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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GC hints
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 15:49:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bm5htvud.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h8f9y6cq.fsf_-_@gnu.org>


Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Actually, I was also wondering whether we should provide a configurable
> mechanism that would, by default, automatically delete old GC roots and
> maybe even run the GC automatically when needed—similar to what Git
> does.

While this would be convenient and probably an improvement I’d like to
mention that in the HPC use case this might be problematic as profiles
might be located on file shares that are not accessible by the node
running the daemon.  It would be good if the GC would err on the side of
caution in those cases.  (It currently removes links to unreachable
profiles.)

--
Ricardo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-12-19 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-08 10:53 About /var/guix/profiles and guix pull generations Pierre Neidhardt
2018-12-09  4:35 ` Chris Marusich
2018-12-09 12:40   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-12-09 12:40     ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-12-09 13:38       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-12-09 22:21         ` Chris Marusich
2018-12-10  8:22           ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-12-17  9:12             ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-12-19  2:48             ` Chris Marusich
2018-12-19  7:49               ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-12-19 16:16                 ` Chris Marusich
2018-12-19 16:28                   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-12-19 16:31                     ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-12-19 16:49                       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-12-25 17:51                         ` swedebugia
2018-12-25 18:49                           ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-12-26  0:09                             ` swedebugia
2020-05-20  8:26                         ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-12-19 13:49         ` GC hints Ludovic Courtès
2018-12-19 14:31           ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-12-19 14:49           ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2018-12-19 16:25           ` Chris Marusich
2018-12-20 12:12           ` Mark H Weaver
2018-12-20 20:03             ` Alex Kost
2018-12-21  8:30             ` Chris Marusich
2018-12-21  8:47               ` swedebugia
2018-12-23 15:58               ` Mark H Weaver
2018-12-25 12:05                 ` swedebugia
2018-12-25 14:00                   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-08 22:27                 ` Ludovic Courtès

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