Schlumberger-Private
Hi,

I have a scenario in which my compressed h5 file needs to be updated with new 
data that is coming in every, say, 5 seconds.

Approach #1: keep the file opened and just write data as they come, or write a 
buffer at once.
Approach #2: open the file (RDWR), write the data (or a buffer) and then close 
the file.

Approach #1 is not desirable for my case because if there's any problem 
(outage, etc), then the h5 file will likely get corrupted. Or if I want to have 
a look at the file, I can't because it's still writing (still opened).

Approach #2 is good to address the issue above, BUT I noticed that if I 
open/write/close the file every 5 seconds, the file compression gets really bad 
and the file size goes up big time. Approach 1 doesn't suffer from this problem.

So, my question is: is there an "Approach #3" that gives me the best of the two 
worlds? Less likely to get me a corrupted h5 file and at the same time, a good 
compression rate?

Thanks,
Carlos R.

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