Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262373AbVD2BwE (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2005 21:52:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262375AbVD2BwD (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2005 21:52:03 -0400 Received: from smtp.istop.com ([66.11.167.126]:44230 "EHLO smtp.istop.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262373AbVD2Bvx (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2005 21:51:53 -0400 From: Daniel Phillips To: David Lang Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] dlm: overview Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 21:52:30 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 Cc: Lars Marowsky-Bree , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050425151136.GA6826@redhat.com> <20050428145715.GA21645@marowsky-bree.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504282152.31137.phillips@istop.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 809 Lines: 20 On Thursday 28 April 2005 20:33, David Lang 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. Please do not argue that the 32 bit node ID ints should be changed to uuids, please find another way to accommodate your uuids. Regards, Daniel - 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/