git-annex/doc/todo/git-annex_proxies.mdwn
Joey Hess 5b332a87be
dropping from clusters
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.
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This is a summary todo covering several subprojects, which would extend
git-annex to be able to use proxies which sit in front of a cluster of
repositories.
1. [[design/passthrough_proxy]]
2. [[design/p2p_protocol_over_http]]
3. [[design/balanced_preferred_content]]
4. [[todo/track_free_space_in_repos_via_git-annex_branch]]
5. [[todo/proving_preferred_content_behavior]]
Joey has received funding to work on this.
Planned schedule of work:
* June: git-annex proxy
* July, part 1: git-annex proxy support for exporttree
* July, part 2: p2p protocol over http
* August: balanced preferred content
* September: streaming through proxy to special remotes (especially S3)
* October: proving behavior of balanced preferred content with proxies
[[!tag projects/openneuro]]
# work notes
In development on the `proxy` branch.
For June's work on [[design/passthrough_proxy]], implementation plan:
* UUID discovery via git-annex branch. Add a log file listing UUIDs
accessible via proxy UUIDs. It also will contain the names
of the remotes that the proxy is a proxy for,
from the perspective of the proxy. (done)
* Add `git-annex updateproxy` command (done)
* Remote instantiation for proxies. (done)
* Implement git-annex-shell proxying to git remotes. (done)
* Proxy should update location tracking information for proxied remotes,
so it is available to other users who sync with it. (done)
* Implement `git-annex updatecluster` command (done)
* Implement cluster UUID insertation on location log load, and removal
on location log store. (done)
* Omit cluster UUIDs when constructing drop proofs, since lockcontent will
always fail on a cluster. (done)
* Don't count cluster UUID as a copy. (done)
* Tab complete proxied remotes and clusters in eg --from option. (done)
* Getting a key from a cluster should proxy from one of the nodes that has
it. (done)
* Implement cluster drops, trying to remove from all nodes, and returning
which UUIDs it was dropped from. (done)
* Getting a key from a cluster currently always selects the lowest cost
remote, and always the same remote if cost is the same. Should
round-robin amoung remotes, and prefer to avoid using remotes that
other git-annex processes are currently using.
* Implement upload with fanout and reporting back additional UUIDs over P2P
protocol. (done, but need to check for fencepost errors on resume of
incomplete upload with remotes at different points)
* On upload to cluster, send to nodes where it's preferred content, and not
to other nodes.
* Problem: `move --from cluster` in "does this make it worse"
check may fail to realize that dropping from multiple nodes does in fact
make it worse.
* Bug: When a cluster has one node, copying a file to it does not update
location log to say the content is present on it. It's returning SUCCESS
rather than SUCCESS-PLUS.
* Support annex.jobs for clusters.
* On upload to a cluster, as well as fanout to nodes, if the key is
preferred content of the proxy repository, store it there.
(But not when preferred content is not configured.)
And on download from a cluster, if the proxy repository has the content,
get it from there to avoid the overhead of proxying to a node.
* Basic proxying to special remote support (non-streaming).
* Support proxies-of-proxies better, eg foo-bar-baz.
Currently, it does work, but have to run `git-annex updateproxy`
on foo in order for it to notice the bar-baz proxied remote exists,
and record it as foo-bar-baz. Make it skip recording proxies of
proxies like that, and instead automatically generate those from the log.
(With cycle prevention there of course.)
* Cycle prevention including cluster-in-cluster cycles. See design.
* Optimise proxy speed. See design for ideas.
* Use `sendfile()` to avoid data copying overhead when
`receiveBytes` is being fed right into `sendBytes`.
* Encryption and chunking. See design for issues.
* Indirect uploads (to be considered). See design.
* Support using a proxy when its url is a P2P address.
(Eg tor-annex remotes.)