Hi, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi, > > Elias Kueny <elias.ku...@posteo.net> skribis: > >> The problem is the size of /gnu/store/.links: after garbage collection >> with "guix gc --delete-generations=1w", /gnu/store is 17.4 GB in >> total, and /gnu/store/.links is 14.5 GB (344120 items, ranging from 93 >> MB to 4.1 kB each). > > This is expected: /gnu/store/.links contains hard links to other files > in /gnu/store. IOW /gnu/store/.links is a subset of the rest of > /gnu/store, sharing the same inodes. > >> The garbage collector prints that "currently hard linking saves >> 3717.77 MiB". With a 40GB hard drive, the gnu store regularly fills >> up all the available space if I'm not careful. I found from an old >> issue (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/24937#1) that 10 millions links >> should need around 700 MB, so this sounds like a bug. > > Note that the issue you mention was addressed to a large extent in 2021: > > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/24937#20 > Closing, as this is working as intended. If you do not wish to use the guix-daemon deduplication feature, you can provide it with the '--disable-deduplication', with the caveat that your hard drive may be filled even faster :-). -- Thanks, Maxim
