NDT-DEV email list created

Revision: 619
Author:   

Date:     Wed Sep 14 02:31:18 2011
Log:      Explained why the meta data files are sometimes unavailable.
http://code.google.com/p/ndt/source/detail?r=619

Modified:
 /wiki/NDTDataFormat.wiki

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--- /wiki/NDTDataFormat.wiki    Fri Sep  2 08:56:52 2011
+++ /wiki/NDTDataFormat.wiki    Wed Sep 14 02:31:18 2011
@@ -57,9 +57,12 @@

 ===meta data file===

-The meta data file is always created for every test session.
-
-This file contains the names of the other files, the clients & servers IP  
addr and FQDN, and the encoded line of the web100/analysis data. The meta  
data contains lines in the following order:
+The meta data file is always created for every test session. If the  
particular test does not have a corresponding meta data file, it can be  
caused by the following issues:
+ * the test was abruptly interrupted by some unexpected error
+ * there was an error during file creation (for example lack of disk space)
+ * the test was performed by the old NDT version, that did not write meta  
data files
+
+The meta data file contains the names of the other files, the clients &  
servers IP addr and FQDN, and the encoded line of the web100/analysis data.  
The meta data contains lines in the following order:

 || *#* || *Name* || *Description/Comment* ||
 || 1. || Date/Time || Timestamp of the beginning of the test session ||