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

[Vladimír Čunát]

On 02/13/2015 12:10 PM, Wout Mertens wrote:
> So it's hard to say what the effect is generally, but the disk space
> saving is definitely there. If you are worried about seek times, you
> might want to turn on filesystem compression and run some sort of
> defragmentation if available.

I don't think compression should decrease *seek* nontrivially (but it is 
another way to save space).

Once I wondered if using reflinks instead of hardlinks might be better 
from some point of view, but it probably won't be a big difference.


Vladimir


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