* 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
[Aurelien Jarno]
> In any case it looks to me we should not reinvent the wheel. We
> already ended-up with two implementations of a unique machine ID, one
> in dbus and one for systemd (which fortunately now try to just copy
> the other one if it already exists), I am not sure we want a third
>
On 2016-09-28 09:33, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 libc6
> Control: found -1 2.19-18
> Control: The value from gethostid() should be more unique and not change when
> the host IP changes
>
> Reassigning to glibc as that is the source of gethostid() where the
> problem with
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