Smolt database is broken

Lubomir Kundrak lkundrak at redhat.com
Tue Nov 20 20:56:29 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 13:45 -0500, Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
> On 11/20/07, Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> wrote:
> > I agree we should track this down in the kernel.  But even so, it is
> > theoretically possible for the same UUID to come up multiple times.
> > Shouldn't we be generating UUIDs on the smolt server itself and letting
> > the client know what the UUID is, to better protect against duplicates?
> 
> I would rather have proper UUID generation.  Such a feature, while
> technically more correct, would be slightly harder to make sure the
> server can handle both the old and new method.
> 
> Besides, if we focus our efforts on proper UUID generation, then other
> projects will benefit as well.

But in smolt we also track what versions of kernel do people use. Or we
don't want to track installations with older kernels?

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Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team)




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