Rejected the idea of automatically instantiating remotes for proxies-of-proxies.
That needs cycle protection, while the current behavior, which happened
for free, is that running git-annex updateproxy on the proxy can be used
to configure it, but only for topologies that actually exist.
Avoid `git-annex sync --content` etc from operating on cluster nodes by default
since syncing with a cluster implicitly syncs with its nodes. This avoids a
lot of unncessary work when a cluster has a lot of nodes just in checking
if each node's preferred content is satisfied. And it avoids content
being sent to nodes individually, so instead syncing with clusters always
fanout uploads to nodes.
The downside is that there are situations where a cluster's preferred content
settings can be met, but those of its nodes are not. Or where a node does not
contain a key, but the cluster does, and there are not enough copies of the key
yet, so it would be desirable the send it there. I think that's an acceptable
tradeoff. These kind of situations are ones where the cluster itself should
probably be responsible for copying content to the node. Which it can do much
less expensively than a client can. Part of the balanced preferred content
design that I will be working on in a couple of months involves rebalancing
clusters, so I expect to revisit this.
The use of annex-sync config does allow running git-annex sync with a specific
node, or nodes, and it will sync with it. And it's also possible to set
annex-sync git configs to make it sync with a node by default. (Although that
will require setting up an explicit git remote for the node rather than relying
on the proxied remote.)
Logs.Cluster.Basic is needed because Remote.Git cannot import Logs.Cluster
due to a cycle. And the Annex.Startup load of clusters happens
too late for Remote.Git to use that. This does mean one redundant load
of the cluster log, though only when there is a proxy.
Dropping from a cluster drops from every node of the cluster.
Including nodes that the cluster does not think have the content.
This is different from GET and CHECKPRESENT, which do trust the
cluster's location log. The difference is that removing from a cluster
should make 100% the content is gone from every node. So doing extra
work is ok. Compare with CHECKPRESENT where checking every node could
make it very expensive, and the worst that can happen in a false
negative is extra work being done.
Extended the P2P protocol with FAILURE-PLUS to handle the case where a
drop from one node succeeds, but a drop from another node fails. In that
case the entire cluster drop has failed.
Note that SUCCESS-PLUS is returned when dropping from a proxied remote
that is not a cluster, when the protocol version supports it. This is
because P2P.Proxy does not know when it's proxying for a single node
cluster vs for a remote that is not a cluster.
Client side support for SUCCESS-PLUS and ALREADY-HAVE-PLUS
is complete, when a PUT stores to additional repositories
than the expected on, the location log is updated with the
additional UUIDs that contain the content.
Started implementing PUT fanout to multiple remotes for clusters.
It is untested, and I fear fencepost errors in the relative
offset calculations. And it is missing proxying for the protocol
after DATA.
CONNECT is not supported by git-annex-shell p2pstdio, but for proxying
to tor-annex remotes, it will be supported, and will make a git pull/push
to a proxied remote work the same with that as it does over ssh,
eg it accesses the proxy's git repo not the proxied remote's git repo.
The p2p protocol docs say that NOTIFYCHANGES is not always supported,
and it looked annoying to implement it for this, and it also seems
pretty useless, so make it be a protocol error. git-annex remotedaemon
will already be getting change notifications from the proxy's git repo,
so there's no need to get additional redundant change notifications for
proxied remotes that would be for changes to the same git repo.
Added to git-annex_proxies todo because this is something OpenNeuro
would need in order to use the git-annex proxy.
Sponsored-by: Dartmouth College's OpenNeuro project
