[rrd-users] DS name length

Tobias Oetiker tobi at oetiker.ch
Sat Nov 19 22:48:24 CET 2011


Hi Jack,

Today Jack Tavares wrote:

> The last time I checked, the max length of a DS name was 20 bytes
> which meant 19 chars with a NULL terminator.
>
> Is that still true?

yes
>
> If so are there any plans to change that? or at least make it configurable
> at build time?

it is ... but your rrd files will become 'site specific'

cheers
tobi

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