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From: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: /dev/urandom
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 17:07:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEwRq=q1GyqufoF+RfJCzFCF9jyRHHL8yUMG=_i58aFuhWhHrw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180711161748.56d770ea@scratchpost.org>

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.

-- 
Vincent Legoll

  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-11 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-10 16:22 /dev/urandom Danny Milosavljevic
2018-07-10 18:28 ` /dev/urandom Leo Famulari
2018-07-10 18:58   ` /dev/urandom Danny Milosavljevic
2018-07-10 22:40     ` /dev/urandom Leo Famulari
2018-07-10 18:43 ` /dev/urandom Mark H Weaver
2018-07-11 14:17   ` /dev/urandom Danny Milosavljevic
2018-07-11 15:07     ` Vincent Legoll [this message]
2018-07-11 15:50       ` /dev/urandom Danny Milosavljevic
2018-07-11 16:34         ` /dev/urandom Vincent Legoll
2018-07-10 22:18 ` /dev/urandom Ludovic Courtès

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