This tool is possible and it is on our wish list. My usual appeal:
If someone is interested to sponsor tool's development we can come up with cost estimate. If someone is interested and willing to develop and maintain this tool, The HDF Group developers will be more than happy to guide the development! Elena ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Elena Pourmal The HDF Group http://hdfgroup.org 1800 So. Oak St., Suite 203, Champaign IL 61820 217.531.6112 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Oct 8, 2013, at 1:48 AM, "Wintersberger, Eugen" <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree, something like h5fck would be an interesting tool. > Maybe one can even do more. What I was thinking about was something like > an HDF5 carving tool (like scalpel for file systems) which tries to > rescue as much data as possible from a corrupted file. > I do not know if this is possible. I just had a look at the binary data > layout of HDF5 files and was wondering if something like this already > exists ;) > > regards > Eugen > > On Mon, 2013-10-07 at 17:05 +0000, Miller, Mark C. wrote: >> Not sure if it will 'repair' a file but 'h5debug' might help diagnose what >> is wrong with the file? >> For that matter, 'h5dump' and 'h5ls' also migth provide some information >> >> I think maybe The HDF Group could use an h5fck (like fsck for a >> file-system). >> >> Mark >> >> >> On 10/7/13 3:37 AM, "Wintersberger, Eugen" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi folks >>> though I never experienced problems with corrupted HDF5 files I just >>> wonder if there is a tool available to repair damaged HDF5 files? >>> >>> regards >>> Eugen >>> -- >>> --------------------------------------- >>> DI. Dr. Eugen Wintersberger >>> >>> FS-EC >>> DESY >>> Notkestr. 85 >>> D-22607 Hamburg >>> Germany >>> >>> E-Mail: [email protected] >>> Telefon: +49-40-8998-1917 >>> --------------------------------------- >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. >> [email protected] >> http://mail.lists.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_lists.hdfgroup.org > > _______________________________________________ > Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. > [email protected] > http://mail.lists.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_lists.hdfgroup.org _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.lists.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_lists.hdfgroup.org
