NC_FILL (no plans to implement)

[Russ Rew]

Hi,

>From the announcement to netcdfgroup, the "features not yet
implemented" includes

 - NC_FILL (no plan to implement)

Is this because preserving fill value semantics makes it harder to do
parallel I/O?  HDF5 supports fill-values for parallel I/O using
MPI-IO, so I'm not sure why it's explicitly ruled out, or whether we
should consider cutting it from our proposed feature list for the
netCDF-4 on HDF5 project.

--Russ

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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
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