From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 16 1:16:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from skaarup.org (skaarup.org [130.228.230.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8C2BB37B404 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 01:16:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 77684 invoked by uid 0); 16 Mar 2002 07:29:24 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO skaarup.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 Mar 2002 07:29:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 77669 invoked by uid 1039); 16 Mar 2002 07:29:21 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 Mar 2002 07:29:21 -0000 Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 08:29:21 +0100 (CET) From: Rasmus Skaarup To: Doug White Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GEOM code ready for testing In-Reply-To: <20020314114358.D17039-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> Message-ID: <20020316082755.V77614-100000@skaarup.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 @skaarup.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message