On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Perry Myers pmyers@redhat.com wrote:
One of the things we were trying to do was to not add YAU (Yet Another UUID). That is, we were hoping to hook into one of the existing mechanisms (either dbus or systemd) so that we could re-use this infrastructure. That way existing software wouldn't have to learn about yet another place to fetch a UUID from.
If it turns out that this is impossible, then so be it. But I still think we should investigate the options for integrating with the existing mechanisms.
Or did I completely mis-understand your point?
I don't think what you said conflicts with what Andrew said... Matahari has other use cases than just cloud, so we'll provide a set of UUIDs. Some of them may be useful for Cloud, others would be ignored.
Right. And if there are existing UUIDs that have the described properties, we will of course use them instead of rolling our own.
Make sense?