From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 9 21:56:34 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 6A31516A402 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2007 21:56:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pjd@garage.freebsd.pl) Received: from mail.garage.freebsd.pl (arm132.internetdsl.tpnet.pl [83.17.198.132]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08DC713C44B for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2007 21:56:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pjd@garage.freebsd.pl) Received: by mail.garage.freebsd.pl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 9B4DC4569A; Mon, 9 Apr 2007 23:56:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (154.81.datacomsa.pl [195.34.81.154]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.garage.freebsd.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 856C045683; Mon, 9 Apr 2007 23:56:28 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 23:56:16 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek To: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav Message-ID: <20070409215616.GU76673@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <20070407120656.GD63916@garage.freebsd.pl> <20070408151358.GX63916@garage.freebsd.pl> <200704091335.42092.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <20070409190743.GL76673@garage.freebsd.pl> <47d0403c0704091338p4c6476fey5d90e0dfb3a50cbf@mail.gmail.com> <86odlxcj0i.fsf@dwp.des.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="4fNq9Po2wJlmxAaR" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86odlxcj0i.fsf@dwp.des.no> X-PGP-Key-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/pjd.asc X-OS: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (FreeBSD) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on mail.garage.freebsd.pl X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 Cc: Ben Kaduk , 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 21:56:34 -0000 --4fNq9Po2wJlmxAaR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 11:53:01PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > "Ben Kaduk" writes: > > Pawel Jakub Dawidek writes: > > > 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. >=20 > If a host is a hot spare for another, you might want it to have the > same UUID as the primary. >=20 > Reading the UUID from hardware is fine as long as it is only done when > initializing /hostid on a system which does not already have it. >=20 > (any particular reason to store it in /hostid instead of /etc/hostid?) I think Ruslan suggested /etc/hostid and the committed version is using this very location. --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --4fNq9Po2wJlmxAaR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGGraAForvXbEpPzQRAj1kAKDxe/ESTElER9FuE8vslGXPP2FmxQCeM2wH A4by86zP7GPbjLLNcHA2Gx8= =QE0x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4fNq9Po2wJlmxAaR--