From owner-cvs-all Thu Jan 11 15:10:57 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 10C9337B698; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:10:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from slave (Studded@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA11736; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:10:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:10:23 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton X-X-Sender: To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: , 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 In-Reply-To: <19283.979245383@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > I'm pretty sure that this has all been discussed before, with quite a > > bit of consensus (although some might bitch about the period in the > > directory name '/.entropy'. > > Hmmm, if it was then FreeBSD's diskless boot community never weighed > in during the discussions and that's a pity. Actually, they did. One of the reasons that the thing is so highly configurable is to accomodate the needs that were discussed both privately and publicly for people with special situations like diskless boot. > You're well aware, one > assumes, of the fact that many of these people habitually use a > read-only root? They're not the only ones either - just about all of > the embedded folks who boot out of flash also run RO root and usr > filesystems. You're well aware, of course, of the fact that the defaults are all configurable? And that anyone who is using diskless boot already has to have knowledge of how to configure such things? And that for the vast majority of -current users, including and especially those who have previously raised a hue and cry over the fact that -current takes so long to boot if it can't seed /dev/random this will virtually eliminate that complaint? Running out of patience for explaining the obvious... -- "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