[Orca-dev] Simple question (I hope)

[David Michaels]

First, a brief introduction:

I've been on the Orca users list for a year and a half, and have been 
using Orca for a bit longer than that.  I've been blissfully submerged 
in Sun-land since '89, using them professionally since '91.

I've recently aided in the development of the AIX'allator using Rajesh's 
base script (which itself was cobbled together from multiple devs, as I 
understand it).  I joined this list because I want to contribute more.  
I have updates to the AIXallator I'd like to "subverse", and have some 
Winallator fixes as well that might be worthy of inclusion.

On to the question:

This question has to do with how Orca handles data changes mid-stream.  
E.g., if a new mountpoint appears, does Orca expect for a new datafile 
(with a new header) to be generated, or can it handle the injection of a 
new header line in the middle of the file?

I've been cleaning up and tweaking the aforementioned AIXallator a fair 
amount in recent days, and this problem manifested in testing.  One of 
my hosts stopped updating, and I think I narrowed it down to a new 
header line appearing in the middle of a data file.  I can adjust for 
this pretty easily in the code, but I want to be sure what Orca is 
expecting.

Thoughts?

--Dave "Dragon" Michaels