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[Ben Kaduk]

On 4/9/07, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 01:35:39PM -0400, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> > On Sunday 08 April 2007 11:13 am, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
[snip]
> > > I'd really like to make it simple and consistent on all archs, so
> > > one knows exactly what to expect.
> >
> > Agreed.  But I also agree with imp, i.e., we have to utilize hardware
> > UUID if it is available and valid for the platform.
>
> I don't agree. As Robert pointed out there are situation you would like
> to share the same UUID between many hosts.
>

This may be a bit pedantic, but I thought the case Robert described
was for a way to have an identical setup on many machines but still
allow for having a different UUID on each one.  That's not to say that
there aren't cases where you would want the same UUID on multiple
hosts, say, on redundant live spares, but I think that Robert's
example (as I am interpreting it) is a relatively common case.

-Ben Kaduk

> I'm committing as it is, we may change it in the future.
>
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