ok here we ggo. #NixOS ZFS root on the backup NAS

ok I've got a live image, /run/current-system/sw appears to be "ok I suppose we can sort of have a standard Unix-looking filesystem but not really"

and now I get to figure out how the fuck to do NixOS root on ZFS

update: success! NixOS is now running on Yttrium. Is there a declarative way to tell my zpool to expand to the other drives in my machine, or do I do that th old way?

update: NFS shared to my primary NAS, fwupd installed, nfs server running, this is actually working

I feel like the Linux community really fucked up in not embracing things like secure boot and mandatory disk encryption with TPM2 binding after the lies spread by anti-UEFI, anti-Secureboot people born out of misunderstandings about Windows 8 requirements

@freya we're in favor of that sort of thing, yeah, though it's .... TPM binding is nice but it's an after-the-fact detection system, which, while still genuinely helpful, is less comforting for us with an activist threat model than it would be to a corporation for which everything comes down to financial loss and can be averaged out and forgotten

@ireneista @freya TPM can be used to seal a disk encryption key and simply not give access to the disk and refuse to boot on tampering

@tranquillity @freya sure, but, unless we're missing something, the bootloader, initrd etc still have to be unencrypted, right?

@ireneista @freya cries in UKIs

@tranquillity @freya UKIs are definitely more elegant and convenient, especially around signing logistics... it's just that the size of the nixos initrd keeps creeping upwards, it's like triple what it was a few years ago (of course this does depend on settings). so a lot of systems have boot partitions that used to have plenty of space, and no longer do, and using separate kernel images saves a little :/

@tranquillity @freya (we think the ballooning initrd size is really unfortunate and keeping it small ought to be a higher priority, heh)

@ireneista @freya NixOS makes me cry, and I refuse to come back until I handroll my own nixpkgs that isn't... What nixpkgs has become.

@tranquillity @ireneista I'm probably not going to stick with NixOS, I wish Illumos distros had secure boot and built-in support for encrypted root on ZFS

@freya @ireneista wdym "had secure boot" ?