Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:10:23 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: <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: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101111506470.11112-100000@dt051n37.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <19283.979245383@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> > I'm pretty sure that this has all been discussed before, with quite a
> > bit of consensus (although some might bitch about the period in the
> > directory name '/.entropy'.
>
> Hmmm, if it was then FreeBSD's diskless boot community never weighed
> in during the discussions and that's a pity.
Actually, they did. One of the reasons that the thing is so highly
configurable is to accomodate the needs that were discussed both privately
and publicly for people with special situations like diskless boot.
> You're well aware, one
> assumes, of the fact that many of these people habitually use a
> read-only root? They're not the only ones either - just about all of
> the embedded folks who boot out of flash also run RO root and usr
> filesystems.
You're well aware, of course, of the fact that the defaults are
all configurable? And that anyone who is using diskless boot already has
to have knowledge of how to configure such things? And that for the vast
majority of -current users, including and especially those who have
previously raised a hue and cry over the fact that -current takes so long
to boot if it can't seed /dev/random this will virtually eliminate that
complaint?
Running out of patience for explaining the obvious...
--
"The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and
to watch someone else do it wrong without comment."
-- Theodore H. White
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