I never tried it with sockets, only tcp ports. I need to move the socket to a different location. Currently it also sits on NFS. I can play with symlinks making it point to a local disk.
The entire setup sounds terribly hackish though. If anyone has better alternatives I'd love to hear them. Thanks, R On 01/07/16 20:51, Layus wrote: > Just one idea off the top of my head: Would it be possible to forward > the unix socket of the daemon ? > > -- Layus ? > > On 01/07/16 15:10, Renato Alves wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> >> Recently I've been trying to setup nix on a multiple-machine shared >> environment. At the moment I have one machine setup with nix-daemon >> running from a store in a custom location (/shared/myuser/nix). This >> location is shared via NFS with several other machines. This is all >> still pretty new to me as I've only recently started using nix and >> haven't used nixos yet. >> >> Before setting up nix-daemon I ran into some problems with database >> corruption (sqlite) due to concurrent processes. With nix-daemon these >> have gone away. >> >> One limitation that I identified recently is that on any of the other >> machines that do not have nix-daemon running (but have read access to >> the store) I can run commands from the store without problems but >> cannot, for instance, use nix-shell. >> So I thought of spawning a nix-daemon instance on those machines but I'm >> not sure what is the best way to set it up without risking DB corruption >> again. >> >> These are the requirements I'd like to meet: >> * /shared/myuser/nix is shared across multiple machines with the same >> architecture (x86_64-linux). >> * All machines should be able to use nix-shell or any nix related >> command, including requesting installation of packages. >> * Only some machines are allowed to compile. Machines that are not >> allowed should rely on something like remote-systems.conf to distribute >> work. >> >> Is this kind of setup currently possible with nix? If so, can someone >> provide some guidance? >> >> >> Thanks, >> Renato >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> nix-dev mailing list >> nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl >> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > > > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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