# Builds an ext4 image containing a populated /nix/store with the closure # of store paths passed in the storePaths parameter. The generated image # is sized to only fit its contents, with the expectation that a script # resizes the filesystem at boot time. { pkgs , storePaths , volumeLabel , uuid ? "44444444-4444-4444-8888-888888888888" , e2fsprogs , libfaketime , perl }: let sdClosureInfo = pkgs.buildPackages.closureInfo { rootPaths = storePaths; }; in pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation { name = "ext4-fs.img"; nativeBuildInputs = [e2fsprogs.bin libfaketime perl]; buildCommand = '' # Add the closures of the top-level store objects. storePaths=$(cat ${sdClosureInfo}/store-paths) # Also include a manifest of the closures in a format suitable for nix-store --load-db. cp ${sdClosureInfo}/registration nix-path-registration # Make a crude approximation of the size of the target image. # If the script starts failing, increase the fudge factors here. numInodes=$(find $storePaths | wc -l) numDataBlocks=$(du -c -B 4096 --apparent-size $storePaths | awk '$2 == "total" { print int($1 * 1.03) }') bytes=$((2 * 4096 * $numInodes + 4096 * $numDataBlocks)) echo "Creating an EXT4 image of $bytes bytes (numInodes=$numInodes, numDataBlocks=$numDataBlocks)" truncate -s $bytes $out faketime -f "1970-01-01 00:00:01" mkfs.ext4 -L ${volumeLabel} -U ${uuid} $out # Populate the image contents by piping a bunch of commands to the `debugfs` tool from e2fsprogs. # For example, to copy /nix/store/abcd...efg-coreutils-8.23/bin/sleep: # cd /nix/store/abcd...efg-coreutils-8.23/bin # write /nix/store/abcd...efg-coreutils-8.23/bin/sleep sleep # sif sleep mode 040555 # sif sleep gid 30000 # In particular, debugfs doesn't handle absolute target paths; you have to 'cd' in the virtual # filesystem first. Likewise the intermediate directories must already exist (using `find` # handles that for us). And when setting the file's permissions, the inode type flags (__S_IFDIR, # __S_IFREG) need to be set as well. ( echo write nix-path-registration nix-path-registration echo mkdir nix echo cd /nix echo mkdir store # XXX: This explodes in exciting ways if anything in /nix/store has a space in it. find $storePaths -printf '%y %f %h %m\n'| while read -r type file dir perms; do # echo "TYPE=$type DIR=$dir FILE=$file PERMS=$perms" >&2 echo "cd $dir" case $type in d) echo "mkdir $file" echo sif $file mode $((040000 | 0$perms)) # magic constant is __S_IFDIR ;; f) echo "write $dir/$file $file" echo sif $file mode $((0100000 | 0$perms)) # magic constant is __S_IFREG ;; l) echo "symlink $file $(readlink "$dir/$file")" ;; *) echo "Unknown entry: $type $dir $file $perms" >&2 exit 1 ;; esac echo sif $file gid 30000 # chgrp to nixbld done ) | faketime -f "1970-01-01 00:00:01" debugfs -w $out -f /dev/stdin > errorlog 2>&1 # The debugfs tool doesn't terminate on error nor exit with a non-zero status. Check manually. if egrep -q 'Could not allocate|File not found' errorlog; then cat errorlog echo "--- Failed to create EXT4 image of $bytes bytes (numInodes=$numInodes, numDataBlocks=$numDataBlocks) ---" return 1 fi # I have ended up with corrupted images sometimes, I suspect that happens when the build machine's disk gets full during the build. if ! fsck.ext4 -n -f $out; then echo "--- Fsck failed for EXT4 image of $bytes bytes (numInodes=$numInodes, numDataBlocks=$numDataBlocks) ---" cat errorlog return 1 fi ''; }