From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Oct 23 16:26:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F71837B479 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 16:26:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e9NNQkn83855; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:26:46 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id RAA11369; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:26:45 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200010232326.RAA11369@harmony.village.org> To: Jordan Hubbard Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc Cc: arch@freebsd.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> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:26:45 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [[ 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