Hi John, On Dec 19, 2011, at 3:03 PM, John Knutson wrote:
> John Knutson wrote: >> One thing that I might do to quantify this is save a copy of one of the >> files between rsyncs and do a binary diff afterward to see what's really >> changing. Unfortunately I don't have the ins and outs of the HDF5 file >> format stored in my brain so interpretation of the results of such a test >> will be time consuming. >> > On a related note, are there any test tools that do a verbose, raw-ish dump > of an hdf5 file? That is, something that turns the low-level format stuff > into readable text that I can subsequently use diff on. The details as in > what's in http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/H5.format.html. So far I've been > looking at diffs using od (gnu. using hex output. Seriously, who uses octal > anymore? :-) Try using the 'h5debug' tool in the tools/misc subdirectory. You should be able to walk the low level file structure with it (and a handy copy of the file format spec. :-). Quincey _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
