Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 03:29:18 -0800 From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, 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: <3A618D8E.B3BCBAE2@FreeBSD.org> References: <200101112233.f0BMXas75362@harmony.village.org> <200101130754.f0D7s2I19423@gratis.grondar.za> <20010114120217.B51306@lucifer.bart.nl>
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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:
>
> -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.
Done to death, and already moved. Besides, we're talking about 16k total.
> 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?
>
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