Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:14:29 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: "David O'Brien" <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: <8933.979240469@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:09:13 PST." <200101111909.f0BJ9D172673@earth.backplane.com>
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On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:09:13 PST, Matt Dillon wrote: > This is nonsense. Just fix mount_mfs to not use entropy. newfs needs > entropy for NFS exports. MFS filesystems cannot be exported via NFS, > and a plain old random number generator will suffice just fine. Where do we get a plain old random number generator while we're waiting for the entropy device to seed? > It's a simple fix to the newfs code (which mount_mfs incorporates > to initialize the MFS partition). We are talking a few lines of > code here, at best. But we're talking about a few lines of code that _nobody_ has worked on since the new entropy device was introduced. So Doug has come up with something that works right now. Calling it nonsense seems very silly indeed to me. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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