Ethan,
>Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 12:42:47 -0600 (MDT)
>From: Ethan Alpert <ethan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: performance degrades with filesize
The above message contained the following:
> ... I can't be certain but it seems
> like the entire file is rewritten when the unlimited dimension increases.
The C implementation from the Unidata Program Center of the netCDF API
*does not* rewrite the entire netCDF file when the unlimited dimension
is increased -- effectively, the file is simply appended to.
I don't know about the Python interface.
Regards,
Steve Emmerson <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>
