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document the HDF5 issue with releasing the free space

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suggest using h5repack after each deletion to get the file size right
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q-posev 2022-01-24 11:52:25 +01:00
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@ -925,7 +925,12 @@ trexio_hdf5_has_$group_str$ (trexio_t* const file)
**Note:** in early versions of the HDF5 library (v < 1.10) unlinking an object was not working as expected
and the associated memory was not necessarily freed (see [[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1124994/removing-data-from-a-hdf5-file][this StackOverflow discussion]] for example).
Nevertheless, we highly recommend to reopen the file in SAFE mode (e.g. ~'r'~ or ~'w'~) after deleting the data.
Nevertheless, some space might remain occupied even after deleting the associated object in recent version.
To take the best use of the deleted file space, we recommend to write the deleted group within the same session
(i.e. before closing the TREXIO file).
In principle, one can use HDF5-provided ~h5repack~ binary, which copies all existing objects from one file into another.
Thus, any corrupted/lost file space will remain in the first file. The use of ~h5repack~ is highly encouraged.
#+begin_src c :tangle delete_group_hdf5.h :exports none
trexio_exit_code trexio_hdf5_delete_$group$ (trexio_t* const file);
@ -941,6 +946,7 @@ trexio_hdf5_delete_$group$ (trexio_t* const file)
// delete the link to the existing group: this should free the associated space
H5Gclose(f->$group$_group);
f->$group$_group = 0;
herr_t status = H5Ldelete(f->file_id, $GROUP$_GROUP_NAME, H5P_DEFAULT);
if (status < 0) return TREXIO_FAILURE;