prehensilecode
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2 years ago singularity build --sandbox creates an image that is mutable. For distribution, the image should be immutable. From singularity-build(1):
It is a common workflow to use the "sandbox" mode for development of the container, and then build it as a default Singularity image for production use. The default format is immutable.
Feel free to create mutable images for your own use. I won't change the default behavior of building an immutable image.
Thanks for providing this resource!
I found that just trying to run alphafold via singularity was very slow. Singularity would build a sandbox each time I ran the singularity image. I could get around this by using
singularity build --sandbox, but I'm not sure if others have run into this issue as well. Do you have any recommendations? Or, am I making a mistake somewhere? Thanks for the help.