tvl-depot/tvix/store
Florian Klink 35bff2bda6 refactor(tvix/store/pathinfosvc): add from_addr
Change-Id: I24e822351a837fce2aed568a647d009099ef32ec
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8747
Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Autosubmit: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
2023-06-14 23:15:08 +00:00
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docs docs(tvix/store/docs): fix grammar 2023-06-09 09:10:51 +00:00
protos refactor(tvix/store): bump CalculateNARResponse.nar_size to u64 2023-05-18 19:29:53 +00:00
src refactor(tvix/store/pathinfosvc): add from_addr 2023-06-14 23:15:08 +00:00
build.rs refactor(tvix/store): remove needless borrow in build.rs 2023-02-15 18:40:36 +00:00
Cargo.toml feat(tvix/store/blobsvc): add from_addr 2023-06-14 20:44:36 +00:00
default.nix chore(tvix/store): drop separate bin package 2023-03-14 22:23:10 +00:00
README.md docs(tvix/store): drop nar-bridge references 2023-06-09 15:33:14 +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

Check the protos/ subfolder 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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 |  __|   \ \ / /  / _. | | '_ \  / __|
 | |____   \ V /  | (_| | | | | | \__ \
 |______|   \_/    \__,_| |_| |_| |___/

 more expressive universal gRPC client


tvix.store.v1@localhost:8000> service BlobService

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

tvix.store.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.