[Nix-dev] NILFS2, NixOS, nixpart and Blivet

Tim Barbour trb at categorical.net
Mon Oct 6 07:52:32 CEST 2014


Nicolas Pierron writes:
 > Looking at the details of NILFS2, I saw that it does a linear search
 > within directories.  This is far from ideal for the /nix/store as this
 > directory is HUGE.  This might have a noticeable cost at the start-up
 > of a computer / programs.

Ouch! I missed that bit. I shall probably have to go back to btrfs.

Tim
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