Reserve some disk space for the garbage collector

We can't open a SQLite database if the disk is full.  Since this
prevents the garbage collector from running when it's most needed, we
reserve some dummy space that we can free just before doing a garbage
collection.  This actually revives some old code from the Berkeley DB
days.

Fixes #27.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/nix-worker/nix-worker.cc b/src/nix-worker/nix-worker.cc
index c69b9de506d6..b7bce20bd412 100644
--- a/src/nix-worker/nix-worker.cc
+++ b/src/nix-worker/nix-worker.cc
@@ -625,8 +625,12 @@ static void processConnection()
             throw Error("if you run `nix-worker' as root, then you MUST set `build-users-group'!");
 #endif
 
+        bool reserveSpace = true;
+        if (GET_PROTOCOL_MINOR(clientVersion) >= 11)
+            reserveSpace = readInt(from) != 0;
+
         /* Open the store. */
-        store = boost::shared_ptr<StoreAPI>(new LocalStore());
+        store = boost::shared_ptr<StoreAPI>(new LocalStore(reserveSpace));
 
         stopWork();
         to.flush();