Rob Newman wrote: > Hi RRD folks, > > I know this is probably going to garner a 'nope, can't do that > response', but I was wondering if the RRD developers (Tobi et al) had > considered the capability of users adding comments to RRD files along > the lines of timestamp:comment string that could be added in the > header of an RRD archive. These comments could then be plotted on the > graphical output when RRDtool graph is called. > <comments> <!-- 2007-06-01 02:46:40 PDT / epochtime --> <row><v>New instrument</v></row> <!-- 2007-05-01 02:46:40 PDT / epochtime --> <row><v>Mass recenter</v></row> </comments>
One reason to turn this down is that rrd-files always have the same size, the "slots" for data are allocated when the rrd is created. Adding comments would break this. Unless you allocated slots for x messages of y chars at creation. Leif _______________________________________________ rrd-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users
