Persisted path mounts in symlinks

[Blakeinstein]

I have a nas configuration and was wondering if the symlink functionality would allow me to have the world files stored in the nas drive? Optionally, if the plugins folder could also be configured to come from the nas?.

I am trying to setup a paper server.

[Infinidoge]

Yes. Symlinks lets you create symlinks to arbitrary paths, and so long as you setup allowed symlinks properly (will be trivial once #117 is merged) Minecraft will treat it accordingly. Same goes for plugins, under the assumption you aren't downloading the plugins through Nix (as then the plugins would be in the Nix store.)

[Blakeinstein]

so something like should work?

symlinks = {
        "world" = "${toString inputs.minecraft-data}/world";
        "world_nether" = "${toString inputs.minecraft-data}/world_nether";
        "world_the_end" = "${toString inputs.minecraft-data}/world_the_end";
        "plugins" = "${toString inputs.minecraft-data}/plugins";
      };

[Infinidoge]

Unless inputs isn't referring to flake inputs and is actually just a collection of variables, this implies that all data is in the Nix store, and will go horribly for the world. Plugins would be fine however.

It is worth keeping in mind that the nether and end are usually stored inside world, so unless a plugin changes it, you only need the two symlinks for world and plugins.

Final note, it is likely easier to mount the NAS folder onto /srv/minecraft/servername directly to store the whole thing, instead of symlinking individual folders.