nix-community/impermanence
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Modules to help you handle persistent state on systems with ephemeral root storage [maintainer=@talyz]
14 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 0 stories, 14 comments · first 2022-01-24 · latest 2026-08-26
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…wants to write that I absolutely do not care about and do not want to know about. And NixOS with https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence does this, forcefully. Actually normal nix might solve it depending on how far you want to go.…
comment by yjftsjthsd-h · 2026-08-26 · in Actually Queryable Executables -
…that your configuration will depend on but will not enforce or be able to reproduce. Impermanence: https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence . To be clear, I don't use neither. But you can get NixOS to be almost completely stateless…
comment by kokada · 2026-03-23 · in Why I love NixOS -
…in an inconsistent state, again there are several options but I'd look into this NixOS project: https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence + some policy of rebooting the machines regularly. If you don't like how users are making use of…
comment by JuniperMesos · 2025-12-01 · in Advent of Sysadmin 2025 -
…there for a reason (i.e., `~` is not polluted by the old config/cache of uninstalled packages). [1] https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence
comment by polivier · 2025-03-06 · in Xdg-ninja: checking your $HOME for unwanted files and directories -
…only be necessary to extend NixOS' core functionality. A quick search revealed that impermanence ( https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence ) and in some cases sops-nix ( https://github.com/Mic92/sops-nix ) use it, but those…
comment by matrss · 2024-10-27 · in NixOS is not reproducible -
You might want to set up NixOS with impermanence, with something like https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence . Install an easy to use desktop environment like ElementaryOS, and configure NixOS with or without Flatpak, if you want to…
comment by icar · 2024-04-23 · in Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents? -
I would not call these projects unbelievable, but they are neat. Opt-in state: https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings Ease of setting up a real-time audio on Linux:…
comment by igorramazanov · 2024-04-16 · in Tvix – A New Implementation of Nix -
Impermanence is an interesting take on this using NixOS https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence
comment by nurple · 2024-04-14 · in Fedora 41 will unify bin and sbin -
…to the community: https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings/ Common implementation for NixOS: https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence Presentation on that implementation from NixCon 2023 (just a couple weeks ago!):…
comment by pxc · 2023-09-18 · in Introduction to Immutable Linux Systems -
…is just a separate persistent mount. you can also use impermanence with home-manager if you want https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence#home-manager
comment by n42 · 2023-08-22 · in Impermanence -
They are likely talking about using https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence , which is inspired by ideas in https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings/ Edit: comments on the latter at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22856199
comment by abathur · 2023-06-09 · in NixOS for the Impatient -
…now :’-) [1]: https://colmena.cli.rs/ [2]: https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings/ [3]: https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence
comment by techhazard · 2023-06-09 · in NixOS for the Impatient -
…tools like "colmena" and "deploy-rs" and re-usable helpers for system-configuration like e.g. https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence There's lots of other stuff in the community, things like home-manager, direnv + flakes and…
comment by phaer · 2022-08-05 · in Nix: Taming Unix with Functional Programming -
…/var, so that's on you to back up, migrate, whatever. https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence
comment by throwamon · 2022-01-24 · in The Curse of NixOS