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authorDavid Young <dyoung@hdfgroup.org>2020-03-11 19:24:59 (GMT)
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Mention the problems VFD SWMR has with variable-length data.
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@@ -175,3 +175,8 @@ primarily on Jelly.
object that the reader has open (possesses an hid_t), and max_lag
ticks later the reader tries to access the object by hid_t, the
reader get an error result, or crash, or access the wrong object.
+
+36. Make variable-length data work. It cannot work in a simple and
+ reliable fashion with VFD SWMR while structural metadata is mixed
+ with user data and stored in raw data pages. For a simple example,
+ see the variable-length string test, `vfd_swmr_vlstr`.