The way we recurse into subdirectories in parallel makes it far too
easy to hit up against the arbitrary Linux fd limit of 1024.
Since the fix here is about dropping parallelism, let's just go all
the way for now and make a plain old synchronous API =(
This does simplify both internal callers which wanted a sync API
anyways.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706380
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
If we pass XATTR_REPLACE then the attribute must already exist, which
is not our intent. Passing zero creates the attribute if necessary,
or replaces it when it already exists.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=705893
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.
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.
Vivek Dasmohapatra
Colin Walters
Stef Walter