Re: System unique identifier.....

[Anonymous]

Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> > >
> > > I want it to persist until it's changed. Change doesn't mean a reboot.
> > >
> > > The Linux folks (mostly Ted) helped me clarify some thinking about this so
> > > that the basic original source of the seeded WWN doesn't have to come from
> > > first principles in hardware that can be read prior to mounting root. But
> > > where the linux folks aren't really hipped on is a good architecturally
> > > clean place to store the seed. It'd be nice if we thought of this for
> > > FreeBSD.
> >
> > Are there enough bytes available in the BIOS NVRAM?  That would do
> > nicely as a place to store it.
> 
> Whose BIOS NVRAM?

The host system BIOS NVRAM.  I thought we were looking for a per-host
ID here, right?

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