Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:33:53 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.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: <200101112033.f0BKXtI10390@gratis.grondar.za> In-Reply-To: <200101111901.f0BJ1jU72510@earth.backplane.com> ; from Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> "Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:01:45 PST." References: <200101111901.f0BJ1jU72510@earth.backplane.com>
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> I'm going to be blunt: Hell will freeze over before I allow the > entropy file to be placed in /. It makes absolutely no sense > whatsoever to break our ability to mount a read-only / just > because nobody is willing to do some minor shifting of things > in /etc/rc. We have a directory for variable data, it's called > /var. We have a directory for persistent state files, it's called > /var/db. They must be used, ESPECIALLY for something like this. You can help here; if we can get a guaranteed mount (for all possible types of mount) of /var, then I'll agree with you. Remember that this must potentially happen _before_ the random device is reseeded. Help us fix that, and I'll champion the cause in your stead. M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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