Introduction
EventStorage package contains a library used by several DAQ
applications (ROS, SFI, SFO) to write data files. The library is also
used by offline software to write simulation output in the form of
ByteStream.
This package also contains an interface for reading data files
(DataReader) and some implementations of it. Those are used by the
Offline Software and by test programs of the DAQ.
Tag of EventStorage for release tdaq-01-09-01 is v1r17p20. Changes
since
previous release (tdaq-01-08-00, tag v1r17p9):
-
File formats:
- new file format, version 5 (since 2008), with Detector Mask defined as two 32 bit words
- no backward compatibility with old format version 1 (before 2003)
- backward compatibility with format version 2 (2003-2007), with Detector Mask defined as one 32 bit word
- new application FileConverter to convert files with format 2 into files with format 5
-
CallBack information extended
More detailed description of changes can be found in doc/ChangeLog