The HDF5 File

Introduction

File Access Modes

File Creation and File Access Properties

Low-level File Drivers

Programming Model for Files

Creating a New File

Opening an Existing File

Closing a File

Using h5dump to View a File

File Function Summaries

Creating or Opening an HDF5 File

Closing an HDF5 File

File Property Lists

Creating a Property List

File Creation Properties

File Access Properties

Alternate File Storage Layouts and Low-level File Drivers

Identifying the Previously‐used File Driver

The POSIX (aka SEC2) Driver

The Direct Driver

The Log Driver

The Windows Driver

The STDIO Driver

The Memory (aka Core) Driver

The Family Driver

The Multi Driver

The Split Driver

The Parallel Driver

Code Examples for Opening and Closing Files

Example Using the H5F_ACC_TRUNC Flag

Example with the File Creation Property List

Example with the File Access Property List

Working with Multiple HDF5 Files