[MOAB-dev] question about mbzoltan

[Jason Kraftcheck]

On 09/01/2011 12:40 PM, Jason Kraftcheck wrote:
> On 09/01/2011 12:22 PM, Iulian Grindeanu wrote:
>> Hello, I have a small file that I am partitioning in 2, with mbpart you
>> can get mbpart if you configure moab  with  --enable-mbzoltan
>> --with-zoltan=/home/fathom/3rdparty/Zoltan_v3.3
>> --with-parmetis=/home/fathom/3rdparty/ParMETIS3_1/gcc  (at least on mcs
>> network)
>>
>> So the command I am using is
>>
>> mbpart 2 MeshFiles/unittest/iGeom/shell.h5m shell_p2.h5m
>>
>> It seems to be working fine, the mesh is partitioned in 2, there are some
>> tags defined in shell_p2.h5m
>>
>> But one existing variable length tag, that should have not been modified
>> at all, has one wrong value.
>>
>> Do you have any idea what am I doing wrong? Or is this a bug in mbpart?
>>
> 
> If it is a bug, then it is probably in the HDF5 writer, not in mbpart.

I guess we were both wrong.  There were two bugs: one in ProgOptions.cpp
that caused mbpart to think that the -R flag was specified and one in
ReorderTool that corrupted the tag data.  Fixed in r5148.

- jason