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From: "Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:28:44 +0000
Subject: Re: not all volume types export UUIDs (was: /dev/disk/by-id symlinks should not include bus) type
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On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 18:17, Karl O. Pinc <kop@meme.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

/by-id/* links are usually not using UUID's but serial numbers/names.

Kay