Host ID.

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 11:53:01PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot at gmail.com> writes:
> > Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd at freebsd.org> writes:
> > > 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.
> 
> If a host is a hot spare for another, you might want it to have the
> same UUID as the primary.
> 
> Reading the UUID from hardware is fine as long as it is only done when
> initializing /hostid on a system which does not already have it.
> 
> (any particular reason to store it in /hostid instead of /etc/hostid?)

I think Ruslan suggested /etc/hostid and the committed version is using
this very location.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
pjd at FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer                         Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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