[Ocfs2-devel] [RFC] to make files of ocfs2 under sysfs canonical

[Joel Becker]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:22:17PM +0800, Denis Cheng wrote:
> ocfs2 uses a subsystem under sysfs: /sys/o2cb, which is not good,
> 
> the canonical use of sysfs is one kset under /sys/fs, like the approach
> gfs2 does.
> 
> if someone will agree my opinion, I can improve this code.

o2cb is, in theory, independent of the filesystem.  Thus, it doesn't
necessarily belong under /sys/fs.

The bigger problem is that there are tools expecting /sys/o2cb to be
there.  We can't just drop it.

Joel

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