Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 06, 2006 04:01 AM
That point is that the UUID is virtually guaranteed to be unique and since it is randomly generated it needs to be that long to ensure that the chance of there being another filesystem with the same UUID is so small as to be insignificant.
As to the code bloat from an overly long UUID, the difference in the current length and one half the length would probably be measured in tens of bytes, which isn't really much to worry about.
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Re:Edgy Eft "UUID's" in fstab-cont.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 06, 2006 04:01 AMAs to the code bloat from an overly long UUID, the difference in the current length and one half the length would probably be measured in tens of bytes, which isn't really much to worry about.
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