David, Yes that looks short and crisp. It should be enough to
serialize the physical data to a .msh file. I initially thought that
there was more to the n_subdomains functionality than just to let the
user know the count, when you print the EquationSystems. But
apparently not and so I don't think it matters !

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 1:34 PM, David Knezevic <[email protected]> wrote:
> Vijay S. Mahadevan wrote:
>>
>> Arvind, If you are interested in storing the surface/volume ids for
>> each element, you need to create additional data in Elem class. This
>> would be very similar to the subdomain_id() method. And you could also
>> set the partition while reading the mesh but I do not know how this
>> would affect the mesh topology or partitioning that internally goes on
>> through ParMetis interface. Hence, I've commented these out but it
>> should be easy to add/change this in read_mesh().
>>
>> For others who are not interested in using this extra memory, may be
>> we can make this as a configurable option ? If not, whoever needs this
>> functionality can add it themselves as and when a need occurs.
>>
>> Roy, I've attached the patch for the GmshIO.C file. I removed all
>> references to mesh_data and so this should not intervene if you decide
>> to pull this class out of the library later. If any of the additional
>> changes do not follow libmesh coding patterns, feel free to change
>> them.
>>
>> And do test the code with a ".msh" file using example 1. Let me know
>> if you have any questions.
>>
>> Vijay
>
> Arvind, Vijay: I've checked in the attached patch for GmshIO.C --- now
> libMesh element subdomain IDs are written out to .msh files. In light of the
> discussions on the n_subdomains functionality, I didn't check in any of the
> subdomain vector stuff in your patch, Vijay. Sound OK?
>
> - Dave
>

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