This document describes the structure of the stal/IX filesystem.
/ix/store/ contains a set of folders, each package corresponding to one folder.
The folders form a content-addressable store, i.e. all paths uniquely identify a unique package.
pg-> ls -la /ix/store/ | head -n 10
total 340
drwxr-xr-x 5664 ix 1000 393216 Dec 11 16:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 ix root 58 Nov 4 23:02 ..
drwxr-xr-x 4 ix 1000 56 Dec 7 01:17 00BoJm6qe56myzQk-lib-jxl
drwxr-xr-x 4 ix 1000 56 Dec 5 19:48 00OKaSNZ7iL7AJWm-lib-ssh-2
drwxr-xr-x 4 ix 1000 56 Dec 7 02:37 01JxssFZ9igzTy5i-lib-web-kit-gtk-orig
drwxr-xr-x 4 ix 1000 54 Dec 7 02:02 01S601SnGrScamy9-bin-xchm-unwrap
drwxr-xr-x 2 ix 1000 50 Dec 1 14:06 02P6wVvlRjp7YoRD-url-libxslt-v1-1-37-tar-bz2
drwxr-xr-x 3 ix 1000 41 Dec 11 04:10 02TsF9yb8tvNU18u-bin-p7zip-a
drwxr-xr-x 2 ix 1000 44 Dec 1 14:06 03xrH1zQOmgF5IBK-lnk
The /ix/realm/ folder contains pointers to folders from /ix/store/:
pg-> ls -la /ix/realm/
total 0
drwxrwxrwx 2 ix 1000 56 Dec 11 16:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 ix root 58 Nov 4 23:02 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 pg 10000 35 Dec 11 06:08 boot -> /ix/store/8V4bablsXQcSK6ZY-rlm-boot
lrwxrwxrwx 1 pg 10000 37 Dec 11 06:08 kernel -> /ix/store/GAw71z9yAtwOStPd-rlm-kernel
lrwxrwxrwx 1 pg 10000 33 Dec 11 16:46 pg -> /ix/store/w5qTNK0MpREVL4Cy-rlm-pg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 pg 10000 37 Dec 11 06:08 system -> /ix/store/oQfJCY3xa3jlPkNf-rlm-system
In fact, these are the “roots” that the IX package manager can use to figure out what is actively used in /ix/store/ and what can be safely removed using the ix gc command.
Some realms are predefined:
/ix/realm/system - the “system” realm, contains the code necessary to boot the OS.
The root folders /etc, /bin look at the system realm:
pg-> ls -la /bin /etc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 May 22 2022 /bin -> /ix/realm/system/bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 May 22 2022 /etc -> /ix/realm/system/etc
By the way, this is why there is no point in editing files in /etc, they will be updated with any update of /ix/realm/system.
For each user on the system named USER, there is a realm /ix/realm/USER that belongs to that user:
ix mut: ix mut bin/nano will install nano in your personal realm.pg-> echo ${PATH}
/ix/realm/pg/bin:/bin
For this to work, your session manager must do . /etc/session.