tvl-depot/tvix/store/README.md
Florian Klink 32f41458c0 refactor(tvix): move castore into tvix-castore crate
This splits the pure content-addressed layers from tvix-store into a
`castore` crate, and only leaves PathInfo related things, as well as the
CLI entrypoint in the tvix-store crate.

Notable changes:
 - `fixtures` and `utils` had to be moved out of the `test` cfg, so they
   can be imported from tvix-store.
 - Some ad-hoc fixtures in the test were moved to proper fixtures in the
   same step.
 - The protos are now created by a (more static) recipe in the protos/
   directory.

The (now two) golang targets are commented out, as it's not possible to
update them properly in the same CL. This will be done by a followup CL
once this is merged (and whitby deployed)

Bug: https://b.tvl.fyi/issues/301

Change-Id: I8d675d4bf1fb697eb7d479747c1b1e3635718107
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/9370
Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Autosubmit: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: Connor Brewster <cbrewster@hey.com>
2023-09-22 12:51:21 +00:00

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//tvix/store

This contains the code hosting the tvix-store.

For the local store, Nix realizes files on the filesystem in /nix/store (and maintains some metadata in a SQLite database). For "remote stores", it communicates this metadata in NAR (Nix ARchive) and NARInfo format.

Compared to the Nix model, tvix-store stores data on a much more granular level than that, which provides more deduplication possibilities, and more granular copying.

However, enough information is preserved to still be able to render NAR and NARInfo when needed.

More Information

The store consists out of two different gRPC services, tvix.castore.v1 for the low-level content-addressed bits, and tvix.store.v1 for the Nix and StorePath-specific bits.

Check the protos/ subfolder both here and in castore for the definition of the exact RPC methods and messages.

Interacting with the GRPC service manually

The shell environment in //tvix provides evans, which is an interactive REPL-based gPRC client.

You can use it to connect to a tvix-store and call the various RPC methods.

$ cargo run -- daemon &
$ evans --host localhost --port 8000 -r repl
  ______
 |  ____|
 | |__    __   __   __ _   _ __    ___
 |  __|   \ \ / /  / _. | | '_ \  / __|
 | |____   \ V /  | (_| | | | | | \__ \
 |______|   \_/    \__,_| |_| |_| |___/

 more expressive universal gRPC client


localhost:8000> package tvix.castore.v1
tvix.castore.v1@localhost:8000> service BlobService

tvix.castore.v1.BlobService@localhost:8000> call Put --bytes-from-file
data (TYPE_BYTES) => /run/current-system/system
{
  "digest": "KOM3/IHEx7YfInAnlJpAElYezq0Sxn9fRz7xuClwNfA="
}

tvix.castore.v1.BlobService@localhost:8000> call Get --bytes-as-base64
digest (TYPE_BYTES) => KOM3/IHEx7YfInAnlJpAElYezq0Sxn9fRz7xuClwNfA=
{
  "data": "eDg2XzY0LWxpbnV4"
}

$ echo eDg2XzY0LWxpbnV4 | base64 -d
x86_64-linux

Thanks to tvix-store providing gRPC Server Reflection (with reflection feature), you don't need to point evans to the .proto files.