Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 12:02:17 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, 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: <20010114120217.B51306@lucifer.bart.nl> In-Reply-To: <200101130754.f0D7s2I19423@gratis.grondar.za>; from mark@grondar.za on Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 09:53:57AM %2B0200 References: <200101112233.f0BMXas75362@harmony.village.org> <200101130754.f0D7s2I19423@gratis.grondar.za>
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-On [20010113 09:00], Mark Murray (mark@grondar.za) wrote: >What about multiple entropy files? There are edge cases (crashes, hung >reboots etc) where the entropy file might be zero-length. Having multiple >files makes it a lot more secure (That was the point of Doug B's >/.entropy directory). My point with this whole thing is not the device, but rather the location. Back when I started with FreeBSD, 2.2.5, we always used something like 32M and/or 64M for the / slice. Putting more and more into the / slice cause a lot of problems for older installations which might still want to prefer the by-source-recompilation upgrade steps. / is getting pretty bloated/abused for some things. The question is rather, as others put it, can it be avoided/is there a better way to solve this? -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven VIA Net.Works The Netherlands BSD: Technical excellence at its best Network- and systemadministrator D78D D0AD 244D 1D12 C9CA 7152 035C 1138 546A B867 Killing me is not enough to make me go away... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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