From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Mon Nov 16 08:09:17 2020 Received: (at 44353) by debbugs.gnu.org; 16 Nov 2020 13:09:17 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55377 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1keeFt-00031X-UY for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2020 08:09:17 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:39916) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1keeFs-00031I-FV for 44353@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2020 08:09:12 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33358) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1keeFn-0002Eq-8g; Mon, 16 Nov 2020 08:09:07 -0500 Received: from [2a01:e0a:1d:7270:af76:b9b:ca24:c465] (port=47890 helo=ribbon) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1keeFk-0000J3-HM; Mon, 16 Nov 2020 08:09:04 -0500 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= To: Mathieu Othacehe Subject: Re: [PATCH version-1.2.0 v2] guix: system: Add a new '--non-volatile' option for disk-image. References: <87h7q0cdns.fsf@gnu.org> <20201112070917.11794-1-maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> <878sb25m6s.fsf@gnu.org> <87o8jxlkot.fsf@gnu.org> X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 26 Brumaire an 229 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x090B11993D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 14:09:02 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87o8jxlkot.fsf@gnu.org> (Mathieu Othacehe's message of "Mon, 16 Nov 2020 10:23:14 +0100") Message-ID: <874klpxxch.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 44353 Cc: 44353@debbugs.gnu.org, Jesse Gibbons , Maxim Cournoyer X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) Mathieu Othacehe skribis: >> Before the new image API though, =E2=80=98disk-image=E2=80=99 did not pr= oduce a volatile >> root, IIRC. I=E2=80=99m tempted to think that we should set (volatile-r= oot? >> #f) on image types where it makes sense, which is maybe all of them >> except ISO. (Then we need to make sure =E2=80=98guix system vm=E2=80=99= still gets a >> volatile root.) >> >> WDYT, Mathieu? > > That's also what I proposed to Maxim. Note that "guix system vm" is > still using the "old" VM based image production method and doesn't share > the new image API volatile default. Right. Speaking of which, can we remove =E2=80=98system-disk-image-in-vm=E2=80=99?= It has zero users now. Ludo=E2=80=99.