UUIDs on drives

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Thu Aug 14 19:03:28 UTC 2008


Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 14:04 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
>> 2**32 is _still_ a very big number.  There are almost certainly not 4
>> billion vfat filesystems in the world today.
> 
> I would hope not, but you never know.  There are a lot of USB sticks out
> there.  Give everyone in the world one and you have more than 4 billion!

I'm thinking (hoping) that by the time we get to 4 billion they'll be using
something more reasonable than vfat...
-- 
derek





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