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| author | Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com> | 2017-10-17 21:15:33 +0200 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com> | 2017-10-17 21:15:33 +0200 |
| commit | ca580bec35ea4d1984e36864158d7be99cfcb34b (patch) | |
| tree | f5427b560bd2ef98fa8b931597f280fce97a356c /src/libstore/binary-cache-store.hh | |
| parent | 11ba4302e3666d3860ca83b734217afe07f22de2 (diff) | |
BinaryCacheStore: Support local caching of NARs
This speeds up commands like "nix cat-store". For example:
$ time nix cat-store --store https://cache.nixos.org?local-nar-cache=/tmp/nar-cache /nix/store/i60yncmq6w9dyv37zd2k454g0fkl3arl-systemd-234/etc/udev/udev.conf
real 0m4.336s
$ time nix cat-store --store https://cache.nixos.org?local-nar-cache=/tmp/nar-cache /nix/store/i60yncmq6w9dyv37zd2k454g0fkl3arl-systemd-234/etc/udev/udev.conf
real 0m0.045s
The primary motivation is to allow hydra-server to serve files from S3
binary caches. Previously Hydra had a hack to do "nix-store -r
<path>", but that fetches the entire closure so is prohibitively
expensive.
There is no garbage collection of the NAR cache yet. Also, the entire
NAR is read when accessing a single member file. We could generate the
NAR listing to provide random access.
Note: the NAR cache is indexed by the store path hash, not the content
hash, so NAR caches should not be shared between binary caches, unless
you're sure that all your builds are binary-reproducible.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/libstore/binary-cache-store.hh')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/libstore/binary-cache-store.hh | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/libstore/binary-cache-store.hh b/src/libstore/binary-cache-store.hh index f9c1c2cbe..d3b0e0bd9 100644 --- a/src/libstore/binary-cache-store.hh +++ b/src/libstore/binary-cache-store.hh @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ public: const Setting<std::string> compression{this, "xz", "compression", "NAR compression method ('xz', 'bzip2', or 'none')"}; const Setting<bool> writeNARListing{this, false, "write-nar-listing", "whether to write a JSON file listing the files in each NAR"}; const Setting<Path> secretKeyFile{this, "", "secret-key", "path to secret key used to sign the binary cache"}; + const Setting<Path> localNarCache{this, "", "local-nar-cache", "path to a local cache of NARs"}; private: |