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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com>, xfs-dev <xfs-dev@sgi.com>,
	xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't initialise new inode generation numbers to zero V2
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:59:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080428055922.GD3192@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080428031120.GD103491721@sgi.com>

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 01:11:20PM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> Ok, so is random32() good enough or does it need to be get_random_int()?

I'm not sure offhand what random32 actually is, but a not
cryptographically strong random number should be enough.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-28  5:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-22  1:58 [PATCH] Don't initialise new inode generation numbers to zero V2 David Chinner
2008-04-22  4:05 ` Greg Banks
2008-04-22  5:04   ` David Chinner
2008-04-25  8:57     ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-28  3:11       ` David Chinner
2008-04-28  5:59         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-04-28  6:20           ` David Chinner
2008-04-28  6:25             ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-28  3:24       ` Greg Banks

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