[Swift-devel] Clustering and Temp Dirs with Swift

[Michael Wilde]

I think this approach as outlined in Bens earlier email is fine.
After lots of experience we'll learn what a good default is.
The current default is good for now.

On 10/29/07 7:43 AM, Ben Clifford wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Ian Foster wrote:
> 
>> If they are not globally unique, don't we have problems when we combine 
>> logs from multiple sources?
> 
> yes.
> 
> like i said in the mail that you quoted, swift will come up with an 
> identifier that is almost definitely globally unique.
> 
> you can make your own unique identifier space, using -log.
> 
> if it happens to not be unique, then you didn't design your unique 
> identifier space very well. we can't protect against that.
>