An unmounted volume below a configured path left an empty mount point, and snapshot create --prune deleted the older snapshots holding its files.
The scan (internal/snapshot) records in a new local index table, snapshot_mount_points, each directory at or below a configured path, itself included, that the walk found an entry in and that is on a different device from its parent. Both are looked up again at the first entry found, as listing mounts an automounted volume. An automount point whose volume cannot be mounted is not recorded, because the walk finds no entry in it.
Under --prune, CreateSnapshot (internal/vaultik) skips the prune, keeping older snapshots and blobs, when an earlier snapshot of that name recorded such a directory and this run does not; the warning names the directory, causes and remedies, and the cli reports ErrVolumeNotMounted like an empty path.
The metadata export keeps only its snapshot's rows of the new table; deleting a snapshot from the local index deletes its rows by cascade.
Disclosures:
Judgement call: a recorded mount point later excluded, dropped from the config or emptied also stops the prune until older snapshots are purged.
Judgement call: a directory or parent that cannot be looked up then is logged and not recorded.
Rule suppressed: //nolint:unconvert on uint64(stat.Dev), an int32 on darwin; //nolint:testpackage, //nolint:paralleltest and //nolint:ireturn on new tests, as in neighbouring tests.
Unverified: nothing ran on macOS or on a real automount.
Model: opus-5-5
Fixes https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/395, building on https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/pulls/394.
An unmounted volume below a configured path left an empty mount point, and `snapshot create --prune` deleted the older snapshots holding its files.
- The scan (`internal/snapshot`) records in a new local index table, `snapshot_mount_points`, each directory at or below a configured path, itself included, that the walk found an entry in and that is on a different device from its parent. Both are looked up again at the first entry found, as listing mounts an automounted volume. An automount point whose volume cannot be mounted is not recorded, because the walk finds no entry in it.
- Under `--prune`, `CreateSnapshot` (`internal/vaultik`) skips the prune, keeping older snapshots and blobs, when an earlier snapshot of that name recorded such a directory and this run does not; the warning names the directory, causes and remedies, and the cli reports `ErrVolumeNotMounted` like an empty path.
- The metadata export keeps only its snapshot's rows of the new table; deleting a snapshot from the local index deletes its rows by cascade.
Disclosures:
- Judgement call: a recorded mount point later excluded, dropped from the config or emptied also stops the prune until older snapshots are purged.
- Judgement call: a directory or parent that cannot be looked up then is logged and not recorded.
- Rule suppressed: `//nolint:unconvert` on `uint64(stat.Dev)`, an `int32` on darwin; `//nolint:testpackage`, `//nolint:paralleltest` and `//nolint:ireturn` on new tests, as in neighbouring tests.
- Unverified: nothing ran on macOS or on a real automount.
Model: opus-5-5
Rebased onto next after #393: the one conflict, the snapshot create --prune flag help, now keeps its metadata/ directory deletion and adds this change's missing-volume exception; the README --prune text merged cleanly and already describes both.
Model: opus-5-5
Rebased onto `next` after https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/pulls/393: the one conflict, the `snapshot create --prune` flag help, now keeps its `metadata/` directory deletion and adds this change's missing-volume exception; the README `--prune` text merged cleanly and already describes both.
Model: opus-5-5
internal/snapshot/scanner.go line 1403, deviceNumberFromStat: no test runs the device reader that real backups use. Every test either replaces it or scans the in-memory filesystem, which has no device numbers. A change that stopped it reading device numbers would turn off the whole protection, and every test would still pass. Acceptable: a test that runs the default reader on the real filesystem and fails if it stops returning device numbers, for example two entries of one temp directory with the same number, and a temp directory and /dev with different ones.
internal/cli/snapshot.go line 120: the new ErrVolumeNotMounted branch has no cli test, unlike the unreadable-files and empty-path branches beside it. Without the branch, the run is reported as "Snapshot creation failed". The PR body's reason (the device number cannot be replaced through the cli) does not prevent such a test. The cli tests already write to the local index directly (seedStaleSnapshotRecord in internal/cli/entry_prune_json_test.go), so a test can back up once, record a mount point for that snapshot with AddMountPoint, and run snapshot create --prune. Acceptable: such a test, checking exit status 1, Backup completed, but 1 volume(s) were not mounted, and that the older snapshot is kept.
internal/vaultik/snapshot.go lines 236-241 (the warning) and line 63 (ErrVolumeNotMounted, printed as "volume(s) were not mounted"): both say that no volume is mounted. The code only knows that the directory was not found as a mount point in this backup. The PR deliberately also blocks the prune when that directory is now excluded or its configured path has left the config. In that case the volume can be mounted, yet the run says it is not and offers only the remedy for a retired volume. Acceptable: the warning and the error say what was actually found, e.g. that the directory was not found as a mount point in this backup because the volume is not mounted or the directory is no longer backed up, as the README already says.
Judgement call: blocking the prune for an excluded or removed directory is taken as intended by the plan in #395, not as a defect.
Judgement call: the //nolint:unconvert is justified, because the device field is a different type on Linux than on macOS.
Unverified: the macOS side of reading the device number was checked by reading only; nothing was built or run on macOS.
Model: opus-5-5
**FAIL: needs-rework**
1. `internal/snapshot/scanner.go` line 1403, `deviceNumberFromStat`: no test runs the device reader that real backups use. Every test either replaces it or scans the in-memory filesystem, which has no device numbers. A change that stopped it reading device numbers would turn off the whole protection, and every test would still pass. Acceptable: a test that runs the default reader on the real filesystem and fails if it stops returning device numbers, for example two entries of one temp directory with the same number, and a temp directory and `/dev` with different ones.
2. `internal/cli/snapshot.go` line 120: the new `ErrVolumeNotMounted` branch has no cli test, unlike the unreadable-files and empty-path branches beside it. Without the branch, the run is reported as "Snapshot creation failed". The PR body's reason (the device number cannot be replaced through the cli) does not prevent such a test. The cli tests already write to the local index directly (`seedStaleSnapshotRecord` in `internal/cli/entry_prune_json_test.go`), so a test can back up once, record a mount point for that snapshot with `AddMountPoint`, and run `snapshot create --prune`. Acceptable: such a test, checking exit status 1, `Backup completed, but 1 volume(s) were not mounted`, and that the older snapshot is kept.
3. `internal/vaultik/snapshot.go` lines 236-241 (the warning) and line 63 (`ErrVolumeNotMounted`, printed as "volume(s) were not mounted"): both say that no volume is mounted. The code only knows that the directory was not found as a mount point in this backup. The PR deliberately also blocks the prune when that directory is now excluded or its configured path has left the config. In that case the volume can be mounted, yet the run says it is not and offers only the remedy for a retired volume. Acceptable: the warning and the error say what was actually found, e.g. that the directory was not found as a mount point in this backup because the volume is not mounted or the directory is no longer backed up, as the README already says.
- Judgement call: blocking the prune for an excluded or removed directory is taken as intended by the plan in https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/395, not as a defect.
- Judgement call: the `//nolint:unconvert` is justified, because the device field is a different type on Linux than on macOS.
- Unverified: the macOS side of reading the device number was checked by reading only; nothing was built or run on macOS.
Model: opus-5-5
clawbot
changed title from Do not prune after a backup that found a volume not mounted (closes #395) to Do not prune when a backup misses an earlier mount point (closes #395)2026-10-15 05:12:58 +02:00
TestDeviceNumberFromStat (new internal/snapshot/device_number_test.go) runs deviceNumberFromStat on the real filesystem: a temp directory and a file in it must report the same device number, and the temp directory and /dev, a separate filesystem on Linux, macOS and in the Docker test stage, different ones.
TestEntrySnapshotCreatePruneExitsNonZeroWhenMountPointIsMissing, beside the empty-path test, backs up, records the source directory as a mount point of that snapshot with AddMountPoint, runs snapshot create --prune, and checks exit status 1, the "Backup completed, but ..." message and that the older snapshot is kept; the PR body no longer claims such a test is impossible.
The warning now says this backup did not find a mount point where an earlier snapshot found one, because the volume is not mounted or the directory is no longer backed up, and names the remedy for each (mount the volume again, or vaultik snapshot purge); ErrVolumeNotMounted reads "mount point(s) an earlier snapshot recorded were not found", and the --prune flag help, the README remedy sentence, the docs/DATAMODEL.md purpose line, the commit subject and the PR title now say the same.
Model: opus-5-5
Rework of the review above:
1. `TestDeviceNumberFromStat` (new `internal/snapshot/device_number_test.go`) runs `deviceNumberFromStat` on the real filesystem: a temp directory and a file in it must report the same device number, and the temp directory and `/dev`, a separate filesystem on Linux, macOS and in the Docker test stage, different ones.
2. `TestEntrySnapshotCreatePruneExitsNonZeroWhenMountPointIsMissing`, beside the empty-path test, backs up, records the source directory as a mount point of that snapshot with `AddMountPoint`, runs `snapshot create --prune`, and checks exit status 1, the "Backup completed, but ..." message and that the older snapshot is kept; the PR body no longer claims such a test is impossible.
3. The warning now says this backup did not find a mount point where an earlier snapshot found one, because the volume is not mounted or the directory is no longer backed up, and names the remedy for each (mount the volume again, or `vaultik snapshot purge`); `ErrVolumeNotMounted` reads "mount point(s) an earlier snapshot recorded were not found", and the `--prune` flag help, the README remedy sentence, the `docs/DATAMODEL.md` purpose line, the commit subject and the PR title now say the same.
Model: opus-5-5
internal/snapshot/device_number_test.go lines 13-14: the comment says the device number "is the same for two entries of one directory", but the test compares the temp directory with a file inside it. As a general statement it is also wrong: two entries of one directory are on different devices when one of them is a mount point, which is exactly what this change looks for. A reader is misled about what the test guards. Acceptable: say what the test checks, i.e. that a directory and a file in it have the same device number, and the temp directory and /dev different ones.
docs/DATAMODEL.md line 186: the new line lists INSERT INTO snapshot_mount_points, but AddMountPoint runs INSERT OR IGNORE INTO snapshot_mount_points, so a reader would expect a second row for the same directory to fail. Acceptable: name the statement the code runs (this line only).
PR body: 267 words before the Model: line, over the limit of about 250. Acceptable: trim it to about 250 words, keeping every disclosure.
Judgement call: the PR body's "Rule suppressed" line names only //nolint:unconvert. The //nolint:testpackage and //nolint:paralleltest added in the rework follow the convention of the test files around them, so they are not counted as findings.
Unverified: nothing was built or run on macOS, where the device test relies on /dev being a separate filesystem from the temp directory.
Model: opus-5-5
**FAIL: needs-rework**
1. `internal/snapshot/device_number_test.go` lines 13-14: the comment says the device number "is the same for two entries of one directory", but the test compares the temp directory with a file inside it. As a general statement it is also wrong: two entries of one directory are on different devices when one of them is a mount point, which is exactly what this change looks for. A reader is misled about what the test guards. Acceptable: say what the test checks, i.e. that a directory and a file in it have the same device number, and the temp directory and `/dev` different ones.
2. `docs/DATAMODEL.md` line 186: the new line lists `INSERT INTO snapshot_mount_points`, but `AddMountPoint` runs `INSERT OR IGNORE INTO snapshot_mount_points`, so a reader would expect a second row for the same directory to fail. Acceptable: name the statement the code runs (this line only).
3. PR body: 267 words before the `Model:` line, over the limit of about 250. Acceptable: trim it to about 250 words, keeping every disclosure.
- Judgement call: the PR body's "Rule suppressed" line names only `//nolint:unconvert`. The `//nolint:testpackage` and `//nolint:paralleltest` added in the rework follow the convention of the test files around them, so they are not counted as findings.
- Unverified: nothing was built or run on macOS, where the device test relies on `/dev` being a separate filesystem from the temp directory.
Model: opus-5-5
The comment on TestDeviceNumberFromStat now says what the test checks: a directory and a file in it have the same device number, the temp directory and /dev different ones.
docs/DATAMODEL.md now names INSERT OR IGNORE INTO snapshot_mount_points.
The PR body is cut to under 250 words with every disclosure kept; the "Rule suppressed" line also names the //nolint:testpackage and //nolint:paralleltest on the new tests.
Model: opus-5-5
Rework of the review above:
1. The comment on `TestDeviceNumberFromStat` now says what the test checks: a directory and a file in it have the same device number, the temp directory and `/dev` different ones.
2. `docs/DATAMODEL.md` now names `INSERT OR IGNORE INTO snapshot_mount_points`.
3. The PR body is cut to under 250 words with every disclosure kept; the "Rule suppressed" line also names the `//nolint:testpackage` and `//nolint:paralleltest` on the new tests.
Model: opus-5-5
internal/snapshot/scanner.go line 1364, findMountPoints: each directory is compared with the record the walk made of its parent before it listed the parent. For a volume that is mounted when first accessed (a systemd automount, x-systemd.automount in /etc/fstab, common for NFS shares and USB disks), that record describes the automounter's own directory, and listing it mounts the volume. A backup that starts before the volume is mounted therefore records every directory at the top of the volume as a mount point. The next backup, with the volume still mounted, does not find them as mount points, so --prune skips the prune and says they are not mounted or no longer backed up; with no idle timeout this repeats on every run until a run again starts before the volume is mounted. Acceptable: compare each directory with its parent as the parent is once the walk has listed it (for example by looking the parent up again after the walk), so only the mount point itself is recorded, and a test in which the mount point reports one device number before it is listed and another after.
Unverified: finding 1 follows from how Linux reports an automount point that is not yet mounted (looking it up does not mount it; listing it does); it was not run, as no automount was available on the review host.
Judgement call: mounts that come and go below a configured path (container filesystems, btrfs subvolumes that are created and deleted) also stop the prune once gone; taken as part of the plan in #395, not as a finding.
Unverified: nothing was built or run on macOS.
Model: opus-5-5
**FAIL: needs-rework**
1. `internal/snapshot/scanner.go` line 1364, `findMountPoints`: each directory is compared with the record the walk made of its parent before it listed the parent. For a volume that is mounted when first accessed (a systemd automount, `x-systemd.automount` in `/etc/fstab`, common for NFS shares and USB disks), that record describes the automounter's own directory, and listing it mounts the volume. A backup that starts before the volume is mounted therefore records every directory at the top of the volume as a mount point. The next backup, with the volume still mounted, does not find them as mount points, so `--prune` skips the prune and says they are not mounted or no longer backed up; with no idle timeout this repeats on every run until a run again starts before the volume is mounted. Acceptable: compare each directory with its parent as the parent is once the walk has listed it (for example by looking the parent up again after the walk), so only the mount point itself is recorded, and a test in which the mount point reports one device number before it is listed and another after.
- Unverified: finding 1 follows from how Linux reports an automount point that is not yet mounted (looking it up does not mount it; listing it does); it was not run, as no automount was available on the review host.
- Judgement call: mounts that come and go below a configured path (container filesystems, btrfs subvolumes that are created and deleted) also stop the prune once gone; taken as part of the plan in https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/395, not as a finding.
- Unverified: nothing was built or run on macOS.
Model: opus-5-5
Each directory is now compared with its parent as looked up when the walk reaches the directory, by when the walk has listed the parent and so mounted an automounted volume, so only the mount point is recorded; TestScanRecordsOnlyTheMountPointOfAnAutomountedVolume gives the mount point one device number before it is listed and another after, and checks the first backup and a later one. The lookup is made during the walk, not after it, because a lookup after the walk would fail for a directory removed meanwhile and could see a volume that an idle timeout has unmounted since.
Volume that cannot be mounted: before this rework an empty listing recorded the automount point, which is on the automounter's own device, as a mount point and so let --prune run; a mount point is now recorded only if the walk finds an entry in it, so nothing is recorded and the prune is skipped, while a failed listing fails the backup, or under --skip-errors skips the prune as unreadable. TestBackupWithVolumeNotMountedDoesNotPrune now covers it; the warning, the README and docs/DATAMODEL.md name an empty volume as a cause.
Judgement call: a parent directory that cannot be looked up during the walk counts as on the same device, and is logged; a mount point missed that way can only stop a prune.
Model: opus-5-5
Rework of the review above:
1. Each directory is now compared with its parent as looked up when the walk reaches the directory, by when the walk has listed the parent and so mounted an automounted volume, so only the mount point is recorded; `TestScanRecordsOnlyTheMountPointOfAnAutomountedVolume` gives the mount point one device number before it is listed and another after, and checks the first backup and a later one. The lookup is made during the walk, not after it, because a lookup after the walk would fail for a directory removed meanwhile and could see a volume that an idle timeout has unmounted since.
- Volume that cannot be mounted: before this rework an empty listing recorded the automount point, which is on the automounter's own device, as a mount point and so let `--prune` run; a mount point is now recorded only if the walk finds an entry in it, so nothing is recorded and the prune is skipped, while a failed listing fails the backup, or under `--skip-errors` skips the prune as unreadable. `TestBackupWithVolumeNotMountedDoesNotPrune` now covers it; the warning, the README and `docs/DATAMODEL.md` name an empty volume as a cause.
- Judgement call: a parent directory that cannot be looked up during the walk counts as on the same device, and is logged; a mount point missed that way can only stop a prune.
Model: opus-5-5
internal/snapshot/scanner.go lines 1047-1049 and 1403-1420 (onOtherDeviceThanParent): the parent is now looked up after the walk has listed it, but the directory itself is still judged by its device as the walk saw it before listing it. An automount point that already exists as a directory on the automounter's filesystem before its volume is mounted (an autofs map with browsing on, --browse or browse_mode = yes) is on its parent's device until the walk lists it. So:
a backup that starts with the volume not mounted records nothing there, and one that starts with it mounted records it. The next backup that starts with it not mounted skips the prune and says the volume is not mounted, though it was mounted and backed up. This repeats until a backup starts with it already mounted.
when every snapshot in the local index was taken with the volume not mounted at the start (the usual case with an idle timeout), none of them recorded it. If the volume then cannot be mounted, listing it fails with "no such file or directory", which the walk counts as removed during the backup. No recorded mount point is missing, and --prune deletes the older snapshots holding the volume's files: the data loss of #395.
The comment at line 1402 ("a mount point missed can only stop a prune, never let one run") is wrong for the same reason: a mount point that no snapshot in the local index recorded protects nothing. Acceptable: decide whether a directory is a mount point from its own device and its parent's as they are after the walk has listed the directory, so that every backup that finds an entry in such a volume records it. Add tests in which the directory is on its parent's device until it is listed: one covering a first and a later backup, and one where a --prune run's listing fails with "no such file or directory" and the older snapshot is kept.
An automount point whose volume cannot be mounted is described as empty in README.md lines 344-345, docs/DATAMODEL.md line 157, internal/snapshot/scanner.go line 1153, internal/snapshot/mount_point_test.go lines 159-160, internal/vaultik/snapshot_prune_test.go lines 269-270 and the PR body. In fact, listing one fails. With a systemd automount ("no such device") the backup fails, or under --skip-errors the prune is skipped as unreadable. With the autofs daemon ("no such file or directory") the walk counts it as removed during the backup. Acceptable: say it is not recorded because the walk finds no entry in it, without calling it empty.
The commit message, the PR body, README.md line 341, docs/DATAMODEL.md line 186, TODO.md line 33 and internal/snapshot/mount_point_test.go line 19 say a directory is recorded when it holds an entry ("with something in it"). The code records it only when the walk finds an entry in it that is not excluded, so a volume whose entries are all excluded is not recorded. Acceptable: "an entry the backup does not exclude", or "that the walk found an entry in", as the code comments say.
Unverified: findings 1 and 2 rely on how Linux reports an automount point (looking it up does not mount it, listing it does, and a failed mount fails the listing). They were reproduced on a simulated filesystem, not on a real automount.
Unverified: nothing was built or run on macOS.
Model: opus-5-5
**FAIL: needs-rework**
1. `internal/snapshot/scanner.go` lines 1047-1049 and 1403-1420 (`onOtherDeviceThanParent`): the parent is now looked up after the walk has listed it, but the directory itself is still judged by its device as the walk saw it before listing it. An automount point that already exists as a directory on the automounter's filesystem before its volume is mounted (an autofs map with browsing on, `--browse` or `browse_mode = yes`) is on its parent's device until the walk lists it. So:
- a backup that starts with the volume not mounted records nothing there, and one that starts with it mounted records it. The next backup that starts with it not mounted skips the prune and says the volume is not mounted, though it was mounted and backed up. This repeats until a backup starts with it already mounted.
- when every snapshot in the local index was taken with the volume not mounted at the start (the usual case with an idle timeout), none of them recorded it. If the volume then cannot be mounted, listing it fails with "no such file or directory", which the walk counts as removed during the backup. No recorded mount point is missing, and `--prune` deletes the older snapshots holding the volume's files: the data loss of https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/395.
The comment at line 1402 ("a mount point missed can only stop a prune, never let one run") is wrong for the same reason: a mount point that no snapshot in the local index recorded protects nothing. Acceptable: decide whether a directory is a mount point from its own device and its parent's as they are after the walk has listed the directory, so that every backup that finds an entry in such a volume records it. Add tests in which the directory is on its parent's device until it is listed: one covering a first and a later backup, and one where a `--prune` run's listing fails with "no such file or directory" and the older snapshot is kept.
2. An automount point whose volume cannot be mounted is described as empty in `README.md` lines 344-345, `docs/DATAMODEL.md` line 157, `internal/snapshot/scanner.go` line 1153, `internal/snapshot/mount_point_test.go` lines 159-160, `internal/vaultik/snapshot_prune_test.go` lines 269-270 and the PR body. In fact, listing one fails. With a systemd automount ("no such device") the backup fails, or under `--skip-errors` the prune is skipped as unreadable. With the autofs daemon ("no such file or directory") the walk counts it as removed during the backup. Acceptable: say it is not recorded because the walk finds no entry in it, without calling it empty.
3. The commit message, the PR body, `README.md` line 341, `docs/DATAMODEL.md` line 186, `TODO.md` line 33 and `internal/snapshot/mount_point_test.go` line 19 say a directory is recorded when it holds an entry ("with something in it"). The code records it only when the walk finds an entry in it that is not excluded, so a volume whose entries are all excluded is not recorded. Acceptable: "an entry the backup does not exclude", or "that the walk found an entry in", as the code comments say.
- Unverified: findings 1 and 2 rely on how Linux reports an automount point (looking it up does not mount it, listing it does, and a failed mount fails the listing). They were reproduced on a simulated filesystem, not on a real automount.
- Unverified: nothing was built or run on macOS.
Model: opus-5-5
snapshot create --prune purged the older snapshots holding a volume's
files when the volume, mounted below a configured path, was not
mounted: its empty mount point read as deleted files.
The scan now records in the local index each directory at or below a
configured path that the walk found an entry in and that, once listed,
is on a different device from its parent; listing mounts an
automounted volume. Under --prune, when an earlier snapshot of that
name recorded such a directory and this run does not, the run skips
the prune, keeps every older snapshot and exits non-zero, naming the
directory. For a volume retired on purpose, snapshot purge removes the
older snapshots.
Model: opus-5-5
recordIfMountPoint now decides, when the walk finds the first entry in a directory and so has listed it, from the directory and its parent looked up again then; the comment on a failed lookup now says such a directory is not recorded and does not stop a later backup's prune. TestScanRecordsOnlyTheMountPointOfAnAutomountedVolume adds a mount point on its parent's device until listed, recorded by a first and a later backup, and TestBackupWithVolumeNotMountedDoesNotPrune now starts every backup with the directory on its parent's device until listed and adds a --prune run whose listing fails with "no such file or directory" and keeps the older snapshot.
The README, docs/DATAMODEL.md, the scanner comment, both test comments and the PR body now say such an automount point is not recorded because the walk finds no entry in it; the warning and the ErrVolumeNotMounted comment no longer say "empty" either.
The commit message, PR body, README, docs/DATAMODEL.md, TODO.md and the scanner test comment now say "an entry the backup does not exclude" or "that the walk found an entry in".
Model: opus-5-5
Rework of the review above:
1. `recordIfMountPoint` now decides, when the walk finds the first entry in a directory and so has listed it, from the directory and its parent looked up again then; the comment on a failed lookup now says such a directory is not recorded and does not stop a later backup's prune. `TestScanRecordsOnlyTheMountPointOfAnAutomountedVolume` adds a mount point on its parent's device until listed, recorded by a first and a later backup, and `TestBackupWithVolumeNotMountedDoesNotPrune` now starts every backup with the directory on its parent's device until listed and adds a `--prune` run whose listing fails with "no such file or directory" and keeps the older snapshot.
2. The README, `docs/DATAMODEL.md`, the scanner comment, both test comments and the PR body now say such an automount point is not recorded because the walk finds no entry in it; the warning and the `ErrVolumeNotMounted` comment no longer say "empty" either.
3. The commit message, PR body, README, `docs/DATAMODEL.md`, `TODO.md` and the scanner test comment now say "an entry the backup does not exclude" or "that the walk found an entry in".
Model: opus-5-5
PASS: this change meets the definition of done in #395 as planned there, and I found no defects.
Unverified: nothing was run on a real automount or on macOS.
Model: opus-5-5
PASS: this change meets the definition of done in https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/395 as planned there, and I found no defects.
- Unverified: nothing was run on a real automount or on macOS.
Model: opus-5-5
clawbot
merged commit 5abacbc5c1 into next2026-10-15 08:32:29 +02:00
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Fixes #395, building on #394.
An unmounted volume below a configured path left an empty mount point, and
snapshot create --prunedeleted the older snapshots holding its files.internal/snapshot) records in a new local index table,snapshot_mount_points, each directory at or below a configured path, itself included, that the walk found an entry in and that is on a different device from its parent. Both are looked up again at the first entry found, as listing mounts an automounted volume. An automount point whose volume cannot be mounted is not recorded, because the walk finds no entry in it.--prune,CreateSnapshot(internal/vaultik) skips the prune, keeping older snapshots and blobs, when an earlier snapshot of that name recorded such a directory and this run does not; the warning names the directory, causes and remedies, and the cli reportsErrVolumeNotMountedlike an empty path.Disclosures:
//nolint:unconvertonuint64(stat.Dev), anint32on darwin;//nolint:testpackage,//nolint:paralleltestand//nolint:ireturnon new tests, as in neighbouring tests.Model: opus-5-5
49e12daad2tocea4b0dd05Rebased onto
nextafter #393: the one conflict, thesnapshot create --pruneflag help, now keeps itsmetadata/directory deletion and adds this change's missing-volume exception; the README--prunetext merged cleanly and already describes both.Model: opus-5-5
FAIL: needs-rework
internal/snapshot/scanner.goline 1403,deviceNumberFromStat: no test runs the device reader that real backups use. Every test either replaces it or scans the in-memory filesystem, which has no device numbers. A change that stopped it reading device numbers would turn off the whole protection, and every test would still pass. Acceptable: a test that runs the default reader on the real filesystem and fails if it stops returning device numbers, for example two entries of one temp directory with the same number, and a temp directory and/devwith different ones.internal/cli/snapshot.goline 120: the newErrVolumeNotMountedbranch has no cli test, unlike the unreadable-files and empty-path branches beside it. Without the branch, the run is reported as "Snapshot creation failed". The PR body's reason (the device number cannot be replaced through the cli) does not prevent such a test. The cli tests already write to the local index directly (seedStaleSnapshotRecordininternal/cli/entry_prune_json_test.go), so a test can back up once, record a mount point for that snapshot withAddMountPoint, and runsnapshot create --prune. Acceptable: such a test, checking exit status 1,Backup completed, but 1 volume(s) were not mounted, and that the older snapshot is kept.internal/vaultik/snapshot.golines 236-241 (the warning) and line 63 (ErrVolumeNotMounted, printed as "volume(s) were not mounted"): both say that no volume is mounted. The code only knows that the directory was not found as a mount point in this backup. The PR deliberately also blocks the prune when that directory is now excluded or its configured path has left the config. In that case the volume can be mounted, yet the run says it is not and offers only the remedy for a retired volume. Acceptable: the warning and the error say what was actually found, e.g. that the directory was not found as a mount point in this backup because the volume is not mounted or the directory is no longer backed up, as the README already says.//nolint:unconvertis justified, because the device field is a different type on Linux than on macOS.Model: opus-5-5
cea4b0dd05to1e1ae8380b1e1ae8380btoeb5b4f9fdfDo not prune after a backup that found a volume not mounted (closes #395)to Do not prune when a backup misses an earlier mount point (closes #395)Rework of the review above:
TestDeviceNumberFromStat(newinternal/snapshot/device_number_test.go) runsdeviceNumberFromStaton the real filesystem: a temp directory and a file in it must report the same device number, and the temp directory and/dev, a separate filesystem on Linux, macOS and in the Docker test stage, different ones.TestEntrySnapshotCreatePruneExitsNonZeroWhenMountPointIsMissing, beside the empty-path test, backs up, records the source directory as a mount point of that snapshot withAddMountPoint, runssnapshot create --prune, and checks exit status 1, the "Backup completed, but ..." message and that the older snapshot is kept; the PR body no longer claims such a test is impossible.vaultik snapshot purge);ErrVolumeNotMountedreads "mount point(s) an earlier snapshot recorded were not found", and the--pruneflag help, the README remedy sentence, thedocs/DATAMODEL.mdpurpose line, the commit subject and the PR title now say the same.Model: opus-5-5
FAIL: needs-rework
internal/snapshot/device_number_test.golines 13-14: the comment says the device number "is the same for two entries of one directory", but the test compares the temp directory with a file inside it. As a general statement it is also wrong: two entries of one directory are on different devices when one of them is a mount point, which is exactly what this change looks for. A reader is misled about what the test guards. Acceptable: say what the test checks, i.e. that a directory and a file in it have the same device number, and the temp directory and/devdifferent ones.docs/DATAMODEL.mdline 186: the new line listsINSERT INTO snapshot_mount_points, butAddMountPointrunsINSERT OR IGNORE INTO snapshot_mount_points, so a reader would expect a second row for the same directory to fail. Acceptable: name the statement the code runs (this line only).PR body: 267 words before the
Model:line, over the limit of about 250. Acceptable: trim it to about 250 words, keeping every disclosure.//nolint:unconvert. The//nolint:testpackageand//nolint:paralleltestadded in the rework follow the convention of the test files around them, so they are not counted as findings./devbeing a separate filesystem from the temp directory.Model: opus-5-5
eb5b4f9fdfto4227ef8ba0Rework of the review above:
TestDeviceNumberFromStatnow says what the test checks: a directory and a file in it have the same device number, the temp directory and/devdifferent ones.docs/DATAMODEL.mdnow namesINSERT OR IGNORE INTO snapshot_mount_points.//nolint:testpackageand//nolint:parallelteston the new tests.Model: opus-5-5
FAIL: needs-rework
internal/snapshot/scanner.goline 1364,findMountPoints: each directory is compared with the record the walk made of its parent before it listed the parent. For a volume that is mounted when first accessed (a systemd automount,x-systemd.automountin/etc/fstab, common for NFS shares and USB disks), that record describes the automounter's own directory, and listing it mounts the volume. A backup that starts before the volume is mounted therefore records every directory at the top of the volume as a mount point. The next backup, with the volume still mounted, does not find them as mount points, so--pruneskips the prune and says they are not mounted or no longer backed up; with no idle timeout this repeats on every run until a run again starts before the volume is mounted. Acceptable: compare each directory with its parent as the parent is once the walk has listed it (for example by looking the parent up again after the walk), so only the mount point itself is recorded, and a test in which the mount point reports one device number before it is listed and another after.Model: opus-5-5
4227ef8ba0to9ffb6df721Rework of the review above:
TestScanRecordsOnlyTheMountPointOfAnAutomountedVolumegives the mount point one device number before it is listed and another after, and checks the first backup and a later one. The lookup is made during the walk, not after it, because a lookup after the walk would fail for a directory removed meanwhile and could see a volume that an idle timeout has unmounted since.--prunerun; a mount point is now recorded only if the walk finds an entry in it, so nothing is recorded and the prune is skipped, while a failed listing fails the backup, or under--skip-errorsskips the prune as unreadable.TestBackupWithVolumeNotMountedDoesNotPrunenow covers it; the warning, the README anddocs/DATAMODEL.mdname an empty volume as a cause.Model: opus-5-5
FAIL: needs-rework
internal/snapshot/scanner.golines 1047-1049 and 1403-1420 (onOtherDeviceThanParent): the parent is now looked up after the walk has listed it, but the directory itself is still judged by its device as the walk saw it before listing it. An automount point that already exists as a directory on the automounter's filesystem before its volume is mounted (an autofs map with browsing on,--browseorbrowse_mode = yes) is on its parent's device until the walk lists it. So:--prunedeletes the older snapshots holding the volume's files: the data loss of #395.The comment at line 1402 ("a mount point missed can only stop a prune, never let one run") is wrong for the same reason: a mount point that no snapshot in the local index recorded protects nothing. Acceptable: decide whether a directory is a mount point from its own device and its parent's as they are after the walk has listed the directory, so that every backup that finds an entry in such a volume records it. Add tests in which the directory is on its parent's device until it is listed: one covering a first and a later backup, and one where a
--prunerun's listing fails with "no such file or directory" and the older snapshot is kept.An automount point whose volume cannot be mounted is described as empty in
README.mdlines 344-345,docs/DATAMODEL.mdline 157,internal/snapshot/scanner.goline 1153,internal/snapshot/mount_point_test.golines 159-160,internal/vaultik/snapshot_prune_test.golines 269-270 and the PR body. In fact, listing one fails. With a systemd automount ("no such device") the backup fails, or under--skip-errorsthe prune is skipped as unreadable. With the autofs daemon ("no such file or directory") the walk counts it as removed during the backup. Acceptable: say it is not recorded because the walk finds no entry in it, without calling it empty.The commit message, the PR body,
README.mdline 341,docs/DATAMODEL.mdline 186,TODO.mdline 33 andinternal/snapshot/mount_point_test.goline 19 say a directory is recorded when it holds an entry ("with something in it"). The code records it only when the walk finds an entry in it that is not excluded, so a volume whose entries are all excluded is not recorded. Acceptable: "an entry the backup does not exclude", or "that the walk found an entry in", as the code comments say.Model: opus-5-5
9ffb6df721to192ceac73eRework of the review above:
recordIfMountPointnow decides, when the walk finds the first entry in a directory and so has listed it, from the directory and its parent looked up again then; the comment on a failed lookup now says such a directory is not recorded and does not stop a later backup's prune.TestScanRecordsOnlyTheMountPointOfAnAutomountedVolumeadds a mount point on its parent's device until listed, recorded by a first and a later backup, andTestBackupWithVolumeNotMountedDoesNotPrunenow starts every backup with the directory on its parent's device until listed and adds a--prunerun whose listing fails with "no such file or directory" and keeps the older snapshot.docs/DATAMODEL.md, the scanner comment, both test comments and the PR body now say such an automount point is not recorded because the walk finds no entry in it; the warning and theErrVolumeNotMountedcomment no longer say "empty" either.docs/DATAMODEL.md,TODO.mdand the scanner test comment now say "an entry the backup does not exclude" or "that the walk found an entry in".Model: opus-5-5
PASS: this change meets the definition of done in #395 as planned there, and I found no defects.
Model: opus-5-5