From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ntfs UUIDs (Re: UUID-based boot (Re: [PATCH] Environment block support for grub2))
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:34:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1212896079.3071.45.camel@rd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1470.88.146.1.38.1212817466.squirrel@drak.ucw.cz>
On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 07:44 +0200, Tomáš Ebenlendr wrote:
> Dne 7 Červen 2008, 01:31, Robert Millan napsal(a):
> > This patch adds the 64-bit serial number as UUID. But I'm not sure what
> > is the "standard" method to stringify this number. Apparently, Windows
> > only prints half of it in the dir command.
>
> That seems to me as some backward (pronounce: awkward) compatibility of
> M$ Volume ID. Volume ID in M$ windows is (as you say) 'xxxx-xxxx' two
> 16 bit hexadecimal numbers. And all programs I tested report the number
> this way. So if we want user to enter these numbers manually we should
> ignore the remaining four bits. Alternatively we can provide utility that
> prints out whole serial number.
I suggest that you check udev sources:
http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/
It calculates UUID for many filesystems (see extras/lib/volime_id/lib).
It would be nice to stay compatible with udev.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-08 3:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-30 20:27 [PATCH] Environment block support for grub2 Bean
2008-05-31 10:10 ` Robert Millan
2008-05-31 10:54 ` Bean
2008-05-31 11:39 ` Robert Millan
2008-05-31 12:09 ` Bean
2008-05-31 15:09 ` Bean
2008-06-03 21:09 ` Robert Millan
2008-06-04 3:49 ` Bean
2008-06-06 16:43 ` UUID-based boot (Re: [PATCH] Environment block support for grub2) Robert Millan
2008-06-06 17:22 ` Bean
2008-06-06 22:03 ` Robert Millan
2008-06-07 4:33 ` Bean
2008-06-08 19:26 ` Robert Millan
2008-06-07 7:24 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-06-06 23:31 ` [PATCH] ntfs UUIDs (Re: UUID-based boot (Re: [PATCH] Environment block support for grub2)) Robert Millan
2008-06-07 5:44 ` Tomáš Ebenlendr
2008-06-08 3:34 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2008-06-08 19:19 ` Robert Millan
2008-05-31 15:21 ` [PATCH] Environment block support for grub2 Robert Millan
2008-06-13 22:48 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2008-06-14 3:41 ` Bean
2008-06-14 18:32 ` Robert Millan
2008-06-14 19:22 ` Bean
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