On 8 Feb 2022, at 16:47, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Tue, 2022-02-08 at 16:37 -0500, Benjamin Coddington wrote: >> On 8 Feb 2022, at 15:27, Trond Myklebust wrote: >>> Also, why the exclusion of init_net? >> >> Because we're unique enough if we're not in a network namespace, and any >> additional uniqueness we might need (due to NAT, or cloned VMs) /should/ >> be getting from udev, as you envisioned. That way, if we are getting >> uniquified, its from a source that's likely persistent/deterministic. If >> we just generate a random uniquifier, its going to be different next boot >> if there's no udev rule and userspace helpers. That's going to make >> things a lot worse for simple setups. >> > > So you're following up with changes to nfs-utils to configure udev? Yes. Ben