Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:35:17 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: 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: <9216.979241717@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:12:54 PST." <200101111912.f0BJCst72747@earth.backplane.com>
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On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:12:54 PST, Matt Dillon wrote: > The level of sophistication and the number of hacks is *NOT* *NECESSARY* > when a simple, minor restructuring of /etc/rc and a tiny change to > mount_mfs (newfs) completely solves the problem. > > You guys are taking a bad idea and making it worse. We're providing an immediate solution to a problem which is a serious annoyance for -CURRENT developers. Furthermore, this solution is a step closer to the end goal (read on). You're flying off the handle because we've replaced one file in the root partition with several files and a directory in the root partition. Now read calmly... When these files can be moved out of the root partition, they will be. That's been accepted since the very first startup-seeding was introduced. When that happens, the changes to crontab and the new save-entropy tool will still be used and we'll just change the entropy_dir in /etc/defaults/rc.conf . See? We know where we're going, we're helping people out until we get there _and_ we're not rising to the bait when people overreact. What more could you want? Now get yourself a cup of decaf and take a few deep breaths. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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