repair of mutable files/directories should not increment the sequence number

[gdt]

Particularly with my root directory, I often find that 9 shares of seqN are available compared to 10 desired. I do a repair, and this results in 10 shares of seqN+1 and then 9 are deleted. Then the next day there are 9 of seqN+1 and 1 of seqN, and the file is again not healthy. This repeats daily.

It seems that the missing seqN shares should be generated and placed, and then when servers churn more it's likely that 10 can still be found, and no unrecoverable versions. Perhaps I don't get something, but the current behavior is not stable with intermittent servers.

I have observed this problem with directories, but it seems likely that it applies to all immutable files.

[zooko]

gdt: did you mean "mutable" instead of "immutable"? Immutable files don't have a sequence number!

[gdt]

Sorry, I really meant directories in particular. I have edited the summary and description.

[gdt]

Clarify that the ticket is really about directories, but that it likely applies to all immutable files.

[zooko]

Replying to gdt:

Clarify that the ticket is really about directories, but that it likely applies to all immutable files.

You mean it likely applies to all mutable files, right? :-) Directories are normally mutable, although it is also possible to have immutable directories. But immutable directories don't have sequence numbers. :-)