[Nix-dev] Nar doesn't support hardlinks?
Eelco Dolstra
eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com
Tue Apr 29 16:39:23 CEST 2014
Hi,
On 29/04/14 16:34, Peter Simons wrote:
> > tzdata: use symlinks instead of hardlinks
> >
> > Hard links are not handled by nar, so installing from binary cache
> > unnecessarily duplicates data.
>
> Huh? Nar archives cannot handle hardlinks?
Indeed they can't. So you should never rely on hard links to save space in a
package.
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