Subject: bug#44353: [PATCH version-1.2.0 v2] guix: system: Add a new '--non-volatile' option for disk-image.

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 14:09:02 +0100

Mathieu Othacehe <[email-masked]> skribis:

>> Before the new image API though, ‘disk-image’ did not produce a volatile
>> root, IIRC.  I’m tempted to think that we should set (volatile-root?
>> #f) on image types where it makes sense, which is maybe all of them
>> except ISO.  (Then we need to make sure ‘guix system vm’ 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 ‘system-disk-image-in-vm’?  It has zero
users now.

Ludo’.