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Florian Klink 6f85dbfc06 feat(tvix/store/pathinfosvc): add calculate_nar method Putting this in the PathInfoService trait makes much more sense, we can have direct control over where/how to cache the results in the implementation. This now requires each PathInfoService to hold pointers to BlobService and DirectoryService. Change-Id: I4faae780d43eae4beeb57bd5e190e6d1a5d3314e Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8724 Tested-by: BuildkiteCI Autosubmit: flokli <flokli@flokli.de> Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>		2023-06-12 10:15:20 +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	feat(tvix/store/pathinfosvc): add calculate_nar method	2023-06-12 10:15:20 +00:00
build.rs	refactor(tvix/store): remove needless borrow in build.rs	2023-02-15 18:40:36 +00:00
Cargo.toml	chore(tvix/store): add fuse feature	2023-06-10 14:48:48 +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

README.md

//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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 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.