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This is a todo for collecting changes that could lead to a v11 repository
version.
* Append to journal files even when annex.alwayscompact=true.
This can make it a lot faster in some cases.
See note in Annex.Branch.changeOrAppend.
It's important that this only happen when no git-annex version
older than 10.20220724 can plausibly be running in a repository
after upgrading to the repo version that enables this. Depending on the
timing of v11, this may need to be put in a v12 upgrade that is delayed
some amount of time (eg 1 year) after v11.
fix transfer lock file for Download to not include uuid While redundant concurrent transfers were already prevented in most cases, it failed to prevent the case where two different repositories were sending the same content to the same repository. By removing the uuid from the transfer lock file for Download transfers, one repository sending content will block the other one from also sending the same content. In order to interoperate with old git-annex, the old lock file is still locked, as well as locking the new one. That added a lot of extra code and work, and the plan is to eventually stop locking the old lock file, at some point in time when an old git-annex process is unlikely to be running at the same time. Note that in the case of 2 repositories both doing eg `git-annex copy foo --to origin` the output is not that great: copy b (to origin...) transfer already in progress, or unable to take transfer lock git-annex: transfer already in progress, or unable to take transfer lock 97% 966.81 MiB 534 GiB/s 0sp2pstdio: 1 failed Lost connection (fd:14: hPutBuf: resource vanished (Broken pipe)) Transfer failed Perhaps that output could be cleaned up? Anyway, it's a lot better than letting the redundant transfer happen and then failing with an obscure error about a temp file, which is what it did before. And it seems users don't often try to do this, since nobody ever reported this bug to me before. (The "97%" there is actually how far along the *other* transfer is.) Sponsored-by: Joshua Antonishen on Patreon
2024-03-25 18:47:38 +00:00
* Avoid locking old transfer lock file. transferFileAndLockFile
currently returns two lock files for Download transfers,
and locking both of them is unncessary work, which is only needed to
interoperate with old git-annex versions that only lock the old lock file
and not the new one.
2024-03-25 18:51:36 +00:00
See [[!commit f04d9574d6a56cfdf034a974f9714f0a3b8c49fa]].
fix transfer lock file for Download to not include uuid While redundant concurrent transfers were already prevented in most cases, it failed to prevent the case where two different repositories were sending the same content to the same repository. By removing the uuid from the transfer lock file for Download transfers, one repository sending content will block the other one from also sending the same content. In order to interoperate with old git-annex, the old lock file is still locked, as well as locking the new one. That added a lot of extra code and work, and the plan is to eventually stop locking the old lock file, at some point in time when an old git-annex process is unlikely to be running at the same time. Note that in the case of 2 repositories both doing eg `git-annex copy foo --to origin` the output is not that great: copy b (to origin...) transfer already in progress, or unable to take transfer lock git-annex: transfer already in progress, or unable to take transfer lock 97% 966.81 MiB 534 GiB/s 0sp2pstdio: 1 failed Lost connection (fd:14: hPutBuf: resource vanished (Broken pipe)) Transfer failed Perhaps that output could be cleaned up? Anyway, it's a lot better than letting the redundant transfer happen and then failing with an obscure error about a temp file, which is what it did before. And it seems users don't often try to do this, since nobody ever reported this bug to me before. (The "97%" there is actually how far along the *other* transfer is.) Sponsored-by: Joshua Antonishen on Patreon
2024-03-25 18:47:38 +00:00
(Note that the old lock file should still be deleted when cleaning up the
new lock file, to make sure that all the old lock files get deleted.)
It would not be great if this change were made when a git-annex version
10.20240227 or older was running in the repository. But it wouldn't be
the end of the world either, because the effect would be effectively
the same as the bug that the second transfer lock was added to fix.
Still, it would make sense to put this in a v12 upgrade that is delayed
some amount of time (eg 1 year) after v11.