A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
[Digital^Dude] ® wrote: >Great. We have a database that cannot be edited :) Thank you RRD! That reveals that you have no understanding of the purpose of an RRD database. If you want an editable database, then RRD isn't the tool for you. Similarly, if you want something that stores exact values, or values at arbitrary timestamps, then RRD is not the right tool. It's not the tool's fault if you pick the wrong tool for the job. RRD was designed to do one thing - efficiently. It came out of the MRTG project, and is designed to store 'continuous' data (typified by router interface traffic rates) efficiently over long periods. To do this, it normalises the data into fixed steps, and consolidates that data according to the users instructions so that data may be kept long term - typically keeping lower resolution for older data. The design also means that data size is deterministic (it's set at the time of database creation and never changes), and is also efficient in the way updates happen (RRD = Round Robin Database) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-robin#Computing Thus there is no requirement for editing the data. The past is in the past. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e-books. _______________________________________________ rrd-users mailing list rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users
