[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#572733: support for mounting other kernel filesystems

[Mike Hommey]

On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 02:51:11AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > /dev/something just feels so wrong. /dev contains block and character
> > devices, and almost nothing else (except some udev and initramfs files)
> > Why should cgroups control files, which are hardly device files, be
> > found under /dev ?
> Why not? /dev/pts/ is a kernel filesystem mounted below /dev, and /dev
> itself is a kernel filesystem (tmpfs or devtmpfs).

And both only contain character or block devices (or occasional
directories). Nothing else.

Mike