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From: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Subject: Re: (boot time consequences of) Linux mdadm superblock question.
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:40:04 +1300
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also sprach Daniel Reurich <daniel@centurion.net.nz> [2010.02.18.1703 +1300=
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> > Debian experimental. But so far, I was unable to get rid of
> > mdadm.conf because it only works without the info in that file if
> > the homehost is correctly encoded in the metadata. So the challenge
> > I am facing is http://bugs.debian.org/567468.
>=20
> Why not use an installation generated uuid like that of the root
> filesystem for the homehost identifier.  It's less likely to change then
> just about any other system identifier.

This is a great idea. While I would still have to store that UUID in
the initrd, as you say, it's 99% likely to remain constant, and when
it changes, it's 99% likely that the admin is doing something that
will require more work, so we can resort to 100% hoping that s/he
knows what she's doing.

Neil?

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