Re: Head's up: Yarrow-style periodic entropy saving
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Doug Barton wrote: For the sake of those who don't follow commit messages (shame on you!), here's your fair warning regarding this change. This is the promised update that periodically (every 3 minutes by default) saves 2k of randomness to a set of rotating files stored by default in /.entropy. That location was chosen so that it could be loaded as early as possible in the boot process. On / ? that's quite inconvenient for systems running with read-only root FS... Andrzej Bialecki // [EMAIL PROTECTED] WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // --- // -- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org // --- Small Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Head's up: Yarrow-style periodic entropy saving
According to Matt Dillon: Please make the default something more reasonable, like every 30 minutes. It is simply not necessary to save entropy every 3 minutes. It's massive overkill. Agreed. This is broken. The files should be in /var somewhere... for example, /var/db/entropy/ Agreed too, this is the standard location for such things. I know we need entropy at boot time (hopefully after mounting /var) but that's not a good reason to put them in / IMHO. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 5.0-CURRENT #80: Sun Jun 4 22:44:19 CEST 2000 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Head's up: Yarrow-style periodic entropy saving
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:20:44 +0100, Ollivier Robert wrote: This is broken. The files should be in /var somewhere... for example, /var/db/entropy/ Agreed too, this is the standard location for such things. I know we need entropy at boot time (hopefully after mounting /var) but that's not a good reason to put them in / IMHO. Hop off the bandwagon. The system didn't use /var/db/ before Doug's commit either. See my _long_ explanation (before/after/future) on the cvs-all mailing list. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Head's up: Yarrow-style periodic entropy saving
According to Sheldon Hearn: Hop off the bandwagon. The system didn't use /var/db/ before Doug's commit either. See my _long_ explanation (before/after/future) on the cvs-all mailing list. I know the system used now stores it in /entropy. I was too busy to react at that time but I still dislike using / for that. I read your message as well but I'm still behind Matt Jordan on that one. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 5.0-CURRENT #80: Sun Jun 4 22:44:19 CEST 2000 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
