# borrows from: # https://xeiaso.net/blog/paranoid-nixos-2021-07-18 # https://elis.nu/blog/2020/05/nixos-tmpfs-as-root/ # https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence { config, lib, pkgs, utils, ... }: with lib; let cfg = config.sane.impermanence; storeType = types.submodule { options = { mountpt = mkOption { type = types.str; }; prefix = mkOption { type = types.str; default = "/"; }; extraOptions = mkOption { type = types.listOf types.str; default = []; }; }; }; # split the string path into a list of string components. # root directory "/" becomes the empty list []. # implicitly performs normalization so that: # splitPath "a//b/" => ["a" "b"] # splitPath "/a/b" => ["a" "b"] splitPath = str: builtins.filter (seg: (builtins.isString seg) && seg != "" ) (builtins.split "/" str); # return a string path, with leading slash but no trailing slash joinPathAbs = comps: "/" + (builtins.concatStringsSep "/" comps); concatPaths = paths: joinPathAbs (builtins.concatLists (builtins.map (p: splitPath p) paths)); # return the path from `from` to `to`, but generally in absolute form. # e.g. `pathFrom "/home/colin" "/home/colin/foo/bar"` -> "/foo/bar" pathFrom = from: to: assert lib.hasPrefix from to; lib.removePrefix from to; # options for a single mountpoint / persistence dirEntryOptions = { options = { directory = mkOption { type = types.str; }; user = mkOption { type = types.nullOr types.str; default = null; }; group = mkOption { type = types.nullOr types.str; default = null; }; mode = mkOption { type = types.nullOr types.str; default = null; }; }; }; contextualizedDir = types.submodule dirEntryOptions; # allow "bar/baz" as shorthand for { directory = "bar/baz"; } contextualizedDirOrShorthand = types.coercedTo types.str (d: { directory = d; }) contextualizedDir; # entry whose `directory` is always an absolute fs path # and has an associated `store` contextFreeDir = types.submodule [ dirEntryOptions { options = { store = mkOption { type = storeType; }; }; } ]; dirsModule = types.submodule ({ config, ... }: { options = { home = mkOption { description = "directories to persist to disk, relative to a user's home ~"; default = {}; type = types.submodule { options = { plaintext = mkOption { default = []; type = types.listOf contextualizedDirOrShorthand; description = "directories to persist in cleartext"; }; private = mkOption { default = []; type = types.listOf contextualizedDirOrShorthand; description = "directories to store encrypted to the user's login password and auto-decrypt on login"; }; cryptClearOnBoot = mkOption { default = []; type = types.listOf contextualizedDirOrShorthand; description = '' directories to store encrypted to an auto-generated in-memory key and wiped on boot. the main use is for sensitive cache dirs too large to fit in memory. ''; }; }; }; }; sys = mkOption { description = "directories to persist to disk, relative to the fs root /"; default = {}; type = types.submodule { options = { plaintext = mkOption { default = []; type = types.listOf contextualizedDirOrShorthand; description = "list of directories (and optional config) to persist to disk in plaintext, relative to the fs root /"; }; }; }; }; all = mkOption { type = types.listOf contextFreeDir; description = "all directories known to the config. auto-computed: users should not set this directly."; }; }; config = let mapDirs = relativeTo: store: dirs: (map (d: { inherit (d) user group mode; directory = concatPaths [ relativeTo d.directory ]; store = cfg.stores."${store}"; }) dirs ); in { all = (mapDirs "/home/colin" "plaintext" config.home.plaintext) ++ (mapDirs "/home/colin" "private" config.home.private) ++ (mapDirs "/home/colin" "cryptClearOnBoot" config.home.cryptClearOnBoot) ++ (mapDirs "/" "plaintext" config.sys.plaintext); }; }); in { options = { sane.impermanence.enable = mkOption { default = false; type = types.bool; }; sane.impermanence.root-on-tmpfs = mkOption { default = false; type = types.bool; description = "define / fs root to be a tmpfs. make sure to mount some other device to /nix"; }; sane.impermanence.dirs = mkOption { type = dirsModule; default = {}; }; sane.impermanence.stores = mkOption { type = types.attrsOf storeType; default = {}; }; }; imports = [ ./root-on-tmpfs.nix ./stores ]; config = mkIf cfg.enable (lib.mkMerge [ { # TODO: move to sane.fs, to auto-ensure all user dirs? sane.fs."/home/colin".dir.acl = { user = "colin"; group = config.users.users.colin.group; mode = config.users.users.colin.homeMode; }; # N.B.: we have a similar problem with all mounts: # /.cache/mozilla won't inherit /.cache perms. # this is less of a problem though, since we don't really support overlapping mounts like that in the first place. # what is a problem is if the user specified some other dir we don't know about here. # like "/var", and then "/nix/persist/var" has different perms and something mounts funny. # TODO: just add assertions that sane.fs."${backing}/${dest}".dir == sane.fs."${dest}" for each mount point? sane.fs."/nix/persist/home/colin".dir.acl = config.sane.fs."/home/colin".dir.acl; sane.fs."/mnt/impermanence/crypt/clearedonboot/home/colin".dir.acl = config.sane.fs."/home/colin".dir.acl; } ( let cfgFor = opt: let store = opt.store; store-rel-path = pathFrom store.prefix opt.directory; backing-path = concatPaths [ store.mountpt store-rel-path ]; # pass through the perm/mode overrides dir-acl = { user = lib.mkIf (opt.user != null) opt.user; group = lib.mkIf (opt.group != null) opt.group; mode = lib.mkIf (opt.mode != null) opt.mode; }; in { # create destination and backing directory, with correct perms sane.fs."${opt.directory}" = { # inherit perms & make sure we don't mount until after the mount point is setup correctly. dir.acl = dir-acl; mount.bind = backing-path; mount.extraOptions = store.extraOptions; }; sane.fs."${backing-path}" = { # ensure the backing path has same perms as the mount point dir.acl = config.sane.fs."${opt.directory}".dir.acl; }; }; cfgs = builtins.map cfgFor cfg.dirs.all; in { sane.fs = lib.mkMerge (catAttrs "fs" (catAttrs "sane" cfgs)); } ) ]); }