Re: [Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Bug#595790: hostid: useless unless fixed

2016-09-29 Thread Richard Laager
On 09/29/2016 05:19 AM, Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 09:03:38PM -0700, Richard Laager wrote: >> 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, sp

Re: [Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Bug#595790: hostid: useless unless fixed

2016-09-28 Thread Richard Laager
On 09/28/2016 04:41 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > I did not quite understand what you mean here. Do you mean the DMI > value in your experience isn't unique? Absolutely, yes. I found this out because, for some reason that I don't know, libvirtd wants a unique identifier. It defaults to looking

Re: [Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] any news/reply regarding ZFS in NEW?

2014-03-03 Thread Richard Laager
I'm not anyone "important," but I'd like to suggest you just rename the conflicting packages now. It's quite possible that at least part of the reason it's languishing in the NEW queue is because every time an ftp-master looks at it, they think "Oh right, this mess." They can't find a firm reason t