From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 14 3: 3:38 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from lucifer.ninth-circle.org (lucifer.bart.nl [194.158.168.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2DB137B402; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 03:03:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by lucifer.ninth-circle.org (8.11.1/8.11.0) id f0EB2HD51562; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 12:02:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 12:02:17 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven To: Mark Murray Cc: Warner Losh , Matt Dillon , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab rc src/etc/defaults rc.conf src/etc/mtree BSD.root.dist src/libexec Makefile src/libexec/save-entropy Makefile save-entropy.sh Message-ID: <20010114120217.B51306@lucifer.bart.nl> References: <200101112233.f0BMXas75362@harmony.village.org> <200101130754.f0D7s2I19423@gratis.grondar.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200101130754.f0D7s2I19423@gratis.grondar.za>; from mark@grondar.za on Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 09:53:57AM +0200 Organisation: VIA Net.Works The Netherlands Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -On [20010113 09:00], Mark Murray (mark@grondar.za) wrote: >What about multiple entropy files? There are edge cases (crashes, hung >reboots etc) where the entropy file might be zero-length. Having multiple >files makes it a lot more secure (That was the point of Doug B's >/.entropy directory). My point with this whole thing is not the device, but rather the location. Back when I started with FreeBSD, 2.2.5, we always used something like 32M and/or 64M for the / slice. Putting more and more into the / slice cause a lot of problems for older installations which might still want to prefer the by-source-recompilation upgrade steps. / is getting pretty bloated/abused for some things. The question is rather, as others put it, can it be avoided/is there a better way to solve this? -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven VIA Net.Works The Netherlands BSD: Technical excellence at its best Network- and systemadministrator D78D D0AD 244D 1D12 C9CA 7152 035C 1138 546A B867 Killing me is not enough to make me go away... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message