On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:07:56PM -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 03:59:36PM +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> > time bases uuids are not safe if uuidd is not running.
> > Add option --force to generate a uuid in this case nevertheless.
>
> I really wouldn't worry about time-based uuid if you're grabbing them
> from uuidgen. Yes, if you're generating thousands of uuid's in
> parallel via the C interface, it's possible that you potentially force
> a collision. But via the command-line interface of uuidgen?
I agree with Ted.
Let's go one step back (sorry Ludwig). It would be really better to
add --safe rather than --force. We can use the --safe option to test
the new *_safe functions or for really paranoid environments, but we
should not force people use the new functionality.
Karel
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