A v2 object header message has a 2-byte size field. The writer truncated
larger sizes to 16 bits, so an attribute over ~64 KiB (or a compact
dataset of 65532-65535 bytes, whose layout message adds 4 bytes) produced
a file libhdf5 rejects ("message of unshareable class flagged as
shareable", "bad flag combination").
ObjectHeaderWriter::serialize now returns a Result and fails on any message
over MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE; FileWriter::finish propagates it. Compact storage
falls back to contiguous above 65531 bytes, the real limit. Dense storage
for large attributes remains future work.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
clawhdf5-format
Pure-Rust HDF5 binary format parsing and writing — no C dependencies.
Features
- Zero-copy superblock, object header, and B-tree parsing
- Chunked dataset read/write with filter pipelines
no_stdsupport (disablestdfeature)- Optional parallel reads via Rayon
- SHA-256 provenance tracking
Usage
use clawhdf5_format::Superblock;
let data = std::fs::read("data.h5").unwrap();
let sb = Superblock::from_bytes(&data).unwrap();
println!("HDF5 version {}.{}", sb.version_major(), sb.version_minor());
License
MIT