From 619310571002fc74e428824bd603604d1055b61b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eelco Dolstra Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:02:52 -0400 Subject: Automatically optimise the Nix store when a new path is added Auto-optimisation is enabled by default. It can be turned off by setting auto-optimise-store to false in nix.conf. --- doc/manual/conf-file.xml | 15 ++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc/manual') diff --git a/doc/manual/conf-file.xml b/doc/manual/conf-file.xml index 1b19e56b5..c095a001c 100644 --- a/doc/manual/conf-file.xml +++ b/doc/manual/conf-file.xml @@ -337,7 +337,20 @@ build-use-chroot = /dev /proc /bin true. - + + + auto-optimise-store + + If set to true (the default), + Nix automatically detects files in the store that have identical + contents, and replaces them with hard links to a single copy. + This saves disk space. If set to false, you + can still run nix-store --optimise to get rid + of duplicate files. + + + + -- cgit v1.2.3