This is admittedly a hack, since the story is that services should be
handling /var on their own. But on the other hand the current systemd
story is that admins should create it to enable it. Possibly a better
fix is --enable-journal-always or something for systemd.
We had a bit of legacy code that looked for "current" if the deploy
path was unspecified; this needs to be deploy/OSNAME/current.
Secondly, we need to point dracut at a tmpdir outside of the root when
doing FUSE, because directories with mode 0700 and owned by root:root
aren't writable.
Also update libgsystem to the latest.
Will be used by the QA scripts, since we need to inspect the kernel
configuration and generate a correct grub conf from that, rather than
trying to have update-bootloader reuse an existing config, since there
won't be one initially.
In some cases we want the ability to run triggers independently of
checking out a tree. For example, due to kernel limitations which
impact the gnome-ostree build system, we may need to run triggers on
first boot via systemd.
Secondarily, if the user installs a system extension which adds a new
shared library to /usr/lib for example, the system will need to run
the triggers again.
Also, I think I want to take triggers out of the core and put them in
ostree admin anyways.
The real vision of OSTree is to "multiple versions of multiple
operating systems". Up until now, it's worked to install gnome-ostree
inside a host distribution, but several things don't work quite right
if you try to do completely different systems.
In the new model, there's the concept of an "osname" which encompasses
a few properties:
1) Its own /var
2) A set of trees deployed in /ostree/deploy/OSNAME/
3) Its own "current" and "previous" links.
Now it no longer really makes sense to boot with "ostree=current".
Instead, you specify e.g. "ostree=gnome/current".
This is an incompatible change to the deployment code - you will need
to run init-os gnome and redeploy.
All "ostree admin" subcommands now take an OSNAME argument.
This counts as an implicit "hold" on the first items, which we must
complete. Otherwise there are race conditions where the queue may
signal idle when in fact the main process is still working.
Should be used when initializing a new root filesystem for a "pure
OSTree" system; for example, what "ostbuild privhelper-deploy-qemu"
does when creating a filesystem image loopback.
Previously we'd open(path, O_NOATIME) and do a series of small read()
calls to just parse the header. I think this will trigger kernel readahead
into the compressed portion, but we don't care about that.
This should be more efficient.
We were blocking for easily 1/10 or 1/5 of a second in fdatasync(),
which drastically slows down the whole process.
This threading isn't quite as good as the ostree-pull command, but it
lets us avoid the dependency on libsoup everywhere, and it's simpler.
After a while of pull-deploy cycles, you start to accumulate a lot of
them. While the deployment read-only part is hardlinked, the -etc
space adds up.
Additionally, the repository itself just gets large.
The new command "ostree admin prune" deletes everything except the
"current" and "previous" deployments.
The previous code (unintentionally) only traversed from refs; so data
only reachable from previous commits would be deleted. That shouldn't
be the default, but we do want to offer it as an option.
So add a --refs-only option.
At a minimum, it should list the available subcommands. This is
still not perfect, since there is no way to get at the help output
of the subcommands - getting that right needs more refactoring.
Signed-off-by: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
This seems to work around a likely Linux kernel VFS bug, where I
randomly see ENOENT on link() when we *definitely* called mkdir() at
an earlier point in time.
This is an incompatible change to archive-z, thus it is now renamed to
archive-z2 and ostree will no longer parse archive-z.
I noticed in perf that we were spending some time zlib-decompressing
file headers, which is just inefficient. Rather than do this, keep
the headers uncompressed, and just zlib-compress content.
This gives us something closer to the advantages of archive and
archive-z when using the latter. Concretely we get deduplication
among multiple checkouts, along with the "devino" hash table trick
during commits to avoid checksumming content again.
This is enabled by default.
For similar reasons as metadata, this avoids having the main thread
blocked in fdatasync(), and even better - we can achieve much higher
parallelism if we have multiple threads blocked on fdatasync().
We need this hack for "archive mode" repositories; otherwise,
what ends up happening is that we get 10000+ requests pending
for .filemeta files, which we can't process until we also get
the .filecontent.
Note this hack is unneccessary when fetching from archive-z
repositories.
Create a worker thread for processing metadata, reserving the main
thread for HTTP requests.
This can create a very significant efficiency win for large pull
requests since we are much more likely to keep a full pipeline open.
The status display is also nicer now.
This is where loose content objects are stored as one compressed file,
instead of the two separate ones for regular archive mode. This mode
would be suitable for HTTP servers, beause only one HTTP request is
necessary, and the result would be compressed.
Cleanly separate metadata/content APIs, rather than defaulting to
raw streams. This helps most use cases.
Also, drop support for staging content without knowing the total
length. This complicated the code, and for things like streaming
HTTP, we should be able to figure this out from Content-Length.
They're not a large efficiency win at the moment, because we don't
do any delta compression.
At the moment, they simply served to compress data, but we will change
the archive mode to do that by default.
Configuration associated with a specific revision is stored in a folder
named <revision>-etc. In a similar spirit, add /ostree/current-etc, pointing
to the -etc folder for the revision named by current. This allows
easy editing of configuration from the host distribution, and allows
diffing current/etc and current-etc for configuration changes.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684049
First, move deployments to /ostree/deploy. Having them in the
toplevel clutters the filesystem layout too much.
When we deploy a tree like /ostree/deploy/NAME, there is now also a
writable directory /ostree/deploy/NAME-etc. This is mounted as
read-write inside the system.
On an initial install, that directory is copied from
/ostree/deploy/NAME/etc. On subsequent deployments, we find any
changes made in the current deployment's /etc, and apply that set of
changes to the new deployment's /etc.
See https://live.gnome.org/OSTree/EverythingInEtcIsABug
Colin Walters
Giovanni Campagna
Jasper St. Pierre
Matthias Clasen