On Sep 6, 2016, at 12:00 PM, Jeff Layton wrote: > > Shrug...feel free to propose a better scheme for generating unique ids > if you can think of one. Unfortunately, there are always cases when > these mechanisms for getting a persistent+unique id break down. > > That's the reason that nfs provides an interface to allow setting a > uniquifier from userland via module param. Fair enough, though I guess module parameter is not really a super convenient place for it when you run off nfs-root. I guess you were not really enticed with the mac address idea too ;) Anyway, thank you very much for your help, now I have some better idea of what's going on and what to try next.-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html