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author | Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com> | 2017-03-03 15:21:42 +0100 |
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committer | Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com> | 2017-03-03 16:50:25 +0100 |
commit | 136f77b7b974f41362eddb750aae7ec9cb4c0a86 (patch) | |
tree | e45e035ea07b64afdcc2c4d2e6d01787b590eeb9 /nixos/modules/system/activation/switch-to-configuration.pl | |
parent | 044c7d091b980aba40521cd67e70022cdae60568 (diff) | |
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nixos-rebuild: Sync /nix/store only
We only care about /nix/store because its contents might be out of sync with /nix/var/nix/db. Syncing other filesystems might cause unnecessary delays or hangs (e.g. I encountered a case where an NFS mount was taking a very long time to sync).
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/nixos/modules/system/activation/switch-to-configuration.pl b/nixos/modules/system/activation/switch-to-configuration.pl index ca7932a3c5cd..88e7847cf8c8 100644 --- a/nixos/modules/system/activation/switch-to-configuration.pl +++ b/nixos/modules/system/activation/switch-to-configuration.pl @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ if ($action eq "switch" || $action eq "boot") { } # Just in case the new configuration hangs the system, do a sync now. -system("@coreutils@/bin/sync") unless ($ENV{"NIXOS_NO_SYNC"} // "") eq "1"; +system("@coreutils@/bin/sync", "-f", "/nix/store") unless ($ENV{"NIXOS_NO_SYNC"} // "") eq "1"; exit 0 if $action eq "boot"; |