Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.cour...@inria.fr> writes:

>> Btw, is option a) possible on GuixSD?
>
> I think so.  Why wouldn’t it?

It looks like /gnu/store is needed early to boot the system.

Can you hint on how to configure GuixSD with /gnu/store on NFS?

> Yes, we use option a) on a cluster at Inria (and Roel and Ricardo have a
> similar setup at their institutes), and it works pretty well.
>
> From a performance viewpoint, it’s important for the master node to have
> the store on a local file system, so that things like GC and
> deduplication run quickly enough—these would be slow over NFS.  For the
> compute nodes, accessing packages over NFS is good enough.

Thanks!  I think I'll try to experiment with a) a bit first.

-- 
Mikhail

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