[MITgcm-devel] mnc and "global" files

[Ed Hill]

On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 22:13 -0400, Chris Hill wrote:
> Hi Ed,
> 
>   We have runs where there is a single "face" and a single three-d field 
> is greater than 2GB. Will those be able to use MNC per face files?

Hi Chris,

Yes!  In that case you will need to do the following:

  - run on an operating system and file system that together 
      support >2GB files (Linux and some of its file systems 
      have had this for a while)
  - compile your netCDF libs with the large-file-support 
      option enabled
  - then only manipulate the data set using other netCDF tools 
      that have the large-file-support option enabled since 
      there is a problem with backwards compatibility
      + NCO does (optionally) have this support
      - MatLAB (through mexcdf) currently *doesn't*

Ed

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