On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 04:34:59PM +0200, Peter Simons wrote: > Mihaly Barasz writes: > > > tzdata: use symlinks instead of hardlinks > > > > Hard links are not handled by nar, so installing from binary cache > > unnecessarily duplicates data. > > Huh? Nar archives cannot handle hardlinks? That comes as quite a > surprise to me. Are you sure about that? >
This is correct, nix's filesystem abstraction doesn't have room for hardlinks (they get unlinked in a serialization roundtrip). This is of course semantically fine since everything is read-only, but it does have implications for hard links to save space, which is why nix-store --optimize exists. > > Best regards, > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
