from my examination of the tahoe_fuse ('impl_a') code, it looks like
the intention is to cache the file contents in memory while it's open,
since it does in fact do that. however it looks like it also ignored
that cache entirely, and made an individual tahoe webapi GET request
for each and every read() operation regardless of the relative size of
the read block and the file in question.
this changes that to make read() use the data in memory rather than
fetch the data over again. if there's something more subtle going
on, please let me know.
a handful of code cleanup, renaming and refactoring. basically consolidating
'application logic' (mount/unmount fs) into the 'MacGuiApp' class (the wx.App)
and cleaning up various scoping things around that. renamed all references to
'app' to refer more clearly to the 'AppContainer' or to the guiapp.
globally renamed basedir -> nodedir
also made the guiapp keep a note of each filesystem it mounts, and unmount
them upon 'quit' so as to cleanup the user's environment before the tahoe node
vanishes from out underneath the orphaned tahoe fuse processes
this changes the 'open webroot' menu item to be a submenu listing all aliases
defined in ~/.tahoe. Note that the dock menu does not support submenus, so it
only offers a single 'open webroot' option for the default tahoe: alias.
I had trouble with this at first and concluded that the submenus didn't work,
and made it a distinct 'WebUI' menu in it's own right. on further inspection,
there are still problems but they seem to be something like once the dock menu
has been used, sometimes the app's main menubar menus will cease to function,
and this happens regardless of whether submenus or plain simple menus are used.
I have no idea what the peoblem is, but it's not submenu specific.
These constraints were originally intended to protect against attacks on the
storage server protocol layer which exhaust memory in the peer. However,
defending against that sort of DoS is hard -- probably it isn't completely
achieved -- and it costs development time to think about it, and it sometimes
imposes limits on legitimate users which we don't necessarily want to impose.
So, for now we forget about limiting the amount of RAM that a foolscap peer can
cause you to start using.
Remove some obsolete parts (correct at the time, now incorrect), change terminology to reflect my preference: s/vdrive/filesystem/ and s/dirnode/directory/, and make a few other small changes.
Make sure the file can actually be downloaded afterward, that it used one of the
deleted and then repaired shares to do so, and that it repairs from multiple
deletions at once (without using more than a reasonable amount of calls to
storage server allocate).
