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Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@7eggert.dyndns.org> wrote:

> If you
> - add a SCSI controler
> - add an USB burner
> - connect to an aoe/iscsi-device(?),
> it will get a random ID. If you reboot (or just plug out/plug in), it will
> be randomly different. The same thing may happen after a system upgrade,
> possibly depending on the linker.

This is a limitation of the implementation used on Linux and not true for e.g. 
Solaris.

Jörg

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