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Re: Non-privileged daemons and offloading


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: Non-privileged daemons and offloading
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 14:23:05 +0200
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address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> Regardless, it remains our best hope to support unprivileged daemons.

Also, I did not explicitly mention it, but I think this unprivileged
user namespace thing should just be one part of the strategy.

In parallel, it’s worth discussing with cluster sysadmins and see if
they can have guix-daemon running on the cluster.  There are good
reasons for them to do that compared to letting each user do their own
thing, and one of them is improved resource usage.

Ricardo outlined the setup he came up with on a cluster here:

  http://elephly.net/posts/2015-04-17-gnu-guix.html

and we have a bunch of arguments in store ;-):

  https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01161771/en

In the end, for a sysadmin, it’s a cost/benefit tradeoff.  In some
situations, providing Guix may mean much less work for cluster admins.

Ludo’.



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