On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> These days there's no reason to register the filesystem types
> that can only be used for internal mounts - ia64 pfmfs, anon_inodes,
> bdev, pipefs and sockfs, in the current tree. The only user-visible
> effect of dropping those register_filesystem() would be shorter
> /proc/filesystems - that bunch wouldn't be mentioned there anymore.
> Does anything care about that? FWIW, the diff eliminating those
> would be as below (net/socket.c init leaks on early failures;
> I'd left that as-is - it's a separate story).
I like the patch, but I do worry that some user space thing uses this
to check whether the particular filesystem module is loaded.
Those kinds of things can't use /proc/modules (because it might be
built-in), but /proc/filesystems has traditionally contained
everything.
That said, these particular filesystems I really don't think people
would ever possibly check for, so I think it's fine.
Linus
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