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Diffstat (limited to 'nix/libstore/optimise-store.cc')
| -rw-r--r-- | nix/libstore/optimise-store.cc | 15 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/nix/libstore/optimise-store.cc b/nix/libstore/optimise-store.cc index eb303ab4c3..9fd6f3cb35 100644 --- a/nix/libstore/optimise-store.cc +++ b/nix/libstore/optimise-store.cc @@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ namespace nix { +/* Any file smaller than this is not considered for deduplication. + Keep in sync with (guix store deduplication). */ +const size_t deduplicationMinSize = 8192; static void makeWritable(const Path & path) { @@ -105,12 +108,12 @@ void LocalStore::optimisePath_(OptimiseStats & stats, const Path & path, InodeHa return; } - /* We can hard link regular files and maybe symlinks. */ - if (!S_ISREG(st.st_mode) -#if CAN_LINK_SYMLINK - && !S_ISLNK(st.st_mode) -#endif - ) return; + /* We can hard link regular files (and maybe symlinks), but do that only + for files larger than some threshold. This avoids adding too many + entries to '.links', which would slow down 'removeUnusedLinks' while + saving little space. */ + if (!S_ISREG(st.st_mode) || ((size_t) st.st_size) < deduplicationMinSize) + return; /* Sometimes SNAFUs can cause files in the store to be modified, in particular when running programs as root under |