[ale] little math

[Geoffrey]

Boris Borisov wrote:
>  Why you just not create small file ( 2 MB ) with random data and dd it 
> to the disk. dd ~/random.file > /dev/hda.. Never tried but won't call 
> CPU to calculate every random number. Must be random enough.

The randomness of such a solution is, a, not random?  You'd simply be 
repeating that same data, hence not random.  Which returns me to my 
original question, why is random data necessary?  Why not just write nulls?

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