Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 23:56:16 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no> Cc: Ben Kaduk <minimarmot@gmail.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Host ID. Message-ID: <20070409215616.GU76673@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <86odlxcj0i.fsf@dwp.des.no> 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> <86odlxcj0i.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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--4fNq9Po2wJlmxAaR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 11:53:01PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > "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. >=20 > If a host is a hot spare for another, you might want it to have the > same UUID as the primary. >=20 > 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. >=20 > (any particular reason to store it in /hostid instead of /etc/hostid?) I think Ruslan suggested /etc/hostid and the committed version is using this very location. --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --4fNq9Po2wJlmxAaR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGGraAForvXbEpPzQRAj1kAKDxe/ESTElER9FuE8vslGXPP2FmxQCeM2wH A4by86zP7GPbjLLNcHA2Gx8= =QE0x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4fNq9Po2wJlmxAaR--
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