From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 24 22:45:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1F8215105 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 22:45:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov) Received: from lestat (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id WAA20374; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 22:45:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199906250545.WAA20374@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-kern@netbsd.org Subject: Re: System unique identifier..... Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 22:45:25 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:02:25 -0700 (PDT) Matthew Jacob wrote: > I was talking about this on linux-kernel, but it also applies to *BSD... > > What're folks' motions of a settable system unique identifier, available > prior to mountroot? This identifier has to be 64 bits or better and must > be persistent across reboots. ...to be used for...? -- Jason R. Thorpe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message