Re: [ROOT] Merging files

From: Pasha Murat (630)840-8237@169G ((630)840-8237@169G)
Date: Thu Nov 29 2001 - 16:09:39 MET


Christian: the whole point of TChain is to allow processing of the data volumes
above 2 GBytes. TChain doesnt' merge the files physically - it is a list of files, 
so 2 GByte limit doesnt' exist for it. The bottom line: either TChain::Merge or 
TChain::Add will do.
								- best, Pasha
Christian Schmitt wrote:
> 
> Hi ROOTers,
> 
> I have the following problem: I need to merge several hundred files, each
> containing the same tree. The total size is something like 10 GB.
> So I cannot use just TChain::Merge because of the 2GB limit of root-files.
> 
> Now my wuestion is: how can I merge the files such that ideally I get 5 to 6
> files with each having a filesize < 2GB ?
> 
> It should be a solution which works in general, i.e. doesn't make an
> asumption on the structure of the tree in the files (the only thing known is
> that the trees are simple trees, i.e. only integers, or floats are stored).
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
>         Christian Schmitt



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