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 names to printable characters rather than every permittable 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 (or reduced for that matter). This change also avoids ever having to retry after picking an unusable character. Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@xxxxxxx> No significant changes in this version from the last version posted. --- db/metadump.c | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) Index: b/db/metadump.c =================================================================== --- a/db/metadump.c +++ b/db/metadump.c @@ -412,12 +412,11 @@ nametable_add(xfs_dahash_t hash, int nam 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