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

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2018, Ian Jackson wrote:

> 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.

I’m a bit concerned about all these.

They increase the attack surface, they need resources
(especially on older or embedded-ish architectures),
and they clutter the visual output of, if not df(1),
then at least mount(8), to a point where one requires
manual postprocessing to make it legible.

Yes, it seems harmless, but… idk, a system isn’t
perfect when there’s nothing left to add but nothing
needs to be removed any more.

Stuff like that could perhaps be mounted from fstab,
populated by d-i. I remember /tmp, /dev/pts et al.
having been in fstab once too, nowadays they’re
automatically mounted, though I’m not concerned
about these.

bye,
//mirabilos
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