Dennis Heimbigner

> faster to download a single small file than to download multiple files true, but we have use cases where the client code is walking a large set of netcdf...

Note that the issue for me is: for what use-cases is lazy metadata download better than consolidated metadata. The latter is better in the cases where you know that you...

As you know, both HDF5 and netcdf support setting endianness on a per-array basis. Practically speaking, I have never seen a netcdf file in which the endiannes differed across arrays....

WRT format strings. The binary and large binary distinction seem odd to me. I assume it is trying to provide information about how to store the binary string. I would...

WRT the time types, that has been an issue with netcdf for a while. Currently, times are stored as integers or strings and an attribute is used to specify its...

WRT netcdf, this does affect coordinate variables since I think that the coordinate variable has to be checked to ensure that it has the same offsets as the variable to...

let me make sure I understand this the transform of this proposal. 1. it does not have any impact on the actual storage format 2. it only applies at read/write...

If we were to implement Vlen then I believe that in effect we are extending the V2 spec. That means that the implementation has to be interoperable with all other...

> ... vlenarray does not use pickling: Are you sure? The documentation says it is relevant and I assume that it is used to serialize the elements of the array.

```` By default, the zarr created uses the Blosc compressor -- this must be explicitly turned off at the creation of the dataArray if the zarr output is to be...