Florian Ziemen

How about using `csd` as a shorthand for consolidated (maybe even make both variants legal options)? Personally, I would prefer to make consolidated the default, and fall back to unconsolidated,...

No idea why, but it is handled that way in zarr python for zarr2 ... See your question here: https://github.com/zarr-developers/zarr-python/issues/720

My rough memory from running into a similar problem years ago is that netCDF4 seems to allocate the space for the dimension variable (in uncompressed). If you do X("X") instead...