Writing large files from pnetcdf on IBM

[John Michalakes]

Hi Robert, I just tried it and it works. Thanks very much! -John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Latham [mailto:robl at mcs.anl.gov]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 3:02 PM
> To: John Michalakes; parallel-netcdf at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: Writing large files from pnetcdf on IBM
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 01:33:06PM -0600, Robert Latham wrote:
> > Ok, this is good information, especially that the NF_64BIT_OFFSET flag
> > is not creating CDF-2 files.  I will have to dig into this.  I'll send
> > an update when I know more...
> 
> As it turns out, John and I have both found the problem.  I introduced
> this bug while merging in some changes with serial netcdf, and it has
> remained undetected for some time.  There do not appear to be other bugs of
> this type from that merge. 
> 
> The attached patch will fix the problem of not creating CDF-2
> formatted files.  John, please give it a shot and let me know how the
> creation of your +2GB data sets works out.
> 
> Again, thanks for John's bug report and speedy followups.
> 
> ==rob
> 
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> Rob Latham
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