There is probably not much need for an extreme amount of randomness in the obfuscated names produced in metadumps. Limit the character set used for (most of) these filenames to printable characters rather than every permitted byte. The result makes metadumps a bit more natural to work with. I chose the set of all upper- and lower-case letters, digits, and the dash and underscore for the alphabet. It could easily be expanded to include others. Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@xxxxxxx> --- db/metadump.c | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) Index: b/db/metadump.c =================================================================== --- a/db/metadump.c +++ b/db/metadump.c @@ -377,12 +377,11 @@ clear_nametable(void) static inline uchar_t random_filename_char(void) { - uchar_t c; + static uchar_t filename_alphabet[] = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" + "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" + "0123456789-_"; - do { - c = random() % 127 + 1; - } while (c == '/'); - return c; + return filename_alphabet[random() % (sizeof filename_alphabet - 1)]; } /* _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs