Hi,
I'm not sure there is an appropriate list for this, so I post it here -
the final goal being a tool to test filesystems.

Well, I'd like to add a regress tool for ffs (kernel and utilities).
For this I need to create some files with random data in them (creating files
from /dev/zero will just be too weak for diff -R after a dump/restore or
fsck -B). I can see 3 way of doing this:
1  write a small C program that uses random(). Such a tool could be easy to
   put in src/regress
2  use /dev/random. It's not in the GENERIC config file yet, but should be
   for 1.4
3  use dd on /netbsd.

Which method do you prefer ? I think 2 would be the best if we can assume
/dev/random is configured in GENERIC for each port. Otherwise 1 would be
OK. 3 is really a hack, I'd prefer avoid it.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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