...and a question (SHA1 UUIDs)

[David Carter]

On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Ken Murchison wrote:

> My gut is to use the 'replace' patch.  I'm not comfortable with the 21 
> byte scenario.

I agree that 21 bytes is likely to be a pain to maintain long term.

> If we need a UUID schema version, we can always use a new MINOR_VERSION.

This sounds like a plan. For the time being I am using the first 11 bytes 
of message MD5 sums on my Cyrus 2.3 systems, just like Fastmail.

It would be useful to have a migration route to full 20 byte SHA1 UUIDs. 
Zero padding existing schema 1 and schema 2 UUIDs is probably good enough.

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