[Debburn-devel] Filesystem image creators and GRUB support
George Danchev
danchev at spnet.net
Sat Mar 6 15:11:59 UTC 2010
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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