From owner-cvs-all Thu Jan 11 11:14:14 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 8D72B37B400; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:13:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id f0BJCst72747; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:12:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:12:54 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200101111912.f0BJCst72747@earth.backplane.com> To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: obrien@freebsd.org, 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: <8786.979240080@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The level of sophistication and the number of hacks is *NOT* *NECESSARY* when a simple, minor restructuring of /etc/rc and a tiny change to mount_mfs (newfs) completely solves the problem. You guys are taking a bad idea and making it worse. I will be happy to submit a patchset to fix this mess, but it's so damn simple Doug should be able to do it himself in less then an hour. -Matt : :On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:01:45 PST, Matt Dillon wrote: : :> I'm going to be blunt: Hell will freeze over before I allow the entropy :> file to be placed in /. : :Chill out. : :What we have today is a lot better for many people and no worse for any :people than what we had yesterday. : :Let's see if Doug and I can look past your hyperventilation and find :some constructive suggestions in your mail... : :> We have a directory for variable data, it's called /var. We have :> a directory for persistent state files, it's called /var/db. They :> must be used, ESPECIALLY for something like this. : :Take the advice you always give Poul-Henning and _read_ the code before :you criticise it. We've already got rudimentary fallback support for :diskless workstations. We'll work on improving that as well. : :Did I say chill out? :-) : :Ciao, :Sheldon. : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message