Yes I do.  when I install machines that I dump/restore clone, I do not
use DUID's. it's very nice to make a system
without DUID's in that case.

I think you could eliminate the DUID question for laptops. it's always
right there. I'd like to keep it for "server's" but don't
know if that's reasonably possible in the installer....




On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 11:24:32AM -0400, Kenneth Westerback wrote:
>> > Using DUIDs in the installed /etc/fstab has been the default for some time 
>> > now.
>> >
>> > We'd like to eliminate the question in the installer and just use
>> > DUIDs unconditionally.
>> >
>> > But first we need to know you are aware of any circumstances where
>> > people need or prefer to use the non-DUID option when installing?
>>
>> I prefer not using DUIDs.
>
> OK, I think Ken made a mistake mentioning preferences.  The real
> question is if anyone has a use-case where DUIDs do not work.
>
> Preference has nothing to do with it.  If DUIDs have no downsides,
> and only the upsides that they were designed to support, then it is
> time to remove the installation question.
>
> The non-DUID access patterns continue to work, of course.  That is
> also not part of the question.
>

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