Re: [PATCH 00/10] sysfs tagged directories

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Apr 30 2008 - 23:17:56 EST


On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 02:34:17PM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Finally, to give an idea about how the trees end up looking, here is
> what I just did on my test box;
>
> /usr/sbin/ip link add type veth
> mount --bind /mnt /mnt
> mkdir /mnt/sys
> mount --make-shared /mnt
> ns_exec -cmn /bin/sh # unshare netns and mounts ns
> # At this point, I still see eth0 and friends under /sys/class/net etc
> mount -t sysfs none /sys
> # At this point, /sys/class/net has only lo0 and sit0, and
> # /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/net:eth0 is a dead link
> mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys
> echo $$
> 3050
>
> (back in another shell):
> /usr/sbin/ip link set veth1 netns 3050
>
> (back in container shell):
> /usr/sbin/ip link set veth1 name eth0
> # Now /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/net:eth0 is a live link to
> # the /sys/class/net/eth0 which is really the original veth1
> exit
>
> ls /mnt/sys/class/net
> # empty directory

What does this all look like without CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED enabled,
which is what all sane distros do these days. That's going to change
the look of the tree for stuff like this a lot I think...

thanks,

greg k-h
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