Hi Caleb,

thank you very much for the technocal details of the garbage collection
process!

Caleb Ristvedt <caleb.ristvedt@cune.org> writes:

> Björn Höfling <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de> writes:
>
>> Why does that take soo long?
>
> Warning: technical overview follows.
>
> It takes so long because after the garbage collection pass it then does
> a *full* pass over the /gnu/store/.links directory. Which is huge. 

[...]

>> Or better: Is it save here to just hit CTRL-C (and let the daemon work
>> in background, or whatever)?
>
> I expect that CTRL-C at that point would cause the guix process to
> terminate, closing its connection to the daemon. I don't believe the
> daemon uses asynchronous I/O

[...]

IMHO both this questions/anwsers should start a brand new "Guix FAQ"
texinfo document :-)

I'll try to bootstrap one if I can

Thanks!
Giovanni

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Giovanni Biscuolo

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