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Florian Klink a4d0a80466 refactor(tvix/store/bin): instantiating TvixStoreIO once Instead of instantiating it once in every loop iteration, put it in an Arc, and clone that before passing it to the spawned task. Change-Id: I5d9c838f27048726166fa50206d1edd5ed6849b5 Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8632 Autosubmit: flokli <flokli@flokli.de> Tested-by: BuildkiteCI Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>		2023-05-25 12:35:59 +00:00
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docs	docs(tvix/store): add document describing why we don't use git trees	2023-03-05 18:33:54 +00:00
protos	refactor(tvix/store): bump CalculateNARResponse.nar_size to u64	2023-05-18 19:29:53 +00:00
src	refactor(tvix/store/bin): instantiating TvixStoreIO once	2023-05-25 12:35:59 +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): implement TvixStoreIO	2023-05-24 09:25:02 +00:00
default.nix	chore(tvix/store): drop separate bin package	2023-03-14 22:23:10 +00:00
README.md	docs(tvix/store): add README, document services and store model	2022-12-26 11:38:52 +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 (handled by //tvix/nar-bridge).

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 &
$ 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.