Had to add Read instances to Key and NumCopies and some other similar
types. I only expect to use those in serializing a sim. Of course, this
risks that implementation changes break reading old data. For a sim,
that would not be a big problem.
Reorganized the reposize database directory, and split up a column.
checkStaleSizeChanges needs to run before needLiveUpdate,
otherwise the process won't be holding a lock on its pid file, and
another process could go in and expire the live update it records. It
just so happens that they do get called in the correct order, since
checking balanced preferred content calls getLiveRepoSizes before
needLiveUpdate.
The 1 minute delay between checks is arbitrary, but will avoid excess
work. The downside of it is that, if a process is dropping a file and
gets interrupted, for 1 minute another process can expect a repository
will soon be smaller than it is. And so a process might send data to a
repository when a file is not really going to be dropped from it. But
note that can already happen if a drop takes some time in eg locking and
then fails. So it seems possible that live updates should only be
allowed to increase, rather than decrease the size of a repository.
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.
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.
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 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 allows lockContentShared to lock content for eg, 10 minutes and
if the process then gets terminated before it can unlock, the content
will remain locked for that amount of time.
The Windows implementation is not yet tested.
In P2P.Annex, a duration of 10 minutes is used. This way, when p2pstdio
or remotedaemon is serving the P2P protocol, and is asked to
LOCKCONTENT, and that process gets killed, the content will not be
subject to deletion. This is not a perfect solution to
doc/todo/P2P_locking_connection_drop_safety.mdwn yet, but it gets most
of the way there, without needing any P2P protocol changes.
This is only done in v10 and higher repositories (or on Windows). It
might be possible to backport it to v8 or earlier, but it would
complicate locking even further, and without a separate lock file, might
be hard. I think that by the time this fix reaches a given user, they
will probably have been running git-annex 10.x long enough that their v8
repositories will have upgraded to v10 after the 1 year wait. And it's
not as if git-annex hasn't already been subject to this problem (though
I have not heard of any data loss caused by it) for 6 years already, so
waiting another fraction of a year on top of however long it takes this
fix to reach users is unlikely to be a problem.
Implemented alternateJournal, which git-remote-annex
uses to avoid any writes to the git-annex branch while setting up
a special remote from an annex:: url.
That prevents the remote.log from being overwritten with the special
remote configuration from the url, which might not be 100% the same as
the existing special remote configuration.
And it prevents an overwrite deleting of other stuff that was
already in the remote.log.
Also, when the branch was created by git-remote-annex, only delete it
at the end if nothing else has been written to it by another command.
This fixes the race condition described in
797f27ab05, where git-remote-annex
set up the branch and git-annex init and other commands were
run at the same time and their writes to the branch were lost.
Not yet implemented is recording hashes on download from web and
verifying hashes.
addurl --verifiable option added with -V short option because I
expect a lot of people will want to use this.
It seems likely that --verifiable will become the default eventually,
and possibly rather soon. While old git-annex versions don't support
VURL, that doesn't prevent using them with keys that use VURL. Of
course, they won't verify the content on transfer, and fsck will warn
that it doesn't know about VURL. So there's not much problem with
starting to use VURL even when interoperating with old versions.
Sponsored-by: Joshua Antonishen on Patreon
This is most of the way there, but not quite working.
The layout of migrate.tree/ needs to be changed to follow this approach.
git log will list all the files in tree order, so the new layout needs
to alternate old and new keys. Can that be done? git may not document
tree order, or may not preserve it here.
Alternatively, change to using git log --format=raw and extract
the tree header from that, then use
git diff --raw $tree:migrate.tree/old $tree:migrate.tree/new
That will be a little more expensive, but only when there are lots of
migrations.
Sponsored-by: Joshua Antonishen on Patreon
This will allow distributed migration: Start a migration in one clone of
a repo, and then update other clones.
commitMigration is a bit of a bear.. There is some inversion of control
that needs some TMVars. Also streamLogFile's finalizer does not handle
recording the trees, so an interrupt at just the wrong time can cause
migration.log to be emptied but the git-annex branch not updated.
Sponsored-by: Graham Spencer on Patreon
importfeed: Use caching database to avoid needing to list urls on every
run, and avoid using too much memory.
Benchmarking in my podcasts repo, importfeed got 1.42 seconds faster,
and memory use dropped from 203000k to 59408k.
Database.ImportFeed is Database.ContentIdentifier with the serial number
filed off. There is a bit of code duplication I would like to avoid,
particularly recordAnnexBranchTree, and getAnnexBranchTree. But these use
the persistent sqlite tables, so despite the code being the same, they
cannot be factored out.
Since this database includes the contentidentifier metadata, it will be
slightly redundant if a sqlite database is ever added for metadata. I
did consider making such a generic database and using it for this. But,
that would then need importfeed to update both the url database and the
metadata database, which is twice as much work diffing the git-annex
branch trees. Or would entagle updating two databases in a complex way.
So instead it seems better to optimise the database that
importfeed needs, and if the metadata database is used by another command,
use a little more disk space and do a little bit of redundant work to
update it.
Sponsored-by: unqueued on Patreon
Speeds up sync in an adjusted branch by avoiding re-adjusting the branch
unncessarily, particularly when it is adjusted with --hide-missing or
--unlock-present.
When there are a lot of files, that was the majority of the time of a
--no-content sync.
Uses a log file, which is updated when content presence changes. This
adds a little bit of overhead to every file get/drop when on such an
adjusted branch. The overhead is minimal for get of any size of file,
but might be noticable for drop in some cases. It seems like a reasonable
trade-off. It would be possible to update the log file only at the end, but
then it would not happen if the command is interrupted.
When not in an adjusted branch, there should be no additional overhead.
(getCurrentBranch is an MVar read, and it avoids the MVar read of
getGitConfig.)
Note that this does not deal with situations such as:
git checkout master, git-annex get, git checkout adjusted branch,
git-annex sync. The sync won't know that the adjusted branch needs to be
updated. Dealing with that would add overhead to operation in non-adjusted
branches, which I don't like. Also, there are other situations like having
two adjusted branches that both need to be updated like this, and switching
between them and sync not updating.
This does mean a behavior change to sync, since it did previously deal
with those situations. But, the documentation did not say that it did.
The man pages only talk about sync updating the adjusted branch after
it transfers content.
I did consider making sync keep track of content it transferred (and
dropped) and only update the adjusted branch then, not to catch up to other
changes made previously. That would perform better. But it seemed rather
hard to implement, and also it would have problems with races with a
concurrent get/drop, which this implementation avoids.
And it seemed pretty likely someone had gotten used to get/drop followed by
sync updating the branch. It seems much less likely someone is switching
branches, doing get/drop, and then switching back and expecting sync to update
the branch.
Re-running git-annex adjust still does a full re-adjusting of the branch,
for anyone who needs that.
Sponsored-by: Leon Schuermann on Patreon
For simplicity, I've not tried to make it handle History yet, so when
there is a history, a full import will still be done. Probably the right
way to handle history is to first diff from the current tree to the last
imported tree. Then, diff from the current tree to each of the
historical trees, and recurse through the history diffing from child tree
to parent tree.
I don't think that will need a record of the previously imported
historical trees, and so Logs.Import doesn't store them. Although I did
leave room for future expansion in that log just in case.
Next step will be to change importTree to importChanges and modify
recordImportTree et all to handle it, by using adjustTree.
Sponsored-by: Brett Eisenberg on Patreon
Fix a hang that occasionally occurred during commands such as move.
(A bug introduced in 10.20220927, in
commit 6a3bd283b8)
The restage.log was kept locked while running a complex index refresh
action. In an unusual situation, that action could need to write to the
restage log, which caused a deadlock.
The solution is a two-stage process. First the restage.log is moved to a
work file, which is done with the lock held. Then the content of the work
file is read and processed, which happens without the lock being held.
This is all done in a crash-safe manner.
Note that streamRestageLog may not be fully safe to run concurrently
with itself. That's ok, because restagePointerFiles uses it with the
index lock held, so only one can be run at a time.
streamRestageLog does delete the restage.old file at the end without
locking. If a calcRestageLog is run concurrently, it will either see the
file content before it was deleted, or will see it's missing. Either is
ok, because at most this will cause calcRestageLog to report more
work remains to be done than there is.
Sponsored-by: Dartmouth College's Datalad project
When pointer files need to be restaged, they're first written to the
log, and then when the restage operation runs, it reads the log. This
way, if the git-annex process is interrupted before it can do the
restaging, a later git-annex process can do it.
Currently, this lets a git-annex get/drop command be interrupted and
then re-ran, and as long as it gets/drops additional files, it will
clean up after the interrupted command. But more changes are
needed to make it easier to restage after an interrupted process.
Kept using the git queue to run the restage action, even though the
list of files that it builds up for that action is not actually used by
the action. This could perhaps be simplified to make restaging a cleanup
action that gets registered, rather than using the git queue for it. But
I wasn't sure if that would cause visible behavior changes, when eg
dropping a large number of files, currently the git queue flushes
periodically, and so it restages incrementally, rather than all at the
end.
In restagePointerFiles, it reads the restage log twice, once to get
the number of files and size, and a second time to process it.
This seemed better than reading the whole file into memory, since
potentially a huge number of files could be in there. Probably the OS
will cache the file in memory and there will not be much performance
impact. It might be better to keep running tallies in another file
though. But updating that atomically with the log seems hard.
Also note that it's possible for calcRestageLog to see a different file
than streamRestageLog does. More files may be added to the log in
between. That is ok, it will only cause the filterprocessfaster heuristic to
operate with slightly out of date information, so it may make the wrong
choice for the files that got added and be a little slower than ideal.
Sponsored-by: Dartmouth College's DANDI project
WIP: This is mostly complete, but there is a problem: createDirectoryUnder
throws an error when annex.dbdir is set to outside the git repo.
annex.dbdir is a workaround for filesystems where sqlite does not work,
due to eg, the filesystem not properly supporting locking.
It's intended to be set before initializing the repository. Changing it
in an existing repository can be done, but would be the same as making a
new repository and moving all the annexed objects into it. While the
databases get recreated from the git-annex branch in that situation, any
information that is in the databases but not stored in the branch gets
lost. It may be that no information ever gets stored in the databases
that cannot be reconstructed from the branch, but I have not verified
that.
Sponsored-by: Dartmouth College's Datalad project
The purpose of this is to fix situations where the annex object file is
stored in a directory structure other than where annex symlinks point to.
But it will also move object files from the hashdirmixed back to
hashdirlower if the repo configuration makes that the normal location.
It would have been more work to avoid that than to let it do it.
Sponsored-by: Dartmouth College's Datalad project
The problem is that withContentLockFile, in a v8 repo, has to take a shared
lock of `.git/annex/content.lck`. But, in a readonly repository, if that
file does not yet exist, it cannot lock it. And while it will sometimes
work to `chmod +r .git/annex`, the repository might be readonly due to
being owned by another user, or due to being mounted readonly.
So, it seems that the only solution is to use some other file than
`.git/annex/content.lck` as the lock file. The inode sential file
was almost the only option that should always exist. (And if it somehow
does not exist, creating an empty one for locking will be ok.)
Wow, what a hack!
Sponsored-by: Dartmouth College's Datalad project
The v10 upgrade should almost be safe now. What remains to be done is
notice when the v10 upgrade has occurred, while holding the shared lock,
and switch to using v10 lock files.
Sponsored-by: Dartmouth College's Datalad project
The upgrade from V9 uses this to avoid an automatic upgrade until 1 year
after the V9 update. It can also be used in future such situations.
Sponsored-by: Dartmouth College's Datalad project
To avoid mistakes like commit 0ccbed4f6f,
be explicit about the two variants of this.
Incidentially avoids a small amount of overhead in calling reverse.
Sponsored-by: Shae Erisson on Patreon
Fix a bug that prevented getting content from a repository that started out
as a bare repository, or had annex.crippledfilesystem set, and was
converted to a non-bare repository.
This unfortunately means that inAnnex check gets slowed down by a stat call
in normal repos when the content is not present. Oh well, such is the cost
of backwards compatability with old mistakes.
Sponsored-by: Mark Reidenbach on Patreon
This adds a separate journal, which does not currently get committed to
an index, but is planned to be committed to .git/annex/index-private.
Changes that are regarding a UUID that is private will get written to
this journal, and so will not be published into the git-annex branch.
All log writing should have been made to indicate the UUID it's
regarding, though I've not verified this yet.
Currently, no UUIDs are treated as private yet, a way to configure that
is needed.
The implementation is careful to not add any additional IO work when
privateUUIDsKnown is False. It will skip looking at the private journal
at all. So this should be free, or nearly so, unless the feature is
used. When it is used, all branch reads will be about twice as expensive.
It is very lucky -- or very prudent design -- that Annex.Branch.change
and maybeChange are the only ways to change a file on the branch,
and Annex.Branch.set is only internal use. That let Annex.Branch.get
always yield any private information that has been recorded, without
the risk that Annex.Branch.set might be called, with a non-private UUID,
and end up leaking the private information into the git-annex branch.
And, this relies on the way git-annex union merges the git-annex branch.
When reading a file, there can be a public and a private version, and
they are just concacenated together. That will be handled the same as if
there were two diverged git-annex branches that got union merged.
Keys stored on the filesystem are mangled by keyFile to avoid problem
chars. So, that mangling has to be reversed when parsing files from a
borg backup back to a key.
The directory special remote also so mangles them. Some other special
remotes do not; eg S3 just serializes the key -- but S3 object names are
not limited to filesystem valid filenames anyway, so a S3 server must
not map them directly to files in any case. It seems unlikely that a
borg backup of some such special remote will get broken by this change.
This commit was sponsored by Graham Spencer on Patreon.
nukeFile replaced with removeWhenExistsWith removeLink, which allows
using RawFilePath. Utility.Directory cannot use RawFilePath since setup
does not depend on posix.
This commit was sponsored by Graham Spencer on Patreon.
Notable wins in Annex.Locations which was sometimes doing 6 conversions
in a single function call.
This commit was sponsored by Denis Dzyubenko on Patreon.
In cases where numcopies checks prevented the resumed move from dropping
the object from the source repository, it now relies on a log of recent
moves to replicate the behavior of the interrupted command.
Performance: Probably noticable impact, since it has to add to the log,
check the log, and remove from the log. Seems worth it to avoid this
annoying edge case. The log functions are pretty well optimised to avoid
unncessary work.
An performance improvement to make later would be to avoid cleanup doing
anything if it's not written to the log file, and has confirmed that the
log file does not contain the log line.
This commit was sponsored by Jake Vosloo on Patreon.
This was originally added so that unannex could prevent the hook from
running while files were in a state that the hook would interpret as
old-style unlocked and so would lock.
Now that's gone, so the only thing the hook was preventing was two
pre-commit processes running simulantaneously. But such concurrency
is normal in git-annex and should not be a problem.
Does mean that .git/hooks/pre-commit-annex might run more concurrently,
that seems the only risk of it causing any problems.
