3.6TB, yikes! Is there a way for us to see what's in the store, like a mysql dump? Would be interesting to data-mine the dependencies and sizes etc.
On Mon Jan 05 2015 at 6:28:38 PM aszlig <asz...@redmoonstudios.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 05:03:04PM +0100, Vladim??r ??un??t wrote: > > Btrfs does no deduplication (by itself at least). Per-file compression > > should help a little, but I'd expect no huge savings. > > I beg to differ, accidentally (forgot to actually enable periodic GC) > had a 6.4 TB large Nix store on a 3 TB disk array, so it seems that the > Nix store (or at least the one on my Hydra) compresses well enough. > > But what actually is going to be for the worse is that you can't reason > anymore about how much disk space will be available on a btrfs volume. > > a! > -- > aszlig > Universal dilettante > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
_______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
