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| -rw-r--r-- | release_docs/RELEASE.txt | 14 |
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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 447f16e..053d321 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -576,6 +576,20 @@ New Features Tools: ------ + - Added h5delete tool + + Deleting HDF5 storage when using the VOL can be tricky when the VOL + does not create files. The h5delete tool is a simple wrapper around + the H5Fdelete() API call that uses the VOL specified in the + HDF5_VOL_CONNECTOR environment variable to delete a "file". If + the call to H5Fdelete() fails, the tool will attempt to use + the POSIX remove(3) call to remove the file. + + Note that the HDF5 library does currently have support for + H5Fdelete() in the native VOL connector. + + (DER - 2020/12/16) + - h5repack added options to control how external links are handled. Currently h5repack preserves external links and cannot copy and merge |