diff --git a/src/rechunk_data/_rechunk.py b/src/rechunk_data/_rechunk.py
index 6e6a26ac0bb747800228a91d2a0577b4a5e4e3da..311ed2508fb36b78904887a398e13d08c410904c 100644
--- a/src/rechunk_data/_rechunk.py
+++ b/src/rechunk_data/_rechunk.py
@@ -186,7 +186,6 @@ def rechunk_netcdf_file(
                 str(input_file),
                 parallel=True,
                 decode_cf=decode_cf,
-                inline_array=True,
             ) as nc_data:
                 new_data, encoding = _rechunk_dataset(nc_data, engine)
                 if encoding: