On Monday 10 December 2007, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 06:00:12PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > > Basically, the only way to solve this problem 100% in userspace would > > be with a userspace daemon running as a privileged user, and some kind > > of Unix domain socket. > > > > Patches to implement this in the e2fsprogs UUID library would be > > greatfully accepted. > > This patch creates a userspace uuidd which correctly generates > time-based (version 1) UUID's, with the clock sequence number stored > in the filesystem so we correctly detect time going backwards across > processes and even across reboots. > > I believe this patch is a better solution than Helge's kernel patch > solution or the kludgy patch to e2fsprogs in the the SLES RPM which > tries to solve this problem in another way, but which has been > problematic in the past. > > Helge, could you try this out and see if it meets your needs? > > (Ted's patch to e2fsprogs removed here) FYI, we are currently discussing and testing this proposed patch to e2fsprogs off-list in Red Hat's bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=233471 Helge - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
