From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 14 3:31:18 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19A8937B400; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 03:30:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from FreeBSD.org (Studded@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA59462; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 03:29:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <3A618D8E.B3BCBAE2@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 03:29:18 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Cc: Mark Murray , 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 References: <200101112233.f0BMXas75362@harmony.village.org> <200101130754.f0D7s2I19423@gratis.grondar.za> <20010114120217.B51306@lucifer.bart.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? > > -- > 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... -- "The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment." -- Theodore H. White Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message