Hi Norman,
Thanks for your quick and clear response.
On 12/18/18 12:03, Norman Feske wrote:
For the secondary disk, the Sculpt manager needs these components only for the discovery, the inspection, or to perform disk operations. But if none those operations are performed, there is no part_blk or file-system component running.
I wonder why the manager did start my vm-nixos when part_blk became available but decided to kill it when the inspector closes. It knows there is a dependency.
With this approach, you won't need to rely on any side effect of the Sculpt manager's built-in policy. Note however, that the inspection or management of the secondary disk is not expected to work as long as "manual_ahci-1.part_blk" is deployed. The AHCI-1 disk can be used by only one component at a time.
Bummer, I had in mind to dedicate that secondary partition to the vm-nixos with a policy and leave the rest to Sculpt.
But first, I'll give your suggestion a try. I'll probably learn a lot again.
(Or I'll give the whole disks to the VM, that's what I want in my desktop environment, eventually. ZFS loves whole disks.)
Cheers, Guido.