Indeed, Variable length data does not get compressed with HDF5 at this point. Some earlier posts in this forum already mention this.
Actually variable data is stored elsewhere and only the references are compressed. You have two solutions as explained in this previous post: http://mail.hdfgroup.org/pipermail/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org/2011-October/005136.html Good luck! -- View this message in context: http://hdf-forum.184993.n3.nabble.com/H5-H5Pset-deflate-results-in-larger-file-size-tp4025851p4025853.html Sent from the hdf-forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
