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

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sat, 06 Mar 2010, Mike Hommey wrote:
> /dev/something just feels so wrong. /dev contains block and character
> devices, and almost nothing else (except some udev and initramfs files)

Not really.  There's the whole /dev/shm crap (which one is not supposed to
access directly anyway).

> Why should cgroups control files, which are hardly device files, be
> found under /dev ?

I'd rather have it in /sys, yes, but doing so would be dangerous (*never*
mount anything in there that the kernel developers don't expect, they may
decide to use your mountpoint to export something later on...).

IMO, it is much better to have it /dev somewhere, than in / or /mnt, or
worse, somewhere in /etc.

Maybe we should push for a /kernel in / and mount this kind of crap there,
since /sys is *not* fair game.

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