diff --git a/fs.go b/fs.go
index df9044e4..60c551e0 100644
--- a/fs.go
+++ b/fs.go
@@ -14,8 +14,6 @@
 package procfs
 
 import (
-	"syscall"
-
 	"github.com/prometheus/procfs/internal/fs"
 )
 
@@ -50,15 +48,3 @@ func NewFS(mountPoint string) (FS, error) {
 
 	return FS{fs, real}, nil
 }
-
-// isRealProc determines whether supplied mountpoint is really a proc filesystem.
-func isRealProc(mountPoint string) (bool, error) {
-	stat := syscall.Statfs_t{}
-	err := syscall.Statfs(mountPoint, &stat)
-	if err != nil {
-		return false, err
-	}
-
-	// 0x9fa0 is PROC_SUPER_MAGIC: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.1/source/include/uapi/linux/magic.h#L87
-	return stat.Type == 0x9fa0, nil
-}
diff --git a/fs_statfs_notype.go b/fs_statfs_notype.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..446a85db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fs_statfs_notype.go
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+// Copyright 2018 The Prometheus Authors
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+//go:build netbsd || openbsd || solaris
+// +build netbsd openbsd solaris
+
+package procfs
+
+// isRealProc returns true on architectures that don't have a Type argument
+// in their Statfs_t struct
+func isRealProc(mountPoint string) (bool, error) {
+	return true, nil
+}
diff --git a/fs_statfs_type.go b/fs_statfs_type.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6f5af28f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fs_statfs_type.go
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+// Copyright 2018 The Prometheus Authors
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+//go:build !netbsd && !openbsd && !solaris
+// +build !netbsd,!openbsd,!solaris
+
+package procfs
+
+import (
+	"syscall"
+)
+
+// isRealProc determines whether supplied mountpoint is really a proc filesystem.
+func isRealProc(mountPoint string) (bool, error) {
+	stat := syscall.Statfs_t{}
+	err := syscall.Statfs(mountPoint, &stat)
+	if err != nil {
+		return false, err
+	}
+
+	// 0x9fa0 is PROC_SUPER_MAGIC: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.1/source/include/uapi/linux/magic.h#L87
+	return stat.Type == 0x9fa0, nil
+}