diff --git a/tvix/castore/src/import/archive.rs b/tvix/castore/src/import/archive.rs
index 0d21481d4..0ebb4a236 100644
--- a/tvix/castore/src/import/archive.rs
+++ b/tvix/castore/src/import/archive.rs
@@ -288,12 +288,12 @@ impl IngestionEntryGraph {
             None => self.graph.add_node(entry),
         };
 
-        // A path with 1 component is the root node
+        // for archives, a path with 1 component is the root node
         if path.components().count() == 1 {
             // We expect archives to contain a single root node, if there is another root node
             // entry with a different path name, this is unsupported.
             if let Some(root_node) = self.root_node {
-                if self.get_node(root_node).path() != &path {
+                if self.get_node(root_node).path() != path.as_ref() {
                     return Err(Error::UnexpectedNumberOfTopLevelEntries);
                 }
             }
diff --git a/tvix/castore/src/import/mod.rs b/tvix/castore/src/import/mod.rs
index 7b42644a2..6c69d04f3 100644
--- a/tvix/castore/src/import/mod.rs
+++ b/tvix/castore/src/import/mod.rs
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ use crate::proto::DirectoryNode;
 use crate::proto::FileNode;
 use crate::proto::SymlinkNode;
 use crate::B3Digest;
+use crate::Path;
 use futures::{Stream, StreamExt};
 
 use tracing::Level;
@@ -183,7 +184,7 @@ pub enum IngestionEntry {
 }
 
 impl IngestionEntry {
-    fn path(&self) -> &PathBuf {
+    fn path(&self) -> &Path {
         match self {
             IngestionEntry::Regular { path, .. } => path,
             IngestionEntry::Symlink { path, .. } => path,