* man5/filesystems.5 (.SH DESCRIPTION): Add a note that the
information about available file systems can be obtained
via sysfs() syscall.
Signed-off-by: Eugene Syromyatnikov <evgsyr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
for more details.
If you need a currently unsupported filesystem, insert the corresponding
module or recompile the kernel.
+There is also a legacy
+.BR sysfs (2)
+system call (availability of which is controlled by the
+.\" commit: 6af9f7bf3c399e0ab1eee048e13572c6d4e15fe9
+.B CONFIG_SYSFS_SYSCALL
+kernel build configuration option since Linux 3.15)
+that enables enumeration of currently available filesystem types regardless of
+.I /proc
+availability and/or sanity.
.PP
In order to use a filesystem, you have to
.I mount
it; see
+.BR mount (2)
+and
.BR mount (8).
.PP
Below a short description of the available or historically available