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Date:      Sat, 16 Mar 2002 08:29:21 +0100 (CET)
From:      Rasmus Skaarup <mfbsd@skaarup.org>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GEOM code ready for testing 
Message-ID:  <20020316082755.V77614-100000@skaarup.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020314114358.D17039-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Doug White wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Rasmus Skaarup wrote:
>
> > Hmm, but I'm not sure all kinds of storage devices have serialnumbers that
> > could be fetched (tape devices for instance?) and can we rely on the
> > hardware manufacturers to provide unique serialnumbers?
>
> Although it's an isolated case, you do have globally unique identifiers in
> FibreChannel. :-)

Yes, on hosts and controllers, but not on the storage devices themselves.


Best regards,
Rasmus Skaarup


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