On Wed 2007-12-05 09:49:34, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 08:26:19AM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > > > > Ok, whats going on here is an issue with how the smolt RPM installs the > > UUID and how Fedora's Live CD does an install. It's a complete false alarm > > on the kernel side, sorry for the confusion. > > BTW, You may be better off using "uuidgen -t" to generate the UUID in > the smolt RPM, since that will use 12 bits of randomness from > /dev/random, plus the MAC, address and timestamp. So even if there is > zero randomness in /dev/random, and the time is January 1, 1970, at > least the MAC will contribute some uniqueness to the UUID.
I thought that /dev/random blocks when 0 entropy is available...? I'd expect uuid generation to block, not to issue duplicates. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
