Matthew Boeckman wrote: >Question for the group that I haven't found an answer to in the >archives/manual. > >I've got a handful of servers all sharing a common NFS mount, and want >to setup some RRD info coming from each server to go into a single >database. Each host will be sending it's info every 6 hours, and I guess >the main question is, can/does RRD have something that let's me queue >this stuff? Basically my concern is 4 hosts writing to the same file on >this NFS server. I can just use 4 seperate RRD files, but wanted to keep >it simpler and just have 4 different DS's. > >Sadly, NFS file locking is not an option in my environment. > > > You might end up with problems with "could not lock RRD" since only one rrdtool instance can write to the file at once. What if you add a server? Frankly it's a pain in the ass to add DS's to an RRD. IMHO You're much better off using multiple RRDs.
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