[Nix-dev] Multiple machines with nix store shared via NFS

[Renato Alves]

I never tried it with sockets, only tcp ports.

I need to move the socket to a different location. Currently it also
sits on NFS. I can play with symlinks making it point to a local disk.

The entire setup sounds terribly hackish though.

If anyone has better alternatives I'd love to hear them.

Thanks,
R

On 01/07/16 20:51, Layus wrote:
> Just one idea off the top of my head: Would it be possible to forward
> the unix socket of the daemon ?
> 
> -- Layus ?
> 
> On 01/07/16 15:10, Renato Alves wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>>
>> Recently I've been trying to setup nix on a multiple-machine shared
>> environment. At the moment I have one machine setup with nix-daemon
>> running from a store in a custom location (/shared/myuser/nix). This
>> location is shared via NFS with several other machines. This is all
>> still pretty new to me as I've only recently started using nix and
>> haven't used nixos yet.
>>
>> Before setting up nix-daemon I ran into some problems with database
>> corruption (sqlite) due to concurrent processes. With nix-daemon these
>> have gone away.
>>
>> One limitation that I identified recently is that on any of the other
>> machines that do not have nix-daemon running (but have read access to
>> the store) I can run commands from the store without problems but
>> cannot, for instance, use nix-shell.
>> So I thought of spawning a nix-daemon instance on those machines but I'm
>> not sure what is the best way to set it up without risking DB corruption
>> again.
>>
>> These are the requirements I'd like to meet:
>>  * /shared/myuser/nix is shared across multiple machines with the same
>> architecture (x86_64-linux).
>>  * All machines should be able to use nix-shell or any nix related
>> command, including requesting installation of packages.
>>  * Only some machines are allowed to compile. Machines that are not
>> allowed should rely on something like remote-systems.conf to distribute
>> work.
>>
>> Is this kind of setup currently possible with nix? If so, can someone
>> provide some guidance?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Renato
>>
>>
>>
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