GNU bug report logs - #21209
/gnu/store should be able to be a symlink, but it can't

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen <at> canonical.org>

Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 16:48:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Fixed in version 0.8.3

Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 21209 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr2015 <at> thebird.nl>
To: Claes Wallin <gnu <at> clacke.user.lysator.liu.se>
Cc: 21209 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen <at> canonical.org>
Subject: Re: bug#21209: /gnu/store should be able to be a symlink, but it can't
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2015 11:31:19 +0200

it is by design that you can't symlink.

On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 06:51:17AM +0200, Claes Wallin wrote:
>    Not commenting on the underlying problem, but on your workaround.
> 
>    On 07-Aug-2015 11:22 pm, "Kragen Javier Sitaker" <[1]kragen <at> canonical.org>
>    wrote:
>    >
>    > Apparently I can’t make /gnu/store a symlink:
> 
>    [ . . . ]
> 
>    > I’m working around that by directly mounting the /gnustore partition
>    > under /gnu/store now.
> 
>    [ . . . ]
> 
>    >     /tb/gnustore.ext4 /gnu/store     ext4    loop            2       3
> 
>    You don't need to make a new file system and a loop mount. You could just
>    make a bind mount.
> 
> References
> 
>    Visible links
>    1. mailto:kragen <at> canonical.org

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