[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, 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.

Well, these are reasonable points.  Certainly I don't care enough to
strongly advocate getting rid of the cgroupfs-mount package and you
seem to care enough to advocate keeping it.

If you think we should adopt a similar approach for other kernel
filesystems then I guess you might want to go to d-policy about that.

Regards,
Ian.