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.
