Followup to: <200502021433.42108.niccolo@xxxxxxxxx> By author: Niccolo Rigacci <niccolo@xxxxxxxxx> In newsgroup: linux.dev.raid > > > I get /dev/md5, /dev/md6, /dev/md7 > > and /dev/md8 all with the same UUID! > > It seems that there is a bug in mdadm: when generating the UUID for a > volume, the random() function is called, but the random sequence is never > initialized. > > The result is that every volume created with mdadm has an uuid of: > 6b8b4567:327b23c6:643c9869:66334873 > > See also Debian bug 292784 at > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=292784 > > I fixed the problem adding the following patch to mdadm.c, but please bear > in mind that I'm totally unaware of mdadm code and quite naive in C > programming: > Please don't use (s)random at all, except as a possible fallback to /dev/(u)random. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
