Thra11 has joined #nixos-aarch64
Thra11 has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds]
orivej has joined #nixos-aarch64
orivej has quit [Ping timeout: 246 seconds]
FRidh has joined #nixos-aarch64
orivej has joined #nixos-aarch64
Acou_Bass has quit [Ping timeout: 268 seconds]
tilpner has quit [Remote host closed the connection]
tathougies has joined #nixos-aarch64
tilpner has joined #nixos-aarch64
tathougies has quit [Quit: Leaving.]
orivej has quit [Ping timeout: 272 seconds]
Acou_Bass has joined #nixos-aarch64
tathougies has joined #nixos-aarch64
Thra11 has joined #nixos-aarch64
<tathougies> is an sd card a good medium for the nix store? or would an external hard drive be better?
<gchristensen> hd would be better
<tathougies> why is that?
<samueldr> sd cards are generally painful, though for reading wouldn't be an issue, but the moment you'll write to the store, it'll be a bottleneck
<tathougies> got it
<samueldr> it's a wide generalization, YMMV, but writes are one or two order of magnitudes slower on SD cards, than read
<tathougies> for booting, would an sd card be a good idea?
<tathougies> This is for an ODROID C2
<samueldr> if the bootloader has no issues powering and mounting the usb drive, I would hazard a guess that everything on the usb drive is easier
<samueldr> (no experience with the C2 :/)
<tathougies> I don't know if it will boot from a hard drive… still waiting for it in the mail haha
<samueldr> for the C2 or the drive? :)
<tathougies> for the C2
<tathougies> all the instructions online are how to boot from SD or eMMC
<tathougies> i guess i could boot and then kexec, if you have to
<tathougies> perhaps it'll work the same
<tathougies> i'll figure it out this weekend :D
<samueldr> in its default aarch64 configuration, nixos will mount the partition labled "NIXOS" iirc, so you could always `dd` the image, rename its internal partition to whatever copy it to the drive OR "move" it to the drive.
<gchristensen> [1302470.199503] multipathd[3280]: segfault at 1c00001 ip 00007f1ae01b7476 sp 00007ffcceb3b870 error 4 in libmultipath.so.0[7f1ae01a2000+43000]
<gchristensen> oops
<samueldr> nothing forces the boot partition to be on the same media than the root
<samueldr> and since the kernel is started and in control, it should be able to mount the usb drive, even if neither the board's intial bootloader nor u-boot can
<tathougies> nice
<tathougies> great… this should work great then
<samueldr> I would recommend you NOT have the boot partition on both the SD card and the drive, it makes it harder at a glance to understand which one (if both are labeled the same) is mounted
<samueldr> (sams for the root partition)
<samueldr> and is my opinion
Thra11 has quit [Ping timeout: 250 seconds]
FRidh has quit [Quit: Konversation terminated!]
duncan^ has quit [Quit: Hwyl fawr, fy nghariad]
duncan^ has joined #nixos-aarch64
duncan^ has quit [Changing host]
duncan^ has joined #nixos-aarch64
<gchristensen> I wish I had my own big aarch64 box :(
<sphalerite> gchristensen: :D what do you want it for?
<gchristensen> building the packet.net disk images
<gchristensen> in a pinch I can use the ones behind Hydra but I don't like to have creds for that box "around"
<sphalerite> aaah yeah fair
<gchristensen> an obvious question is why don't they give me another for this? they're out :P
<sphalerite> at least it's a good reason :p
<gchristensen> yeah
<gchristensen> I want to hook this up to some CI automation, too, which is a line I'm not willing to cross with the hydra machine
<sphalerite> and you can't build the packet images in hydra? :D
<gchristensen> it would add tons of data to the binary cache for no reason :(
<gchristensen> they're going to start renting GPU boxes for $0.00/hr
<gchristensen> (ie: spot market only, name your price)
<sphalerite> sounds like a good way to maximise utilisation?
<gchristensen> maybe so
<gchristensen> seems a bit weird, most model training I've done (which is not standard I guess) took days-to-weeks to train and a spot market would be the exact opposite of what I'd want, b/c a shutdown would ruin it all
<sphalerite> fair enough
orivej has joined #nixos-aarch64
tathougies has quit [Quit: Leaving.]