From owner-cvs-all Mon Oct 23 16:54:53 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from bsdone.bsdwins.com (www.bsdwins.com [192.58.184.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AAE737B657; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 16:54:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jwd@localhost) by bsdone.bsdwins.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9NNrZ945738; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 19:53:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jwd) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 19:53:35 -0400 From: "John W. De Boskey" To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: Warner Losh , Mark Murray , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc Message-ID: <20001023195335.A45719@bsdwins.com> References: <10649.972343418@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <10649.972343418@winston.osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 04:23:38PM -0700 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Jordan Hubbard's Original Message ----- > > As I said at BSDcon, I'd love to see the entropy written by the kernel > > on shutdown to the end of swap space on shutdown and read in again > > when the system comes back. This has the advantage of always working > > What happens in cases where you have no swap space or it's a file? :) > > - Jordan I was going to point out problems with diskless workstations. However, the idea(s) in general are good. To take his ideas in a slightly different direction, What about reading data from the kernel from random locations? I have some patches to /etc/rc I've been working on to help speed this process up. I'll this idea to the list of possibilities. -John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message