Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 11:34:56 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, Mark R V Murray <mark@grondar.org>, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r256377 - in head: etc/defaults etc/rc.d share/examples/kld/random_adaptor share/man/man4 sys/boot/forth sys/conf sys/dev/glxsb sys/dev/hifn sys/dev/random sys/dev/rndtest sys/dev/safe ... Message-ID: <86ppr8xkjj.fsf@nine.des.no> In-Reply-To: <1381681119.42859.33.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> (Ian Lepore's message of "Sun, 13 Oct 2013 10:18:39 -0600") References: <201310121257.r9CCvvjO006546@svn.freebsd.org> <20131013074825.GO41229@kib.kiev.ua> <3B77143C-7D82-4E62-9974-BC2C6846893F@grondar.org> <20131013151359.GR41229@kib.kiev.ua> <812C1C64-75B0-4FE9-8FCD-B25A484448C6@grondar.org> <1381681119.42859.33.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
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Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> writes: > Why is the file even in the root filesystem? /var/db seems to be the > right place for a transient file needed by the system. We've had both /entropy and /var/db/entropy for years. The former is created by /etc/rc.d/random during shutdown (and as of a few days ago by the installer), while the latter is maintained by a cron job. The only thing that's new here is that Mark added code to read /entropy from the kernel so we can get it as early as possible. I was uncomfortable with it - especially the part that *writes* it from the kernel - so we hid it behind an off-by-default option until we can figure out what we really want to do about it. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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