l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
> The ‘wip-oob-download’ implements “out-of-band downloads”, whereby
> downloads are performed by the daemon on behalf of clients.
>
> This works by adding a “built-in builder” in the daemon (idea stolen
> from the Nix daemon): if you specify “builtin:downlo
‘LocalStore::removeUnusedLinks’ traverses all the entries in
/gnu/store/.links and calls lstat(2) on each one of them and checks
‘st_nlink’ to determine whether they can be deleted.
There are two problems: lstat(2) can be slow on spinning disks as found
on hydra.gnu.org, and the algorithm is propo