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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:44:52 +0100
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Subject: Re: accidentally used same uuid on multiple servers
From: Robert Newson <rnewson@apache.org>
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That's a thought, bootstrap from something that even virtualized
systems should be wary of duplicating.

B.

On 12 June 2013 18:28, Randall Leeds <randall.leeds@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there something we could do with some hardware info (MAC addresses,
> disk UUIDs, etc) to notice when the UUID might not have been generated
> on this hardware and log a warning? Would that even be helpful?
>
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Robert Newson <rnewson@apache.org> wrote:
>> Sure, you can do that, the trick here is knowing you need to (and,
>> conversely, knowing you shouldn't copy a local.ini if couchdb has
>> added a uuid property).
>>
>> B.
>>
>>
>> On 12 June 2013 14:56, Alexander Shorin <kxepal@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Ian Ward <ianshward@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> rnewson asked me to write to the list about the above, in order to
>>>> discuss storing uuid in a place where it may be less likely to be
>>>> copied in deployment management systems / scripts like Puppet.
>>>
>>> It is possible to create custom ini file within %localconfdir%/local.d
>>> (/etc/couchdb/local.d for instance) directory which will override
>>> local.ini uuid option:
>>>
>>> [couchdb]
>>> uuid = myuuid
>>>
>>> This file may be automatically generated with puppet without need to
>>> edit local.ini on each instance.
>>>
>>> --
>>> ,,,^..^,,,