[Carpet] Carpet IO oddity

[Christian David Ott]

Hi,

On Mon, 1 May 2006, Erik Schnetter wrote:

>
> No, this is not possible.  How were the data sets duplicated -- were they 
> ordered 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ..., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ..., or was it like 0, 1, 1, 2, 
> 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, ...?  Why did the run not abort after encountering HDF5 
> errors?  Did you maybe start the simulation twice, so that two instances 
> wrote output at the same time into the same directory?  Can you reproduce 
> this error, or was it a one-time event?
>

when Carpet thinks it is in recovery mode, old output files are not 
deleted and appended instead. I believe Wolfgang ran the same run twice 
without changing the output directory or deleting the old data -- or (and
as you suggest) twice at the same time.

  - Christian