From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 9 20:38:17 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1030716A403 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:38:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from minimarmot@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.242]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFCD413C459 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:38:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from minimarmot@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c24so1766717ana for ; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:38:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=uskBeX1TAtVqlXUadCfJ4ZfGn32yTEORgzY/qdgNdu/ZOb26FNypIM9x9ko6dT0DgrSQoEattL1kIx/DZt4LhYYJXl6/gbprat2cJkzeauu/5PB+c0WmxmtRA+xpaNSKUvu6HbyY/TzObMzfl20XvT6JI+Pw9T7AaAJAkeE0dn0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=GsAaaH1vqNypEY0oueh267ClIPknLDZ8fRfknY2817Rqa9M/bT9LLYXW9RWj3VFFXi4lIAJeCIZt98FKjedbjUXIkmS+g3s/jVb9mozad/t3C1lzKhjjgWWOtTAfBpR4o1A2HXw03Sk0M+aNuugu1EKXzmpegVeZmUl6N8gLvU4= Received: by 10.100.107.2 with SMTP id f2mr4366605anc.1176151095954; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:38:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.237.19 with HTTP; Mon, 9 Apr 2007 13:38:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <47d0403c0704091338p4c6476fey5d90e0dfb3a50cbf@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 15:38:15 -0500 From: "Ben Kaduk" To: "Pawel Jakub Dawidek" In-Reply-To: <20070409190743.GL76673@garage.freebsd.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070407120656.GD63916@garage.freebsd.pl> <20070408151358.GX63916@garage.freebsd.pl> <200704091335.42092.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <20070409190743.GL76673@garage.freebsd.pl> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Host ID. X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:38:17 -0000 On 4/9/07, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 01:35:39PM -0400, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > > On Sunday 08 April 2007 11:13 am, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: [snip] > > > I'd really like to make it simple and consistent on all archs, so > > > one knows exactly what to expect. > > > > Agreed. But I also agree with imp, i.e., we have to utilize hardware > > UUID if it is available and valid for the platform. > > I don't agree. As Robert pointed out there are situation you would like > to share the same UUID between many hosts. > This may be a bit pedantic, but I thought the case Robert described was for a way to have an identical setup on many machines but still allow for having a different UUID on each one. That's not to say that there aren't cases where you would want the same UUID on multiple hosts, say, on redundant live spares, but I think that Robert's example (as I am interpreting it) is a relatively common case. -Ben Kaduk > I'm committing as it is, we may change it in the future. > > -- > Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl > pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org > FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! > >