From owner-cvs-all Thu Jan 11 21:34:59 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (placeholder-dcat-1076843399.broadbandoffice.net [64.47.83.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D86E37B400; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:34:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id f0C5YYH96390; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:34:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:34:34 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200101120534.f0C5YYH96390@earth.backplane.com> To: Warner Losh , Jordan Hubbard , Sheldon Hearn , obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Doug Barton , 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 References: <200101120131.f0C1VK980630@earth.backplane.com> <19283.979245383@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <200101112222.f0BMMNs75120@harmony.village.org> <200101120305.f0C35gs77450@harmony.village.org> <200101120319.f0C3J5w90928@earth.backplane.com> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok, Doug... we have two good solutions here: Garrett's 5-line fix to mount_mfs or Warner's fix to /etc/rc. Even though I originally suggested the solution provided by Garrett's patch, I think IWarner's fix is better because it focuses the handling of the issue in one place (/etc/rc), and is easier to follow and understand conceptually. I would do the following: * Use Warner's fix, possibly adding 'dmesg' output in phase-1. * Change the crontab to something reasonable, like once every 30 minutes. Every 3 minutes is way too disruptive. Massive overkill. * Change the rc.conf variable to default to /var/db/entropy.data (or whatever filename, as long as it is in /var/db). That's it. I'm not entirely happy with having a cronjob at all, but I can live with a once-every-30-minutes exec and this could eventually be solved in other ways. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message