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    [Output] Overhaul writer logic, rename writeVTK · 42ebaa04
    Elias Pipping authored
    - The configuration parameter io.writeVTK is now io.vtk.write
    - The configuration parameters restarts.first and restarts.spacing
      were moved into the io namespace
    - Restarts are stored in a separate file
    - VTK data, restarts (in HDF5), and the other HDF5 data are now
      each controlled through a parameter:
        io.data.write, io.restarts.write, io.vtk.write
    
    In particular, it is thus now possible to write VTK data while
    opening the data and restart files in read-only mode (or not at all);
    This makes it possible to, by keeping the restarts file (and the binary!)
    around, quickly (re-)compute a a small segment from the history.
    
    The likeliest scenario: VTK files are huge and for a computation with
    tens of thousands of timesteps (e.g. 30000), we know already (from the
    data, or just expect it) that an event occurred during the last 500
    timesteps. So we recompute them from a restart in the following mode:
    
      -io.restarts.first 29500
      -io.restarts.write false
      -io.data.write false
      -io.vtk.write true
    
    Note that care needs to be taken to use a number for io.restarts.first
    which is compatible with the old io.restarts.spacing
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