On Jul 12, 2007 13:09 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > "dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1k ..." than to spin in a loop getting 16-bit > > random numbers from bash. We would also be at the mercy of the shell > > being identical on the user and debugger's systems. > > With /dev/urandom you have the guarantee you'll never ever reproduce > it again. That is kind of the point of this testing - getting new test images for each user that runs "make check" or "make rpm". I'm We also save the generated image before e2fsck touches it so that it can be used for debugging if needed. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html