generic_tile.md

The generic tile is a tile prepended with some extra header data, so that it can be used stand-alone without requiring extra information from the array schema. A generic tile has the following on-disk format:

Field	Type	Description
Version number	uint32_t	Format version number of the generic tile
Persisted size	uint64_t	Persisted (e.g. compressed) size of the tile
Tile size	uint64_t	In-memory (e.g. uncompressed) size of the tile
Datatype	uint8_t	Datatype of the tile
Cell size	uint64_t	Cell size of the tile
Encryption type	uint8_t	Type of encryption used in filtering the tile
Filter pipeline size	uint32_t	Number of bytes in the serialized filter pipeline
Filter pipeline	Filter Pipeline	Filter pipeline used to filter the tile
Tile data	Tile	The serialized tile data