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Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:

>The software you can find under /usr/src/tools/tools/raidtest/ in HEAD
>branch.
>Test has been done for 10000 random requests (offset, size and operation
>type was random).
>  
>
Would it make sense to have known initialization vector for the random 
function so a specific test pattern could be reproduced at will? This 
would also reduce the need for multiple repeats for a test to get good 
repeatable results.

Pete