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

[Michael Stone]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 01:08:00AM +0100, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote:
>When you create a ZFS pool the value of the hostid is stored inside it.
>When the system is going to import a pool it checks if the hostid stored
>inside the pool matches the current host hostid. If it don't matches it
>refuses to import the pool.

Not suprising: sunos is one of those legacy systems where old scripts 
tend to assume hostid is a system serial number. :)

>We are working on packaging ZoL (ZFS on Linux native with DKMS) [1] for
>Debian and we are checking how we can solve this issue.

I'd suggest an application-specific UUID incorporating the hostname.

Mike Stone
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