> Well, we can always reduce that later if we feel like it, but the
> documentation suggests that a role name must be unique *without
> Azure* so let's get all the randomness we can get :).
I might be wildly off, but I /think/ that:
- using a prefix of 10 characters to create a disk name, thus leaving
40 characters as random, with 36 choices per character,
- assuming that we're happy with a one in a quadrillion (10e15) chance
of collision,
- that 10,000 new disks are created each second,
means that it'll take about 2 trillion years until the probability of
a collision rises above 1 in a quadrillion. Or, when the universe is
~140 times older than it already is.
> Well, we can always reduce that later if we feel like it, but the
> documentation suggests that a role name must be unique *without
> Azure* so let's get all the randomness we can get :).
I might be wildly off, but I /think/ that:
- using a prefix of 10 characters to create a disk name, thus leaving
40 characters as random, with 36 choices per character,
- assuming that we're happy with a one in a quadrillion (10e15) chance
of collision,
- that 10,000 new disks are created each second,
means that it'll take about 2 trillion years until the probability of
a collision rises above 1 in a quadrillion. Or, when the universe is
~140 times older than it already is.
Just sayin' :)