Hi Steve, Today Steve Shipway wrote:
> Thanks for the correction! My info is out of date, I'm sure you > said at LISA08 you were intending to get cross-platform support > in 1.4. Maybe it just didn't make it in this time... yes I did ... :-) > I've never seen the 0004 since we don't (yet) use HW RRAs at our site. > > So, to clarify, > > RRDTool 1.0.x can READ/UPDATE 0001 and can CREATE 0001 > > RRDTool 1.2.x can READ/UPDATE 0001,0003 and can CREATE 0003 > > RRDTool 1.3.x can READ/UPDATE 0001,0003,0004 and can CREATE 0003,0004 > (Version 0004 is only used if certain HW RRAs are active) > > RRDTool 1.4.x will be the same as 1.3 > > RRDTool 1.5.x is intended to Read/update 0001,0003,0004,0005 and CREATE 0005 > (platform independent) > > Will you be dropping backwards support for old RRD formats in > 1.5? I think a lot of people still have some 0001-format RRDs > lying around. A conversion tool for 0001->0003 would probably be > fairly easy to create... no I don't intend to ... for large deployments, I guess the 'best' thing would be if 1.5 was even able to read/write old formats cross platform ... but I am not sure if we can manage that in a sane fashion ... but since I am intending to put an abstraction layer into the system for accessing the data this may well be possible ... cheers tobi > > Steve > ________________________________________ > From: Tobias Oetiker [[email protected]] > > 1.3 introduces format 0004 for new types of HW ... but this only > gets active when these types are configured > > 1.4 will not update the fileformat > > 1.5 will bring the cross platform format > > cheers > tobi > -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland http://it.oetiker.ch [email protected] ++41 62 775 9902 / sb: -9900 _______________________________________________ rrd-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users
