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From: Sam Bingner <sam@bingner.com>
To: Martin Wilck <mwilck@arcor.de>,
	Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>,
	"linux-raid@vger.kernel.org" <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: MD array keeps resyncing after rebooting
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2013 00:08:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CE216D89.13F0C%sam@bingner.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51FBF830.5060606@arcor.de>

On 8/2/13 8:19 AM, "Martin Wilck" <mwilck@arcor.de> wrote:

>On 08/02/2013 02:46 PM, Francis Moreau wrote:
>
>>Please tell me if you can find something suspicous.
>
>The spec says that the VD GUID consists of the vendor ID ("LSI " in
>your case), controller type (the controller's PCI ID,
>8086:1d60:0000:0000), the 4-byte time stamp, and a "random number"
>(0000 1450). Strangely, I also have an LSI fake RAID and it uses the
>same random number. It even generated the same number through several
>RAID creations. Seems to be a truly strange random number generator :-)
>

Perhaps the author reads xkcd and wrote something similar to the following:

int getRandomNumber()
{
	return 0x1450;	// chosen by fair dice roll.
			// guaranteed to be random.
}

http://xkcd.com/221/

Sam


  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-03  0:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-23  9:46 MD array keeps resyncing after rebooting Francis Moreau
2013-07-23 12:55 ` Francis Moreau
2013-07-23 18:52   ` Martin Wilck
2013-07-23 18:52     ` Martin Wilck
2013-07-23 20:01       ` Francis Moreau
2013-07-23 21:21         ` Martin Wilck
2013-07-24  4:32           ` Francis Moreau
2013-07-24 13:50             ` Francis Moreau
2013-07-25 18:58               ` Martin Wilck
2013-07-25 19:06                 ` Martin Wilck
2013-07-25 20:23                   ` Francis Moreau
2013-07-29 15:46                     ` Francis Moreau
2013-07-25 20:21                 ` Francis Moreau
2013-07-31 19:36                 ` Francis Moreau
2013-08-01 13:28                   ` Francis Moreau
2013-08-01 18:15                   ` Martin Wilck
2013-08-02 12:49                     ` Francis Moreau
     [not found]                     ` <CAC9WiBhGyE=OJdSeL_OsPxtirhJ2=3WRsk=uBPiOTzMjBCf-dA@mail.gmail.com>
2013-08-02 18:19                       ` Martin Wilck
2013-08-03  0:08                         ` Sam Bingner [this message]
2013-08-03 11:02                         ` Francis Moreau
2013-08-08  7:18                         ` Francis Moreau
2013-08-24 18:54                           ` Martin Wilck
2013-08-26  7:44                             ` Francis Moreau
2013-08-31 19:23                             ` Francis Moreau
2013-09-01 17:05                               ` Martin Wilck
2013-08-05  6:08                     ` NeilBrown

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