| 4 Mar 2025 |
 emily | I think you need a separate daemon | 14:28:20 |
 Willi Butz | /usr/nix/store definitely works as is, with a ro-bind to /nix/store (done with the verity repart module) | 14:28:26 |
 Lily Foster | In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org
alternate store directories are nominally supported. the Nix on Droid thing uses them (nix on droid also does sketchy bwrapping to pretend it's at /nix/store iirc) | 14:28:27 |
| emily | can't use bwrap on Android. I think PRoot is involved | 14:28:51 |
 Arian | that’s in. stage-2. I’m talking about the nix store in the initramfs willi | 14:29:00 |
| Lily Foster | In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org
can't use bwrap on Android. I think PRoot is involved yeah that, proot | 14:29:04 |
| emily | but I swear I've seen an Android Nix thing that just uses the weird Android directory directly | 14:29:05 |
| Lily Foster | In reply to @lily:lily.flowers
yeah that, proot (apologies, too tired this morning) | 14:29:13 |
| Willi Butz | In reply to @arianvp:matrix.org
that’s in. stage-2. I’m talking about the nix store in the initramfs willi ah, got it. doesn't help because the bind mount cant be setup by tooling that resides in the yet to be mounted store %) | 14:30:18 |
 flokli | In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org
that's what Tvix is doing, afaik No, nix is using a merkle structure data format that's also better in seek access than nar ;-) | 14:31:18 |
| flokli | * No, tvix is using a merkle structure data format that's also better in seek access than nar ;-) | 14:34:38 |
| emily | :) | 14:35:55 |
| emily | how has FUSE performance been? | 14:36:01 |
| flokli | FUSE is just one lens of seeing it. If you get a super hot store path where perf becomes an issue, use EROFS to serve this one? | 14:37:02 |
 raitobezarius | (FUSE also is getting a bunch of eBPF-based performance improvements) | 14:37:18 |
| flokli | FUSE is very similar to virtiofs and people seem to be ok using that. | 14:37:23 |
| raitobezarius | FUSE and virtiofs performance characteristics are totally different though | 14:37:44 |
| emily | the idea being that you have a daemon syncing a subset of store paths to erofs and overlay it over /nix/store, or…? | 14:43:40 |
| flokli | We have tvix-store {daemon,mount,virtiofs}. All three expose you a different view of the same data. | 14:45:04 |
| emily | right | 14:55:06 |
| emily | is there anything stopping you using virtiofs without a VM? :) | 14:55:32 |
| emily | I guess that just reduces to FUSE | 14:56:16 |
| flokli | Right now, fuse is the only way to make a POSIX Filesystem appear on the same machine that runs the POSIX appearing thing. Until someone writes another backend. | 14:57:48 |
| flokli | There's currently other known performance bottlenecks, I don't think it's fuse | 14:58:35 |
| emily | there's always NFSv4 🫠 | 15:05:59 |
| Arian | I want to do more with EROFS but all the cool features are undocumented | 15:07:16 |
| raitobezarius | whaddya mean | 15:09:46 |
| raitobezarius | there's source code | 15:09:48 |
| raitobezarius | just read it | 15:09:49 |
| Arian | =( | 15:10:19 |
