[Cialug] scsi question

[Aaron Porter]

On Nov 9, 2007 11:42 AM, Jeff Davis <jdavis at geolearning.com> wrote:
> I want to know what this identifier is and how it's generated.

It's a UUID, how it's generated depends on a lot of things. As an
example, e2fsck seems to take into account MAC address, time of day,
and input from /dev/urandom:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git;a=blob;f=lib/uuid/gen_uuid.c;h=61f2805ab9717664e53cf29b8b6ee70d4b76ada2;hb=HEAD