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Date:      Sat, 28 Oct 2000 00:19:35 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        DougB@gorean.org (Doug Barton)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, dillon@earth.backplane.com (Matt Dillon), mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray)
Subject:   Re: entropy reseeding is totally broken
Message-ID:  <200010280019.RAA03328@usr01.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <39F8FDED.5C0C8A05@gorean.org> from "Doug Barton" at Oct 26, 2000 09:00:45 PM

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> > This is sweet!  Seems it would give us the full benefits of Mark's
> > randomdev, and fit nicely with our normal configuration framework and
> > gives good flexibility.
> 
> 	It also describes just what we have currently, except it misses the
> advantages of putting the entropy file on the root partition which makes
> it available immediately, and doesn't have mounting races built in. 

What currently exists does not allow a read-only /.  Which sucks.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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