Are all the last_update values in status.dat always the same?

[Cary Petterborg]

The value for last_update in status.dat is the same for all records on our installation (30,000 services, 3300 hosts on 2.7-  yes, I know it's old). Are there instances where this would not be the case? It seems that it would have been much more efficient to just put the last_update in the file once at the top if it is always the same for each record. Then things like diff and rsync of the status.dat file would be *significantly* better. Is there a possible use of the last_update field that I'm unaware of that would make a single last_update entry for the file be a bad idea?

Cary Petterborg
petterborgca at ldschurch.org


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