Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 23:53:01 +0200 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot@gmail.com> Cc: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Host ID. Message-ID: <86odlxcj0i.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <47d0403c0704091338p4c6476fey5d90e0dfb3a50cbf@mail.gmail.com> (Ben Kaduk's message of "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 15:38:15 -0500") References: <20070407120656.GD63916@garage.freebsd.pl> <m264873tm7.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> <20070408151358.GX63916@garage.freebsd.pl> <200704091335.42092.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <20070409190743.GL76673@garage.freebsd.pl> <47d0403c0704091338p4c6476fey5d90e0dfb3a50cbf@mail.gmail.com>
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"Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot@gmail.com> writes: > Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> writes: > > I don't agree. As Robert pointed out there are situation you would > > like to share the same UUID between many hosts. > This may be a bit pedantic, but I thought the case Robert described > was for a way to have an identical setup on many machines but still > allow for having a different UUID on each one. If a host is a hot spare for another, you might want it to have the same UUID as the primary. Reading the UUID from hardware is fine as long as it is only done when initializing /hostid on a system which does not already have it. (any particular reason to store it in /hostid instead of /etc/hostid?) DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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