Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262975AbVD2UwC (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:52:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262976AbVD2UvQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:51:16 -0400 Received: from smtp.istop.com ([66.11.167.126]:55272 "EHLO smtp.istop.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262939AbVD2UtF (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:49:05 -0400 From: Daniel Phillips To: David Lang Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] dlm: overview Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:49:52 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 Cc: Lars Marowsky-Bree , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050425151136.GA6826@redhat.com> <200504282152.31137.phillips@istop.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504291649.52759.phillips@istop.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1590 Lines: 37 On Friday 29 April 2005 13:13, David Lang wrote: > On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > 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. > > you misunderstand my question. > > the claim was that UUID's are unique and don't have to be assigned by the > admins. > > I'm saying that in my experiance there isn't any standard or reliable way > to generate such a UUID and I'm asking for the people makeing the > claim to educate me on what I'm missing becouse a reliable UUID for linux > on all hardware would be extremely useful for many things. OK, that sound plausible. However, just to be 100% clear, do you agree that a) simple integer node numbers are better (because simpler) in cman proper and b) uuids can be layered on top of a simple integer scheme, using a pair of mappings? 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/