Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:12:54 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: obrien@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, 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: <200101111912.f0BJCst72747@earth.backplane.com> References: <8786.979240080@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>
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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.
:
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