# Builds an ext4 image containing a populated /nix/store with the closure # of store paths passed in the storePaths parameter, in addition to the # contents of a directory that can be populated with commands. The # generated image is sized to only fit its contents, with the expectation # that a script resizes the filesystem at boot time. { pkgs , lib # List of derivations to be included , storePaths # Whether or not to compress the resulting image with zstd , compressImage ? false, zstd # Shell commands to populate the ./files directory. # All files in that directory are copied to the root of the FS. , populateImageCommands ? "" , volumeLabel , uuid ? "44444444-4444-4444-8888-888888888888" , e2fsprogs , libfaketime , perl , lkl }: let sdClosureInfo = pkgs.buildPackages.closureInfo { rootPaths = storePaths; }; in pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation { name = "ext4-fs.img${lib.optionalString compressImage ".zst"}"; nativeBuildInputs = [ e2fsprogs.bin libfaketime perl lkl ] ++ lib.optional compressImage zstd; buildCommand = '' ${if compressImage then "img=temp.img" else "img=$out"} ( mkdir -p ./files ${populateImageCommands} ) # Add the closures of the top-level store objects. storePaths=$(cat ${sdClosureInfo}/store-paths) # Make a crude approximation of the size of the target image. # If the script starts failing, increase the fudge factors here. numInodes=$(find $storePaths ./files | wc -l) numDataBlocks=$(du -s -c -B 4096 --apparent-size $storePaths ./files | tail -1 | awk '{ 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 $img faketime -f "1970-01-01 00:00:01" mkfs.ext4 -L ${volumeLabel} -U ${uuid} $img # Also include a manifest of the closures in a format suitable for nix-store --load-db. cp ${sdClosureInfo}/registration nix-path-registration cptofs -t ext4 -i $img nix-path-registration / # Create nix/store before copying paths faketime -f "1970-01-01 00:00:01" mkdir -p nix/store cptofs -t ext4 -i $img nix / echo "copying store paths to image..." cptofs -t ext4 -i $img $storePaths /nix/store/ echo "copying files to image..." cptofs -t ext4 -i $img ./files/* / export EXT2FS_NO_MTAB_OK=yes # 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 $img; then echo "--- Fsck failed for EXT4 image of $bytes bytes (numInodes=$numInodes, numDataBlocks=$numDataBlocks) ---" cat errorlog return 1 fi echo "Resizing to minimum allowed size" resize2fs -M $img # And a final fsck, because of the previous truncating. fsck.ext4 -n -f $img if [ ${builtins.toString compressImage} ]; then echo "Compressing image" zstd -v --no-progress ./$img -o $out fi ''; }