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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index c8061f5..647cb8f 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -184,6 +184,19 @@ New Features Parallel Library: ----------------- + - Create VDS in parallel + The creation, along with reading and writing of Virtual Data Sets (VDS) + is now supported. + + The VDS functionality is substantially that of the serial VDS version + with a major exception being that we don't support "printf" style + source file selections for parallel VDS. The rationale for this + restriction is that we require all file operations to be + collective and printf VDS support may break that particular + requirement. + + (HDFFV-10287, RAW, 2018/07/18) + - Changed the default behavior in parallel when reading the same dataset in its entirely (i.e. H5S_ALL dataset selection) which is being read by all the processes collectively. The dataset mush be contiguous, less than 2GB, and of an atomic datatype. |