Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Dec 2004 17:41:38 -0800 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: lease.openlogging.org is unreachable |
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On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 09:31:11PM -0300, Horst von Brand wrote: > > The other answer, which I'm happy to consider, is to come up with a unique > > id on a per host basis and use that for the leases. That's not a fun task, > > does anyone have code (BSD license please) which does that? > > MAC of eth0?
As others have pointed out that won't work.
I'm trying to remember why we get leases on a per host basis and I think it is for a simple reason, NFS. We update the leases in your home directory and if your home directory is nfs mounted then we can corrupt the leases file due to races (yes, we saw this all the time when we had one leases file). So we stick the leases for a particular host in that host's file. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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