bug#44196: closed (Problems with /gnu/store in a different btrfs subvolume)

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> Problems with /gnu/store in a different btrfs subvolume
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> Sat, 24 Oct 2020 19:56:15 +0200
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux)
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> I've been testing the installation and the use case for separate btrfs
> subvolumes, so I created two different btrfs subvolumes for the root
> file system (/rootfs) and the store (/storefs), and installed with guix
> system init and a basic operating-system configuration.
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> The problems detected were:
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>   - [ ] Grub localization doesn't properly work as the root file system
>         is not located in the literal route (that I hard-coded based on
>         grub defaults).
>         This was the main test, I still don't have a patch, but I'm
>         thinking that we should generate the locale and provide there
>         the store path.  WDYT?
>   - [*] The keymap doesn't work on stage2, as the path contains the
>         wrong prefix for the store file.  Fixed with patch 1.
>   - [?] The store-prefix was not being provided in other places than
>         the generation of a new system generation (sic), so
>         "guix system delete-generations" generates grub.cfg with wrong
>         paths.  This should be fixed with patch 2, but I'm not sure how
>         to write another test with a marionette: gnu/tests/installer.scm
>         contains most of the code needed, but I'm not sure how to do it.
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> The patches will follow this email.
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> Re: bug#44196: [PATCH 2/3] system: Add store-directory-prefix to boot-parameters.
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux)
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> I've pushed this last patch as 582cf9257cd1f9c969fbba5eb1c336ac8b975cde
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>  - A pointer to this issue in the commit message.
>  - A description of store-directory-prefix on the commit message.
>  - A better version (I hope) of the comment inside <boot-parameters>.
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> Thank you very much!
> Miguel
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