Re: guix on a cluster: install into existing mount

[Efraim Flashner]

On Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 08:40:54PM +0200, Adam McCartney via Guix-Science wrote:
> Can also offer a little bit of further clarification:
> 
> > + The recursively mounted subtrees don't survive a reboot, despite there 
> > being
> >  fstab entries for them.
> > + The guix daemon doesn't want to run, I think this maybe has something to 
> > do
> >  with the way that the `gnu.mount` service is set up? I guess that unit is
> >  maybe not expecting to find a mount under `/gnu/store`?
> 
> So, the typical pattern that was being applied when I approached the system
> was append the following two entries to fstab:
> 
> ```
> [HOST_IP]:/gpfs/opt/adm /mnt/adm nfs rw,async,noatime,nodiratime,_netdev 0 0
> [HOST_IP]:/gpfs/opt/sw /mnt/sw nfs rw,async,noatime,nodiratime,_netdev 0 0
> ```
> 
> As I mentioned in the thread above, I've recreated the required guix folders
> as:
>  + `/mnt/sw/dev/guix/gnu/store`
>  + `/mnt/sw/dev/guix/var/guix`
>  + `/mnt/sw/dev/guix/var/log/guix`
> 
> And then used the recursive bind option for mount:
> 
> ```
> mount --rbind /mnt/sw/dev/guix/gnu/store/ /gnu/store
> mount --rbind /mnt/sw/dev/guix/var/guix/ /var/guix
> mount --rbind /mng/sw/dev/guix/var/log/guix/ /var/log/guix
> ```
> 
> At this point it's possible to start the guix daemon and do a guix pull.
> 
> I'm a bit unsure as to how to make these recursive bind mounts persistent in
> fstab. I've tried a couple of different options:
> 
> As type nfs rbind
> ```
> /mnt/sw/dev/guix/gnu/store /gnu/store nfs rbind
> ...
> ```
> 
> As type none rbind
> ```
> /mnt/sw/dev/guix/gnu/store /gnu/store none rbind
> ...
> ```
> 
> Referencing the host directly
> ```
> [HOST_IP]:/gpfs/sw/dev/guix/gnu/store /gnu/store nfs rbind
> ...
> ```
> 
> Any pointers in the direction of where I might find some more info on making
> recursive bind mounts persistent much appreciated!
> 
> cheers,
> Adam
> 
> p.s. I have considered that a cleaner solution would be to actually export
> the relevant directories from the nfs server rather than creating bind
> mounts after
> it has been mounted. This is probably an option going forward, but for the 
> time
> being I probably have to make do with the test setup as described above.
> 

It could be that there isn't a /gnu directory already on the machine, so
could it be that's why it's not working?

I guess my two questions would be:
1. Do any of the mounts work? (that is, can you test them individually
instead of all at once?)
2. Does something like the following work?
/mnt/sw/dev/guix/gnu /gnu none rbind

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