On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 09:02:55PM +0100, Christof Douma wrote: > Hi, > > A very long time ago I thought of creating a filesystem for the nix > store. The idea is to store only differences between similar packages. I think you know about nix-store --optimize. It's not that advanced though :-) Is the chance of having duplicated files bigger in the nix store than on a filesystem in general? Doesn't this take much time to compare each file against all others to find a minimal diff? So the basic question is : What does similar mean? I'd guess having the same filename ?
But you are right: On multiuser system there may be dozens of different versions of the same lib because everyone has installed the application at another point in time.. Marc Weber _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
