Hello, 
HDF5 stores all information about objects in memory in a B-tree. When it writes 
data out to a file on disk, there should be a mapping between the b-tree and 
the actual offsets in file where the objects are stored. Is there some 
documentation where this mapping is explained? For example, if I have an HDF5 
file with a root group and two datasets,
what are the exact offsets in the hdf5 file where the datasets get stored? At 
what offsets can I find their headers?

I looked (briefly) at the file format specification, it talks about the various 
header formats etc., but I dont think it talks about object-->offset mapping.

Thanks for your help,
Kshitij
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