From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 11 2:15: 6 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F271237B401 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 02:15:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from pakastelohi.cypherpunks.to (pakastelohi.cypherpunks.to [213.130.163.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79A1643ED8 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 02:15:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shamrock@cypherpunks.to) Received: from VAIO650 (unknown [208.201.229.160]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pakastelohi.cypherpunks.to (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26B2F36401 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 11:15:03 +0100 (CET) From: "Lucky Green" To: Subject: RE: 5.0 without swap Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 02:16:45 -0800 Message-ID: <00ba01c2b95a$8d385670$6601a8c0@VAIO650> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 In-Reply-To: <20030111110819.1be840f1.flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Miguel wrote: > Having no swap will prevent you from getting crashdumps in > case of panic which, if you run 5.0, is not that unusual. > Besides these days harddrives cost $1/GB, so why not setup > the swap partition anyway? I don't want cleartext cryptographic keys to ever touch magnetic media, thus potentially opening the door to future forensic analysis. --Lucky, who thought that he once, many years ago, read that there was a kernel option one should set if you have no swap partition. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message