Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 20:09:43 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: "John W. De Boskey" <jwd@FreeBSD.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc Message-ID: <200010240209.e9O29hV04505@billy-club.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Oct 2000 20:43:36 EDT." <20001023204336.A46026@bsdwins.com> References: <20001023204336.A46026@bsdwins.com> <20001023195335.A45719@bsdwins.com> <imp@village.org> <10649.972343418@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <20001023195335.A45719@bsdwins.com> <200010232357.RAA11628@harmony.village.org>
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In message <20001023204336.A46026@bsdwins.com> "John W. De Boskey" writes: : If you want the entropy to be saved into swap, it seems : like we should add this type of functionality to rndcontrol. : : rndcontrol -w /dev/da0s1b # write entropy to end of partition : rndcontrol -r /dev/da0s1b # attempt to read entropy from partition [[ sorry to reply twice ]] The problem with having a program do it is that our shutdown proceedures won't always run that program. So you'd have to run that early in the life of a system (but not too early) to make sure that when the system shut down, the drive could dump there. rndcontrol -r would be usable early in the boot process, so we wouldn't need to have the driver automatically read from swap. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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