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by bbrazil 3143 days ago
There is a transition feature: https://www.robustperception.io/accessing-data-from-promethe...

The problem with data migration is that the two versions of the system lay out the data quite differently, so converting from one to the other would take a lot of disk seeks. In the worst case you could be looking potentially at days to convert the data over, which isn't really an option for most systems that care about older data.

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Seek time is not relevant, our stuff is on SSDs. Thanks for the link, I've known about the transition feature.