[Lustre-devel] moving /proc to $MNT/.lustre

[Alex Zhuravlev]

Nathan Rutman wrote:
> well, that's why I asked.  As I said, Andreas and I are in agreement, 
> and it certainly makes sense from a portability point of view, as well 
> as consistency with future features (snapshots, audit logs, etc.), and 
> the final elimination of our various /proc locking headaches.  But yes, 
> it would break user's scripts  - that's a 1-time thing, and I think not 
> too terrible.

it's not quite clear how do we do with userspace servers. there was an idea
to use named pipes, but I'm not sure it's very portable.

thanks, Alex