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authorFrank Baker <fbaker@hdfgroup.org>2000-03-08 22:03:11 (GMT)
committerFrank Baker <fbaker@hdfgroup.org>2000-03-08 22:03:11 (GMT)
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[svn-r2002] Changed 'boot block' to 'super block'.
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@@ -211,11 +211,11 @@
</tr>
<tr>
<td>User-defined block which is truncated by the size of the
- HDF4 file header so that the HDF5 boot block file address
+ HDF4 file header so that the HDF5 super block file address
doesn't change.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
- <td>The HDF5 boot block and data, unmodified by adding the
+ <td>The HDF5 super block and data, unmodified by adding the
HDF4 wrapper.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
@@ -234,9 +234,9 @@
an out of date wrapper.
<p>If there is no user block then we have a problem. The HDF5
- boot block must be moved to make room for the HDF4 file header.
- But moving just the boot block causes problems because all file
- addresses stored in the file are relative to the boot block
+ super block must be moved to make room for the HDF4 file header.
+ But moving just the super block causes problems because all file
+ addresses stored in the file are relative to the super block
address. The only option is to shift the entire file contents
by 512 bytes to open up a user block (too bad we don't have
hooks into the Unix i-node stuff so we could shift the entire