Hi, Here it is the answer from Elena Pourmal of the HDF group. It seems that the 'inode' info does effectively exists, and can retrieved :)
---------- Missatge transmès ---------- Subject: Re: Dataset unique identifier Date: Thursday 31 January 2008 From: Elena Pourmal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Francesc Altet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Francesc, please look at H5Gget_objinfo in 1.6 and at H5Oget_info and H5Lget _info in 1.8 objno (addr) is what you probably looking for (address of the object in the file) Elena At 9:02 PM +0100 1/31/08, Francesc Altet wrote: >Hi, > >Lately a user of PyTables (a library based on HDF5) has shown interest >in implementing links in it. After a brief analysis, we realized that, >in order to avoid inconsistencies in PyTables' object tree cache >between several possible different (hard) reference to a dataset, we >would need an identifier that would be provided by HDF5 so that it >would be the same across all the links to the actual data in disk (kind >of a 'inode' in a filesystem). > >Is there a way to get such a unique identifier? > >Thanks! > >-- >>0,0< Francesc Altet http://www.carabos.com/ >V V Cárabos Coop. V. Enjoy Data > "-" > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >This mailing list is for HDF software users discussion. >To subscribe to this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Elena Pourmal The HDF Group 1901 So First ST. Suite C-2 Champaign, IL 61820 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (217)333-0238 (office) (217)333-9049 (fax) ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This mailing list is for HDF software users discussion. To subscribe to this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- -- >0,0< Francesc Altet http://www.carabos.com/ V V Cárabos Coop. V. Enjoy Data "-" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
