From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 62379-done@debbugs.gnu.org, Elias Kueny <elias.kueny@posteo.net>
Subject: bug#62379: /gnu/store/.links filling the hard drive on foreign distro
Date: Sun, 07 May 2023 11:05:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877ctk18su.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87cz4eaxit.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Sat, 08 Apr 2023 23:12:42 +0200")
Hi,
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Elias Kueny <elias.kueny@posteo.net> skribis:
>
>> The problem is the size of /gnu/store/.links: after garbage collection
>> with "guix gc --delete-generations=1w", /gnu/store is 17.4 GB in
>> total, and /gnu/store/.links is 14.5 GB (344120 items, ranging from 93
>> MB to 4.1 kB each).
>
> This is expected: /gnu/store/.links contains hard links to other files
> in /gnu/store. IOW /gnu/store/.links is a subset of the rest of
> /gnu/store, sharing the same inodes.
>
>> The garbage collector prints that "currently hard linking saves
>> 3717.77 MiB". With a 40GB hard drive, the gnu store regularly fills
>> up all the available space if I'm not careful. I found from an old
>> issue (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/24937#1) that 10 millions links
>> should need around 700 MB, so this sounds like a bug.
>
> Note that the issue you mention was addressed to a large extent in 2021:
>
> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/24937#20
>
Closing, as this is working as intended. If you do not wish to use the
guix-daemon deduplication feature, you can provide it with the
'--disable-deduplication', with the caveat that your hard drive may be
filled even faster :-).
--
Thanks,
Maxim
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-07 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-22 10:48 bug#62379: /gnu/store/.links filling the hard drive on foreign distro Elias Kueny
2023-04-08 21:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-05-07 15:05 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
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