Re: [PATCH 0/7] dlm: overview

David Lang
2005-04-29T17:15:09Z

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Daniel Phillips wrote:

> On Thursday 28 April 2005 20:33, David Lang wrote:
>> how is this UUID that doesn't need to be touched by an admin, and will
>> always work in all possible networks (including insane things like backup
>> servers configured with the same name and IP address as the primary with
>> NAT between them to allow them to communicate) generated?
>>
>> there are a lot of software packages out there that could make use of
>> this.
>
> Please do not argue that the 32 bit node ID ints should be changed to uuids,
> please find another way to accommodate your uuids.

you misunderstand my question.

the claim was that UUID's are unique and don't have to be assigned by the
admins.

I'm saying that in my experiance there isn't any standard or reliable way
to generate such a UUID and I'm asking for the people makeing the
claim to educate me on what I'm missing becouse a reliable UUID for linux
on all hardware would be extremely useful for many things.

David Lang

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