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Remove the --max-links GC option

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We don't need this anymore now that current filesystems support more
than 32,000 files in a directory.
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Eelco Dolstra 2012-03-26 20:00:02 +02:00
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@ -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>