[rrd-developers] Re: rrd format change ?

2001-03-16 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Today Alex van den Bogaerdt wrote: | | Jake Brutlag wrote: | | Tobi wrote: | so if we can find a format for rrd which is better to accomodate | future changes, I think it would be worth while doing the changes | now, and find a way to keep on reading old rrd files instead of |

[rrd-developers] Re: rrd format change ?

2001-03-15 Thread Jake Brutlag
so if we can find a format for rrd which is better to accomodate future changes, I think it would be worth while doing the changes now, and find a way to keep on reading old rrd files instead of adding more hacks and going to a better ormat later having evben more difficulty supporting old

[rrd-developers] Re: rrd format change ?

2001-03-15 Thread Terminator rAT
This sounds like a great idea to me. I bet we could regain that lost efficiency (and more) by using mmap(2) instead of stdio for the actual access to the RRD data. Tobi and I also discussed creating a native and portable (xml?) data format for RRD data files. I think this is a good idea, but

[rrd-developers] Re: rrd format change ?

2001-03-14 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Monday Jake Brutlag wrote: | Obviously there are some problems that changing the format could resolve, | but I didn't want to be the one to propose it. In a past life (okay, just 5 | years ago), I was working in tech support for a small database company and | there I learned that backwards