From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
To: Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Hacks to install Guix packages without root
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 17:13:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171106161303.GA26300@thebird.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87shdrwit9.fsf@albion.it.manchester.ac.uk>
On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 03:03:30PM +0000, Dave Love wrote:
> > Best to try for the specific use case. For bioinformatics it won't
> > work.
>
> This may be a bit off-topic, but perhaps it helps in packaging: I don't
> know whether that refers to using PRoot or fakechroot, but anyway,
> what specifically is the problem in bioinformatics?
Large data sets. Many files.
> By the way, I measured compressed tar/untar under PRoot on CentOS 6 of
> the CentOS root image. It's around a factor of two slower than native
> on untar and about 40% slower on tar.
Exactly. Too slow when IO is already the bottleneck.
> > Docker is not going away, mind. We may end up putting Conda and Guix
> > in Docker containers ;)
>
> Does that mean containers or images? (The way the terminology has gone
> is rather unhelpful...)
Containers.
> Docker is a nightmare for use with HPC-type
> resource managers, but you can run from OCI-type images more sanely, of
> course.
There is no love between Docker and me ;)
> I probably basically agree!
Probably :)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-06 16:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-26 21:46 Hacks to install Guix packages without root Ricardo Wurmus
2017-10-27 0:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-27 8:27 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-10-31 14:19 ` Dave Love
2017-11-03 11:54 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-11-06 15:03 ` Dave Love
2017-11-06 16:13 ` Pjotr Prins [this message]
2017-10-27 6:53 ` Konrad Hinsen
2017-10-27 8:17 ` Pjotr Prins
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