On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 12:01:43AM +0900, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > Hello Pierre! > > Pierre Neidhardt writes: > > > True. > > > > I've been using Btrfs for my data for a little while and I'm very happy > > with it. > > > > I wonder how Btrfs fares for a Guix system. In many ways, Guix > > supersedes many of the features of Btrfs (snapshots and deduplication in > > particular). So I wonder if it's not redundant and possibly incurs a > > waste of energy. > > > > What's your experience, Maxim? > > I haven't noticed much slow down (if at all?), and the 'lzo' compression > keeps the /gnu/store size 30% smaller or so. > > That sums it for now, I think. > What mount options do you have? I realized i have compression enabled but 'sudo compsize /gnu/store' doesn't show any compression happening. (file-system (device (file-system-label "root")) (mount-point "/") (type "btrfs") (options "autodefrag,compress=lzo,discard,ssd_spread")) -- Efraim Flashner אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted