I followed Eelco's suggestion of running nix-store --optimise.
Output:
`/nix/store/.links/09d75zzfhid0v9azq4qpprhfpfyjb27b89qnarqwz6bqgjxl7pq6'
has maximum number of links
172.20 MiB freed by hard-linking 34905 files; there are 351670 files with
equal contents out of 365448 files in total
Raahul Kumar raahul.ku...@gmail.com writes:
Thanks Kirill,
I'll go email the BTRFS devs, see if they have a fix for this hardlink
issue. Anyone else got a workaround for the dedup issue with Btrfs and
nixos?
I think you misunderstood the output.
There are X files with equal contents out of
On 04/14/2014 09:51 AM, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
But it's still whole-file based. btrfs is internally able to support
block-level deduplication, which is very cool for making copies of
things like database copies and virtualization images. Of course these
cases are already served by snapshot volumes,
