[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] About hostid and ZFS (was Re: ZFS on Linux and native ZFS on BSD)

[Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez]

On 20/02/13 02:48, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote:
> So this invalidates the original purpose of gethostid(). Which was meant
> to be a value unique for each host, has turned into a value that is
> shared by most of the hosts.
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/595790
> 
> Which then invalidates the original purpose of storing the hostid value
> into the ZFS pool
> http://distfiles.scode.org/tmp/zfs-handbook/zfs-hostid.htmle
  ^^ http://distfiles.scode.org/tmp/zfs-handbook/zfs-hostid.html

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