Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:26:45 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc Message-ID: <200010232326.RAA11369@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Oct 2000 16:23:38 PDT." <10649.972343418@winston.osd.bsdi.com> References: <10649.972343418@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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[[ Moved to arch since this isn't about a commit ]] In message <10649.972343418@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Jordan Hubbard writes: : > As I said at BSDcon, I'd love to see the entropy written by the kernel : > on shutdown to the end of swap space on shutdown and read in again : > when the system comes back. This has the advantage of always working : : What happens in cases where you have no swap space or it's a file? :) Then you have to arrange a fallback case. The driver would know this (the same way that the kernel knows about crash dumps) and not write things out. You'd have to have a fallback mechanism for these cases. These cases are edge for the most case, but an important edge case. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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