HDF5 crash for allGroupPath failure to append in the attribute

[alfoa]

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Issue Description

A user reported the following issue with the HDF5

Hi to all,

I am trying to create a database with 1024 histories but the process crash with:

RuntimeError: Unable to create attribute (object header message is too large)

The database is generated but it contain 951 histories only. Do you have any suggestion?

The RAVEN version I am using is compiled from the default branch of the 10/28/18.

Please find attached the tail of the raven output log file.

Best Regards,

Paolo

Please attach the input file(s) that generate this error. The simpler the input, the faster we can find the issue.

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[alfoa]

No wrong results for the users but just a crash

[mandd]

issue closed