racluster request

[Carter Bullard]

Hey Rick,
I've added the 'cont' flag to the racluster() configuration strategy.
So, if a configuration line has a cont at the end it just keeps going
to the next line in the file.

Just a first step, but could you test it a few times to see if it  
provides
any of the functionality that you were looking for?

I should have new code up this afternoon!!!

Carter


On Oct 26, 2006, at 9:48 PM, Denton, Rick wrote:

>> Hey Rick,
>> Oh, I had a simple suggestion.  I can add a "cont" flag to
>> help you get what you're interested in.  One problem with
>> your original suggestion is that it changes the whole
>> paradigm, so that older confif's would no longer work, this
>> would avoid that problem.
>>
>
> yea.. this is along the lines of my original thinking tho reversed
> logic..
> with a 'final' flag instead of a 'cont' flag either way :)..
>
> this extends it a fair bit with minimal change to existing setups  
> which
> is a good thing.
>
> it isn't as flexible as it could be but adding the flexibility would
> break existing stuff which is bad but may be handy..
>
> however, using a format like that from my last rant could  
> potentially do
> both.. but is more effort.. but gets the flexibility and the parser  
> for
> the tree building should parse single entries also as a boring tree  
> full
> of leaf nodes so _could_ remain compatible with existing racluster
> config files?
>
> this again is not as flexible as full flow control language or the  
> named
> trees and jumping around bizzo but that is probably being all about  
> the
> journey rather than the destination :).. ie entertaining to  
> conceive but
> doesn't warrant the usefulness of the gained functionality :)
>
>> The "-M ramon" operation causes the program to duplicate the
>> record and reverse all the fields.  That may seem weird at
>> first, but what it does is remove all the directional
>> semantics.  What you end up with is all the objects are now
>> in the 'src' fileds, and the metrics represent transmitted
>> and received.  May seem weird, but it works.
>
> :/...
>
> yea.. which is really what i want in my particular case here..  
> (back to
> direction based).. but i've never been able to reproduce it, break it
> all down and put it back together again such that it adds up.. i  
> should
> ahve another look at it it has been a while :\
>