On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 01:43:37PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > I don't suppose either of us will meet a UUID collision in our > lifetimes, and it's obviously a sensible scheme to use where there > are large numbers of commoditised objects to name.
Usually a UUID collision is a result of a subtle mistake, like cloning a disk and then trying to mount a file system by UUID while the clone is still attached. At least, that's the first scenario I can think of.
