[Nix-dev] Deduplication

[Raahul Kumar]

Thanks Kirill,

I'll go email the BTRFS devs, see if they have a fix for this hardlink
issue. Anyone else got a workaround for the dedup issue with Btrfs and
nixos?

Aloha,
RK.


On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Kirill Elagin <kirelagin at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've just googled a bit, and you are probably hitting this:
> http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2012-October/010017.html.
>
> So, you don't get around it. Or consider changing your FS ;).
>
>
> --
> Кирилл Елагин
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Raahul Kumar <raahul.kumar at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I followed Eelco's suggestion of running  nix-store --optimise.
>>
>>  Output:
>>
>> `/nix/store/.links/09d75zzfhid0v9azq4qpprhfpfyjb27b89qnarqwz6bqgjxl7pq6'
>> has maximum number of links
>> 172.20 MiB freed by hard-linking 34905 files; there are 351670 files with
>> equal contents out of 365448 files in total
>>
>>
>> There are a lot files still duplicated. How do I get around the file has
>> maximum number of links error?
>>
>> Aloha,
>> RK.
>>
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