Home

Snarf is a Nix binary cache. It serves files in the Nix Archive (NAR) format. This is similar to what https://cache.nixos.org provides, but it is a bit more dynamic.

Warning

Snarf is still under active development. Most notably, the user handling is a stub. Requests are authenticated, but there is no permission system, yet. Also, work on garbage collection is still ongoing.

Do not use this system for mission-critical systems.

Snarf's features are meant to serve individuals and teams that need their own private cache with flexibility in storage. Since it is built on top of Snix, it supports the same storage types like in-memory, filesystem, S3. The store is deduplicated and requires less space than a plain Nix store.