On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 11:41:25AM +0200, Adrian Catangiu wrote:
> The driver also generates a `SYSGENID=%u` uevent containing the new
> system generation counter/id value every time it changes. Unlike the
> filesystem interface, the uevent has no synchronization guarantees
> therefore it should no
- Background and problem
The System Generation ID feature is required in virtualized or
containerized environments by applications that work with local copies
or caches of world-unique data such as random values, uuids,
monotonically increasing counters, etc.
Such applications can be negatively af
