- Make some important utility functions clearer and more thoroughly
documented.
- Assert in upload.servers_of_happiness that the buckets attributes
of PeerTrackers passed to it are mutually disjoint.
- Get rid of some silly non-Pythonisms that I didn't see when I first
wrote these patches.
- Make sure that should_add_server returns true when queried about a
shnum that it doesn't know about yet.
- Change Tahoe2PeerSelector.preexisting_shares to map a shareid to a set
of peerids, alter dependencies to deal with that.
- Remove upload.should_add_servers, because it is no longer necessary
- Move upload.shares_of_happiness and upload.shares_by_server to a utility
file.
- Change some points in Tahoe2PeerSelector.
- Compute servers_of_happiness using a bipartite matching algorithm that
we know is optimal instead of an ad-hoc greedy algorithm that isn't.
- Change servers_of_happiness to just take a sharemap as an argument,
change its callers to merge existing_shares and used_peers before
calling it.
- Change an error message in the encoder to be more appropriate for
servers of happiness.
- Clarify the wording of an error message in immutable/upload.py
- Refactor a happiness failure message to happinessutil.py, and make
immutable/upload.py and immutable/encode.py use it.
- Move the word "only" as far to the right as possible in failure
messages.
- Use a better definition of progress during peer selection.
- Do read-only peer share detection queries in parallel, not sequentially.
- Clean up logging semantics; print the query statistics whenever an
upload is unsuccessful, not just in one case.
allmydata.util.log.err() either takes a Failure as the first positional
argument, or takes no positional arguments and must be invoked in an
exception handler. Fixed its signature to match both foolscap.logging.log.err
and twisted.python.log.err . Included a brief unit test.
Stop checking separately for ConnectionDone/ConnectionLost, since those have
been folded into DeadReferenceError since foolscap-0.3.1 . Write
rrefutil.trap_deadref() in terms of rrefutil.trap_and_discard() to improve
code coverage.
* remove Downloader.download_to_data/download_to_filename/download_to_filehandle
* remove download.Data/FileName/FileHandle targets
* remove filenode.download/download_to_data/download_to_filename methods
* leave Downloader.download (the whole Downloader will go away eventually)
* add util.consumer.MemoryConsumer/download_to_data, for convenience
(this is mostly used by unit tests, but it gets used by enough non-test
code to warrant putting it in allmydata.util)
* update tests
* removes about 180 lines of code. Yay negative code days!
Overall plan is to rewrite immutable/download.py and leave filenode.read() as
the sole read-side API.
* backups now share dirnodes with any previous backup, in any location,
so renames and moves are handled very efficiently
* "tahoe backup" no longer bothers reading the previous snapshot
* if you switch grids, you should delete ~/.tahoe/private/backupdb.sqlite,
to force new uploads of all files and directories
We need to carefully document the licence of figleaf in order to get Tahoe-LAFS into Ubuntu Karmic Koala. However, figleaf isn't really a part of Tahoe-LAFS per se -- this is just a "convenience copy" of a development tool. The quickest way to make Tahoe-LAFS acceptable for Karmic then, is to remove figleaf from the Tahoe-LAFS tarball itself. People who want to run figleaf on Tahoe-LAFS (as everyone should want) can install figleaf themselves. I haven't tested this -- there may be incompatibilities between upstream figleaf and the copy that we had here...
* emit lease expiry date in ISO-8601'ish format as well as Brian's format
* rename iso_utc_time_to_localseconds() to iso_utc_time_to_seconds()
* add iso_utc_date()
* simplify the body of iso_utc_time_to_seconds()
This facilitates client code to easily catch ServerFailures without also catching exceptions arising from client-side code.
See also:
http://foolscap.lothar.com/trac/ticket/105 # make it easy to distinguish server-side failures/exceptions from client-side
In an ancient version of directories, we needed a MAC on each entry. In modern times, the entire dirnode comes with a digital signature, so the MAC on each entry is redundant.
With this patch, we no longer check those MACs when reading directories, but we still produce them so that older readers will accept directories that we write.
Now upload or encode methods take a required argument named "convergence" which can be either None, indicating no convergent encryption at all, or a string, which is the "added secret" to be mixed in to the content hash key. If you want traditional convergent encryption behavior, set the added secret to be the empty string.
This patch also renames "content hash key" to "convergent encryption" in a argument names and variable names. (A different and larger renaming is needed in order to clarify that Tahoe supports immutable files which are not encrypted content-hash-key a.k.a. convergent encryption.)
This patch also changes a few unit tests to use non-convergent encryption, because it doesn't matter for what they are testing and non-convergent encryption is slightly faster.
while investigating fuse related stuff, I spent quite a while staring at
very cryptic explosions I got from idlib. it turns out that unicode
objects and str objects have .translate() methods with differing signatures.
to save anyone else the headache, this makes it very clear if you accidentally
try to pass a unicode object in to a2b() etc.
base62 encoding fits more information into alphanumeric chars while avoiding the troublesome non-alphanumeric chars of base64 encoding. In particular, this allows us to work around the ext3 "32,000 entries in a directory" limit while retaining the convenient property that the intermediate directory names are leading prefixes of the storage index file names.
this moves some of the code common to both windows and mac builds into the
allmydata module hierarchy, and cleans up the windows and mac build directories
to import the code from there.
use of twisted.python.util.sibpath to find files relative to modules doesn't
work when those modules are bundled into a library by py2exe. this provides
an alternative implementation (in allmydata.util.sibpath) which checks for
the existence of the file, and if it is not found, attempts to find it relative
to sys.executable instead.
* use new decentralized directories everywhere instead of old centralized directories
* provide UI to them through the web server
* provide UI to them through the CLI
* update unit tests to simulate decentralized mutable directories in order to test other components that rely on them
* remove the notion of a "vdrive server" and a client thereof
* remove the notion of a "public vdrive", which was a directory that was centrally published/subscribed automatically by the tahoe node (you can accomplish this manually by making a directory and posting the URL to it on your web site, for example)
* add a notion of "wait_for_numpeers" when you need to publish data to peers, which is how many peers should be attached before you start. The default is 1.
* add __repr__ for filesystem nodes (note: these reprs contain a few bits of the secret key!)
* fix a few bugs where we used to equate "mutable" with "not read-only". Nowadays all directories are mutable, but some might be read-only (to you).
* fix a few bugs where code wasn't aware of the new general-purpose metadata dict the comes with each filesystem edge
* sundry fixes to unit tests to adjust to the new directories, e.g. don't assume that every share on disk belongs to a chk file.
