You can't share over nfs because of sqlite. I've tried that myself and got no luck.
-- Sincerely, Arseniy Seroka On 16 January 2016 15:47:26 Matthias Beyer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15-01-2016 17:19:37, Rok Garbas wrote: >> Quoting Matthias Beyer (2016-01-15 16:38:30) >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm currently thinking about the following problem: >> > >> > I want to share the /nix/store from one Master machine to several Slaves, >> > but >> > in a slightly different way than is currently possible with ssh / http: >> > >> > I want _one_ store which contains software, which then can be used by all >> > the >> > slaves (like you'd do with NFS). >> > >> > The Slave machine should still be able to install software with the package >> > manager (nix) but only locally, not globally. >> > >> > So the Slave installs software to /nix/store locally, while /nix/store >> contains >> > store entries which are hosted on the master. >> > >> > My first idea would be NFS + AUFS, but maybe there are nix-buildin >> > possibilities? >> > >> > >> > Use-Case: Provide a standard-set of software but allow each VM to install >> > own >> > software if needed, while keeping the amount of used storage as small as >> > possible. >> > >> > With the solution I'm searching for, 100 VMs which only use the standard >> > set on software would cause 1 % Storage-use (the packages are only >> > phyiscally >> > available on one machine: the master) of the amount of storage which would >> > be >> > needed with each VM installing the stuff. >> > >> >> you could also just use ``services.nix-serve`` module >> >> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/release-15.09/nixos/modules/services/networking/nix-serve.nix >> >> and change all slaves to point their binary cache to Master's url. >> > > But wouldn't that cause the slaves to download the binaries from the > master instead of using them directly from the masters harddisc? > > -- > Mit freundlichen Grüßen, > Kind regards, > Matthias Beyer > > Proudly sent with mutt. > Happily signed with gnupg. > > > > ---------- > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
