From 19d8a5d83942f13c3f532b4ac21cc91c7158c21a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Valentin Gagarin Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2022 23:45:04 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] move first mention of file system object before diagram --- doc/manual/src/architecture/store/store.md | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/manual/src/architecture/store/store.md b/doc/manual/src/architecture/store/store.md index 3d1ad0bad..a22735e42 100644 --- a/doc/manual/src/architecture/store/store.md +++ b/doc/manual/src/architecture/store/store.md @@ -102,6 +102,11 @@ Adding, building, copying and deleting store objects must be done in a way that Nix maps between its store model and the [Unix paradigm][unix-paradigm] of [files and processes][file-descriptor], by encoding immutable store objects and opaque identifiers as file system primitives: files and directories, and paths. That allows processes to resolve references contained in files and thus access the contents of store objects. +Store objects are therefore implemented as the pair of + + - a *file system object* for data + - a set of *store paths* for references. + [unix-paradigm]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_is_a_file [file-descriptor]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_descriptor @@ -139,11 +144,6 @@ That allows processes to resolve references contained in files and thus access t +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ ``` -Store objects are therefore implemented as the pair of - - - a *file system object* for data - - a set of *store paths* for references. - There exist different types of stores, which all follow this model. Examples: - store on the local file system