Hi Konrad,

On Jul 18, 2011, at 7:39 AM, Konrad wrote:

> I wonder about the existing techniques aimed at avoiding data file
> corruption, be it from concurrent writes or process/machine death.  I am
> currently employing serialized copy-on-write semantics, but this will only
> work for infrequent writes on small files.

        We are working on adding a couple of mechanisms to the HDF5 library to 
help with the process/machine death issue.

> How do people get around these problems, perhaps there is mechanism that can
> sit on top of HDF5 to take care of this for me?

        I'm not certain, but the iRODS project might do what you want.

                Quincey
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