[PATCH] mkswap: generate UUID

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Fri Jun 19 10:34:59 UTC 2009


On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:28:19PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Rob Landley<rob at landley.net> wrote:
> > Endianness issue, I expect.  (The code I started with was passing in a
> > structure and I was treating it as a char array.  It probably did endianness
> > conversions later on.)
> 
> I have
> 
> # mkswap --version
> mkswap (util-linux-ng 2.13.1)
> 
> and experimentally it does not seem to set or clear any bits in node id.
> It only sets version and variant.

I agree it doesn't (from the source). Based on the RFC, I think this is
probably a util-linux bug ...

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]


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