git-annex/doc/bugs/redundant_transfer_not_prevented.mdwn
Joey Hess 1ace305159
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2024-03-24 15:05:49 -04:00

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Copying the same file from 2 repositories into another repository at the
same time, the redundant transfer is not prevented.
This was surprising to me! I would have expected it to prevent starting an
upload when another transfer of that key is already running. The same as
it does when starting 2 copies of the same file to the same remote.
I'm easily able to reproduce this in a bench test with 2 clones of a repo.
git init a
cd a
git-annex init
dd if=/dev/urandom of=big bs=1M count=1000
git-annex add
git commit -m add
cd ..
git clone a b
git clone a c
cd b; git-annex get
cd ../c; git-annex move --from orgin
(cd b; git-annex copy --to origin) &
(cd c; git-annex copy --to origin) &
Aha... Looking at the code, this seems like a fundamental oversight.
The `transferFile` depends on the uuid of the remote being transfered
to/from, so there are two different ones in this case. And the transfer
lock file that is checked derives from those files, so there are two
seperate lock files.
That is actually what we want when eg, uploading content from the same
repo into two different repos. It would not do for an upload to one repo
to block uploading to another repo. So a per-uuid lock file makes sense for
uploads. But not for downloads.
It seems that it does make sense to have different transfer information
files for downloads from different uuids. Because the filename is parsed
to determine the uuid.
Perhaps the fix is just for `transferLockFile` to take a Transfer parameter,
and return the same lock file for all Downloads of a key, no matter the
uuid.
There is the issue that renaming the lock file would break interoperability
with old git-annex. In this case, since this bug prevents noticing multiple
downloads from different uuids, interoperability would only prevent
noticing multiple downloads from the same uuid. Which is not a great
behavior to break either, even if it would usually only break transiently.
Of course that could be avoided by keeping the current lock file, and
adding a second level lock file.
--[[Joey]]