Hi Ed,
As everyone has suggested, there are various perverse access patterns
where chunking can help, but I would generally suggest creating non-extendible
datasets as contiguous.
Quincey
> Howdy all!
>
> Another question relating to chunking - if we don't need it (i.e. for
> a dataset with no unlimited dimensions), do we still chunk it?
>
> Or is it better to leave it contiguous?
>
> (With the mental reservation that only chunked datasets will be able
> to take advantage of compression, when we get to that feature.)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ed
>
