Hi, On 31/01/12 08:51, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote:
>>> IHMO, this program should be run by the default builder after $out has >>> been set up, to remove redundancy in the generated closures. >> >> No, Nix should do that after the build has completed. If the Nix DB were >> to store the cryptographic hash of every regular file in the store > Just create /nix/store/by-hash/first-5-digits/next-5-digits/remaining- > digits/number and hardlink every file to this path. Here <number> will be 0 > for most files, and increase only in case of file collisions. How would that be easier than adding a table to the SQLite DB? In particular, the existence of /nix/store/by-hash/... would prevent files from being deleted if there are no more store paths referring to it, because the number of hard links would still be 1. -- Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/ _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
