On Thu, Feb 12, 2015, 21:39 John Wiegley <jo...@newartisans.com> wrote:
>>>>> Wout Mertens <wout.mert...@gmail.com> writes: > I feel this optimisation should be turned on by default but there were some > regressions in the past which is why it wasn't. Therefore I'd like to ask > you to turn on auto-optimise and run optimisation once. Your disk space and > memory footprint will thank you. I disagree. The reason why I don't like this optimization is that it doubles i-node consumption on my main volume, for relatively little benefit. This slows down things like rsync-based backup considerably, for example. John _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http:// <http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev> lists.science.uu.nl <http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev> /mailman/ <http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev>listinfo <http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev>/ <http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev>nix-dev <http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev> But this is not a reason to have it disabled by default. You'll switch it off if you don't like it. By the way, personally I have nix store on a separate volume, and I guess that's a thing many people find convenient too. Also there is no reason to backup your root volume, just use NixOS and backup your configuration.nix! Anyway, things to backup are also normally on separate volumes.
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