Thank you for the hint, that saved 12GB on my machine. Anyway, wouldn't
it be better if we use an extra level of directories to reduce the size
of /nix/store/.links ?
> $ ls -l /nix/store/.links/ | wc -l
> 374716
"ls" is quite slow and this is just my desktop machine and not a busy
server like hydra or something like that. Such a huge directory would
kill slower file manager or other applications. I just think of
PyCharm's "open file" dialog which sometimes tries to open my
/nix/store... this operation freezes the application so that I have to
kill it.
For example git or git-annex introduced an extra level of directories to
reduce the amount of files inside a single directory. Something like
this:
$ tree --charset=ascii /tmp/nix/store/.links/
/tmp/nix/store/.links/
|-- aab
| |-- aab4f31a9b3119c2f6bb3b45c27c4cb33ff45a8f6e2
| `-- aabd31b843d1faf29e4d3e50c135d6539ac9fe77ffd
|-- aal
| |-- aal4f31a9b3119c2f6bb3b45c27c4cb33ff45a8f6e2
| `-- aald31b843d1faf29e4d3e50c135d6539ac9fe77ffd
|-- ace
| |-- ace4f31a9b3119c2f6bb3b45c27c4cb33ff45a8f6e2
| `-- aced31b843d1faf29e4d3e50c135d6539ac9fe77ffd
|-- ehw
| |-- ehw4f31a9b3119c2f6bb3b45c27c4cb33ff45a8f6e2
| `-- ehwd31b843d1faf29e4d3e50c135d6539ac9fe77ffd
|-- eia
| |-- eia4f31a9b3119c2f6bb3b45c27c4cb33ff45a8f6e2
| `-- eiad31b843d1faf29e4d3e50c135d6539ac9fe77ffd
|-- ial
| |-- ial4f31a9b3119c2f6bb3b45c27c4cb33ff45a8f6e2
| `-- iald31b843d1faf29e4d3e50c135d6539ac9fe77ffd
`-- ode
|-- ode4f31a9b3119c2f6bb3b45c27c4cb33ff45a8f6e2
`-- oded31b843d1faf29e4d3e50c135d6539ac9fe77ffd
7 directories, 14 files
--
Jascha Geerds
j...@ekby.de
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