[Nix-dev] read-only store on its own filesystem

Mathijs Kwik mathijs at bluescreen303.nl
Mon Mar 4 17:53:59 CET 2013


Vladimír Čunát <vcunat at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi.
>
> On 03/03/2013 09:30 PM, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
>> Why is this check there?
>> Is there a reason not to use this functionality when a mountpoint (store
>> on other fs) is detected?
>
> I believe the commands should work the same even if /nix/store is a
> mount point, although it's a border case and I don't know "mount" very
> precisely. If it works for you, I doubt it should cause any problems
> (maybe on different platforms).

Does anyone know more about this (mount/different platforms)?

I don't want to push this and break people's systems :)


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> Vlada
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