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Date:      Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:09:13 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, 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:  <200101111909.f0BJ9D172673@earth.backplane.com>
References:  <20010111103317.A74363@dragon.nuxi.com> <8537.979239256@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> <20010111110207.A74547@dragon.nuxi.com>

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:On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 08:54:16PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
:> The entropy seed files need to be in the root partition because a seeded
:> entropy device is needed _very_ early on.  Specifically, it's needed by
:> at least mount_mfs(8).  If we wait 'til /var is mounted, we have to wait
:> for everything in /etc/fstab to be mounted, so you end up with
:> mount_mfs(8) blocking on the entropy device.

    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.  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.

						-Matt



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