Re: storage format

J Nevil Brownlee <n.brownlee@auckland.ac.nz> Sun, 14 May 1995 09:33 UTC

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From: J Nevil Brownlee <n.brownlee@auckland.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: storage format
In-Reply-To: <199505121558.IAA18143@desiree.teleport.com> from "Jeff Yarnell" at May 12, 95 08:59:21 am
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Jeff Yarnell asked:
> I have noticed that the March opstat model draft, 
> "draft-ietf-opstat-oper-model-00.txt", has added 
> <tag-name-list> to the Lable section of the storage
> format. 
> Can someone explain why this was added?  Do the
> tags in the Label section have to be used
> by subsequent Device and Data sections?

The idea of the tag name list was that it's in the label section, at
the head of the file, so a program reading a 1404-format file can
allocate space for all the tags immediately rather than having to
scan the file to find out what tags are there.

You don't have to use all the tags appearing in label sections 
in the body of the file though.  

Cheers, Nevil

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storage format Jeff Yarnell
Re: storage format J Nevil Brownlee