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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2012-09-19T19·45-0400
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2012-09-19T19·45-0400
commitb9124a5c336fd231adaa548cf5be311731847848 (patch)
tree4512ebc47414036212e8b1e895147f6300124df4 /src/libstore/misc.cc
parent76e88871b21c47c0216e160a5fb926f763ba64fe (diff)
Support having /nix/store as a read-only bind mount
It turns out that the immutable bit doesn't work all that well.  A
better way is to make the entire Nix store a read-only bind mount,
i.e. by doing

  $ mount --bind /nix/store /nix/store
  $ mount -o remount,ro,bind /nix/store

(This would typically done in an early boot script, before anything
from /nix/store is used.)

Since Nix needs to be able to write to the Nix store, it now detects
if /nix/store is a read-only bind mount and then makes it writable in
a private mount namespace.
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