Leigh Orf wrote: > My concern - perhaps unfounded - is that the very small bits of what I > call > metadata (integers, lists of what variables are in the file, and other > very > small bits of data I write which describe stuff like the 3D data and is > necessary for my reader code) will be placed after the huge 3d data such > that accessing it will require long seeks through 3d data. The only reason > I > am worried about this is I noticed doing a h5dump on one of my small > metadata datasets that it took more than 10 seconds to output data on one > of > my files. I got the impression that perhaps h5dump was having to make its > way through the 3d arrays before getting to the metadata. However, my C > code > seemed to access the metadata quickly; perhaps it's an issue with h5dump.
I hit the same issue when inspecting metadata in some files. `h5dump -H` was what I needed. - Daniel _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
