RFC] Mount point suggestions for cgroup

[Daniel Lezcano]

Balbir Singh wrote:
> Hi, All,
>
> We've been having a discussion as to what would be the right place to
> mount the cgroup filesystem. Jan has been proactively looking into
> this. The FHS has no recommendation since cgroup filesystem came in
> much later.
>
> The options are
>
> 1. /dev/cgroup
> 2. /cgroup
> 3. Some place under /sys
>
> The problem with (2) is that it is quite non-standard and pollutes the
> root directory. (3) requires some basic support to create a directory
> for cgroup under /sys. (1) seems the most obvious choice since cpusets
> were mounted under /dev/cpuset, but /dev is controlled by udev.
>
> Given the three choices or any other suggestions, is there a general
> preference as to where we can mount it? The goal is to standardize
> the mount point (if possible).
>   
Why the mount point has to be standardized ?

> BTW, the mounting is expected to be done using cgconfigparser present
> in libcgroup.
>   
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