Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 01, 2007 10:06 PM
At one time people thought IPv4 gave enough unique addresses and now we have IPv6. Considering that even randomly generated UUIDs reserve space to identify the variant, you need a string of this size in order to provide some degree of certainty of generating a unique value.
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Re:Edgy Eft "UUID's" in fstab-cont.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 01, 2007 10:06 PM#