We'll always have "bare" mode for keeping files-as-hardlinks as root.
But "archive" was my second attempt at a format for non-root file
storage, used by the gnome-ostree buildsystem which runs as non-root.
It was really handy to have a "tar" like mode where I can create
tarballs as a user, that contain files owned by root for example.
The "archive" mode stored content files as two pieces in the
filesystem; ".file" contained metadata, and ".filecontent" was the
actual content, uncompressed. The nice thing about this was that to
check out a tree as non-root, you could just hardlink into the repo.
However, archive was fairly bad for serving via HTTP; it required
*two* HTTP requests per content object, greatly magnifing the already
inefficient fetch process. So "archive-z2" was introduced.
To allow gnome-ostree to still check out trees as a user, the
"uncompressed-object-cache" was introduced, and that's how things have
been working for a while.
So we should just be able to kill this code. Specifically note just
how much better the stage_object() function became.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706057
We have APIs to load metadata as variants, and files as parsed
content/info/xattrs, but for some cases such as static deltas, all we
want is to operate on all objects in their canonical representation.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706031
We used to have a version of this, but since I'm trying to use
GBytes more, this became a more common operation, and it's annoying
to type out the whole G_VARIANT_TYPE ("ay") each time, and pass
TRUE for trusted.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706031
While the actual commit object format is presently the same, for a
number of reasons we'd like to change it fairly radically. Among
other things, we need to drop our a{sv} types in objects, to protect
against GVariant changing format.
Since now gnome-ostree now longer uses related objects, and nothing
ever used metadata, just drop them both.
If the admin encounters corruption and does:
$ ostree admin fsck --delete
We want them to be able to recover the objects easily from the
network; with this patch, they do:
$ ln -s dummyvalue /ostree/repo/transaction
$ ostree refs --delete remotename:branchname
$ ostree pull remotename
This patch avoids the need for the refs --delete; we might as well
force scan the commit, and with this patch we still print that it
changed.
We may revive this later, but commits in their current form aren't
very useful for humans to read, so it doesn't make sense to have a
tool to show a history of useless stuff.
More interesting things are diffs between commits, object statistics,
etc.
Otherwise it's really easy to keep accumulating deployments. Also, we
may want to run this after rebooting, so we're back down to one
operating system.
And disable devino scan by default. For the gnome-ostree build case,
our commits are from "make install DESTDIR=", so they won't be
hardlinks into the repo. In that case, particularly as the repository
size grows, the cost of building up the devino -> checksum mapping
becomes a problem.
The compose step will use this option though.
While the first was useful way back in the day when we were importing
Debian bits and /sbin/init was expecting to find /dev/.initctl as a
named pipe, that's no longer an issue with systemd since it uses
dynamic Unix sockets.
Likewise, character and block devices in /dev are now dynamically
created by the devtmpfs from the kernel.
Less complexity and code here if we just support directories, regular
files, and symbolic links.
Calling it "cleanup" is better since it does more than repo pruning.
We were also doing a prune twice; ot_admin_cleanup() already does one,
so drop the bits to do it in cleanup.c.
It isn't useful at the moment, since the deploy stuff all changed. It
will make sense to bring back later, but for now let's not carry
broken untested code.
While the systemd integration effectively requires /sysroot, it will
help people trying to use OSTree with other initramfs systems
(e.g. initramfs-tools) if we don't hardcode that requirement in this
tool.
These corruption tests could be a lot better...like randomly try
single bit flips, range flips. Better, content-aware fuzzing. But
this is useful for now.
If pull is interrupted, we may have downloaded an arbitrary subset of
the requested objects. Previously, we handled this by scanning for
all objects each time.
However, there's an easy optimization - this patch creates a lock file
in the repo. If we don't see that file when starting a pull, we know
we don't need to stat() every file; presence of a dirtree object for
example implies the existence of everything it references.
Originally, the idea was that clients would replicate "OS/tree"s from
a build server, but we'd run things like "ldconfig" on the client.
This was to allow adding e.g. the nVidia binary driver.
However, the triggers were the only thing in the system at the moment
that really had expected knowledge of the *contents* of the OS, like
the location of binaries.
For now, it's architecturally cleaner if we move the burden of
triggers to the tree builder (e.g. gnome-ostree or RPM). Eventually
we may want OSTree to assist with this type of thing (perhaps
something like RPM %ghost), but this is the right thing to do now.
Colin Walters