[rrd-users] cross-platform export?

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today Alex Johnson wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Tobias Oetiker <tobi at oetiker.ch> wrote:
>
> > Hi Alex,
> >
> > Yesterday Alex Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm new to rrd, but have gotten a request to import rrd files into
> > plot.ly.
> > > This can already be done by exporting from rrd to xml first, but it would
> > > be even better if we can omit that step. But I run into a problem when I
> > > try it, because I don't know where the file was created:
> > >
> > > ERROR: This RRD was created on another architecture
> > > Is there any way around this, so I can export rrd data on my system
> > > (ubuntu) regardless of where it was created?
> >
> > no, not with rrdtool ... obviously you could write a cross-platform
> > parser for the rrdtool data format.
> >
> >
> Ah OK, I see it now in rrd_format.h. Seems like more of a project than I
> can take on, unfortunately. I'm curious though, how many variations on the
> architecture are there? Is it just big/little-endian? Looks like the test
> is just based on the RRD\0 header and one double-precision float.

well the test is not perfect ...

there are differences in little/big endianes and also in alignment

cheers
tobi

> Alex
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> > cheers
> > tobi
> >
> >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Alex
> > >
> > >
> >
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