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Valentin Gagarin 2022-06-02 23:45:04 +02:00
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@ -102,6 +102,11 @@ Adding, building, copying and deleting store objects must be done in a way that
Nix maps between its store model and the [Unix paradigm][unix-paradigm] of [files and processes][file-descriptor], by encoding immutable store objects and opaque identifiers as file system primitives: files and directories, and paths.
That allows processes to resolve references contained in files and thus access the contents of store objects.
Store objects are therefore implemented as the pair of
- a *file system object* for data
- a set of *store paths* for references.
[unix-paradigm]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_is_a_file
[file-descriptor]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_descriptor
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Store objects are therefore implemented as the pair of
- a *file system object* for data
- a set of *store paths* for references.
There exist different types of stores, which all follow this model.
Examples:
- store on the local file system