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Implemented everything I planned out yesterday: Expensive scans are only
done once per remote (unless the remote changed while it was disconnected),
and failed transfers are logged so they can be retried later.
Changed the TransferScanner to prefer to scan low cost remotes first,
as a crude form of scheduling lower-cost transfers first.
A whole bunch of interesting syncing scenarios should work now. I have not
tested them all in detail, but to the best of my knowledge, all these
should work:
* Connect to the network. It starts syncing with a networked remote.
Disconnect the network. Reconnect, and it resumes where it left off.
* Migrate between networks (ie, home to cafe to work). Any transfers
that can only happen on one LAN are retried on each new network you
visit, until they succeed.
One that is not working, but is soooo close:
* Plug in a removable drive. Some transfers start. Yank the plug.
Plug it back in. All necessary transfers resume, and it ends up
fully in sync, no matter how many times you yank that cable.
That's not working because of an infelicity in the MountWatcher.
It doesn't notice when the drive gets unmounted, so it ignores
the new mount event.