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What's the difference with CVMFS[1] and Nix[2]? [1] http://cernvm.cern.ch/portal/filesystem http://cernvm.cern.ch/portal/filesystem [2] http://nixos.org/nix/ h
by servilio 9y ago
What's the difference with CVMFS[1] and Nix[2]?
[1] http://cernvm.cern.ch/portal/filesystem http://cernvm.cern.ch/portal/filesystem
[2] http://nixos.org/nix/ http://nixos.org/nix/
- akarve 9y agoThose are both interesting projects. Quilt has a rather different emphasis, though. The difference from CVMFS is that Quilt is a full set of services around data (build, push, install) whereas CVMFS is just the file system. In the big data community Paruqet, which we use as a virtualization format, has far more traction than CVMFS. Nixos is specialized for software package management so the distinctions between Quilt and git apply https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14772036 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14772036.