disks renamed in 8.04

[R Kimber]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:56:37 -0300
Derek Broughton wrote:

> R Kimber wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:20:46 +0100
> > John K Masters wrote:
> > 
> >> On 12:52 Sun 27 Apr     , R Kimber wrote:
> >> > Thanks.  That's helpful.  I have, though, been somewhat wary of
> >> > UUIDs ever since an earlier re-install allocated identical UUIDs
> >> > to two different drives.
> >> > 
> >> Unlikely, depending on how it was generated, but if generated
> >> according to standards it is either guaranteed to be different from
> >> ALL other UUIDs generated before 3603AD or to be extremely likely
> >> to be different.
> >> http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/asn1/uuid.html
> > 
> > Unlikely, maybe, but it happened. Some people do win the lottery ;)
> 
> Did you report the bug?  I'm pretty sure those two Us are supposed to
> be for Unique and Universal.

I can't remember. It was quite a while ago.  I usually do report
things.  I certainly remember asking about it in this list.

- Richard
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Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/