Re: Self-contained Guix tarball

[Ludovic Courtès]

address@hidden (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") skribis:

> Would it be possible to bundle meta-data files together with store
> items?
>
> I guess one could in principle make each store item a directory with any
> number of meta-data files plus the actual content of the store item (a
> file or directory), but I suppose it would be too big an overhaul of the
> design to make this worthwhile.

I suspect this would make GC inefficient (lots of disk seeks to
determine references/referrers compared to queries of the SQLite
database.)

Another (opposite :-)) option is to make /gnu/store a read-only bind
mount on GuixSD.  Commit 3392ce5 does that.  This will prevent
accidental modifications of the store.

Thanks,
Ludo’.