Alex,

I am sorry, I was wrong. HDF5 1.8.8 should support attributes bigger than 64KB. 
Could you please send the example of failing program to [email protected]?

Thank you!

Elena

On Jan 3, 2012, at 11:03 PM, Elena Pourmal wrote:

> Alex,
> 
> HDF5 doesn't support attributes bigger than 64K. Dense storage was introduced 
> to handle large numbers of attributes, but not a bigger size.
> 
> Are you saying that you cannot create an attribute bigger than 16KB (and less 
> than 64K)? If so, an example program that demonstrates the issue will be 
> highly appreciated.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Elena
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> 
> On Dec 28, 2011, at 1:17 PM, AV wrote:
> 
>> I tried to enable dense attribute storage by using 
>> H5Pset_attr_phase_change() with both max_compact and min_dense set to zero. 
>> However it did not work and attributes are still stored in the object 
>> header. That causes the application to fail when attribute size reaches 64K. 
>> Analyzing the HDF5 codes I found that since the latest_format property is 
>> set (by default) to false the dense storage request is simply ignored. I 
>> tried to set it to true by using H5Pset_libver_bounds(id, H5F_LIBVER_LATEST, 
>> H5F_LIBVER_LATEST). As a result however the application started to crash. I 
>> use 1.8.6. If anybody was able to use dense storage for attributes larger 
>> than 16K please share your thoughts. Thanks, Alex 
>> View this message in context: Dense storage for large attributes in 1.8
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