[MINC-users] minc volume size limit

[Oliver Gress]

Hi Andrew,

thanks for your reply. 
I'm using MINC 1.4, but the HDF type is a very good reason to change to MINC 
2. 
I have written applications with the minc libraries of version 1.4, mainly the 
volume_io lib. Can you tell me if I can just use the minc2 libs or do I have 
to be aware of changes, because I'm running out of time for big 
reimplementations. 

Best regards
Oliver

On Thursday 22 November 2007 16:19, Andrew Janke wrote:
> On Nov 23, 2007 2:07 AM, Oliver Gress
>
> <oliver.gress at medizin.uni-leipzig.de> wrote:
> > I've got a question about the size limit of a minc volume. As I work with
> > quite dense data, I sometimes ran into errors like the following, that
> > seems to arise when I want to create a too large volume:
> >
> > Processing:.mincconcat: ncx.c:1716: ncx_put_size_t: Assertion `*ulp <=
> > 4294967295U' failed.
> > Aborted
>
> Which version of mincconcat are you running?  And if it is MINC 2 is
> the file netcdf or HDF?
>
> One of the primary reasons for the shift to MINC2 (and thus HDF5) was
> to get around the size limitations of netcdf. If you are using large
> volumes be sure to either use '-2' when you originally create all your
> data in MINC (and then it will flow on) or to be sure set this env
> variable:
>
>    export MINC_FORCE_V2=1
>
> you can check on your file types using "file".
>
> ie:
>
> gordon:map$ file /tmp/foo/*.mnc
> /tmp/foo/green.mnc:                   Hierarchical Data Format (version 5)
> data /tmp/foo/out.mnc:                     NetCDF Data Format data
> /tmp/foo/trans.mnc:                   NetCDF Data Format data
>
> You can convert a netcdf MINC file to HDF very easily using the following:
>
>    $ mincconvert -2 in.mnc out.mnc