Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 19:53:35 -0400 From: "John W. De Boskey" <jwd@bsdwins.com> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc Message-ID: <20001023195335.A45719@bsdwins.com> In-Reply-To: <10649.972343418@winston.osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 04:23:38PM -0700 References: <imp@village.org> <10649.972343418@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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----- Jordan Hubbard's Original Message ----- > > As I said at BSDcon, I'd love to see the entropy written by the kernel > > on shutdown to the end of swap space on shutdown and read in again > > when the system comes back. This has the advantage of always working > > What happens in cases where you have no swap space or it's a file? :) > > - Jordan I was going to point out problems with diskless workstations. However, the idea(s) in general are good. To take his ideas in a slightly different direction, What about reading data from the kernel from random locations? I have some patches to /etc/rc I've been working on to help speed this process up. I'll this idea to the list of possibilities. -John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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