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

[Axel Beckert]

Thorsten Glaser 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.

Seconded.

		Regards, Axel
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