Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 20:54:16 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab rc src/etc/defaults rc.conf src/etc/mtree BSD.root.dist src/libexec Makefile src/libexec/save-entropy Makefile save-entropy.sh Message-ID: <8537.979239256@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:33:17 PST." <20010111103317.A74363@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:33:17 PST, "David O'Brien" wrote: > Why use /.entropy as the default rather than /var/<xxx>/entropy ? > / is often quite small, and everyone knows /var must (1) be writeable, > and (2) have space for things to grow in. I'm pretty sure that this has all been discussed before, with quite a bit of consensus (although some might bitch about the period in the directory name '/.entropy'. The entropy seed files need to be in the root partition because a seeded entropy device is needed _very_ early on. Specifically, it's needed by at least mount_mfs(8). If we wait 'til /var is mounted, we have to wait for everything in /etc/fstab to be mounted, so you end up with mount_mfs(8) blocking on the entropy device. Hope that helps. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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