gc and inventory db
Gavin Carr
gavin at openfusion.com.au
Thu Jan 21 15:36:57 UTC 2010
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 05:22:09PM +0000, Gavin Carr wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:12:17AM +0100, Kostas Chatzikokolakis wrote:
> > Chris Anderson wrote:
> > > i just noticed that gc doesn't seem to be updating the inventory db when
> > > it removes a stale chunk. is this behavior intentional?
> >
> > The only reason I can guess is that all the commands of brackup-target
> > modify only the target, not the local machine. Still, I would prefer gc
> > to update the inventory db.
>
> Yeah me too - I consider it a bug. Bug reports
> (http://code.google.com/p/brackup/issues/list) and/or patches welcome.
Had a quick look at this, and it's a bit tricky to fix. It's conceptually
straightforward: in Target::gc when we're deleting @orphaned chunks from
the target, also delete the corresponding entries in the inventory_db.
The only tricky part is that the @orphaned_chunks are the stored chunk
hashes, which are used as (part of) the inventory_db *values*, not the
keys. (And we can't derive the keys because those mappings were in
metafiles we've already pruned.)
So I think we have to add something like a delete_values_beginning_with()
method to the Dictionary classes under the InventoryDatabase, which seems
a bit ugly.
Any thoughts?
Cheers,
Gavin
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