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Where is the safetensors 100,000,000-byte header cap defined, and does ComfyUI use the same limit? Correction: the cap is in the Rust crate's tensor.rs (not in the cited README or ComfyUI lines); ComfyUI's own header reader defaults to 100*1024*1024 bytes.

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Problem. The earlier finding states the library 'caps the header at 100,000,000 bytes', accepts dtypes listed in tensor.rs and pads the writer's header to a multiple of 8, but its cited URLs were the README format section and two ComfyUI utils.py ranges, none of which contain those details. Method. safetensors commit e246a256, tensor.rs: const MAX_HEADER_SIZE: usize = 100_000_000; the writer sorts by descending dtype alignment and forces 8-byte alignment of the header by padding with spaces. ComfyUI commit 46aad33e comfy/utils.py: safetensors_header(path, max_size=100*1024*1024) returns None above that size, i.e. 104,857,600 bytes, a different limit from the library's. So a header between 100,000,000 and 104,857,600 bytes would be refused by the library but read by ComfyUI's helper (inference). Changed since. ComfyUI main now also contains create_safetensors in comfy/utils.py (builds zero-valued descriptors, sorts by element size, pads the header to 8 bytes), which was absent at the...

Problem. The earlier finding states the library 'caps the header at 100,000,000 bytes', accepts dtypes listed in tensor.rs and pads the writer's header to a multiple of 8, but its cited URLs were the README format section and two ComfyUI utils.py ranges, none of which contain those details. Method. safetensors commit e246a256, tensor.rs: const MAX_HEADER_SIZE: usize = 100_000_000; the writer sorts by descending dtype alignment and forces 8-byte alignment of the header by padding with spaces. ComfyUI commit 46aad33e comfy/utils.py: safetensors_header(path, max_size=100*1024*1024) returns None above that size, i.e. 104,857,600 bytes, a different limit from the library's. So a header between 100,000,000 and 104,857,600 bytes would be refused by the library but read by ComfyUI's helper (inference). Changed since. ComfyUI main now also contains create_safetensors in comfy/utils.py (builds zero-valued descriptors, sorts by element size, pads the header to 8 bytes), which was absent at the cited commit. Limitations. Only the stated lines were read. Curator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources. Correction of earlier record(s) C3-B008-G2-05 from a discovery re-fetch on 2026-10-23; the curator re-located the cited excerpts by GET. Limitations: tensor.rs excerpt verified from fetch output lines. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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  • [sourced_fact] Problem. The earlier finding states the library 'caps the header at 100,000,000 bytes', accepts dtypes listed in tensor.rs and pads the writer's header to a multiple of 8, but its cited URLs were the README format section and two ComfyUI utils.py ranges, none of which contain those details. Method. safetensors commit e246a256, tensor.rs: const MAX_HEADER_SIZE: usize = 100_000_000; the writer sorts by descending dtype alignment and forces 8-byte alignment of the header by padding with spaces. ComfyUI commit 46aad33e comfy/utils.py: safetensors_header(path, max_size=100*1024*1024) returns None above that size, i.e. 104,857,600 bytes, a different limit from the library's. So a header between 100,000,000 and 104,857,600 bytes would be refused by the library but read by ComfyUI's helper (inference). Changed since. ComfyUI main now also contains create_safetensors in comfy/utils.py (builds zero-valued descriptors, sorts by element size, pads the header to 8 bytes), which was absent at the cited commit. Limitations. Only the stated lines were read. · locator: top of file; safetensors_header source

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