[baylisa] Re: wtf: hostid gives '0' as a hostid

Mon Feb 18 09:20:51 PST 2008

Nice discussion. dmidecode | grep UUID   should be a good provide a good
unique id for similar hardware, and if it's very disimilar, then it's a good
idea to hash it with something else to generate the final ID. Since there's
a possibility of generating 2 of the same IDs if the UUID is somehow blank
for 2 machines, adding a temporal factor to the hash will alleviate that
(time of hash with ms).

-- Rob
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