On Wed, Mar 5, 2025 at 7:48 AM Guillaume Le Vaillant <g...@posteo.net> wrote:
[...]
> You could also use btrfs instead of ext4 as file system; and if you
> activate compression, it divides the actual size taken by the Guix store
> by 3 (approximately).

With the default zstd compression I am seeing a ratio of 2. Is there a
noticeably better configuration?

$ sudo `which compsize` /gnu/store
Processed 27933035 files, 8142182 regular extents (20350437 refs),
15681709 inline.
Type       Perc     Disk Usage   Uncompressed Referenced
TOTAL       49%      260G         530G         1.5T
none       100%      132G         132G         365G
zstd        32%      128G         398G         1.2T

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