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From: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Store on separate partition
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 08:35:22 +0200
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Hello,

> It would be wonderful if we could go one step further, and have source derivations on
> a separate partition to binary derivations.  Those two kinds of object have significantly,
> different access patterns, and would benefit from being stored on different media.

+1

and then it would be cool to split guix-daemon's --gc-keep-derivations into
--gc-keep-source-derivations & --gc-keep-binary-derivations...

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Vincent Legoll