Should I start using the new 64-bit offset format for all my netCDF files?
No, we discourage users from making use of the new format unless they need it for very large files. It may be some time until third-party software that uses the netCDF library is upgraded to 3.6 or later versions that support the new large file facilities, so we advise continuing to use the classic netCDF format for data that doesn’t require huge file offsets. The library makes this recommendation easy to follow, since the default for file creation is the classic format.
