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>To: address@hidden >From: Tim Davis <address@hidden> >Subject: large files in NETCDF 3.4 under HPUX 11 >Organization: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. >Keywords: 200201231302.g0ND2Yx07542 netCDF 3.4 HP-UX 11.0 large files Hi Tim, > I work in the area of finite element structural mechanics for tire > applications. Our in-house analysis code uses a finite-element-specific > data format which is built on top of NETCDF 3.4 . As our analysis needs > have grown, we are encountering larger and larger data sets. It is > becoming more common for us to generate files that exceed 2 gig. > > Generally, we have no difficulty with this limitation on DEC, SUN, and > LINUX platforms. For example, using the 'ext3' file system on LINUX, we > build NETCDF with the additional gcc flags '-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE > -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64' and our code can then accomodate files that > exceed 2 gig. > > Do you know of comparable flags for HPUX 11.0 ? This is the one > platform for which we have not been able to overcome the file size > limitation. Both our NFS installation (for networked file systems) and > our HPUX 11 local file systems have been configured to accomodate the 64 > bit (rather than 32 bit) file size limitations. We have the ansic compiler for HP-UX 11, and I thought using the CFLAGS=+DD64 would do it, since that uses the LP64 data model. But I just tried it and got an assertion violation just as it was trying to write past the 2 Gbyte limit: $ ./big0 Assertion failed: *posp == OFF_NONE || *posp == lseek(nciop->fd, 0, SEEK_CUR), file posixio.c, line 189 Abort(coredump) /test/russ$ ls -l big.nc total 4212216 -rw-r--r-- 1 russ ustaff 2147483647 Jan 23 12:49 big.nc I also tried CFLAGS='+DD64 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE' with the same result, though I had no reason to believe those were the right defines to use. So although I suspect HP-UX 11.0 has Large File Support, I don't know how to use it. If you find out, please let me know. --Russ