When finishedLiveUpdate was run on a different key than expected, it
blocked forever waiting for an indication the database had been updated.
Since the journal is locked when finishedLiveUpdate runs, this could
also have caused other git-annex commands to hang.
It's possible for two processes or threads to both be doing the same
operation at the same time. Eg, both dropping the same key. If one
finishes and updates the rollingtotal, then the other one needs to be
prevented from later updating the rollingtotal as well. And they could
finish at the same time, or with some time in between.
Addressed this by making updateRepoSize be called with the journal
locked, and only once it's been determined that there is an actual
location change to record in the log. updateRepoSize waits for the
database to be updated.
When there is a redundant operation, updateRepoSize won't be called,
and the redundant LiveUpdate will be removed from the database on
garbage collection.
But: There will be a window where the redundant LiveUpdate is still
visible in the db, and processes can see it, combine it with the
rollingtotal, and arrive at the wrong size. This is a small window, but
it still ought to be addressed. Unsure if it would always be safe to
remove the redundant LiveUpdate? Consider the case where two drops and a
get are all running concurrently somehow, and the order they finish is
[drop, get, drop]. The second drop seems redundant to the first, but
it would not be safe to remove it. While this seems unlikely, it's hard
to rule out that a get and drop at different stages can both be running
at the same time.
When a live size change completes successfully, the same transaction
that removes it from the database updates the rolling total for its
repository.
The idea is that when RepoSizes is read, SizeChanges will be as
well, and cached locally. Any time a change is made, the local cache
will be updated. So by comparing the local cache with the current
SizeChanges, it can learn about size changes that were made by other
processes. Then read the LiveSizeChanges, and add that in to get a live
picture of the current sizes.
Also added a SizeChangeId. This allows 2 different threads, or
processes, to both record a live size change for the same repo and key,
and update their own information without stepping on one-another's toes.
I've tested the behavior of the thread that waits for the LiveUpdate to
be finished, and it does get signaled and exit cleanly when the
LiveUpdate is GCed instead.
Made finishedLiveUpdate wait for the thread to finish updating the
database.
There is a case where GC doesn't happen in time and the database is left
with a live update recorded in it. This should not be a problem as such
stale data can also happen when interrupted and will need to be detected
when loading the database.
Balanced preferred content expressions now call startLiveUpdate.
Each command that first checks preferred content (and/or required
content) and then does something that can change the sizes of
repositories needs to call prepareLiveUpdate, and plumb it through the
preferred content check and the location log update.
So far, only Command.Drop is done. Many other commands that don't need
to do this have been updated to keep working.
There may be some calls to NoLiveUpdate in places where that should be
done. All will need to be double checked.
Not currently in a compilable state.
A new repo that has no location log info yet, but has an entry in
uuid.log has 0 size, so make RepoSize aware of that.
Note that a new repo that does not yet appear in uuid.log will still not
be displayed.
When a remote is added but not synced with yet, it has no uuid.log
entry. If git-annex maxsize is used to configure that remote, it needs
to appear in the maxsize table, and the change to Command.MaxSize takes
care of that.
Might want to make --rebalance turn balanced=group:N where N > 1
to fullysizebalanced=group:N. Have not yet determined if that will
improve situations enough to be worth the extra work.
Benchmarking a git-annex branch with half a million files changed,
it takes about 1 minute to update the RepoSizes. So this will display
the message after a few seconds.
The use of catObjectStream is optimally fast. Although it might be
possible to combine this with git-annex branch merge to avoid some
redundant work.
Benchmarking, a git-annex branch that had 100000 files changed
took less than 1.88 seconds to run through this.
updateRepoSize is only called on the UUID of a repository, not any
cluster it might be a node of. But overLocationLogs and overLocationLogsJournal
were inclusing cluster UUIDs. So it was inconsistent.
Currently I don't see any reason to calculate RepoSize for a cluster.
It's not even clear what it should mean, the total size of all nodes, or
the amount of information stored in the cluster in total?
At this point the RepoSize database is getting populated, and it
all seems to be working correctly. Incremental updates still need to be
done to make it performant.
Including locking on creation, handling of permissions errors, and
setting repo sizes.
I'm confident that locking is not needed while using this database.
Since writes happen in a single transaction. When there are two writers
that are recording sizes based on different git-annex branch commits,
one will overwrite what the other one recorded. Which is fine, it's only
necessary that the database stays consistent with the content of a
git-annex branch commit.
Plan is to run this when populating Annex.reposizes on demand.
So Annex.reposizes will be up-to-date with the journal, including
crucially journal entries for private repositories. But also
anything that has been written to the journal by another process,
especially if the process was ran with annex.alwayscommit=false.
From there, Annex.reposizes can be kept up to date with changes made
by the running process.
This will be used to prime the RepoSizes database, which will always
contain values that correpond to information in the git-annex branch, so
without anything from journal files.
Factored out overJournalFileContents which will later be used to
update Annex.reposizes to include information from journal files.
This will be partitcularly important to support private UUIDs which only
ever get to journal files and not to the branch.
git-annex info was displaying a message that didn't make sense in
context.
In calcRepoSizes, it seems better to return the information from the
git-annex branch, rather than giving up. Especially since balanced
preferred content uses it, and we can't just give up evaluating a
preferred content expression if git-annex is to be usable in such a
readonly repo.
Commit 6d7ecd9e5d nobly wanted git-annex
to behave the same with such unmerged branches as it does when it can
merge them. But for the purposes of preferred content, it seems to me
there's a sense that such an unmerged branch is the same as a remote we
have not pulled from. The balanced preferred content will either way
operate under outdated information, and so make not the best choices.
This is very innefficient, it will need to be optimised not to
calculate the sizes of repos every time.
Also, fixed a bug in balancedPicker that caused it to pick a too high
index when some repos were excluded due to being full.
The idea is that upon a merge of the git-annex branch, or a commit to
the git-annex branch, the reposize database will be updated. So it
should always accurately reflect the location log sizes, but it will
often be behind the actual current sizes.
Annex.reposizes will start with the value from the database, and get
updated with each transfer, so it will reflect a process's best
understanding of the current sizes.
When there are multiple processes all transferring to the same repo,
Annex.reposize will not reflect transfers made by the other processes
since the current process started. So when using balanced preferred
content, it may make suboptimal choices, including trying to transfer
content to the repo when another process has already filled it up.
But this is the same as if there are multiple processes running on
ifferent machines, so is acceptable. The reposize will eventually
get an accurate value reflecting changes made by other processes or in
other repos.
This deals with the possible security problem that someone could make an
unusually low UUID and generate keys that are all constructed to hash to
a number that, mod the number of repositories in the group, == 0.
So balanced preferred content would always put those keys in the
repository with the low UUID as long as the group contains the
number of repositories that the attacker anticipated.
Presumably the attacker than holds the data for ransom? Dunno.
Anyway, the partial solution is to use HMAC (sha256) with all the UUIDs
combined together as the "secret", and the key as the "message". Now any
change in the set of UUIDs in a group will invalidate the attacker's
constructed keys from hashing to anything in particular.
Given that there are plenty of other things someone can do if they can
write to the repository -- including modifying preferred content so only
their repository wants files, and numcopies so other repositories drom
them -- this seems like safeguard enough.
Note that, in balancedPicker, combineduuids is memoized.
This all works fine. But it doesn't check repository sizes yet, and
without repository size checking, once a repository gets full, there
will be no other repository that will want its files.
Use of sha2 seems unncessary, probably alder2 or md5 or crc would have
been enough. Possibly just summing up the bytes of the key mod the number
of repositories would have sufficed. But sha2 is there, and probably
hardware accellerated. I doubt very much there is any security benefit
to using it though. If someone wants to construct a key that will be
balanced onto a given repository, sha2 is certianly not going to stop
them.
This removes versionedExport, which was only used by the S3 special
remote. Instead, versionedexport=yes is a common way for remotes to
indicate that they are versioned.
This handles the workflow where the branch is first pushed to the proxy,
and then files in the exported tree are later are copied to the proxied remote.
Turns out that the way the export log is structured, nothing needs
to be done to finalize the export once the last key is sent to it. Which
is great because that would have been a lot of complication. On
receiving the push, Command.Export runs and calls recordExportBeginning,
does as much as it can to update the export with the files currently
on it, and then calls recordExportUnderway. At that point, the
export.log records the export as "complete", but it's not really. And
that's fine. The same happens when using `git-annex export` when some
files are not available to send. Other repositories that have
access to the special remote can already retrieve files from it. As
the missing files get copied to the exported remote, all that needs
to be done is record each in the export db.
At this point, proxying to exporttree=yes annexobjects=yes special remotes
is fully working. Except for in the case where multiple files in the
tree use the same key, and the files are sent to the proxied remote
before pushing the tree.
It seems that even special remotes without annexobjects=yes will work if
used with the workflow where the git-annex branch is pushed before
copying files. But not with the `git-annex push` workflow.
The file corruption consists of each chunk of the file being duplicated.
Since chunks are typically a fixed size, it would certianly be possible
to get from a corrupted file back to the original file. But this is still
bad data loss.
Reversion was in commit fcc052bed8.
Luckily that did not make the most recent release.
It works when using git-annex sync/push/assist, or when manually sending
all content to the proxied remote before pushing to the proxy remote.
But when the push comes before the content is sent, sending content does
not update the exported tree.
This avoids needing to re-upload the file again to get it to the
annexobjects location, which git-annex sync was doing when it was
preferred content.
If the file is not preferred content, sync will drop it from the
annexobjects location.
If the file has been deleted from the tree, it will remain in the
annexobjects location until an unused/dropunused pass is done.
This fixes a problem with datalad's test suite, where loading the cluster
log happened to cause the git-annex branch commits to take a different
shape, with an additional commit.
It's also faster though, since many commands don't need the cluster log.
Just fill Annex.clusters with a thunk.
Sponsored-by: the NIH-funded NICEMAN (ReproNim TR&D3) project
While usually uploading to a special remote does not verify the content,
the content in a repository is assumed to be valid, and there is no trust
boundary. But with a proxied special remote, there may be users who are
allowed to store objects, but are not really trusted.
Another way to look at this is it's the equivilant of git-annex-shell
checking the hash of received data, which it does (see StoreContent
implementation).
