Subject: Re: bug#22797: Using UUID for vfat file system is impossible

From: Alex Kost <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 22:50:19 +0300

Ludovic Courtès (2016-02-25 21:32 +0300) wrote:

> Alex Kost <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
>> Hello, unlike other file system types, FAT volumes have short UUIDs,
>> for example: "58D7-4FA5", but such an UUID cannot be used in an
>> operating system declaration:
>>
>> (file-system
>>   (device (uuid "58D7-4FA5"))
>>   (title 'uuid)
>>   (type "vfat")
>>   ;; ...
>>   )
>>
>> because (uuid "58D7-4FA5") errors.
>
> That’s expected.  :-)  I’ve clarified this in 0767f6a:

Ah, actually I thought it's expected as this is not a "normal" UUID.
Thanks for the clarification.

-- 
Alex