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

[Ian Jackson]

Thorsten Glaser writes ("Bug#769494: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#769494: Please mount cgroup automatically"):
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2018, Daniel Abrecht wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Why? I mean, what for? I run dozens of systems without it.

Always mounting it would simplify things somewhat, overall.  There
would be a very small additional complexity on systems that didn't
need it, but a quite large benefit in not having to maintain a
separate mount-it package and so on.  In general this is how we handle
these kernel filesystems, usually (but not invariably - see the
special xen fs).

This is all assuming that there aren't any significant downsides to
mounting it.

I notice that on my laptop I have some binfmt_misc filesystem mounted.
I'm pretty sure I don't use anything that uses binfmt_misc.  I also
have something called pstore.  IDK what that is.  It's emty so I guess
I'm not using it.

This all seems harmless enough.  Am I wrong about cgroup ?

Ian.

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