[Nix-dev] Multiple stores

Daniel Hlynskyi abcz2.uprola at gmail.com
Fri Aug 26 21:29:03 CEST 2016


Why LVM is expensive? I'd like to know because I often mount /nix/store on
log. vvolum.

26 серп. 2016 3:51 пп "Freddy Rietdijk" <freddyrietdijk at fridh.nl> пише:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to use Nix for a certain data analysis where I will have
> several thousand files which are all together about two TB in size. At the
> moment NixOS is installed on a SSD which is a quarter that size. Would it
> be possible to install a second store elsewhere, in this case on a slower
> HDD?
>
> I couldn't find anything about this so I guess it isn't possible. Do you
> have in that case any other suggestions? I suppose the most obvious
> solution would be to install Nix on the slower HDD. Using LVM with multiple
> SSD's gets a bit too expensive.
>
> How does Nix perform on a HDD?
>
> Freddy
>
>
>
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