Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:56:08 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ? Message-ID: <20081216155608.18a8e51a@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <4947C7D9.6090909@dugas-family.org> References: <20081216094719.EDCEE1065675@hub.freebsd.org> <4947A83A.6050101@dugas-family.org> <20081216160701.L61449@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <4947C7D9.6090909@dugas-family.org>
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On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:23:05 +0100 Bernard Dugas <bernard@dugas-family.org> wrote: > 2- As / will be mounted read-only, how can i tell the ramdom > generator to put this /entropy file somewhere in /var, where i think > it should be ? Or is there any tricky hidden problem ? It has to be on the root partition as it's used in the early stage of the boot before any other partitions are mounted, but like like I said there are other entropy files that are applied a little later as a boot, and on most machines enough entropy will be generated from the disk interrupts to suffice anyway.
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