Just out of curiosity, what is your situation where the daemon can't see all GC
roots? Are you sharing the store over NFS or something?On 3 Apr 2018 6:12
a.m., Roel Janssen <r...@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Dear Guix,
>
> I have an interesting situation where the guix-daemon cannot see all
> directories that (may) contain Guix profiles, and therefore is not able
> to judge whether a GC root is gone and can be collected, or whether it's
> just inaccessible.
>
> To be on the safe side, I'd like to disable garbage collection on this
> system. To achieve this, I wrote the attached patch. Even though “it
> works for me”, I don't think it's good to be added as-is. At least I
> need to figure out how to make the error message “Garbage collection is
> disabled.” translatable.
>
> 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.
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
> Kind regards,
> Roel Janssen
>
