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...ate, well, non-unique UUID''s, the results can range anywhere from confusion, to file system corruption and data loss. Fortunately, there is only one user of lib/uuid.c, and that''s the btrfs file system. Chris and the Btrfs folks --- my recommendation would be to ditch the use of uuid_be_gen, "git rm lib/uuid.c" with extreme prejudice, and use generate_random_uuid() which was coded over a decade ago in drivers/char/random.c. Not only does this properly use the kernel random number generator, but it also creates a UUID with the correct format. (It''s not enough to se...