tvl-depot/tvix/store
Florian Klink e6ba84ea50 feat(tvix/store/protos): add Export
Export will traverse a given PathInfo structure, and write the contents
in NAR format to the passed Writer.
It uses directoryLookupFn and blobLookupFn to resolve references.

This is being moved over from nar-bridge. We need to keep the code there
around until we can bump go.mod to storev1 with this merged, but the
tests can already be moved entirely.

Change-Id: Ie0de3077b09344cafa00ff1e2ddb8b52e9e631bc
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/9602
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: Brian McGee <brian@bmcgee.ie>
Autosubmit: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
2023-10-10 18:55:49 +00:00
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docs docs(tvix/store): various improvements 2023-07-07 09:48:32 +00:00
protos feat(tvix/store/protos): add Export 2023-10-10 18:55:49 +00:00
src feat(tvix/store): use tvix_compat::nar::writer::async 2023-10-10 17:33:33 +00:00
build.rs chore(tvix/[ca]store): allow building without tonic-reflection 2023-09-26 10:07:40 +00:00
Cargo.toml feat(tvix/store): use tvix_compat::nar::writer::async 2023-10-10 17:33:33 +00:00
default.nix fix(tvix/store): Remove virtiofs from default features 2023-10-07 02:34:00 +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.