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Re:The many issues plaguing Nix by scolby33 on Friday August 11, 2023 @04:45PM (#37093779)
I would use Guix over Nix in a second if only Guix had support for ZFS. I don't even need root or /home on ZFS, which I admit can be tricky.
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Re:The many issues plaguing Nix by autumn-antlers on Saturday August 12, 2023 @03:43AM (#37097990)
Guix absolutely supports ZFS[1] without root or /home on it.

The user-space daemon for auto-mounts might take some setup, but there's a guide[2]*. I've personally gone all-in and use Guix with ZFS-on-Root, but this isn't an officially supported configuration due to an unfortunate cluster-truck[3] of an issue, and I haven't shared my configuration publicly yet (might soon for other reasons, but it's just not there yet).

1: https://packages.guix.gnu.org/packages/zfs/

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/GUIX/comments/s7qu25/guide_using_zf...

3: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/45692

*: Accessing ZVOLS through `/dev/zvol/foo/bar` takes additional setup.

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