From owner-cvs-all Thu Jan 11 11: 9:40 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (placeholder-dcat-1076843399.broadbandoffice.net [64.47.83.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9EED37B698; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:09:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id f0BJ9D172673; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:09:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:09:13 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200101111909.f0BJ9D172673@earth.backplane.com> To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Sheldon Hearn , Doug Barton , 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: <20010111103317.A74363@dragon.nuxi.com> <8537.979239256@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> <20010111110207.A74547@dragon.nuxi.com> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 08:54:16PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: :> The entropy seed files need to be in the root partition because a seeded :> entropy device is needed _very_ early on. Specifically, it's needed by :> at least mount_mfs(8). If we wait 'til /var is mounted, we have to wait :> for everything in /etc/fstab to be mounted, so you end up with :> mount_mfs(8) blocking on the entropy device. This is nonsense. Just fix mount_mfs to not use entropy. newfs needs entropy for NFS exports. MFS filesystems cannot be exported via NFS, and a plain old random number generator will suffice just fine. It's a simple fix to the newfs code (which mount_mfs incorporates to initialize the MFS partition). We are talking a few lines of code here, at best. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message