[Nix-dev] Big archive to be imported

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

Lluís Batlle wrote:

> I have an archive of around XX GB, made with nix-store --export, for a
> *single* store path.

Wow, that's big :-)

> When importing it (using the root account), I get from a "nix-store
> --import": error: implementation cannot deal with > 32-bit integers.

This actually means that you have a file in the archive greater than 2^32.  I
don't think there is a limitation on the size of the archive per se.

> Any help? The only way I can go is rebuilding the path?

I'll fix it.  The code to handle large integers is already there anyway.

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