Re: Multi-Volume Archive + Live Data Playback for PCP Client Tools

[fche@xxxxxxxxxx (Frank Ch. Eigler)]

kenj wrote:

> [...]  One simple solution that might be acceptable for 95% of the
> cases would be to rule all of the metadata data differences (except
> instance domains) to be unsupported.  [...]

It'd be interesting to assess how many actual libraries of archives
would meet or fail this test.  Identical "pmdumplog -d"?

A set of outputs from an constantly-configured configured pmlogger may
pass OR fail, depending on whether the pmlogger ran long enough to
sample the entire set of metrics at least once.  (An early SIGTERM
might let only the "log once" metrics show up in the .meta file.)  Or
the order of first-appearance between metrics might be different.  Or
pmcd might have had a version update, and hinv.*.online metrics may
have appeared from one day to the next.

- FChE