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Roesch" Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 17:32:07 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: guix on nfs based systems To: help-guix@gnu.org Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2607:f8b0:4864:20::102e; envelope-from=etienne.roesch@gmail.com; helo=mail-pj1-x102e.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 12:51:56 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.29 X-BeenThere: help-guix@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: help-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 2B8BD5DD67 X-Migadu-Scanner: mx12.migadu.com X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -2.17 X-Spam-Score: -2.17 X-TUID: yJLXZlz+XBzh Hi, I have been successful in convincing our IT dept to provide guix as standard on our vms and research clusters. We use this sophisticated platform that allows users to spawn a vm at will, and also use this shared ldap user database to allow for people to log on from computers/terminals spread on campus. Home directories are basically pulled from the OS (mostly ubuntu and centos) as a shared file system on the network, which then synchronises changes live. Practically, that means a user will find its desktop, preferences and files as they move to different computers. Theoretically, a user can connect to several computers at the same time, which can lead to conflict issues at times, e.g. firefox doesn't like parallel access to its preferences. I haven't fully tested it, but we think that a guix profile is specific to a given computer, because of the way it links to the store, which is (currently) local to the vm, which isn't ideal: the whole point of using vms is for users to kill them when they don't need them. What would be the recommended way of solving this? Has anybody had a similar situation? I am thinking we could either: - leave it as is, and train users to recreate their profiles whenever they use a new vm/computer (after all, that's what guix is for) but it could take some time to recompile if binaries aren't available - maybe turn /gnu/store as a shared nfs folder Have an awesome week! Etienne