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Hi John,
> perhaps we should have 3 modes of chunking, that the user can choose:
>
> 1) preseve the record oriented nature of our current unlimited
> dimension to optimize sequential reading of the array.
What does this mean?
> 2) choose an optimal chunk size (some small multiple of disk block
> size: 8K, 16K, 32K?) and subdivide the dimensions evenly to optimize
> over all types of subsetting.
This is similar to the heuristic I suggested to Ed.
> 3) full user spec of chunk size and chunk dimension size.
Always possible.
Quincey
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