Open roberth opened 10 months ago
I assume by Impermanence you mean nix-community/impermanence?
Great idea! NixOS could do better with handling its state and this seems a step in the right direction.
This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/what-about-state-management/37082/2
How about we do this the other way around? Configure applications to use certain state directory like /volumes/postgres
whenever possible
this would allow users to easily find data directories and configure mountpoints/snapshotting and since its a custom path - it would allow us to easily find other state locations which are not properly configured
Not sure if there is much point in doing so, just a thought
Project description
Provide options that declare where all system state is kept. This serves a number of purposes:
Example module config:
Some discussion can be found in
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