Issue description
I'm working on a new Linux based project that is currently using a different build system and I'm evaluating Nix as a replacement.
Our system runs mostly from a stripped down Linux image in memory that includes the full system in the initrd which makes it very very simple to boot with network booting. No need to fetch an additional squashfs (and it's practical because our image is so lean.) We then put a ZFS pool on the disks to use as storage for the workloads we run on the machines.
I've been flailing around (see master...nshalman:cerana-test1) trying to get something that works and coming up short.
I think Nix/NixOS is a very good project for us to collaborate with. A much more elegant version of what I've been working on is something that I'd want to get merged into nixpkgs so that we can collaborate further with NixOS.
Issue description
I'm working on a new Linux based project that is currently using a different build system and I'm evaluating Nix as a replacement.
Our system runs mostly from a stripped down Linux image in memory that includes the full system in the initrd which makes it very very simple to boot with network booting. No need to fetch an additional squashfs (and it's practical because our image is so lean.) We then put a ZFS pool on the disks to use as storage for the workloads we run on the machines.
I've been flailing around (see master...nshalman:cerana-test1) trying to get something that works and coming up short.
I think Nix/NixOS is a very good project for us to collaborate with. A much more elegant version of what I've been working on is something that I'd want to get merged into nixpkgs so that we can collaborate further with NixOS.