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Phase 5: an object is served only through a repository that holds it
65b88b3b1940623b6f7fbc686b19e986497c9ff2 · Keenan Nemetz · 16d ago · parent bf1e027c
Phase 5: an object is served only through a repository that holds it The store was instance-wide and content-addressed, so an object was fetchable through any repository whose read rule you passed, provided you knew its sha256. That is now impossible, and the fix is structural rather than a check: the pool still holds the bytes once, and each repository has a hard link into a namespace of its own (data/lfs/repos/<repo>/…). A fetch reads only that namespace, so "which repository owns these bytes" stops being a database question that can go stale and becomes a fact about the filesystem — and gc reconciles the links from the refs, which keeps the promise that derived state can always be thrown away and rebuilt. The alternatives were worse. A (repo, oid) table would have made the read path depend on the index, so deleting data/index.db — which the roadmap promises loses nothing — would have stopped LFS fetches until a rebuild. Namespacing the storage itself would have cost the deduplication the store exists for. Hard links give both: one copy of the bytes, one directory entry per repository, and removing one repository's link leaves the other's data alone. Three consequences that had to be handled rather than assumed: - pre-receive checks pointers against the pushing repository, not the pool. A pointer to an object that exists only in another repository would otherwise pass the push and then 404 on clone. The client re-uploads, the pool deduplicates and the link lands, which is the transfer cost isolation implies. - The sweep walks per repository, because reachability is per repository: an object reachable in one and not another keeps the first link and loses the second while the bytes stay. So `vole gc` is also the repair — it links what a repository reaches and unlinks what it no longer does. - An instance upgrading from the shared pool has no namespaces at all, so every fetch would 404 until somebody read an upgrade note. server.New notices a store with no namespace and runs the link pass in the background once, using gc.Link — the half of gc that creates links and deletes nothing, so an interrupted pass leaves the store more reachable than it found it. A repository rename moves its namespace with it. Reference counting stays rejected, and this makes the argument stronger: the thing that repairs the store is the same walk that cleans it, and it cannot invent a reference that does not exist. Measured: TestAnObjectIsInvisibleToARepositoryThatDoesNotHoldIt and the server level TestAnObjectIsNotFetchableThroughAnotherRepository (404 over the LFS endpoint for an object the shared store demonstrably has); TestTwoRepositoriesShareOneCopyOfTheBytes proves os.SameFile, so isolation costs no deduplication; TestOneRepositoryLosingAPointerKeepsTheOthersLink and TestLinkRepairsAMissingNamespace pin the per-repository sweep and the repair; TestAnUnscopedStoreIsLinkedOnStartup covers the upgrade path. Phase 5 is now complete: locking and object scoping both landed.
internal/server/server.go +3
| @@ -151,6 +151,9 @@ func New(cfg *config.Config, binPath string, log *slog.Logger) (*Server, error) | |||
| 151 | 151 | go s.watchSpool(s.ctx) | |
| 152 | 152 | go s.watchRefs(s.ctx) | |
| 153 | 153 | go s.watchLeases(s.ctx) | |
| 154 | // An instance that stored objects before they were scoped by repository needs its | ||
| 155 | // links, and nobody reads an upgrade note. This is idempotent and deletes nothing. | ||
| 156 | s.scopeLFSStore() | ||
| 154 | 157 | return s, nil | |
| 155 | 158 | } | |
| 156 | 159 | ||