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6 Apr 2024
@k900:0upti.meK900That looks something like this: https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL/blob/main/utils/src/shim.rs09:44:21
@k900:0upti.meK900You probably want to do something similar09:44:27
@k900:0upti.meK900(or even steal that one wholesale as I'm pretty sure it doesn't have any WSL specific hacks left)09:44:39
@steveej0:matrix.orgsteveej i thought about an activation that too. does that work in the nixos-rebuild boot case? i thought it's only executed when the new system is booted, which in my case relies on /init pointing to the new system 09:47:41
@k900:0upti.meK900It doesn't, no09:48:33
@k900:0upti.meK900The more correct way to do it would be through a bootloader script, yes09:48:43
@k900:0upti.meK900But the important thing here is that you can't just symlink NixOS init to the right place and expect it to work09:49:01
@k900:0upti.meK900Because normally activation happens before that09:49:06
@k900:0upti.meK900So you have to have your own thing that will run the activation script and then run the stage2 init09:49:24
@steveej0:matrix.orgsteveej

FWIW, this works imperatively on the system:

set -xeEu -o pipefail

result="$(nix build --refresh --tarball-ttl 0 github:holochain/holochain-infra/workorch-zos#nixosConfigurations.tfgrid-devnet-vm0.config.system.build.toplevel --print-out-paths --no-link)"

ln -sf "${result}"/init /init
09:49:30
@steveej0:matrix.orgsteveeji'd be ok putting this anywhere appropriate. but i want to prevent running it anywhere else other than on the actual target system, for probably obvious reasons 😆09:50:47
@steveej0:matrix.orgsteveejthis is just the update use-case. i've already got something for the initial system assembly09:51:07
@steveej0:matrix.orgsteveej i'm looking through the shim code you've sent me and am intimidated by wrangling with /dev entries :-) is this used as a PID1 shim? 09:53:34
@steveej0:matrix.orgsteveejeither i'm oversimplifying or my use-case is actually simpler than in WSL09:54:17
@k900:0upti.meK900The /dev stuff can be ignored09:55:47
@k900:0upti.meK900It's a workaround for a stupid WSL bug09:55:50
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@steveej0:matrix.orgsteveej

this works (obviously it's not a noop anymore)

      boot.loader.external.installHook = pkgs.writeShellScript "noop" ''
        ${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/ln -sf "$1"/init /init
      '';
10:37:57
@adam:robins.wtfadamcstephens The lxc container does something similar 11:29:02
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@raitobezarius:matrix.orgraitobezariusMy googlefu is failing me but is anyone aware of some studies on NVMe/SATA SSD being shared between N VMs and expressing their inner performance characteristics like speed and IOPS off the original device?18:22:07
@raitobezarius:matrix.orgraitobezariusWith some synthetic workloads or something18:22:16
@raitobezarius:matrix.orgraitobezariusI am also curious if it talks about virtio single SCSI driver and takes into account IO threads, etc.18:22:59
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@k900:0upti.meK900https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZhBRSM2j0v7cOLn%2F@oracle.com/T/#u11:21:55
@k900:0upti.meK900Woo new dtrace11:21:57
@raitobezarius:matrix.orgraitobezariuswooooooow11:22:42

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