Oh wow, sounds very similar to trying to use Microsoft Access files for production at scale. Many of the same headaches with everything in a single file
A file is just an abstraction over a block device. HDF5 is a meta abstraction, storing multiple file abstractions within an existing container file abstraction. There is nothing conceptually wrong about this but incredible to me that anyone would have invested the time into creating an abstraction that looks exactly like its container just to avoid having to tar it.
A file is just an abstraction over a block device. HDF5 is a meta abstraction, storing multiple file abstractions within an existing container file abstraction. There is nothing conceptually wrong about this but incredible to me that anyone would have invested the time into creating an abstraction that looks exactly like its container just to avoid having to tar it.