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Syncing state like this is not trivial and needs a custom implementation that is tailored for this purpose. Pretty much a dup of #1163 because if you can do cloud...

That's a great way to lose data. I personally prefer to keep mine consistent.

@iulko that's a separate feature that belongs in a separate issue.

If I know that there are no invalid paths (or don't care about them), is it be possible to rebuild it from the current state anyways? I'd much rather delete...

The only solution to db errors that isn't wiping the Nix store is to manually edit the database and remove bad entries.

@rapenne-s was this on btrfs?

Since you're on btrfs, if you use a separate subvol mount for `/nix`, you could try to `nixos-install` (might need `--system`) your current system into a new nix subvolume and...

@lilyball @L-as Taking advantage of CoW doesn't work on Linux either due to a VFS limitation: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/5513 One thing I'd like to understand in this issue is why a local...

> it's to help enforce hermetic evaluation and avoid impurities. And that's great but I don't see any point in hermetic eval on local files. > it's not great UX...

> You might not realize you're using local files, accidentally sneak in state, and then be surprised when it doesn't evaluate in deployment (and be all "wait, isn't nix supposed...