Robert White posted on Fri, 21 Nov 2014 03:35:05 -0800 as excerpted: > On 11/20/2014 10:22 PM, Duncan wrote: >> But while other filesystems might allow un-UUIDs (heh, UUUIDs or U3IDs >> =:^), because they're no longer unique, requiring them to be unique >> just as the label says cannot be considered a bug. It's simply >> stricter enforcement of the rules, which are, after all, plainly stated >> in the descriptive name. > > You take "U"s away, not add them > > UID = unique ID GUID = globally unique ID UUID = universally unique ID I was making a joke, as I happened to notice un-UUID =3 U-s just as I was writing that. Universally unique ID = UUID, un-UUID (not universally unique ID) = UUUID = U^3ID. =:^) Of course formally it'd be NUID (not/non- unique) or some such, but un- UUID served my purpose well enough, including the joke once I noticed it, so... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
