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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2014-08-31 14:29:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2014-08-31 14:44:40 +0200 |
| commit | ab3893d713764e64ce9e5f69e991405acf66c1a5 (patch) | |
| tree | f389a349512582a37de5f4eaed9d005ff2957f00 /doc/guix.texi | |
| parent | 44d43c7a854effb2bc42eb9c0aea3594415fad6a (diff) | |
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daemon: Rename '--disable-store-optimization' to '--disable-deduplication'.
* nix/nix-daemon/guix-daemon.cc (GUIX_OPT_DISABLE_STORE_OPTIMIZATION):
Rename to...
(GUIX_OPT_DISABLE_DEDUPLICATION): ... this. Adjust user accordingly.
(options): Add "disable-deduplication". Make
"disable-store-optimization" a hidden alias.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix-daemon): Adjust to new option name. Add
index entry. Improve description.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/guix.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index b6cd57acc2..e34a70f0df 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -506,14 +506,16 @@ Unless @code{--lose-logs} is used, all the build logs are kept in the @var{localstatedir}. To save space, the daemon automatically compresses them with bzip2 by default. This option disables that. -@item --disable-store-optimization +@item --disable-deduplication +@cindex deduplication Disable automatic file ``deduplication'' in the store. By default, files added to the store are automatically ``deduplicated'': -if a newly added file is identical as another one found in the store, -the daemon makes the new file a hard link to the other file. This -slightly increases the input/output load at the end of a build process. -This option disables this. +if a newly added file is identical to another one found in the store, +the daemon makes the new file a hard link to the other file. This can +noticeably reduce disk usage, at the expense of slightly increasde +input/output load at the end of a build process. This option disables +this optimization. @item --gc-keep-outputs[=yes|no] Tell whether the garbage collector (GC) must keep outputs of live |