tvl-depot/tvix/store
Florian Klink 88922bb207 feat(tvix/store/bin): disable --json option, set log to compact
This wasn't really used - to ingest logs in meachine-readable form, the
OTLP infrastructure is more suitable to provide structured logs than
parsing JSON from std{err}, as it also captures span information.

Also, the non-JSON output is a bit too spammy, as remarked in cl/11483 -
change it to `compact`.

Change-Id: I48007b84ba076ab566abbb6131a02868fe0eb397
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/11526
Autosubmit: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: picnoir picnoir <picnoir@alternativebit.fr>
2024-04-26 15:08:15 +00:00
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docs chore(tvix/castore): move data model docs to here 2023-11-02 09:08:20 +00:00
protos refactor(tvix/*/protos): separate lint target 2023-12-11 22:35:39 +00:00
src feat(tvix/store/bin): disable --json option, set log to compact 2024-04-26 15:08:15 +00:00
build.rs fix(tvix): don't emit rerun-if-changed 2024-03-16 09:34:10 +00:00
Cargo.toml chore(tvix/store): remove test-case dependency 2024-04-19 19:22:10 +00:00
default.nix feat(tvix/store): add bigtable pathinfoservice backend 2024-04-09 19:40:14 +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.