[rrd-developers] Re: Architecture-dependent RRD file format

[Tobias Oetiker]

Yesterday Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 08:36:29AM +0100, Tobias Oetiker wrote:
>
> > Today Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > This doesn't sound like too much work, though it would require
> > > breaking backward compatibility.  If the xdr routines are used for
> > > RPC, they should be pretty quick, and the code in glibc looks
> > > simple, so the performance impact should not be too great.
> > >
> > > Are there other changes already in progress which will break
> > > backward compatibility?  That is, will the rrd_version be
> > > incremented?  If so, I would be willing to do some work on
> > > implementing an xdr-based format.
> >
> > well there are features in the development tree which break backward
> > compatibility but they are done in a way, so that if they are not
> > used, still the old format is used ...
> >
> > I would imagine an implementation where usage of xdr is optional ...
> > if rrdtool is used in an embeded system it does not make sense to
> > require xdr ... even worse it may not be available on all platforms
> > ...
> >
> > I could see xdr even going into the 1.0.x tree if it was done in a way
> > where the format was recogniced from the magick cookie in the rrd
> > header ...
>
> How about creating a different cookie for float_cookie to indicate that
> the RRD is architecture-independent?  At configure time, we could check
> whether the system has xdr routines, and if so, compile in support for
> architecture-independent RRDs (in which xdr would be used).

Hi Matt,

Exactly ... this is what I have been trying to tell you ... I
assumed, that by encoding the cookie with xdr you would get a
special value anyway, but having a exlicit xdr cookie may be even
better, just in cas the xdr float format is 'almost' the same as
the native format on some architecture.

tobi

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