[Nix-dev] nixfs

[Armijn Hemel]

hi Christof,

> A very long time ago I thought of creating a filesystem for the nix
> store. The idea is to store only differences between similar packages.
> 
> Lately I had some time to spend and created a first version as a fuse
> daemon. It can serve nar archives and extracted packages as normal
> directories and does do nothing else yet.

Interesting. I guess this is not the same idea as what Merijn de Jonge
did a few years ago? He made a fuse implementation that mapped a user
environment to a "normal" file system (so you could use that
on /usr/local for example).

> I thought that asking for the binary diff implementation used for
> sending binary updates is faster that finding that myself. Where is it?

bsdiff?

armijn

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