Hi John,
On Apr 11, 2010, at 11:49 AM, John Knutson wrote:
> Quincey Koziol wrote:
>> Hi John,
>>
>> On Apr 9, 2010, at 10:44 AM, John Knutson wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I'm currently in the process of trying to develop a data archive storage
>>> system for GPS data that is being received, and needs to be stored in
>>> real-time.
>>>
>> Currently, the HDF5 library doesn't support multiple processes
>> accessing the same file, where 1+ of those processes is writing/modifying
>> the file. We are going to have some form of single-writer/multiple-reader
>> access in the next major release, but it's still too early to make snapshots
>> of this feature for external testing.
>>
>> Quincey
>>
> Is there any way of working around this limitation? That's a pretty
> serious limitation for our purposes. Is there any kind of schedule that
> might hint at when such a capability might become available?
If you are interested in an alpha/early beta snapshot that contains
some support for the single-writer/multiple-reader (SWMR) feature, I think we
should have one ready in about a month. We don't currently have any plans to
add multiple-writer support.
Quincey
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