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Diffstat (limited to 'src/H5Dint.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/H5Dint.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/H5Dint.c b/src/H5Dint.c index 657f893..dd37beb 100644 --- a/src/H5Dint.c +++ b/src/H5Dint.c @@ -1827,7 +1827,12 @@ H5D__alloc_storage(const H5D_t *dset, hid_t dxpl_id, H5D_time_alloc_t time_alloc break; case H5D_VIRTUAL: - /* No-op for now VDSINC */ + /* No-op, as the raw data is stored elsewhere and the global + * heap object containing the mapping information is created + * when the layout message is encoded. We may wish to move the + * creation of the global heap object here at some point, but we + * will have to make sure is it always created before the + * dataset is closed. */ break; case H5D_LAYOUT_ERROR: @@ -1950,7 +1955,7 @@ H5D__init_storage(const H5D_t *dset, hbool_t full_overwrite, hsize_t old_dim[], } /* end block */ case H5D_VIRTUAL: - /* No-op for now VDSINC */ + /* No-op, as the raw data is stored elsewhere */ case H5D_LAYOUT_ERROR: case H5D_NLAYOUTS: @@ -2009,7 +2014,8 @@ H5D__get_storage_size(H5D_t *dset, hid_t dxpl_id, hsize_t *storage_size) break; case H5D_VIRTUAL: - /* Just set to 0 until private data is implemented VDSINC */ + /* Just set to 0, as virtual datasets do not actually store raw data + */ *storage_size = 0; break; |