[Nix-dev] making nix-collect-garbage faster?

[Michael Raskin]

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On 05/15/2010 08:28 PM, Marc Weber wrote:
> Would it make nix-collect-garbage faster when store paths were not
> deleted but moved to a garbage directory instead?

> Eg mv /nix/stoer/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-foo /nix/store/garbage

Given that it is the same directory tree, it could save us tons of time.
mv (inside FS) is one atomic operation. "rm -rf" takes forever
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