[Nix-dev] Please test Nix store auto-optimise

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Wout Mertens <wout.mertens at gmail.com> writes:

> I feel this optimisation should be turned on by default but there were some
> regressions in the past which is why it wasn't. Therefore I'd like to ask
> you to turn on auto-optimise and run optimisation once. Your disk space and
> memory footprint will thank you.

I disagree.  The reason why I don't like this optimization is that it doubles
i-node consumption on my main volume, for relatively little benefit.  This
slows down things like rsync-based backup considerably, for example.

John