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On Sunday, May 25, 2003, at 07:33 PM, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:

> On Sun, 25 May 2003, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>>> I was more concerned with simplicity; the method I use solves the 
>>> problem
>>> with minimal effort and complexity.  The combination of time() + 
>>> random()
>>> + filename will not collide on a single box.
>>
>> But it can across NFS, right?
>
> Uh...  If you want to share /var/db/prebind via NFS I suppose you can.
> I'm not sure how a practical NFS environment would result in a greater
> chance of collisions.  Regardless, there is no real penalty for 
> collisions
> (other than prebinding not being available for that executable.)
>

Diskless cluster nodes is a practical NFS configuration involving the 
sharing of
basically everything.