[Debburn-devel] Filesystem image creators and GRUB support

[George Danchev]

George Danchev writes:
> Thomas Schmitt writes:
> > Hi,
> >
> > George Danchev wrote:
> > > 'embedded copy' bugs: 570156
> > >
> > > > > 16:21 < dkg0> what's the reason for not using genisoimage itself?
> > > > > 16:22 < phcoder> dkg0: it doesn't allow choosing a stable UUID
> >
> > From what is the UUID composed ?
> > I assume it is derived from some image
> > attributes like volume id.
> 
> at least uuidgen (from util-linux package) uses Ted T'so uuid library (same
> package shlibs/uuid/src/gen_uuid.c) to generate time-based and random-based
> (provided a decent PRNG exits) unique identifiers. There is also ossp-uuid
> implementation with a nice overview doc in it as well as
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuid

Oh, perhaps we are talking about how blkid(8) from util-linux calculates 
uuid's to device names? 

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