MergeChunks vertically merges a and b, i.e., if there is any sample with same timestamp in both a and b, the sample in a is discarded.

MergeOverlappingChunks removes the samples whose timestamp is overlapping.

NewDirReader returns a new Reader against sequentially numbered files in the given directory.

NewWriter returns a new writer against the given directory.

MagicChunks is 4 bytes at the head of a series file.

MagicChunksSize is the size in bytes of MagicChunks.

Meta holds information about a chunk of data.

Reader implements a ChunkReader for a serialized byte stream of series data.

Writer implements the ChunkWriter interface for the standard serialization format.

ByteSlice abstracts a byte slice.