tvl-depot/tvix/store
Ilan Joselevich 5a97888d8b chore(tvix): Migrate members to inherit deps from workspace
From now on we will add the dependencies and their version in the root
Cargo.toml and in order to enable the dependency for a workspace member
we set `workspace = true` in the member's Cargo.toml.

Change-Id: I9738c1cf99810b7ace87ca712c3ea965ba846e25
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/12389
Autosubmit: Ilan Joselevich <personal@ilanjoselevich.com>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
2024-08-29 14:37:22 +00:00
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protos feat(tvix): drop usage of sparseTree in favor of lib.sourceByRegex 2024-08-19 16:56:19 +00:00
src fix(tvix/store): restore v1alpha reflection endpoint 2024-08-27 10:34:43 +00:00
build.rs feat(tvix): drop usage of sparseTree in favor of lib.sourceByRegex 2024-08-19 16:56:19 +00:00
Cargo.toml chore(tvix): Migrate members to inherit deps from workspace 2024-08-29 14:37:22 +00:00
default.nix chore(tvix): Retain original passthru in Rust builds 2024-08-15 23:37:00 +00:00
README.md fix(tvix/store): rename Read method in Readme 2023-09-26 15:24:32 +00:00

//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
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 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 Read --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.