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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2012-03-26T18·00+0200
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2012-03-26T18·00+0200
commit8be1979f1ae4b85c36988f7b3cf8240c9682dc54 (patch)
tree80ec98cfb3ec5a86b72a9ee9f07d3ede4ee36b3c /doc/manual
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/manual')
-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 a32559c033f4..aaacb7cfb1d1 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>