Subject: Re: NetBSD-specific GPT partition types
To: jakllsch@kollasch.net <jakllsch@kollasch.net>
From: Trevor Talbot <quension@gmail.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/29/2007 14:51:47
On 12/29/07, jakllsch@kollasch.net <jakllsch@kollasch.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 02:56:26PM -0800, Trevor Talbot wrote:

> > In case it's not obvious to anyone following this thread, the entire
> > point of GUID Partition Table is that it uses UUIDs (aka GUIDs) as
> > identifiers. UUIDs are, if properly generated, guaranteed to be
> > globally unique, even though they are generated without the benefit of
> > a central registration service. RFC 4122 documents the format,
> > although it originally comes from other standards.
> >
> > They aren't arbitrary numbers.

> Tell that to Apple.

I probably missed a thread. What did Apple do?