Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 01:52:55 -0800 From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, 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: <3A5ED3F7.D7993677@FreeBSD.org> References: <200101120644.f0C6hvI12630@gratis.grondar.za> <200101120534.f0C5YYH96390@earth.backplane.com> <200101120652.f0C6qls78578@harmony.village.org> <200101120711.f0C7B4Y97991@earth.backplane.com> <3A5EC46D.A912BC6F@FreeBSD.org>
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One more followup. Doug Barton wrote: > /etc/rc does the following in the early stages right now: > > 1. rc.diskless > 2. source the /*/rc.conf* files > 3. try seeding from /entropy > - This would be replaced by Warner's suggestion. > 4. ccdconfig > 5. vinum start > 6. fsck > 7. mount root RW (exit if this fails) > 8. umount -a > 9. mount -a -t nonfs > As stated, Warner's suggestion is a good one, presuming ... > that we're sure none of the things listed above in > 4-9 need strong randomness to work. I just talked to Greg, and to the best of his knowledge vinum does not need strong randomness to work. I'd still like to get a hi sign from anyone who is knowledgeable about ccdconfig, fsck, mount and umount. By the way, y'all may think I'm being overly cautious about this, but I found out the hard way that vi needs randomness to run when I was doing the previous rc.shutdown version of entropy seed files, so before we make what I consider a much more dramatic change I'd just as soon have some kind of reassurance that it's "safe." Thanks, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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