From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Oct 23 19:11: 5 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 7936037B479; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 19:11:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from billy-club.village.org (billy-club.village.org [10.0.0.3]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e9O2B0n84301; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 20:11:00 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@billy-club.village.org) Received: from billy-club.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by billy-club.village.org (8.11.1/8.8.3) with ESMTP id e9O29hV04505; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 20:09:43 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200010240209.e9O29hV04505@billy-club.village.org> To: "John W. De Boskey" Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc Cc: arch@FreeBSD.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> <10649.972343418@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <20001023195335.A45719@bsdwins.com> <200010232357.RAA11628@harmony.village.org> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 20:09:43 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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