Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> skribis: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 04:33:46PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> This code calls the ‘collect-garbage’ procedure, defined in (guix >> store). You’ll see that this procedure returns two values, which are >> currently ignored: the name of the items that were removed from the >> store, and the number of bytes freed. > > Brutto or netto? Otherwise said, does it take into account the hardlinks > used for deduplication, or does it pretend that every deleted file saves > as much memory as its size indicates?
The latter, I think. The actual computation is done by the daemon, in libstore/gc.cc. Ludo’.
