Chunk (and compress) large string

[m.diehl]

What do you want to see in "HDF5 2.0"?

Actually, we are almost there after new indexing for chunked datasets were introduced in 1.10.0. Current APIs and programming model still require to use H5Pset_chunk but this call could be omitted if there is only one chunk (i.e, contiguos storage). Then compression can also be used on “contiguous” dataset. I couldn’t convince Quincey to introduce this change in 1.10.0 and the rest is history. Elena

@epourmal1 Are there still plans to support compression of non-chunked datasets? That would be a good solution.