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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] nfsuuid: a tool to create and persist nfs4 client
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> On Feb 11, 2022, at 8:44 AM, Steve Dickson <SteveD@RedHat.com> wrote:
>=20
> On 2/10/22 1:15 PM, Chuck Lever III wrote:
>>> On Feb 10, 2022, at 1:01 PM, Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com> =
wrote:
>>>=20
>>> The nfsuuid program will either create a new UUID from a random source =
or
>>> derive it from /etc/machine-id, else it returns a UUID that has already
>>> been written to /etc/nfsuuid or the file specified.  This small,
>>> lightweight tool is suitable for execution by systemd-udev in rules to
>>> populate the nfs4 client uniquifier.
>> I like everything but the name. Without context, even if
>> I read NFS protocol specifications, I have no idea what
>> "nfsuuid" does.
> man nfsuuid :-)

Any time an administrator has to stop to read documentation
is an unnecessary interruption in their flow of attention.
It wastes their time.


>> Possible alternatives:
>> nfshostuniquifier
>> nfsuniquehost
>> nfshostuuid
> I'm good with the name... short sweet and easy to type.

I'll happily keep it short so it is readable and does not
unnecessarily inflate the length of a line in a bash script.
But almost no-one will ever type this command. Especially
if they don't have to find its man page ;-p

My last serious offers: nfsmachineid nfshostid

I strongly prefer not having uuid in the name. A UUID is
essentially a data type, it does not explain the purpose of
the content.


--
Chuck Lever