Old patch for Bonnie++ to use random data rather than 0’s

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Way back in 2007 I posted a blog about testing ZFS/FUSE with Bonnie++ using random data rather than 0’s, and I said:

it’s not ready for production use as it isn’t controlled by a command line switch and relies on /dev/urandom existing. yes, I’m going to send the patch to Russell to look at

I didn’t get any feedback on the patch, so I’ve decided to post it here in case people are interested.

diff -ur bonnie++-1.03a/bonnie++.cpp bonnie++-1.03a-urand/bonnie++.cpp
--- bonnie++-1.03a/bonnie++.cpp 2002-12-04 00:40:35.000000000 +1100
+++ bonnie++-1.03a-urand/bonnie++.cpp   2007-01-01 13:03:41.644378000 +1100
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@
 #include <string.h>
 #include <sys/utsname.h>
 #include <signal.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
 
 #ifdef AIX_MEM_SIZE
 #include <cf.h>
@@ -148,6 +151,28 @@
   }
 }
 
+void load_random_data(char *temp_buffer,int length)
+{
+       int filedes, numbytes;
+
+       filedes=open("/dev/urandom",O_RDONLY);
+       if(filedes<0)
+       {
+               perror("Open of /dev/urandom failed, falling back to 0's");
+               memset(temp_buffer, 0, length);
+       }
+       else
+       {
+               numbytes=read(filedes,temp_buffer,length);
+               if(numbytes!=length)
+                       {
+                               perror("Read from /dev/urandom failed, falling back to 0's");
+                               memset(temp_buffer, 0, length);
+                       }
+               close(filedes);
+       }
+}
+
 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
   int    file_size = DefaultFileSize;
@@ -477,7 +502,8 @@
       return 1;
     globals.decrement_and_wait(FastWrite);
     if(!globals.quiet) fprintf(stderr, "Writing intelligently...");
-    memset(buf, 0, globals.chunk_size());
+    // memset(buf, 0, globals.chunk_size());
+    load_random_data(buf, globals.chunk_size());
     globals.timer.timestamp();
     bufindex = 0;
     // for the number of chunks of file data

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