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Re: Lots of files in /gnu/store/.links, but not in the store
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Mark H Weaver |
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Re: Lots of files in /gnu/store/.links, but not in the store |
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Sat, 15 Oct 2016 04:24:38 -0400 |
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Hartmut Goebel <address@hidden> writes:
> I hafe a huge pile of files in /gnu/store/.links/, but they seem not to
> belong to the store:
/gnu/store/.links is a content-addressed index of every file in the
store, used to implement deduplication. When a file is added to the
store, a hash of its contents is computed and looked up in
/gnu/store/.links/<hash>. If it exists, a hard link to the existing
file is made instead.
Mark