This option allows to use portions of the system RAM as block devices.
It was configured to 'y' (built-in, therefore not unloadable or
reconfigurable) and configured 16 4MB RAM disks which, to my knowledge,
currently have no purpose in NixOS.
Removing the option restores it to it's default value of 'm', which
enables it to be loaded at runtime (which is also required to be able to
change it's configuration without rebuilding the kernel).
when mounting a fuse fs by fstab on can write:
/nix/store/sdlflj/bin/somefuseexe#argument /mountpoint fuse setuid=someuser
mount is run by root, and setuid is a way to tell mount.fuse to run
somefuseexe as someuser instead. Under the hood, mount.fuse uses su.
The problem is that mount is run by systemd in a seemingly very empty
environment not containing /run/current-system/sw/bin nor
/run/wrappers/bin in $PATH, so mount fails with "su command not found".
We now patch the command to run su with an absolute path.
man mount.fuse3 indicates that this option is reserved to root (or with
enough capabilities) so not using
/run/wrappers/bin/su is thus correct. It has the very small advantage of
possibly working on non nixos.
For a while now it's possible to specify an additional config file in
`wpa_supplicant`[1]. In contrast to the file specified via `-c` this was
supposed to be used for immutable settings and not e.g. additional
networks.
However I'm a little bit unhappy about the fact that one has to choose
between a fully imperative setup and a fully declarative one where the
one would have to write credentials for e.g. WPA2-enterprise networks
into the store.
The primary problem with the current state of `wpa_supplicant` is that
if the `SAVE_CONFIG` command is invoked (e.g. via `wpa_cli`), all known
networks will be written to `/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf` and thus all
declarative networks would get out of sync with the declarative
settings.
To work around this, I had to change the following things:
* The `networking.wireless`-module now uses `-I` for declarative config,
so the user-controlled mode can be used along with the
`networks`-option.
* I added an `ro`-field to the `ssid`-struct in the
`wpa_supplicant`-sources. This will be set to `1` for each network
specified in the config passed via `-I`.
Whenever config is written to the disk, those networks will be
skipped, so changes to declarative networks are only temporary.
[1] https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/commit/wpa_supplicant?id=e6304cad47251e88d073553042f1ea7805a858d1
Jörg Thalheim