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[netCDF #MOB-465267]: Increasing maximum record size

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  • Subject: [netCDF #MOB-465267]: Increasing maximum record size
  • Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:20:50 -0700
Sergey,

What version of netCDF are you modifying?

In netCDF versions 3.6.0 and later, there is no practical limit to the size of 
a record, As the table in section 4.3 of the NetCDF User's Guide, shows, the 
size of a record can be up to 8 exabytes divided by the number of records.

Could you possibly send a CDL (what would be the output from ncdump -h) that 
shows the file structure you would like to create, including the actual sizes 
of the dimensions?  If so, I might be able to duplicate the problem here and 
see if it is a bug.  Or if you can construct such a CDL file that gets a 
similar error with "ncgen -v foo.cdl", then I'm pretty sure I could diagnose 
the problem.

I don't think you should even try increasing X_UINT_MAX.  It is supposed to 
refer to the maximum value of an unsigned integer in the external (on disk) 
representation, although it may have also been expropriated for other uses 
(which would be bad style).

--Russ





Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                     http://www.unidata.ucar.edu



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: MOB-465267
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed