Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 18 May 2001 15:57:32 +0000 | From | "Heinz J. Mauelshagen" <> | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants |
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On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:35:55AM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > Heinz J. Mauelshag writes: > > > LVM does a similar thing storing UUIDs in its private metadata > > area on every device used by it. > > > > Problem is: neither MD nor LVM define a standard in Linux > > which *needs* to be used on every device! > > > > It is just up to the user to configure devices with them or not. > > > > BTW: in case we had a Linux standard it wouldn't solve the > > "different OS" situation mentioned in this thread either. > > > > > > Generally speaking: > > > > It is not the problem to reserve some space to store a uuid or > > something at such and such location on a device. > > > > The problem is the lack of a standard which eventually > > could be implemented in all OSes at some point in time. > > The PC partition table has such an ID. The LILO change log > mentions it. I think it's 6 random bytes, with some restriction > about being non-zero.
This is just a type identifier showing the parition type and just valid on the PC.
Won't help it.
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Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy --
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