> No problem, zero chance of record collisions no matter what happens in the future.
Well until 5236-03-31 21:21:00 UTC (assuming my calculations are correct) using v1 UUIDs and assuming unique MAC addresses and no race conditions.
Well until 5236-03-31 21:21:00 UTC (assuming my calculations are correct) using v1 UUIDs and assuming unique MAC addresses and no race conditions.
At one company I worked at we once received a huge shipment of ethernet cards (several thousand) that all had the same MAC address. We didn't realize it until customers who had purchased multiple pieces of equipment began to call in.
I've heard several similar anecdotes from other engineers at other companies.
Yeah, very bad assumption.
Needless to say NetApp where quite embarrassed and we are glad that we noticed it in pre-prod otherwise it could have been quite bad.