On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Rein Henrichs <[email protected]> wrote: > Excerpts from Nigel Kersten's message of Thu Aug 26 11:27:25 -0700 2010: >> So I feel that it would be immensely useful for Facter to optionally >> store a certain amount of historical data about the fact evaluation. >> >> It would be great to be able to simply interrogate info like "when did >> the amount of RAM in this machine change?" "what is my kernel version >> history?" etc etc. > > Yes, this would be very useful. That said, it's not that we need Facter > to store historical data. We need *something* to store historical data. > Probably not Facter. Probably an inventory service. Probably something > that provides a rich query interface, like CouchDB.
But if we're considering adding a ttl/caching for facts, aren't we talking about Facter storing historical data anyway? Luke's next mail he says: "Would it be acceptable if, say, the puppet agent provided a simple interface to the server-side fact storage, which will already have this? We're working on designing something like this right now, although it's more mental goo than real ideas right now" This would be ok, but how on earth does this work with load-balancing? You have no guarantee that you're hitting the same local-to-the-server fact store when interrogating. > -- > > Rein Henrichs > http://puppetlabs.com > > This message was brought to you by Linux, the free unix. > Windows without the X is like making love without a partner. > Sex, Drugs & Linux Rules > win-nt from the people who invented edlin > apples have meant trouble since eden > Linux, the way to get rid of boot viruses > (By [email protected], MaDsen Wikholm) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en. > > -- nigel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
