Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 15:38:15 -0500 From: "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot@gmail.com> To: "Pawel Jakub Dawidek" <pjd@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Host ID. Message-ID: <47d0403c0704091338p4c6476fey5d90e0dfb3a50cbf@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070409190743.GL76673@garage.freebsd.pl> 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>
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On 4/9/07, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 01:35:39PM -0400, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > > On Sunday 08 April 2007 11:13 am, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: [snip] > > > I'd really like to make it simple and consistent on all archs, so > > > one knows exactly what to expect. > > > > Agreed. But I also agree with imp, i.e., we have to utilize hardware > > UUID if it is available and valid for the platform. > > 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. That's not to say that there aren't cases where you would want the same UUID on multiple hosts, say, on redundant live spares, but I think that Robert's example (as I am interpreting it) is a relatively common case. -Ben Kaduk > I'm committing as it is, we may change it in the future. > > -- > Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl > pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org > FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! > >
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