[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#769494: Please mount cgroup automatically

[Ian Jackson]

Daniel Abrecht writes ("Bug#769494: Please mount cgroup automatically"):
> I don't think mounting cgroup is sysvinits job. Mounting cgroups can be 
> done using /etc/fstab and/or using the cgroupfs-mount package. I don't 
> mind it being always added though.

Thanks for your message.

I confess I am very ignorant but I don't understand why it would be a
bad idea for this to be mounted on all systems.

If the existence of cgroupfs-mount is just there to do this, because
sysvinit doesn't, it seems like a lot of trouble.  Maybe it would be
better to have sysvinit do it, always, and then we could get rid of
cgroupfs-mount and packages that wanted this facility wouldn't need to
write anything in their control file.

OTOH the current situation sounds tolerable.

I have CC'd `cgroupfs-mount at packages.debian.org' which is the
maintainers of that package, so that they can have an opinion.  (I'm
afraid this mail will come across as a bit ignorant because I'm not
really in a position to do any proper research like reading the rest
of this bug or the cgroupfs-mount package description.)

> This is my first mail to the debian bug tracker, I hope I was able to 
> help and to give some new helpful perspectives on this matter.

Thank you for your contribution to Debian.  I thought your message was
very helpful, even if I don't know that I 100% agree with your
conclusion :-).

Regards,
Ian.

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