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From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
To: Buttery Pancake <butterypancake@protonmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guix Paths
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 17:06:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8e1eb152c1eef8703c628ea5a30bc8b9@tobias.gr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iQZg_03HpiMsAH8UY-meBO3TgOMGeeua1rwTMeR6nLJ8_T1P9Ggf_0RIlnU49-oD30vBzQWZje_NZmbO0G-xpHSjVxdXGsbdOdXTNO8Yfoo=@protonmail.com>

Hi!

On 2020-09-21 16:45, Buttery Pancake wrote:
>> which need to be user-writable, whereas the rest of /gnu only need to 
>> be
>> writable by the daemon. This means that we end up mounting the same
>> directories more than once with different permissions.
> 
> Yes. As default, wouldn't it be better to use `/guix/guix-var-stuff`
> instead of `/var/guix/guix-var-stuff`? Also, bringing
> `/run/guix-other-stuff` under `/guix/guix-other-stuff`.

/run is ephemeral: it is required to be a tmpfs on ‘modern’ system(d)s, 
and to be at least emptied at boot on others.  Thus nothing in it should 
ever be

> backed-up, snap-shot, [or] mounted-separately [more than it already is 
> today.]

As for

> won't interfere with other stuffs on file-system (like ever).

I don't think it interferes, does it?  How?

I think adding yet another non-standard / subdirectory should be done 
only for very good reason.  /gnu has it, so would moving to /gnu/db/, 
but I don't see a case for the others to be moved.

Kind regards,

T G-R

Sent from a Web browser. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.


      reply	other threads:[~2020-09-21 15:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-21  1:32 Guix Paths Buttery Pancake
2020-09-21  8:33 ` Andreas Enge
2020-09-21  9:06 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-09-21  9:13 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-09-21 14:45   ` Buttery Pancake
2020-09-21 15:06     ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice [this message]

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