* Richard Laager: > Getting back to ZFS and /etc/hostid... I would think that a > randomly-generated /etc/hostid is probably sufficient. Whether that's > done in the libc, spl, or zfs package makes no difference to me.
As I tried to explain, the risks of collisions without central coordination looks rather high. glibc's current approach, using the IP address associated with the host name, provides a certain level of coordination, avoiding duplicates.
