Ticket #878: mutable_docs.txt

Fri Jan 15 12:45:00 PST 2010  Kevan Carstensen <kevan@isnotajoke.com>
  * Add 'docs/performance.txt', which (for the moment) describes mutable file performance issues

New patches:

[Add 'docs/performance.txt', which (for the moment) describes mutable file performance issues
Kevan Carstensen <kevan@isnotajoke.com>**20100115204500
 Ignore-this: ade4e500217db2509aee35aacc8c5dbf
] {
addfile ./docs/performance.txt
hunk ./docs/performance.txt 1
+= Performance =
+
+== performance issues with mutable files ==
+
+Tahoe-LAFS can create mutable files of arbitrary size. There are good
+reasons to not overuse these.
+
+When you first create a mutable file, Tahoe-LAFS generates an RSA
+keypair to associate with the file. This takes about a second on an
+ordinary desktop PC (and possibly considerably longer on specialized or
+embedded hardware). The cost of key generation is probably irrelevant if
+you only use a few mutable files, but can quickly add up if you want to
+create a lot of them.
+
+Part of the process of encrypting, encoding, and uploading a mutable
+file to a Tahoe-LAFS grid requires that the entire file be loaded into
+memory at once. For larger files, this may cause Tahoe-LAFS to have an
+unacceptably large memory footprint (at least when uploading your
+mutable file).
+
+As currently implemented, small modifications to mutable files are no
+less expensive than large modifications; in both cases, the process
+described above (with the performance concerns described above) must be
+repeated for the entire file. 
+
+We are exploring ways to address at least some of these problems. In the
+meantime, however, it is a good practice to not overuse mutable files,
+and to not create exceptionally large mutable files. For more
+information on how mutable files are currently implemented, see the
+mutable file specification, in docs/specifications/mutable.txt.
}

Context:

[mutable/publish: don't loop() right away upon DeadReferenceError. Closes #877
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20100102220841
 Ignore-this: b200e707b3f13aa8251981362b8a3e61
 
 The bug was that a disconnected server could cause us to re-enter the initial
 loop() call, sending multiple queries to a single server, provoking an
 incorrect UCWE. To fix it, stall the loop() with an eventual.fireEventually()
] 
[immutable/checker.py: oops, forgot some imports. Also hush pyflakes.
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091229233909
 Ignore-this: 4d61bd3f8113015a4773fd4768176e51
] 
[mutable repair: return successful=False when numshares<k (thus repair fails),
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091229233746
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 instead of weird errors. Closes #874 and #786.
 
 Previously, if the file had 0 shares, this would raise TypeError as it tried
 to call download_version(None). If the file had some shares but fewer than
 'k', it would incorrectly raise MustForceRepairError.
 
 Added get_successful() to the IRepairResults API, to give repair() a place to
 report non-code-bug problems like this.
] 
[node.py/interfaces.py: minor docs fixes
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091229230409
 Ignore-this: c86ad6342ef0f95d50639b4f99cd4ddf
] 
[NEWS: fix 1.4.1 announcement w.r.t. add-lease behavior in older releases
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091229230310
 Ignore-this: bbbbb9c961f3bbcc6e5dbe0b1594822
] 
[checker: don't let failures in add-lease affect checker results. Closes #875.
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091229230108
 Ignore-this: ef1a367b93e4d01298c2b1e6ca59c492
 
 Mutable servermap updates and the immutable checker, when run with
 add_lease=True, send both the do-you-have-block and add-lease commands in
 parallel, to avoid an extra round trip time. Many older servers have problems
 with add-lease and raise various exceptions, which don't generally matter.
 The client-side code was catching+ignoring some of them, but unrecognized
 exceptions were passed through to the DYHB code, concealing the DYHB results
 from the checker, making it think the server had no shares.
 
 The fix is to separate the code paths. Both commands are sent at the same
 time, but the errback path from add-lease is handled separately. Known
 exceptions are ignored, the others (both unknown-remote and all-local) are
 logged (log.WEIRD, which will trigger an Incident), but neither will affect
 the DYHB results.
 
 The add-lease message is sent first, and we know that the server handles them
 synchronously. So when the checker is done, we can be sure that all the
 add-lease messages have been retired. This makes life easier for unit tests.
] 
[test_cli: verify fix for "tahoe get" not creating empty file on error (#121)
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091227235444
 Ignore-this: 6444d52413b68eb7c11bc3dfdc69c55f
] 
[addendum to "Fix 'tahoe ls' on files (#771)"
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091227232149
 Ignore-this: 6dd5e25f8072a3153ba200b7fdd49491
 
 tahoe_ls.py: tolerate missing metadata
 web/filenode.py: minor cleanups
 test_cli.py: test 'tahoe ls FILECAP'
] 
[Fix 'tahoe ls' on files (#771). Patch adapted from Kevan Carstensen.
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091227225443
 Ignore-this: 8bf8c7b1cd14ea4b0ebd453434f4fe07
 
 web/filenode.py: also serve edge metadata when using t=json on a
                  DIRCAP/childname object.
 tahoe_ls.py: list file objects as if we were listing one-entry directories.
              Show edge metadata if we have it, which will be true when doing
              'tahoe ls DIRCAP/filename' and false when doing 'tahoe ls
              FILECAP'
] 
[tahoe_get: don't create the output file on error. Closes #121.
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091227220404
 Ignore-this: 58d5e793a77ec6e87d9394ade074b926
] 
[webapi: don't accept zero-length childnames during traversal. Closes #358, #676.
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091227201043
 Ignore-this: a9119dec89e1c7741f2289b0cad6497b
 
 This forbids operations that would implicitly create a directory with a
 zero-length (empty string) name, like what you'd get if you did "tahoe put
 local /oops/blah" (#358) or "POST /uri/CAP//?t=mkdir" (#676). The error
 message is fairly friendly too.
 
 Also added code to "tahoe put" to catch this error beforehand and suggest the
 correct syntax (i.e. without the leading slash).
] 
[CLI: send 'Accept:' header to ask for text/plain tracebacks. Closes #646.
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091227195828
 Ignore-this: 44c258d4d4c7dac0ed58adb22f73331
 
 The webapi has been looking for an Accept header since 1.4.0, but it treats a
 missing header as equal to */* (to honor RFC2616). This change finally
 modifies our CLI tools to ask for "text/plain, application/octet-stream",
 which seems roughly correct (we either want a plain-text traceback or error
 message, or an uninterpreted chunk of binary data to save to disk). Some day
 we'll figure out how JSON fits into this scheme.
] 
[Makefile: upload-tarballs: switch from xfer-client to flappclient, closes #350
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091227163703
 Ignore-this: 3beeecdf2ad9c2438ab57f0e33dcb357
 
 I've also set up a new flappserver on source@allmydata.org to receive the
 tarballs. We still need to replace the gutsy buildslave (which is where the
 tarballs used to be generated+uploaded) and give it the new FURL.
] 
[misc/ringsim.py: make it deterministic, more detail about grid-is-full behavior
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091227024832
 Ignore-this: a691cc763fb2e98a4ce1767c36e8e73f
] 
[misc/ringsim.py: tool to discuss #302
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091226060339
 Ignore-this: fc171369b8f0d97afeeb8213e29d10ed
] 
[docs: fix helper.txt to describe new config style
zooko@zooko.com**20091224223522
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] 
[docs/stats.txt: add TOC, notes about controlling gatherer's listening port
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091224202133
 Ignore-this: 8eef63b0e18db5aa8249c2eafde02c05
 
 Thanks to Jody Harris for the suggestions.
] 
[Add docs/stats.py, explaining Tahoe stats, the gatherer, and the munin plugins.
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091223052400
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] 
[more #859: avoid deprecation warning for unit tests too, hush pyflakes
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091215000147
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 * factor maybe-import-sha logic into util.hashutil
] 
[use hashlib module if available, thus avoiding a DeprecationWarning for importing the old sha module; fixes #859
zooko@zooko.com**20091214212703
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] 
[docs: reflow architecture.txt to 78-char lines
zooko@zooko.com**20091208232943
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] 
[docs: update the about.html a little
zooko@zooko.com**20091208212737
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] 
[docs: remove obsolete doc file "codemap.txt"
zooko@zooko.com**20091113163033
 Ignore-this: 16bc21a1835546e71d1b344c06c61ebb
 I started to update this to reflect the current codebase, but then I thought (a) nobody seemed to notice that it hasn't been updated since December 2007, and (b) it will just bit-rot again, so I'm removing it.
] 
[mutable/retrieve.py: stop reaching into private MutableFileNode attributes
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091208172921
 Ignore-this: 61e548798c1105aed66a792bf26ceef7
] 
[mutable/servermap.py: stop reaching into private MutableFileNode attributes
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091208172608
 Ignore-this: b40a6b62f623f9285ad96fda139c2ef2
] 
[mutable/servermap.py: oops, query N+e servers in MODE_WRITE, not k+e
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091208171156
 Ignore-this: 3497f4ab70dae906759007c3cfa43bc
 
 under normal conditions, this wouldn't cause any problems, but if the shares
 are really sparse (perhaps because new servers were added), then
 file-modifies might stop looking too early and leave old shares in place
] 
[control.py: fix speedtest: use download_best_version (not read) on mutable nodes
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091207060512
 Ignore-this: 7125eabfe74837e05f9291dd6414f917
] 
[FTP-and-SFTP.txt: fix ssh-keygen pointer
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091207052803
 Ignore-this: bc2a70ee8c58ec314e79c1262ccb22f7
] 
[setup: ignore _darcs in the "test-clean" test and make the "clean" step remove all .egg's in the root dir
zooko@zooko.com**20091206184835
 Ignore-this: 6066bd160f0db36d7bf60aba405558d2
] 
[remove MutableFileNode.download(), prefer download_best_version() instead
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091201225438
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] 
[Simplify immutable download API: use just filenode.read(consumer, offset, size)
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091201225330
 Ignore-this: bdedfb488ac23738bf52ae6d4ab3a3fb
 
 * 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.
] 
[server.py: undo my bogus 'correction' of David-Sarah's comment fix
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091201024607
 Ignore-this: ff4bb58f6a9e045b900ac3a89d6f506a
 
 and move it to a better line
] 
[Implement more coherent behavior when copying with dircaps/filecaps (closes #761). Patch by Kevan Carstensen.
"Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>"**20091130211009] 
[storage.py: update comment
"Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>"**20091130195913] 
[storage server: detect disk space usage on Windows too (fixes #637)
david-sarah@jacaranda.org**20091121055644
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] 
[make status of finished operations consistently "Finished"
david-sarah@jacaranda.org**20091121061543
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] 
[NEWS: update with all user-visible changes since the last release
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091127224217
 Ignore-this: 741da6cd928e939fb6d21a61ea3daf0b
] 
[update "tahoe backup" docs, and webapi.txt's mkdir-with-children
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091127055900
 Ignore-this: defac1fb9a2335b0af3ef9dbbcc67b7e
] 
[Add dirnodes to backupdb and "tahoe backup", closes #606.
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091126234257
 Ignore-this: fa88796fcad1763c6a2bf81f56103223
 
 * 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
] 
[webapi: fix t=check for DIR2-LIT (i.e. empty immutable directories)
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091126232731
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] 
[PipelineError: fix str() on python2.4 . Closes #842.
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091124212512
 Ignore-this: e62c92ea9ede2ab7d11fe63f43b9c942
] 
[test_uri.py: s/NewDirnode/Dirnode/ , now that they aren't "new" anymore
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091120075553
 Ignore-this: 61c8ef5e45a9d966873a610d8349b830
] 
[interface name cleanups: IFileNode, IImmutableFileNode, IMutableFileNode
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091120075255
 Ignore-this: e3d193c229e2463e1d0b0c92306de27f
 
 The proper hierarchy is:
  IFilesystemNode
  +IFileNode
  ++IMutableFileNode
  ++IImmutableFileNode
  +IDirectoryNode
 
 Also expand test_client.py (NodeMaker) to hit all IFilesystemNode types.
] 
[class name cleanups: s/FileNode/ImmutableFileNode/
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091120072239
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 also fix test/bench_dirnode.py for recent dirnode changes
] 
[Use DIR-IMM and t=mkdir-immutable for "tahoe backup", for #828
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091118192813
 Ignore-this: a4720529c9bc6bc8b22a3d3265925491
] 
[web/directory.py: use "DIR-IMM" to describe immutable directories, not DIR-RO
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091118191832
 Ignore-this: aceafd6ab4bf1cc0c2a719ef7319ac03
] 
[web/info.py: hush pyflakes
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091118191736
 Ignore-this: edc5f128a2b8095fb20686a75747c8
] 
[make get_size/get_current_size consistent for all IFilesystemNode classes
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091118191624
 Ignore-this: bd3449cf96e4827abaaf962672c1665a
 
 * stop caching most_recent_size in dirnode, rely upon backing filenode for it
 * start caching most_recent_size in MutableFileNode
 * return None when you don't know, not "?"
 * only render None as "?" in the web "more info" page
 * add get_size/get_current_size to UnknownNode
] 
[ImmutableDirectoryURIVerifier: fix verifycap handling
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091118164238
 Ignore-this: 6bba5c717b54352262eabca6e805d590
] 
[Add t=mkdir-immutable to the webapi. Closes #607.
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091118070900
 Ignore-this: 311e5fab9a5f28b9e8a28d3d08f3c0d
 
 * change t=mkdir-with-children to not use multipart/form encoding. Instead,
   the request body is all JSON. t=mkdir-immutable uses this format too.
 * make nodemaker.create_immutable_dirnode() get convergence from SecretHolder,
   but let callers override it
 * raise NotDeepImmutableError instead of using assert()
 * add mutable= argument to DirectoryNode.create_subdirectory(), default True
] 
[move convergence secret into SecretHolder, next to lease secret
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091118015444
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] 
[nodemaker: implement immutable directories (internal interface), for #607
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091112002233
 Ignore-this: d09fccf41813fdf7e0db177ed9e5e130
 
 * nodemaker.create_from_cap() now handles DIR2-CHK and DIR2-LIT
 * client.create_immutable_dirnode() is used to create them
 * no webapi yet
] 
[stop using IURI()/etc as an adapter
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091111224542
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] 
[clean up uri-vs-cap terminology, emphasize cap instances instead of URI strings
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091111222619
 Ignore-this: 93626385f6e7f039ada71f54feefe267
 
  * "cap" means a python instance which encapsulates a filecap/dircap (uri.py)
  * "uri" means a string with a "URI:" prefix
  * FileNode instances are created with (and retain) a cap instance, and
    generate uri strings on demand
  * .get_cap/get_readcap/get_verifycap/get_repaircap return cap instances
  * .get_uri/get_readonly_uri return uri strings
 
 * add filenode.download_to_filename() for control.py, should find a better way
 * use MutableFileNode.init_from_cap, not .init_from_uri
 * directory URI instances: use get_filenode_cap, not get_filenode_uri
 * update/cleanup bench_dirnode.py to match, add Makefile target to run it
] 
[add parser for immutable directory caps: DIR2-CHK, DIR2-LIT, DIR2-CHK-Verifier
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091104181351
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] 
[wui: s/TahoeLAFS/Tahoe-LAFS/
zooko@zooko.com**20091029035050
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] 
[tests: bump up the timeout on test_repairer to see if 120 seconds was too short for François's ARM box to do the test even when it was doing it right.
zooko@zooko.com**20091027224800
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] 
[dirnode.pack_children(): add deep_immutable= argument
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091026162809
 Ignore-this: d5a2371e47662c4bc6eff273e8181b00
 
 This will be used by DIR2:CHK to enforce the deep-immutability requirement.
] 
[webapi: use t=mkdir-with-children instead of a children= arg to t=mkdir .
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091026011321
 Ignore-this: 769cab30b6ab50db95000b6c5a524916
 
 This is safer: in the earlier API, an old webapi server would silently ignore
 the initial children, and clients trying to set them would have to fetch the
 newly-created directory to discover the incompatibility. In the new API,
 clients using t=mkdir-with-children against an old webapi server will get a
 clear error.
] 
[nodemaker.create_new_mutable_directory: pack_children() in initial_contents=
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091020005118
 Ignore-this: bd43c4eefe06fd32b7492bcb0a55d07e
 instead of creating an empty file and then adding the children later.
 
 This should speed up mkdir(initial_children) considerably, removing two
 roundtrips and an entire read-modify-write cycle, probably bringing it down
 to a single roundtrip. A quick test (against the volunteergrid) suggests a
 30% speedup.
 
 test_dirnode: add new tests to enforce the restrictions that interfaces.py
 claims for create_new_mutable_directory(): no UnknownNodes, metadata dicts
] 
[test_dirnode.py: add tests of initial_children= args to client.create_dirnode
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091017194159
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 and nodemaker.create_new_mutable_directory
] 
[update many dirnode interfaces to accept dict-of-nodes instead of dict-of-caps
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091017192829
 Ignore-this: b35472285143862a856bf4b361d692f0
 
 interfaces.py: define INodeMaker, document argument values, change
                create_new_mutable_directory() to take dict-of-nodes. Change
                dirnode.set_nodes() and dirnode.create_subdirectory() too.
 nodemaker.py: use INodeMaker, update create_new_mutable_directory()
 client.py: have create_dirnode() delegate initial_children= to nodemaker
 dirnode.py (Adder): take dict-of-nodes instead of list-of-nodes, which
                     updates set_nodes() and create_subdirectory()
 web/common.py (convert_initial_children_json): create dict-of-nodes
 web/directory.py: same
 web/unlinked.py: same
 test_dirnode.py: update tests to match
] 
[dirnode.py: move pack_children() out to a function, for eventual use by others
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091017180707
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] 
[move dirnode.CachingDict to dictutil.AuxValueDict, generalize method names,
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091017180005
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 improve tests. Let dirnode _pack_children accept either dict or AuxValueDict.
] 
[test/common.py: update FakeMutableFileNode to new contents= callable scheme
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091013052154
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] 
[The initial_children= argument to nodemaker.create_new_mutable_directory is
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091013031922
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 now enabled.
] 
[client.create_mutable_file(contents=) now accepts a callable, which is
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091013031232
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 invoked with the new MutableFileNode and is supposed to return the initial
 contents. This can be used by e.g. a new dirnode which needs the filenode's
 writekey to encrypt its initial children.
 
 create_mutable_file() still accepts a bytestring too, or None for an empty
 file.
] 
[webapi: t=mkdir now accepts initial children, using the same JSON that t=json
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091013023444
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 emits.
 
 client.create_dirnode(initial_children=) now works.
] 
[replace dirnode.create_empty_directory() with create_subdirectory(), which
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091013021520
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 takes an initial_children= argument
] 
[dirnode.set_children: change return value: fire with self instead of None
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091013015026
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] 
[dirnode.set_nodes: change return value: fire with self instead of None
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091013014546
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] 
[dirnode.set_children: take a dict, not a list
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091013002440
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] 
[dirnode.set_uri/set_children: change signature to take writecap+readcap
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091012235126
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 instead of a single cap. The webapi t=set_children call benefits too.
] 
[replace Client.create_empty_dirnode() with create_dirnode(), in anticipation
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091012224506
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 of adding initial_children= argument.
 
 Includes stubbed-out initial_children= support.
] 
[test_web.py: use a less-fake client, making test harness smaller
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091012222808
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[webapi.txt: document t=set_children, other small edits
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091009200446
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[Verifier: check the full cryptext-hash tree on each share. Removed .todos
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091005221849
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 from the last few test_repairer tests that were waiting on this.
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[Verifier: check the full block-hash-tree on each share
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091005214844
 Ignore-this: 3f7ccf6d253f32340f1bf1da27803eee
 
 Removed the .todo from two test_repairer tests that check this. The only
 remaining .todos are on the three crypttext-hash-tree tests.
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[Verifier: check the full share-hash chain on each share
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091005213443
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 Removed the .todo from two test_repairer tests that check this.
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[test_repairer: rename Verifier test cases to be more precise and less verbose
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091005201115
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[immutable/checker.py: rearrange code a little bit, make it easier to follow
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091005200252
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[test/common.py: wrap docstrings to 80cols so I can read them more easily
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091005200143
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[immutable/download.py: wrap to 80cols, no functional changes
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091005192542
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[CHK-hashes.svg: cross out plaintext hashes, since we don't include
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20091005010803
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 them (until we finish #453)
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[docs: a few licensing clarifications requested by Ubuntu
zooko@zooko.com**20090927033226
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[setup: remove binary WinFUSE modules
zooko@zooko.com**20090924211436
 Ignore-this: 8aefc571d2ae22b9405fc650f2c2062
 I would prefer to have just source code, or indications of what 3rd-party packages are required, under revision control, and have the build process generate o
 r acquire the binaries as needed.  Also, having these in our release tarballs is interfering with getting Tahoe-LAFS uploaded into Ubuntu Karmic.  (Technicall
 y, they would accept binary modules as long as they came with the accompanying source so that they could satisfy their obligations under GPL2+ and TGPPL1+, bu
 t it is easier for now to remove the binaries from the source tree.)
 In this case, the binaries are from the tahoe-w32-client project: http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe-w32-client , from which you can also get the source.
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[setup: remove binary _fusemodule.so 's
zooko@zooko.com**20090924211130
 Ignore-this: 74487bbe27d280762ac5dd5f51e24186
 I would prefer to have just source code, or indications of what 3rd-party packages are required, under revision control, and have the build process generate or acquire the binaries as needed.  Also, having these in our release tarballs is interfering with getting Tahoe-LAFS uploaded into Ubuntu Karmic.  (Technically, they would accept binary modules as long as they came with the accompanying source so that they could satisfy their obligations under GPL2+ and TGPPL1+, but it is easier for now to remove the binaries from the source tree.)
 In this case, these modules come from the MacFUSE project: http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
] 
[doc: add a copy of LGPL2 for documentation purposes for ubuntu
zooko@zooko.com**20090924054218
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[setup: remove a convenience copy of figleaf, to ease inclusion into Ubuntu Karmic Koala
zooko@zooko.com**20090924053215
 Ignore-this: a0b0c990d6e2ee65c53a24391365ac8d
 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...
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[setup: shebang for misc/build-deb.py to fail quickly
zooko@zooko.com**20090819135626
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 Without this patch, when I ran "chmod +x ./misc/build-deb.py && ./misc/build-deb.py" then it hung indefinitely.  (I wonder what it was doing.)
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[docs: Shawn Willden grants permission for his contributions under GPL2+|TGPPL1+
zooko@zooko.com**20090921164651
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[docs: Csaba Henk granted permission to license fuse.py under the same terms as Tahoe-LAFS itself
zooko@zooko.com**20090921154659
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[setup: mark setup.py as having utf-8 encoding in it
zooko@zooko.com**20090920180343
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[doc: licensing cleanups
zooko@zooko.com**20090920171631
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 Use nice utf-8 © instead of "(c)". Remove licensing statements on utility modules that have been assigned to allmydata.com by their original authors. (Nattraverso was not assigned to allmydata.com -- it was LGPL'ed -- but I checked and src/allmydata/util/iputil.py was completely rewritten and doesn't contain any line of code from nattraverso.)  Add notes to misc/debian/copyright about licensing on files that aren't just allmydata.com-licensed.
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[build-deb.py: run darcsver early, otherwise we get the wrong version later on
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20090918033620
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[new approach for debian packaging, sharing pieces across distributions. Still experimental, still only works for sid.
warner@lothar.com**20090818190527
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[new experimental deb-packaging rules. Only works for sid so far.
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20090818014052
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[setup.py: read _version.py and pass to setup(version=), so more commands work
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20090818010057
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 like "setup.py --version" and "setup.py --fullname"
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[test/check_speed.py: fix shbang line
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20090818005948
 Ignore-this: 7f3a37caf349c4c4de704d0feb561f8d
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[setup: remove bundled version of darcsver-1.2.1
zooko@zooko.com**20090816233432
 Ignore-this: 5357f26d2803db2d39159125dddb963a
 That version of darcsver emits a scary error message when the darcs executable or the _darcs subdirectory is not found.
 This error is hidden (unless the --loud option is passed) in darcsver >= 1.3.1.
 Fixes #788.
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[de-Service-ify Helper, pass in storage_broker and secret_holder directly.
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20090815201737
 Ignore-this: 86b8ac0f90f77a1036cd604dd1304d8b
 This makes it more obvious that the Helper currently generates leases with
 the Helper's own secrets, rather than getting values from the client, which
 is arguably a bug that will likely be resolved with the Accounting project.
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[immutable.Downloader: pass StorageBroker to constructor, stop being a Service
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20090815192543
 Ignore-this: af5ab12dbf75377640a670c689838479
 child of the client, access with client.downloader instead of
 client.getServiceNamed("downloader"). The single "Downloader" instance is
 scheduled for demolition anyways, to be replaced by individual
 filenode.download calls.
] 
[tests: double the timeout on test_runner.RunNode.test_introducer since feisty hit a timeout
zooko@zooko.com**20090815160512
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 I'm not sure if this is an actual timing issue (feisty is running on an overloaded VM if I recall correctly), or it there is a deeper bug.
] 
[stop making History be a Service, it wasn't necessary
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20090815114415
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[Overhaul IFilesystemNode handling, to simplify tests and use POLA internally.
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20090815112846
 Ignore-this: 1db1b9c149a60a310228aba04c5c8e5f
 
 * stop using IURI as an adapter
 * pass cap strings around instead of URI instances
 * move filenode/dirnode creation duties from Client to new NodeMaker class
 * move other Client duties to KeyGenerator, SecretHolder, History classes
 * stop passing Client reference to dirnode/filenode constructors
   - pass less-powerful references instead, like StorageBroker or Uploader
 * always create DirectoryNodes by wrapping a filenode (mutable for now)
 * remove some specialized mock classes from unit tests
 
 Detailed list of changes (done one at a time, then merged together)
 
 always pass a string to create_node_from_uri(), not an IURI instance
 always pass a string to IFilesystemNode constructors, not an IURI instance
 stop using IURI() as an adapter, switch on cap prefix in create_node_from_uri()
 client.py: move SecretHolder code out to a separate class
 test_web.py: hush pyflakes
 client.py: move NodeMaker functionality out into a separate object
 LiteralFileNode: stop storing a Client reference
 immutable Checker: remove Client reference, it only needs a SecretHolder
 immutable Upload: remove Client reference, leave SecretHolder and StorageBroker
 immutable Repairer: replace Client reference with StorageBroker and SecretHolder
 immutable FileNode: remove Client reference
 mutable.Publish: stop passing Client
 mutable.ServermapUpdater: get StorageBroker in constructor, not by peeking into Client reference
 MutableChecker: reference StorageBroker and History directly, not through Client
 mutable.FileNode: removed unused indirection to checker classes
 mutable.FileNode: remove Client reference
 client.py: move RSA key generation into a separate class, so it can be passed to the nodemaker
 move create_mutable_file() into NodeMaker
 test_dirnode.py: stop using FakeClient mockups, use NoNetworkGrid instead. This simplifies the code, but takes longer to run (17s instead of 6s). This should come down later when other cleanups make it possible to use simpler (non-RSA) fake mutable files for dirnode tests.
 test_mutable.py: clean up basedir names
 client.py: move create_empty_dirnode() into NodeMaker
 dirnode.py: get rid of DirectoryNode.create
 remove DirectoryNode.init_from_uri, refactor NodeMaker for customization, simplify test_web's mock Client to match
 stop passing Client to DirectoryNode, make DirectoryNode.create_with_mutablefile the normal DirectoryNode constructor, start removing client from NodeMaker
 remove Client from NodeMaker
 move helper status into History, pass History to web.Status instead of Client
 test_mutable.py: fix minor typo
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[docs: edits for docs/running.html from Sam Mason
zooko@zooko.com**20090809201416
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[docs: install.html: instruct Debian users to use this document and not to go find the DownloadDebianPackages page, ignore the warning at the top of it, and try it
zooko@zooko.com**20090804123840
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 http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-August/002507.html
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[docs: relnotes.txt: reflow to 63 chars wide because google groups and some web forms seem to wrap to that
zooko@zooko.com**20090802135016
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[docs: about.html: fix English usage noticed by Amber
zooko@zooko.com**20090802050533
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] 
[docs: fix mis-spelled word in about.html
zooko@zooko.com**20090802050320
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[TAG allmydata-tahoe-1.5.0
zooko@zooko.com**20090802031303
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