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Subject: bug#23979: [ER] guix gc should tell how much space it recovered
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 19:06:27 +0200
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Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 04:33:46PM +0200, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:
>> This code calls the =E2=80=98collect-garbage=E2=80=99 procedure, defined=
 in (guix
>> store).  You=E2=80=99ll see that this procedure returns two values, whic=
h 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=E2=80=99.