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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2012-03-26 20:00:02 +0200
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2012-03-26 20:00:02 +0200
commit8be1979f1ae4b85c36988f7b3cf8240c9682dc54 (patch)
tree80ec98cfb3ec5a86b72a9ee9f07d3ede4ee36b3c /doc
parent19d9762ad5fc8d8db3e9a545a89309f08572cc9f (diff)
Remove the --max-links GC option
We don't need this anymore now that current filesystems support more than 32,000 files in a directory.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/nix-store.xml11
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/nix-store.xml b/doc/manual/nix-store.xml
index a32559c03..aaacb7cfb 100644
--- a/doc/manual/nix-store.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/nix-store.xml
@@ -212,7 +212,6 @@ linkend="sec-nix-build"><command>nix-build</command></link> does.</para>
<arg choice='plain'><option>--delete</option></arg>
</group>
<arg><option>--max-freed</option> <replaceable>bytes</replaceable></arg>
- <arg><option>--max-links</option> <replaceable>nrlinks</replaceable></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsection>
@@ -280,16 +279,6 @@ options control what gets deleted and in what order:
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term><option>--max-links</option> <replaceable>nrlinks</replaceable></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Keep deleting paths until the hard link count on
- <filename>/nix/store</filename> is less than
- <replaceable>nrlinks</replaceable>, then stop. This is useful for
- very large Nix stores on filesystems with a 32000 subdirectories
- limit (like <literal>ext3</literal>).</para></listitem>
-
- </varlistentry>
-
</variablelist>
</para>