# Kerchunk planning

**URL:** <https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/kerchunk-planning/4002>\
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**Created:** [January 30, 2024, 3:40pm UTC](https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/kerchunk-planning/4002 "2024-01-30T15:40:34Z")\
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> > What I would love, is to let xarray do the combine and somehow persist that information, but it doesn’t seem possible.
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> FYI I just had a go at doing that, and got fairly far ([notebook here](https://gist.github.com/TomNicholas/d9eb8ac81d3fd214a23b5e921dbd72b7)).

For an update on this see [VirtualiZarr](https://github.com/TomNicholas/VirtualiZarr) (there will be a [showcase talk](https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/pangeo-showcase-virtualizarr-create-virtual-zarr-stores-using-xarray-syntax/4127) about it soon).

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