[Nix-dev] Deduplication

[Vladimír Čunát]

On 04/14/2014 08:44 AM, Raahul Kumar wrote:
> 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?

AFAIK it causes no problems except for lowering the space savings of 
--optimise, and only negligibly, as only tiny files typically have so 
many instances.

On btrfs it might be better (much faster?) to use bedup, but I've never 
tried. https://github.com/g2p/bedup

Vlada


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