3.14.1.1. Collecting patch metadata

The list of patches is collected from the run/data/SSSSS/rank_RRRRR_patches.nml files (here SSSSS is a 5-digit snapshot number and RRRRR is a 5-digit MPI rank). These files contain the metadata for all patches.

The actual data resides either in data/run/snapshots.dat (one file for all snapshots), or in data/run/SSSSS/snapshot.dat (one file per snapshot), or in data/run/SSSSS/RRRRR_PPPPP.dat (one file per patch).