From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 12 1:58:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mimer.webgiro.com (unknown [213.162.128.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE66437B402; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 01:58:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by mimer.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 66) id AEA252DC0F; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:02:00 +0100 (CET) Received: by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 301DA7817; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:57:10 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BCF510E1B; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:57:10 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:57:10 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Doug Barton Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Head's up: Yarrow-style periodic entropy saving In-Reply-To: <3A5DB488.7A74332@FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Doug Barton wrote: > For the sake of those who don't follow commit messages (shame on you!), > here's your fair warning regarding this change. This is the promised update > that periodically (every 3 minutes by default) saves 2k of randomness to a > set of rotating files stored by default in /.entropy. That location was > chosen so that it could be loaded as early as possible in the boot process. On / ? that's quite inconvenient for systems running with read-only root FS... Andrzej Bialecki // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message