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Re: [PATCH] guix-daemon: Add option to disable garbage collection.
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Roel Janssen |
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Re: [PATCH] guix-daemon: Add option to disable garbage collection. |
Date: |
Tue, 03 Apr 2018 16:02:49 +0200 |
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Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
> Hello Roel,
>
> Roel Janssen <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> The patch adds a “disableGarbageCollection” boolean variable to the
>> guix-daemon settings, and on each occasion where a store item may be
>> deleted, it checks this option.
>>
>> This option can be set using “--disable-gc”.
>>
>> It would be great if someone could review this and discuss whether
>> this is the right way to implement such a feature. And to point out
>> what else would be needed to include this option in guix-daemon.
>
> I suppose the use case is when guix-daemon runs on a machine and is
> accessed over TCP/IP (with GUIX_DAEMON_SOCKET=guix://…) from other
> machines, right?
That's right.
> In this case, I thought guix-daemon could explicitly check whether the
> peer is remote, and disable GC in that case. That is, ‘guix gc’ would
> still work locally on the machine that runs guix-daemon, but it would no
> longer work remotely.
>
> How does that sound?
That sounds like it solves our use-case, but only because in our
case the access to the machine running guix-daemon is limited.
So, even though I'm not sure how to implement this, your solution is
fine with me.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
Thanks!
Kind regards,
Roel Janssen
- [PATCH] guix-daemon: Add option to disable garbage collection., Roel Janssen, 2018/04/03
- Re: [PATCH] guix-daemon: Add option to disable garbage collection., Ludovic Courtès, 2018/04/03
- Re: [PATCH] guix-daemon: Add option to disable garbage collection.,
Roel Janssen <=
- Re: [PATCH] guix-daemon: Add option to disable garbage collection., Ludovic Courtès, 2018/04/19
- Re: [PATCH] guix-daemon: Add option to disable garbage collection., Roel Janssen, 2018/04/19
- Re: [PATCH] guix-daemon: Add option to disable garbage collection., Ludovic Courtès, 2018/04/19
- Re: [PATCH] guix-daemon: Add option to disable garbage collection., Roel Janssen, 2018/04/19
- Re: [PATCH] guix-daemon: Add option to disable garbage collection., Ludovic Courtès, 2018/04/19
- Re: [PATCH] guix-daemon: Add option to disable garbage collection., Roel Janssen, 2018/04/19
- Re: [PATCH] guix-daemon: Add option to disable garbage collection., Marius Bakke, 2018/04/19