[Nix-dev] Multiple stores

[Freddy Rietdijk]

My understanding is that whenever a file is needed it is copied in the
store. All these files are needed, at some point. The size likely wouldn't
be an issue if Nix could build and garbage-collect at the same time as the
eventual size of the data that I do want to keep in the store is expected
to be about 200 GB.

For the initial data reduction I could us a Nix store on the slower drive
(either with proot or a VM) and then copy the resulting files into the
store on the faster disk.

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 9:45 PM, Roland Koebler <
rk-list at simple-is-better.org> wrote:

> 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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