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From: "Karl O. Pinc" <kop@meme.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:17:17 +0000
Subject: Re: not all volume types export UUIDs (was: /dev/disk/by-id
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On 07/02/2008 10:56:31 AM, Greg KH wrote:

> Because UUIDs are not guaranteed to be unique, except by bus type.

That seems a shame, given that they are
named Universally Unique IDentifiers and
are all supposed to reside in a single
namespace.  At least that's what I've
thought UUIDs are.  Oh well.


Karl <kop@meme.com>
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