Possibility to run a NamelistCalculation using symlinks to the parent_folder #555
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…ary from the 'prepare_for_submission' method of a 'NamelistsCalculation' CalcJob.
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In most use-cases, the calculations that are a subclass of
NamelistCalculation, are used for post-processing that only reads data from the ./out/ folder of a scf/nscf calculation.I find it useful to have the option of symlinking the ./out/ folder instead of straight out copying it as it avoids, in some cases, to have to copy 10s to 100s of GB of data, slowing down the starting of the job, and having to clear the remote_data afterwards to avoid huge disk consumption on the cluster.
With this pull request, the option to symlink the ./out/ folder is by default off (to be consistent with older inputs) and is turned on by specifying
'PARENT_FOLDER_SYMLINK': Truein thesettingsinput Dict node.