Dear all
One of my colleagues gots the idea to have included into each netCDF file a
checksum or a signature to indicate if the file gots changed by some kind o
f
damaging (a virus or some hardware failures).
The reason why we need such a information is the files gots larger and larg
er
and you can't guarantee if a file which comes from a backup or from a file
copy is the original one.
We have had a very interesting hardware failure on a harddisk on one of our
systems which inhibits the copying of a netCDF file in that way that's only
one parameter of a file was not readable. It takes a long time to understan
d
why this file on an other machine was readed right.
If there will be automaticly included a kind of self diagnostic it is much
easier to find out why some data does not look as supposed. And you know
immediatly that there is something wrong!
I think if there are ideas how to implent this feature it should be done. I
t
is very important for all of us!
cheers
Reimar
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