Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262371AbVD2Btu (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2005 21:49:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262372AbVD2Btu (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2005 21:49:50 -0400 Received: from quechua.inka.de ([193.197.184.2]:59301 "EHLO mail.inka.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262371AbVD2Btq (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2005 21:49:46 -0400 From: Bernd Eckenfels To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] dlm: overview Organization: Private Site running Debian GNU/Linux In-Reply-To: X-Newsgroups: ka.lists.linux.kernel User-Agent: tin/1.7.8-20050315 ("Scalpay") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.8.1 (i686)) Message-Id: Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 03:49:43 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 842 Lines: 21 In article you wrote: > how is this UUID that doesn't need to be touched by an admin, and will > always work in all possible networks (including insane things like backup > servers configured with the same name and IP address as the primary with > NAT between them to allow them to communicate) generated? > > there are a lot of software packages out there that could make use of > this. It is hard to work in all cases :) if you use v4 UUID they are a 128bit random bitstring, others depend on the MAC (plus random). Greetings Bernd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/