[Nix-dev] Multiple stores

Roland Koebler rk-list at simple-is-better.org
Fri Aug 26 21:45:32 CEST 2016


Hi,

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 02:51:02PM +0200, Freddy Rietdijk wrote:
> I would like to use Nix for a certain data analysis where I will have
> several thousand files which are all together about two TB in size.
Do these 2 TB of data really have to be stored in the nix-store?
And if yes, how about storing the data on the harddisk and symlinking
it (or a subdirectory containing the data) to the store?


Roland



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