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sneak 5f51a4da78 Stop the disk size tests failing at random on ZFS (closes #150)
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One ZFS commit can take a file through several sizes, and unix.Sync can
return before the blocks are counted. A test that expected the size on
disk to be settled therefore failed at random. The test that needs the
size to change now calls unix.Sync in a loop until it does, for at most
30 seconds. It then rescans until the size reads the same before and
after a rescan, and compares disk_size exactly, within the same 30
seconds. The other two tests fail only on a disk_size outside their two
reads. They call unix.Sync once first, so a wrong 512 usually fails them.

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2026-11-03 02:55:48 +00:00
clawbot 4ecf8dc484 Rewrite TODO.md sentence by sentence (closes #135)
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Rewrites `TODO.md` from scratch for #135, by the rules applied to `README.md`. Every completed step keeps its date, its issue or branch and its facts, in short sentences, with lists as bullets. An entry superseded later says so. Entries record history, so they were not corrected against the code.

Known stale: the 2026-10-17 release-rule entry.
Changed: one product name in the 2026-10-15 entry is replaced by a description.

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2026-11-02 23:29:22 +01:00
clawbot 2322f8bb02 Rewrite README.md sentence by sentence for a newcomer
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Rewrites `README.md` from scratch for #135, so that a newcomer can follow each sentence on one reading. It leads with what the program is and how to use it, then the reference, then development. Where the old text and the code disagreed, it states what the code does; #140 lists each point. Test comments that cited moved text cite the new headings.

Review scope: full reviews through the 16th, then only text changed since.
Dropped: the permission to add `github.com/spf13/viper`.

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2026-11-02 23:12:27 +01:00
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@@ -43,10 +43,16 @@ func writeFile(t *testing.T, dir, name string, data []byte) string {
} }
// diskSizeOf returns the bytes the file at path takes on disk, from its // diskSizeOf returns the bytes the file at path takes on disk, from its
// own lstat: st_blocks counts 512-byte units. ZFS counts a new file's // own lstat: st_blocks counts 512-byte units. ZFS counts a write's
// blocks only seconds after the write, and fsync does not hasten that. // blocks only when it commits the write, up to seconds later, and one
// A test therefore calls unix.Sync, which waits for it, before the scan // commit can take the file through several growing sizes. So this value
// whose disk_size it compares with this. // can change at any moment. Neither fsync nor unix.Sync hastens that,
// but a unix.Sync call often takes long enough that the blocks are
// counted when it returns. A test that needs the value to change waits
// for the change. A test that compares it with a scan's disk_size reads
// it before and after the scan. The rewrite test rescans until the two
// reads match, then compares exactly. The other two tests fail only on
// a disk_size outside the two reads.
func diskSizeOf(t *testing.T, path string) int64 { func diskSizeOf(t *testing.T, path string) int64 {
t.Helper() t.Helper()
@@ -1448,20 +1454,26 @@ func TestScanStoresDiskSize(t *testing.T) {
unix.Sync() // see diskSizeOf unix.Sync() // see diskSizeOf
want := diskSizeOf(t, p) size := diskSizeOf(t, p)
if want == 0 || want >= length { if size == 0 || size >= length {
t.Fatalf("the file takes %d bytes on disk, want more than none "+ t.Fatalf("the file takes %d bytes on disk, want more than none "+
"and fewer than its length %d", want, length) "and fewer than its length %d", size, length)
} }
for _, operand := range []string{filepath.Dir(p), p} { for _, operand := range []string{filepath.Dir(p), p} {
db := openTestDB(t) db := openTestDB(t)
// ZFS may count the blocks during the scan; see diskSizeOf.
before := diskSizeOf(t, p)
syncTree(t, db, operand) syncTree(t, db, operand)
after := diskSizeOf(t, p)
got := recordByPath(t, dbRecords(t, db), p).diskSize got := recordByPath(t, dbRecords(t, db), p).diskSize
if got != want { if got < before || got > after {
t.Errorf("scan of %s: disk_size = %d, want %d", t.Errorf("scan of %s: disk_size = %d, want %d to %d",
operand, got, want) operand, got, before, after)
} }
} }
} }
@@ -1479,7 +1491,7 @@ func TestSyncScanRewriteUpdatesDiskSize(t *testing.T) {
syncTree(t, db, dir) syncTree(t, db, dir)
before := recordByPath(t, dbRecords(t, db), p).diskSize recorded := recordByPath(t, dbRecords(t, db), p).diskSize
pokeAt(t, p, 512*1024, pattern(7, 64*1024)) pokeAt(t, p, 512*1024, pattern(7, 64*1024))
@@ -1492,22 +1504,53 @@ func TestSyncScanRewriteUpdatesDiskSize(t *testing.T) {
t.Fatal(err) t.Fatal(err)
} }
unix.Sync() // see diskSizeOf // Wait for ZFS to count the write; see diskSizeOf.
deadline := time.Now().Add(30 * time.Second)
want := diskSizeOf(t, p) for diskSizeOf(t, p) == recorded {
if want == before { if time.Now().After(deadline) {
t.Fatalf("the file still takes %d bytes on disk after the write "+ t.Fatalf("the file still takes %d bytes on disk 30 seconds "+
"into its hole", want) "after the write into its hole", recorded)
} }
unix.Sync()
}
// ZFS may still be counting, so the size may change during a rescan.
// Only a rescan with the same size on both sides of it can be compared
// exactly. A rescan that keeps the old size still fails, because the
// wait made before differ from it.
for {
before := diskSizeOf(t, p)
st := syncTree(t, db, dir) st := syncTree(t, db, dir)
after := diskSizeOf(t, p)
if st != (scanStats{walked: 1, updated: 1}) { if st != (scanStats{walked: 1, updated: 1}) {
t.Fatalf("rescan stats = %+v, want 1 updated", st) t.Fatalf("rescan stats = %+v, want 1 updated", st)
} }
if before == after {
got := recordByPath(t, dbRecords(t, db), p).diskSize got := recordByPath(t, dbRecords(t, db), p).diskSize
if got != want { if got != after {
t.Errorf("disk_size = %d, want %d", got, want) t.Errorf("disk_size = %d, want %d", got, after)
}
return
}
if time.Now().After(deadline) {
t.Fatalf("the size on disk was still changing 30 seconds after "+
"the write into its hole: %d, then %d", before, after)
}
// A later mtime makes the next rescan read the file again.
later = later.Add(time.Second)
err = os.Chtimes(p, later, later)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
} }
} }
@@ -1533,15 +1576,21 @@ func TestSyncScanUnchangedUpdatesDiskSize(t *testing.T) {
unix.Sync() // see diskSizeOf unix.Sync() // see diskSizeOf
// ZFS may count the blocks during the rescan; see diskSizeOf.
before := diskSizeOf(t, p)
// A file read again would count as updated. // A file read again would count as updated.
st := syncTree(t, db, dir) st := syncTree(t, db, dir)
after := diskSizeOf(t, p)
if st != (scanStats{walked: 1, unchanged: 1}) { if st != (scanStats{walked: 1, unchanged: 1}) {
t.Fatalf("rescan stats = %+v, want 1 unchanged", st) t.Fatalf("rescan stats = %+v, want 1 unchanged", st)
} }
got := recordByPath(t, dbRecords(t, db), p).diskSize got := recordByPath(t, dbRecords(t, db), p).diskSize
if want := diskSizeOf(t, p); got != want { if got < before || got > after {
t.Errorf("disk_size = %d, want %d", got, want) t.Errorf("disk_size = %d, want %d to %d", got, before, after)
} }
} }