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From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
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On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 02:06:56PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> Hi.
>=20
> After initial discussion on IRC, I'd like to propose an addition...
> I want to use it with ZFS, but I thought it may be useful in general, so
> here it goes:
>=20
> I'd like to assign a unique ID to the system on first boot.
>=20
> When system starts, /etc/rc.d/hostid script checks if /hostid file
> exists, if it doesn't, it creates it via 'uuidgen > /hostid'.
>=20
> It will also set kern.hostuuid sysctl to this value and first four bytes
> of MD5(kern.hostuuid) will be stored in kern.hostid. It will allow to
> use gethostid(3).
>=20
> If root file system is read-only, different uuid will be genrated on
> each boot. Not sure if anything better can be done here.

Can we put it in /etc ?  That would allow setups like nanobsd to benefit
too.

Ceri
--=20
That must be wonderful!  I don't understand it at all.
                                                  -- Moliere

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