Fwd: Re: /dev/urandom

[doncatnip <gnopap@gmail.com>]

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Of course, I forgot the CC here too.




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Subject: 	Re: /dev/urandom
Date: 	Wed, 11 Jul 2018 17:38:52 +0200
From: 	doncatnip <gnopap@gmail.com>
To: 	Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>



I'd guess this is about the distribution of blocks within the image, so
that the load of each sector is different from image to image containing
the same data. Of course, I'm just speculating as I haven't looked into
it - but if that is the case, it would seem even more strange that this
random seed is generated during install and not during use of the program.


On 7/11/2018 5:07 PM, Vincent Legoll wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 4:17 PM, Danny Milosavljevic
> <dannym@scratchpost.org> wrote:
>> the randomness is necessary for NAND wear levelling,
> Any pointers about that subject ?
>
> This looks strange as I'd have thought that less writes => less wear.
>


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