2009-05-02  Andreas J. Koenig  <andk@cpan.org>

	* Todo: rename rrr-dirtyupdate to rrr-update and add an option --dirty
	so we can use it for normal update with a single file. And add a cronjob
	that runs rrr-fsck so we get a reminder when something is not working
	as it should.

2009-04-27  Andreas J. Koenig  <andk@cpan.org>

	* Todo: I still see more link_stat errors than expected. I come back to
	the former suspicion that we do not do necessary bookkeeping on deleted
	files so that when we reach the "new" event on a meanwhile deleted file
	we try to mirror it although we could know better. It's just noise, no
	harm but noise is irritating.

	* Todo: more experimenting with runstatusfile to get it official

	* Todo: make sure $ENV{LANG}="C" when we call rsync because we will
	parse the error.

	rsync: link_stat "/authors/id/T/TH/THINC/DateTime-Format-Flexible-0.02.tar.gz" (in PAUSE) failed: No such file or directory

	rsync: link_stat "/authors/id/A/AG/AGENT/SSH-Batch-0.001.meta" (in PAUSE) failed: No such file or directory (2)

	And that ignore_link_stat_error is propagated in sparse_clone.

	DONE

	For the record: the bug was that ignore_link_stat_error was lost during
	sparse_clone. And then the second bug was that it did not default to
	true. Both are now fixed.
	
2009-04-25  Andreas J. Koenig  <andk@cpan.org>

	* Todo: fill rrr program with life

2009-04-25  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* Minor bug: I see complaints about files not existing like
	/authors/id/G/GW/GWADEJ/SVG-Sparkline-0.2.0.meta or
	/authors/id/R/RC/RCAPUTO/POE-1.004.readme

	In the RECENT files these are delete events but of course also new
	events in older recent files.

	I think we do not properly remember deletes when we skip-deletes and so
	do not filter them out when we later see the "new" event.

	Yes, but that what ignore_link_stat_error is for, we know about this
	race condition. We must make ignore_link_stat_error default to true.

	DONE

	* bug in Done.pm failing to merge two fields into one when a third is
	present. FIXED and accompanied with new test.

2009-04-24  Andreas J. Koenig  <andk@cpan.org>

	* Todo: keep the index clean and run some kind of nondestructive fsck 4
	times a day.

	* who is our backbone?

	http://cpan.cpantesters.org/authors/02STAMP     # barbie
	http://cpan.solfo.com/authors/02STAMP           # abh
	(http|ftp)://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/pub/CPAN/    # rkobes

2009-04-17  Andreas J. Koenig  <andk@cpan.org>

	* the changelog helper I included in the Makefile release memo does not
	show tags and is much less useful than I thought. gitk is probably much
	more convenient.

2009-04-16  Andreas J. Koenig  <andk@cpan.org>

	* ABH writes:

#### Sync 1239828608 (1/1/Z) temp .../authors/.FRMRecent-RECENT-Z.yaml-
#### Ydr_.yaml ... DONE
#### Cannot stat '/mirrors/CPAN/authors/.FRMRecent-RECENT-Z.yaml-
#### Ydr_.yaml': No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/
#### 5.8.8/File/Rsync/Mirror/Recentfile.pm line 1558.
#### unlink0: /mirrors/CPAN/authors/.FRMRecent-RECENT-Z.yaml-Ydr_.yaml is
#### gone already at cpan-pause.pl line 0

	Running without skip-deletes now but cannot reproduce.

2009-04-15  Andreas J. Koenig  <andk@cpan.org>

	* consider state directory such we can restart after a ^C or come again
	from a cronjob.

	Reuse _runstatusfile: write atomically, see how we can use the dump to
	start running again. Do not leak and remove globs before writing. Do not
	only dump one rf, dump the whole complex.

	* consider the effect of ^C. Is it safe?

	* want to use Perl::Version to up the versions on every release. Only if
	things have changed, of course. Does this actually work?

	/usr/local/perl-5.10-g/bin/perl-reversion -dryrun
	/usr/local/perl-5.10-g/bin/perl-reversion -dryrun -bump lib/File/Rsync/Mirror/Recentfile.pm

	Must do the bookkeeping myself when this should happen, maybe based on git?

	I think I prefer the same version number for all pm files. But one also
	needs a routine for setting them. Ahh:

	/usr/local/perl-5.10-g/bin/perl-reversion -current 0.0.4 -set 0.0.5 lib/**/*.pm

	NEEDSMOREWORK

	* why indexer wrong?

cpan[2]> m /Mirror::Recent/
Module  = File::Rsync::Mirror::Recent (ANDK/File-Rsync-Mirror-Recent-0.0.4.tar.bz2)
Module  = File::Rsync::Mirror::Recentfile (ANDK/File-Rsync-Mirror-Recent-0.0.2.tar.bz2)
Module  = File::Rsync::Mirror::Recentfile::Done (ANDK/File-Rsync-Mirror-Recent-0.0.2.tar.bz2)
Module  = File::Rsync::Mirror::Recentfile::FakeBigFloat (ANDK/File-Rsync-Mirror-Recent-0.0.2.tar.bz2)
4 items found

	The META.yml was generated by ExtUtils::MakeMaker version 6.5101

	The 0.0.2 release has a META.yml by ExtUtils::MakeMaker version 6.42 and without "provides".

	I just tried MM 6.5102 and it again produces only a provides for Recent,
	not for the other modules.

	My own fault.	FIXED in the Makefile.PL.

2009-04-13  Andreas J. Koenig  <andk@cpan.org>

	* Study http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme

	* is it true (as stated at
	https://fedorahosted.org/InstantMirror/wiki/ExistingRepositoryReplicationMethods)
	that rsync can lead to errors when upstream changes before client sync
	has completed? Can we see the error when we run this on upstream:

% perl -e '
use Time::HiRes qw(time);
while (){
  open my $fh, ">", "changingfile.txt.new" or die;
  print $fh (time."\n") x 1000000;
  close $fh;
  rename "changingfile.txt.new", "changingfile.txt" or die;
}
'

	And on the receiving end:

% while true; do
rsync k75:`pwd`/changingfile.txt .; cat changingfile.txt| uniq|wc -l
sleep 1;
done

	I cannot get it to fail. Apparently it is sufficient when upstream
	always writes atomically (which of course is mandatory)?

	SENT to mailing list Apr 28.

	* from ABH:

> https://fedorahosted.org/InstantMirror/
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/instantmirror-list
> irc.freenode.net channel #instantmirror

	A cool name for a project. Inspires me to write a few sentences about
	bittorrent's role in the grand picture.

	http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pGlWX10blP4u2kM05SDtiMg is a
	spreadsheet collected by Atul Aggarwal about bittorrent implementations.
	
2009-04-12  Andreas J. Koenig  <andk@cpan.org>

	* Interesting last minute bug during real download testing: the output
	isn't as pretty anymore, it seems that more work is being done than
	needed.

	Introducing a highlevel _alluptodate method helped a lot in debugging
	this.

	FIXED now. Reason was that dirtymark on PAUSE currently is broken; it's
	different on 1h file than on the other files. This lead to frequent
	calls to _fullseed. Limiting the dirtymark check to $i==0 resolved the
	issue.

2009-04-12  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* Todo: try if we can be faster with a native float package. I'm really
	glad to have a machine exposing perl floating point bugs, it forced me
	to retract this item from the changes file: "several speedups in the
	fakebigfloat code" before I get cpan testers fails.

2009-04-11  Andreas J. Koenig  <andk@cpan.org>

	* Bug: when the dirtymark changes upstream, then the downstream server
	notices it immediately and mirrors the "1h" file but then leaves the
	rmirror loop and continues with "6h" on the next round through. This
	behaviour goes on until it reaches the Z file. Because we eat the Z file
	piecemeal we leave the loop after a while but after that everybody seems
	to have forgotten that there is some work left to be done. Bad, bad,
	bad.

	ETOOCONFUSING                                         better name?

	Recentfile::get_remote_recentfile_as_tempfile         OK
	Recentfile::resolve_recentfilename                    split_rfilename  DONE

	Recent::_principal_recentfile_object	                _principal_recentfile_fromremote
	Recent::principal_recentfile                          OK
	Recent::_resolve_rfilename                            _principal_recentfile_fromremote_resosymlink

	some void, some not, some not void but called in void context.

2009-04-10  Andreas J. Koenig  <andk@cpan.org>

	* Bug? When the dirtymark changes then the second tier hosts quickly
	reset their DONE state and restart mirroring. But then they mirror
	potentially outdated index files with inconsistent dirtymark because the
	first tier box may be a bit behind on the large recentfiles.

	This means we need a brake when iterating over the recentfiles that
	refuses to use a recentfile with the wrong dirtymark.

2009-04-08  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* install the bin/* files and talk about rrr-overview somewhere.

	* Ask B. Hansen asks for tempdir accessor such that tempfiles get
	created outside the target tree.

	* Barbie asks for better logging capabilities

2009-03-29  Andreas J. Koenig  <andk@cpan.org>

	* known bug: cannot configure the Recentfile objects to keep delete
	events. How to call the accessor for that? keep_delete_objects_forever?

	Sounds acceptable. FIXED (but untested).

	* known bug: keeps temporary index files lying around.

2009-03-24  Andreas J. Koenig  <andk@cpan.org>

	* Some equivalent for

	for ( @{$rrr->recentfiles} ) { $_->verbose(0) }

	? DONE

2009-03-22  Andreas J. Koenig  <andk@cpan.org>

	* k81 is again client of k75 with different parameters.

	* broken now: (1) seeding and unseeding: rmirror is seeding and talking
	about it all the time and nobody reacts accordingly; (2) lots of temp
	files get created and not removed; culprit the new call to
	get_remote_recentfile_as_tempfile within Recent.pm; the manpage says the
	caller has to remove the tempfile after use.

	Need the drawing board.

	PARTLY FIXED: retracting the idea to call
	get_remote_recentfile_as_tempfile from Recent.pm and moving around seed
	and unseed such that uptodate now means "we have mirrored this
	recentfile's bunch of files" and seeded means "somebody believes the
	index file for this rf needs be refreshed". This seems to work now.

	Still collecting temp files that nobody cares to depollute.

2009-03-21  Andreas J. Koenig  <andk@cpan.org>

	* Bug?: should it be harder than it is atm to set the timestamp to the
	future? YES, FIXED

	* bug with native integers:
  
	- 
    epoch: 997872011
    path: id/D/DE/DELTA/Crypt-Rijndael_PP-0.03.readme
    type: new
  - 
    epoch: 1195248431
    path: id/L/LG/LGODDARD/Tk-Wizard-2.124.readme
    type: new

	Native integer broke when native math was turned off. FIXED

	* Bug: something between id/P/PH/PHISH/CGI-XMLApplication-1.1.2.readme
	and id/C/CH/CHOGAN/HTML-WWWTheme-1.06.readme. Mirroring the Z file loops
	in this area.

	Yes, records out of order:

 447003   -                
 447004     epoch: 995885533    
 447005     path: id/P/PH/PHISH/CGI-XMLApplication_0.9.3.readme
 447006     type: new
 447007   -
 447008     epoch: 995890358
 447009     path: id/H/HD/HDIAS/Mail-Cclient-1.3.readme
 447010     type: new
 447011   -
 447012     epoch: 995892221
 447013     path: id/H/HD/HDIAS/Mail-Cclient-1.3.tar.gz
 447014     type: new

	FIXED with sanity check and later with the integer fix.

	* Bug: want the index files in a .recent directory

	* Bug: lots of dot files are not deleted in time

	* possible test case: can a delete change the timestamp? This would
	probably break the order of events.

2009-03-20  Andreas J. Koenig  <andk@cpan.org>

	* 1233701831.34486 what's so special about this number/string? It
	belongs to
	id/G/GR/GRODITI/MooseX-Emulate-Class-Accessor-Fast-0.00800.tar.gz and
	atm lives in Y,Q, and Z.

	It is the first entry after id/--skip-locking which has timestamp
	1234164228.11325 which represents a file that doesn't exist anymore.

	* another bug:

Sync 1237531537 (31547/33111/Z) id/J/JH/JHI/String-Approx-2.7.tar.gz ... 
_bigfloatcmp called with l[1237505213.21133]r[UNDEF]: but both must be defined at /home/k/sources/rersyncrecent/lib/File/Rsync/Mirror/Recentfile/FakeBigFloat.pm line 76
        File::Rsync::Mirror::Recentfile::FakeBigFloat::_bigfloatcmp(1237505213.21133, undef) called at /home/k/sources/rersyncrecent/lib/File/Rsync/Mirror/Recentfile/FakeBigFloat.pm line 131
        File::Rsync::Mirror::Recentfile::FakeBigFloat::_bigfloatlt(1237505213.21133, undef) called at /home/k/sources/rersyncrecent/lib/File/Rsync/Mirror/Recentfile/Done.pm line 110
        File::Rsync::Mirror::Recentfile::Done::covered('File::Rsync::Mirror::Recentfile::Done=HASH(0x8857fb4)', 1237505213.21133, 0.123456789) called at /home/k/sources/rersyncrecent/lib/File/Rsync/Mirror/Recentfile.pm line 2041
        File::Rsync::Mirror::Recentfile::uptodate('File::Rsync::Mirror::Recentfile=HASH(0x8533a2c)') called at /home/k/sources/rersyncrecent/lib/File/Rsync/Mirror/Recent.pm line 536
        File::Rsync::Mirror::Recent::rmirror('File::Rsync::Mirror::Recent=HASH(0x82ef3d0)', 'skip-deletes', 1) called at /home/k/sources/CPAN/GIT/trunk/bin/testing-rmirror.pl line 27
 at /home/k/sources/rersyncrecent/lib/File/Rsync/Mirror/Recentfile/FakeBigFloat.pm line 76
        File::Rsync::Mirror::Recentfile::FakeBigFloat::_bigfloatcmp(1237505213.21133, undef) called at /home/k/sources/rersyncrecent/lib/File/Rsync/Mirror/Recentfile/FakeBigFloat.pm line 131
        File::Rsync::Mirror::Recentfile::FakeBigFloat::_bigfloatlt(1237505213.21133, undef) called at /home/k/sources/rersyncrecent/lib/File/Rsync/Mirror/Recentfile/Done.pm line 110
        File::Rsync::Mirror::Recentfile::Done::covered('File::Rsync::Mirror::Recentfile::Done=HASH(0x8857fb4)', 1237505213.21133, 0.123456789) called at /home/k/sources/rersyncrecent/lib/File/Rsync/Mirror/Recentfile.pm line 2041
        File::Rsync::Mirror::Recentfile::uptodate('File::Rsync::Mirror::Recentfile=HASH(0x8533a2c)') called at /home/k/sources/rersyncrecent/lib/File/Rsync/Mirror/Recent.pm line 536
        File::Rsync::Mirror::Recent::rmirror('File::Rsync::Mirror::Recent=HASH(0x82ef3d0)', 'skip-deletes', 1) called at /home/k/sources/CPAN/GIT/trunk/bin/testing-rmirror.pl line 27

	FIXED, it was the "--skip-locking" file where manual intervention was participating

	* bug on the mirroring slave: when the dirtymark gets increased we
	probably do not reset the done intervals. The mirrorer stays within
	tight bounds where it tries to sync with upstream and never seems to
	finish. In the debugging state file I see lots of identical intervals
	that do not get collapsed. When I restart the mirrorer it dies with:

Sync 1237507989 (227/33111/Z) id/X/XI/XINMING/Catalyst-Plugin-Compress.tar.gz ...
_bigfloatcmp called with l[1237400817.94363]r[UNDEF]: but both must be defined at /home/k/sources/rersyncrecent/lib/File/Rsync/Mirror/Recentfile/FakeBigFloat.pm line 76
        File::Rsync::Mirror::Recentfile::FakeBigFloat::_bigfloatcmp(1237400817.94363, undef) called at /home/k/sources/rersyncrecent/lib/File/Rsync/Mirror/Recentfile/FakeBigFloat.pm line 101
        File::Rsync::Mirror::Recentfile::FakeBigFloat::_bigfloatge(1237400817.94363, undef) called at /home/k/sources/rersyncrecent/lib/File/Rsync/Mirror/Recentfile/Done.pm line 226
        File::Rsync::Mirror::Recentfile::Done::_register_one('File::Rsync::Mirror::Recentfile::Done=HASH(0x84c6af8)', 'HASH(0xb693f2dc)') called at /home/k/sources/rersyncrecent/lib/File/Rsync/Mirror/Recentfile/Done.pm line 200
        File::Rsync::Mirror::Recentfile::Done::register('File::Rsync::Mirror::Recentfile::Done=HASH(0x84c6af8)', 'ARRAY(0x8c54bfc)', 'ARRAY(0xb67e618c)') called at /home/k/sources/rersyncrecent/lib/File/Rsync/Mirror/Recentfile.pm line 1044
        File::Rsync::Mirror::Recentfile::_mirror_item('File::Rsync::Mirror::Recentfile=HASH(0x84abcb0)', 227, 'ARRAY(0x8c54bfc)', 33110, 'File::Rsync::Mirror::Recentfile::Done=HASH(0x84c6af8)', 'HASH(0x84abd8c)', 'ARRAY(0x839cb64)', 'HASH(0x839c95c)', 'HASH(0xb6a30f0c)', ...) called at /home/k/sources/rersyncrecent/lib/File/Rsync/Mirror/Recentfile.pm line 992
        File::Rsync::Mirror::Recentfile::mirror('File::Rsync::Mirror::Recentfile=HASH(0x84abcb0)', 'piecemeal', 1, 'skip-deletes', 1) called at /home/k/sources/rersyncrecent/lib/File/Rsync/Mirror/Recent.pm line 564
        File::Rsync::Mirror::Recent::_rmirror_mirror('File::Rsync::Mirror::Recent=HASH(0x84ab6d4)', 7, 'HASH(0x8499488)') called at /home/k/sources/rersyncrecent/lib/File/Rsync/Mirror/Recent.pm line 532
        File::Rsync::Mirror::Recent::rmirror('File::Rsync::Mirror::Recent=HASH(0x84ab6d4)', 'skip-deletes', 1) called at /home/k/sources/CPAN/GIT/trunk/bin/testing-rmirror.pl line 27

	and debugging stands at

At: before
Brfinterval: Z
Ci: 227
Dre+1: 
  epoch: 1237400802.5789
  path: id/J/JO/JOHND/CHECKSUMS
  type: new
Dre-0: 
  epoch: 1237400807.97514
  path: id/M/MI/MIYAGAWA/CHECKSUMS
  type: new
Dre-1: 
  epoch: 1237400817.94363
  path: id/X/XI/XINMING/Catalyst-Plugin-Compress.tar.gz
  type: new
Eintervals: 
  - 
    - 900644040
    - 900644040
  - []

	and it is reproducable.

	Why does the mirrorer not fetch a newer Z file? It is 18 hours old while
	pause has a fresh one.

	FIXED, it was the third anded term in each of the ifs in the IV block in
	_register_one: with that we make sure that we do not stamp on valuable
	interval data.
	
2009-03-17  Andreas J. Koenig  <andk@cpan.org>

	* done: verified the existence of the floating point bug in bleadperl
	and verified that switching from YAML::Syck to YAML::XS does not resolve
	it.

	BTW, the switch was doable with

	perl -i~ -pe 's/Syck/XS/g' lib/**/*.pm t/*.t

	and should be considered as a separate TODO

	* todo: integrate a dirty update with two aggregate calls before
	unlocking for frictionless dirtying DONE

	* todo: start the second rsync daemon on pause DONE

	* todo: move index files to .recent: this cannot simply be done by
	setting filenameroot to .recent/RECENT. Other parts of the modules rely
	on the fact that dirname(recentfile) is the root of the mirrored tree.

2009-03-16  Andreas J. Koenig  <andk@cpan.org>

	* What was the resolution of the mirror.pl delete hook bug? Do we call
	the delete hook when pause removes a file from MUIR?

	* Today on pause: Updating 2a13fba..29f284d and installing it for
	/usr/local/perl-5.10.0{,-RC2}

	TURUGINA/Set-Intersection-0.01.tar.gz was the last upload before this
	action and G/GW/GWILLIAMS/RDF-Query-2.100_01.tar.gz the first after it

2009-03-15  Andreas J. Koenig  <andk@cpan.org>

	* currently recent_events has the side effect of setting dirtymark
	because it forces a read on the file. That should be transparent, so
	that the dirtymark call always forces a cache-able(?) read.

	* The bug below is -- after a lot of trying -- not reproducible on a
	small script, only in the large test script. The closest to the output
	below was:

#!perl
use strict;
use Devel::Peek;
my $x = "01237123229.8814";
my($l,$r);
for ($l,$r) {
    $_ = "x"x34;
}
($l,$r) = ($1,$2) if $x =~ /(.)(.+)/;
$r = int $r;
$l = "1237123231.22458";
$r = "1237123231.22458";
1 if $l/1.1;
Devel::Peek::Dump $l;
Devel::Peek::Dump $r;
Devel::Peek::Dump $x = $l <=> $r;
die "BROKE" if $x;
__END__

	The checked in state at c404a85 fails the test with my
	/usr/local/perl-5.10-uld/bin/perl on 64bit but curiously not with
	/usr/local/perl-5.10-g/bin/perl. So it seems the behaviour is not even
	in the test script always consistent.

	* Todo: write a test that inserts a second dirty file with an already
	existing timestamp. DONE

	* Bug in perl 5.10 on my 64bit box:

  DB<98> Devel::Peek::Dump $l
SV = PVMG(0x19e0450) at 0x142a550
  REFCNT = 2
  FLAGS = (PADMY,NOK,POK,pNOK,pPOK)
  IV = 0
  NV = 1237123231.22458
  PV = 0x194ce70 "1237123231.22458"\0
  CUR = 16
  LEN = 40

  DB<99> Devel::Peek::Dump $r
SV = PVMG(0x19e0240) at 0x142a3e8
  REFCNT = 2
  FLAGS = (PADMY,POK,pPOK)
  IV = 1237123229
  NV = 1237123229.8814
  PV = 0x19ff900 "1237123231.22458"\0
  CUR = 16
  LEN = 40

  DB<100> Devel::Peek::Dump $l <=> $r
SV = IV(0x19ea6e8) at 0x19ea6f0
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (PADTMP,IOK,pIOK)
  IV = -1

  DB<101> Devel::Peek::Dump $l
SV = PVMG(0x19e0450) at 0x142a550
  REFCNT = 2
  FLAGS = (PADMY,NOK,POK,pNOK,pPOK)
  IV = 0
  NV = 1237123231.22458
  PV = 0x194ce70 "1237123231.22458"\0
  CUR = 16
  LEN = 40

  DB<102> Devel::Peek::Dump $r
SV = PVMG(0x19e0240) at 0x142a3e8
  REFCNT = 2
  FLAGS = (PADMY,NOK,POK,pIOK,pNOK,pPOK)
  IV = 1237123231
  NV = 1237123231.22458
  PV = 0x19ff900 "1237123231.22458"\0
  CUR = 16
  LEN = 40

	Retry with uselongdouble gives same effect. Not reproducable on 32bit box (k75).

	* Todo: reset "done" or "covered" and "minmax" after a dirty operation? DONE

2009-03-11  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* $obj->merge ($other) needs to learn about equal epoch which may happen
	since dirty_epoch intruded.

	* Wontfix anytime soon: I think we currently do not support mkdir. Only
	files!

2009-01-01  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* Todo: continue working on update(...,$dirty_epoch). It must be
	followed by a fast_aggregate! DONE

2008-12-26  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* maybe we need a closest_entry or fitting_interval or something like
	that. We want to merge an event into the middle of some recentfile.
	First we do not know which file, then we do not know where to lock,
	where to enter the new item, when and where to correct the dirtymark.

	So my thought is we should first find which file.

	Another part of my brain answers: what would happen if we would enter
	the new file into the smallest file just like an ordinary new event,
	just as an old event?

	(1) we would write a duplicate timestamp? No, this would be easy to
	avoid

	(2) we would make the file large quickly? Yes, but so what? We are
	changing the dirtymark, so are willing to disturb the downstream hosts.

2008-11-22  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* 10705 root      17   0  725m 710m 1712 S  0.0 46.8 834:56.05 /home/src/perl/repoperls/installed-perls/perl/pVNtS9N/perl-5.8.0@32642/bin/perl -Ilib /home/k/sources/CPAN/GIT/trunk/bin/testing-rmirror.pl

	leak!

	https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41199

	* bzcat uploads.csv.bz2 | perl -F, -nale '$Seen{$F[-1]}++ and print'

	Strangest output being HAKANARDO who managed to upload 

	Here is a better oneliner that includes also the first line of each
	finding:

	bzcat uploads.csv.bz2 | perl -MYAML::Syck -F, -nale '$F[-1]=~s/\s+\z//; push @{$Seen{$F[-1]}||=[]},$_; END {for my $k (keys %Seen){ delete $Seen{$k} if @{$Seen{$k}}==1; } print YAML::Syck::Dump(\%Seen)}'

2008-10-31  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* memory leak in the syncher? It currently weighs 100M.

	Update 2008-11-02:

	root     10705  1.0  4.9  80192 76596 pts/32   S+   Nov02  24:05 /home/src/perl/repoperls/installed-perls/perl/pVNtS9N/perl-5.8.0@32642/bin/perl -Ilib /home/k/sources/CPAN/GIT/trunk/bin/testing-rmirror.pl


2008-10-29  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* lookup by epoch and by path and use this ability on the pause to never
	again register a file twice that doesn't need it. Let's call it
	contains().
	
	* after the dirtymark is done: fill up recentfiles with fake (historic)
	entries; fill up with individual corrections; algorithm maybe to be done
	with bigfloat so that we can always place something in the middle
	between two entries. Before we must switch to bigfloat we could try to
	use Data::Float::nextup to get the.

	* Inotify2 on an arbitrary tree and then play with that instead of PAUSE
	directly.

	* dirtymark now lives in Recentfile, needs to be used in rmirror.

	* find out why the downloader died after a couple of hours without a net
	connection. Write a test that survives the not-existence of the other
	end forever.

2008-10-15  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* reconsider the HTTP epoch only. Not the whole thing over HTTP because
	it makes less sense with tight coupling for secondary files. But asking
	the server what the current epoch is might be cheaper on HTTP than on
	rsync. (Needs to be evaluated)

	* remove the 0.00 from the verbose overview in the Merged column in the
	Z row. DONE

	* write tests that expose the problems of the last few days: cascading
	client/server roles, tight coupling for secondary RFs, deletes after
	copies.

	* Some day we might want to have policy options for the slave:
	tight/loose/no coupling with upstream for secondary RFs. tight is what
	we have now. loose would wait until a gap occurs that can be closed.

2008-10-14  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* revisit all $rfs->[$i+1] places if they now make sense still

2008-10-11  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* another bug is the fact that the mirror command deletes files before
	it unhides the index file, thus confusing downstream slaves. We must not
	delete before unhiding and must delete after unhiding. FIXED.

	* new complication about the slave that is playing a server role.
	Currently we mirror from newest to oldest with a hidden temporary file
	as index. And when one file is finished, we unhide the index file.
	Imagine the cascading server/slave is dead for a day. It then starts
	mirroring again with the freshest thing and unhides the freshest index
	file when it has worked through it. In that moment it exposes a time
	hole. Because it now works on the second recentfile which is still
	hidden.

	We currently do nothing special to converge after such a drop out. At
	least not intentionally and robustly and thought through.

	The algorithm we use to seed the next file needs quite a lot of more
	robustness than it currently has. Something to do with looking at the
	merged element of the next rf and when it has dropped off, we seed
	immediately. And if it ramains dropped off, we seed again, of course.

	Nope, looking from smaller to larger RFS we look at the merged element
	of this RF and at the minmax/max element of the next RF. If that
	$rf[next]->{minmax}{max} >= $rf[this]->{merged}{epoch}, then we can stop
	seeding it.

	And we need a public accessor seed and unseed or seeded. But not the mix
	of public and private stuff that then is used behind the back.

	And then the secondary* stuff must go.

	And we must understand what the impact is on the DONE system. Can it go
	unnoticed that there was a hole? And could the DONE system have decided
	the hole is covered? This should be testable with three directories where
	the middle stops working for a while. Done->merge is suspicious, we must
	stop it from merging non-conflatable neighbors due to broken continuity.

	FIXED

2008-10-10  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* Slaven suggests to have the current epoch or the whole current
	recentfile available from the HTTP server and take it away with
	keepalive. This direction goes the granularity down to subseconds.

	We might want to rewrite everything to factor out transport and allow
	the whole thing to run via HTTP.

2008-10-09  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* are we sure we do NOT LEAVE DOT FILES around? Especially on the
	symlink?

	* smoker on k81 fetching from k75 to verify cascading works. See
	2008-07-17 in upgradexxx and rsync-over-recentfile-3.pl.

	* maybe the loop should wait for CHECKSUMS file after every upload. And
	CPAN.pm needs to deal with timestamps in the future.

	* do not forget the dirtymark!

	Text: have a new flag on recentfiles with the meaning: if this
	changes, you're required to run a full rsync over all the files. The
	reason why we set it would probably be: some foul happened. we injected
	files in arbitrary places or didn't inject them although they changed.
	The content of the flag? Timestamp? The relation between the
	recentfiles would have to be inheritance from the principal, because any
	out of band changes would soon later propagate to the next recentfile.

	By upping the flag often one can easily ruin the slaves.

	last out of band change? dirtymark?

	Anyway, this implies that we read a potentially existing recentfile
	before we write one.

	And it implies that we have an eventloop that keeps us busy in 2-3
	cycles, one for current stuff (tight loop) and one for the recentfiles
	(cascade when principal has changed), one for the old stuff after a
	dirtymark change.

	And it implies that the out-of-band change in any of the recentfiles
	must have a lock on the principal file and there is the place to set the
	dirtymark.

	* start a FAQ, especially quick start guide questions. Also to aid those
	problematic areas where we have no good solution, like the "links"
	option to rsync.

	* wish feedback when we are slow.

	* reduce mccabe

	* Remove a few DEBUG statements.

	* The multiple-rrr way of doing things needs a new option to rmirror,
	like piecemeal or so. Not urgent because after the first pass through,
	things run smoothely. It's only ugly during the first pass.

	* I have the suspicion that the code is broken that decides if the
	neighboring RF needs to be seeded. I fear when too much time has gone
	between two calls (in our case more than one hour), it would not seed
	the neighbor. Of course this will never be noticed, so we need a good
	test for it.

	* local/localroot confusion: I currently pass both options but one must
	do.

	* accounts for early birds on PAUSE rsync daemon.

	* hardcoded 20 seconds

	* who mirrors the index? DOING now.

	* which CPAN mirrors offer rsync?

	* visit all XXX, visit all _float places

	* rename the pathdb stuff, it's too confusing. No idea how.

	* rrr-inotify, backpan, rrr-register

2008-10-08  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* current bugs: the pathdb seems to get no reset, the seeding of the
	secondaryttl stuff seems not to have an effect. Have helped myself with
	a rand(10), need to fix this back. So not checked in. Does the rand
	thing even help?

	The rand thing helps. The secondaryttl stuff was in the wrong line,
	fixed now.

	The pathdb stuff was because I called either _pathdb or __pathdb on the
	wrong object. FIXED now.

	* It's not so beautiful if we never fetch the recentfiles that are not
	the principal, even if this is correct behaviour. We really do not need
	them after we have fetched the whole content.

	OK, we want a switch for that: secondaryttl DONE

2008-10-07  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* bug: rrr-news --max does not count correctly. with "35" it shows me 35
	lines but with 36 it shows 110. First it repeats 35, gives 70, and then
	it lets 40 follow. FIXED

	* See that the long running process really only updates the principal
	file unless it has missed a timespan during which something happened. If
	nothing happened, it must notice even when it misses the timespan. DONE

	* we must throw away the pathdb when we have reached the end of Z. From
	that moment we can have a very small pathdb because the only reason for
	a pathdb is that we know to ignore old records in old files. We won't
	need this pathdb again before the next full pass over the data is
	necessary and then we will rebuild it as we go along. DONE

2008-10-06  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* I think, Done::register_one is doing wrong in that it does not
	conflate neighboring pieces. The covered() method cannot do this because
	it has no recent_events array at hand. But register_one has it and could
	do it and for some reason misses to do it (sometimes).

	This means that the three tests I just wrote can probably not survive
	because they test with an already broken Done structure.

	The art now is to detect how it happens, then to reproduce, then write a
	test, then fix it.

	So from the logfile this is what happens: we have a good interval with
	newest file being F1 at T1. Now remotely F1 gets a change and F2 goes on
	top of it. Locally we now mirror F2 and open a new done interval for it.
	Then we mirror F1 but this time with the timestamp T1b. And when we then
	try to close the gap, we do not find T1 but instead something older. We
	should gladly accept this older piece and this would fix this bug.

	FIXED

	* bug to fix: when the 1h file changes while rmirror is running, we do
	correctly sync the new files but never switch to the 6h file but rather
	stay in a rather quick loop that fetches the 1h file again and again.

	Is it possible that we initialize a new object? Or does
	get_remote_recentfile_as_tempfile overwrite something in myself?

	Want a new option: _runstatusfile => $file which frequently dumps the
	state of all recentfiles to a file.

	FIXED

2008-10-04  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* Todo: now teach update to verify the timestamp is about to write
	against the previous and use _increase_a_bit if it doesn't comply with
	strict monotony. DONE

	* The problem of rounding. So far perl's default precision was
	sufficient. One day it won't be. FakeFloat has an easy job when it is
	only reading and other machines have written correctly. But when we want
	to write a floating point number that is a bit larger than the other
	one, then we need our own idea of precision.

	Slaven said: just append a "1". This might be going towards the end of
	usability too quickly. I'd like something that actually uses the decimal
	system. Well, appending a 1 also does this but...

	E.g. we have 1.0. nextup on this architecture is starting with
	1.0000000000000004. So there is a gap to fill: 1,2,3. Now I have
	taken the 1.0000000000000003 and the next user comes and the time tells
	him 1.0 again. He has to beat my number without stepping over the
	nextup. This is much less space than I had when I chose 1,2,3.

	What is also irritating is that nextup is architecture dependent. The
	128 bit guy must choose very long numbers to fit in between whereas the
	other one with 16 bit uses larger steps. But then the algorithm is the
	same for both, so that would be a nice thing.

	I see two situation where we need this. One is when Time::HiRes returns
	us a value that is <= the last entry in our recentfile. In this case
	(let's call it the end-case) we must fill the region between that number
	and the next higher native floating point number. The other is when we
	inject an old file into an old recentfile (we would then also set a new
	dirtymark). We find the integer value already taken and need a slightly
	different one (let's call it the middle-case). The difference between
	the two situations is that the next user will want to find something
	higher than my number in the end-case and something lower than my number
	in the middle case.

	So I suggest we give the function both a value and an upper bound and it
	calculates us a primitive middle. The upper bound in the middle-case is
	the next integer. The upper bound on the end-case is the nextup floating
	point number. But the latter poses another problem: if we have occupied
	the middle m between x and nextup(x), then the nextup(m) will probably
	not be the same as nextup(x) because some rounding will take place
	before the nextup is calculated and when the rounding reaches the
	nextup(x), we will end up at nextup(nextup(x)).

	So we really need to consider the nextup and the nextdown from there and
	then the middle and that's the number we may approach asymptotically.
	Ugly. But DONE.

2008-10-03  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* consider deprecating the use of RECENT.recent as a symlink. It turns
	out to need extra hoops with the rsync options and just isn't worth it.
	Or maybe these extra hoops are needed anyway for the rest of the tree?
	Nope, can't be the case because not all filesystems support symlinks.

	But before doing the large step, I'll deprecate the call of
	get_remote_recentfile_as_tempfile with an argument. Rememberr this was
	only introduced to resolve RECENT.recent and complicates the routine far
	beyond what it deserves.

	DONE. Won't deprecate RECENT.recent, just moved its handling to the
	supervisor.

2008-10-02  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* I think it's a bug that the rsync_option links must be set to true in
	order to support RECENT.recent and that nobody cares to set it
	automatically. Similar for ignore_link_stat_errors.

2008-09-27  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* Todo: find all todos together and make a plan what is missing for a
	release.

	- verifytree or something like that. fsck maybe.

	- rersyncrecent, the script itself? What it do?

	- a way to only mirror the recentfiles without mirroring the whole
	remote system such that people can decide to mirror only partially see
	also 2008-08-30. .shadow-xxx directory? this also needed for a
	filesystem that is still incomplete and might need the mirrorfiles for
	lookup(?)
	
	- long living objects that mirror again and again. Inject something
	into ta, see how it goes over to tb.

	- how do we continue filling up the DONE system when we use an object
	for the second time? "fully covered" and "uptodate" or new terminology.

	- overview called on the wrong file should be understandable

	- the meta data field that must change when we fake something up so that
	the downstream people know they have to re-fetch everything.

	- how tolerant are we against missing files upstream? how do we keep
	track? there are legitimate cases where we did read upstream index right
	before a file got deleted there and then find that file as new and want
	it. There are other cases that are not self healing and must be tracked
	and bugreported.

	- how, exactly, do we have to deal with deletes? With rsync errors? 

	rsync: link_stat "/id/K/KA/KARMAN/Rose-HTMLx-Form-Related-0.07.meta" (in
	authors) failed: No such file or directory (2)

	The file above is a delete in 1h and a new in file 1M and the
	delete in the locally running rmirror did not get propagated to the 1M
	object. Bug. And the consequence is a standstill.

	It seems that a slave that works with a file below the principal needs
	to merge things all the way up to get rid of later deletes. Or keep
	track of all deletes and skip them later. So we need a trackdeletes.pm
	similar to the done.pm?

	see also 2008-08-20 about spurious deletes that really have no add
	counterpart and yet they are not wrong.

	- consider the effect when resyncing the recentfile takes longer than
	the time per loop. Then we never rsync any file. We need to diagnose
	that and force an increase of that loop time. But when we later are fast
	enough again because the net has recovered, then we need to switch back
	to original parameters. ERm, no, it's enough to keep syncing at least
	one file before refetching an index file.

	- remember to verify that no temp files are left lying around and the
	signal handler

	- status file for not long running jobs that want to track upstream with
	a, say, cronjob.

	- revisit all XXX _float areas and study Sub::Exporter DONE

	- persistent DB even though we just said we do not need it. Just for
	extended capabilities and time savings when, for example, upstream
	announces a reset and we get new recentfiles and could then limit
	ourselves to a subset of files (those that have a changed epoch) in a
	first pass and would only then do the loop to verify the rest. Or
	something.

	* Todo: aggregate files should know their feed and finding the principal
	should be done stepwise. (?)

	* Todo: DESTROY thing that unlocks. Today when I left the debuggerr I
	left locks around. DONE

2008-09-26  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* maybe extend the _overview so that it always says if and where the
	last file is in the next file and where the next event in the next rf
	would lie. No, don't like this anymore. REJECT

	* take the two new redundant tests out again, only the third must
	survive. DONE

	* Todo: add a sanity check if the merged structure is really pointing to
	a different rf and that this different rf is larger. DONE

2008-09-25  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* now test, if they are overlapping. And test if there is a file in the
	next rf that would fit into this rf's interval.

	1h  1222324012.8474  1222322541.7963           0.4086
	6h  1222320411.2760  1222304207.6931           4.5010 missing overlap/gap!
	1d  1222320411.2760  1222238750.5071          22.6835 large overlap
	1W  1222313218.3626  1221708477.5829         167.9835

	I suspect that somebody writes a merged timestamp without having merged
	and then somebody else relies on it.

	If aggregate is running, the intervals must not be extravagated, if it
	is not running, there must not be bounds, the total number of events in
	the system must be counted and must be controlled throughout the tests.
	That the test required the additional update was probably nonsense,
	because aggregate can cut pieces too. FIXED & DONE

2008-09-23  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* rrr-aggregate seems to rewrite the RECENT file even if nothing has
	changed. FIXED

2008-09-21  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* Most apparent bug at the moment is that the recentfiles are fetched
	too often. Only the principal should be fetched and if it has not
	changed, the others should not be refetched. ATM I must admit that I'm
	happy that we refetch more often than needed because I can more easily
	fix bugs while the thing is running.

	* Let's say, 1220474966.19501 is a timestamp of a file that is already
	done but the done system does not know about it. The reason for the
	failure is not known and we never reach the status uptodate because of
	this. We must get over it.

	Later it turns out that the origin server had a bug somewhere.
	1220474966.19042 came after 1220474966.19501. Or better: it was in the
	array of the recentfile one position above. The bug was my own.

2008-09-20  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* There is the race condition where the server does a delete and the
	slave does not yet know and then tries to download it because he sees
	the new. So for this time window we must be more tolerant against
	failure. If we cannot download a file, we should just skip it and should
	not retry immediately. The whole system should discover the lost thing
	later. Keeping track with the DONE system should really be a no brainer.

	But there is something more: the whole filesystem is a database and the
	recentfiles are one possible representation of it. It's a pretty useful
	representation I think that's why I have implemented something around
	it. But for strictly local operation it has little value. For local
	operation we would much rather have a database. So we would enter every
	recentfile reading and every rsync operation and for every file the last
	state change and what it leads to. Then we would always ignore older
	records without the efforts involved with recentfiles.

	The database would have: path,recentepoch,rsyncedon,deletedon

	Oh well, not yet clear where this leads to.

2008-09-19  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* Bug: the bigloop ran into a funny endless loop after EWILHELM uploaded
	Module-Build. It *only* rsynced the "1h" recentfile from that moment on.

	* statusfile, maybe only on demand, alone to have a sharp debugging
	tool. It is locked and all recentfiles dump themselves into it and we
	can build a viewer that lets us know where we stand and what's inside.

	* remember: only the principal recentfile needs expiration, all others
	shall be expired by principal if it discovers that something has move
	upstream.

2008-09-18  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* Always check if we stringify to a higher value than in the entry
	before. DONE

	* And in covered make an additional check if we would be able to see a
	numerical difference between the two numbers and if we can't then switch
	to a different, more expensive algorithm. Do not want to be caught by
	floating surprises. DONE

2008-09-17  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* caching has several aspects here: we can cache the interval of the
	recentfile which only will change when the mtime of the file changes. We
	must re-mirror the recentfile when its ttl has expired. Does have_read
	tell you anything? It counts nothing at all. Only the mtime is
	interesting. The ntuple mtime, low-epoch, high-epoch. And as a separate
	thing the have_mirrored because it is unrelated to the mtime.

	* Robustness of floating point calculations! I always thought that the
	string calculated by the origin server for the floating representation
	of the epoch time is just a string. When we convert it to a number and
	later back to a string, the other computer might come to a different
	conclusion. This must not happen, we want to preserve it under any
	circumstances. I will have to write tests with overlong sequences that
	get lost in arithmetic and must see if all still works well. DONE

	But one fragile point remains: if one host considers a>b and the other
	one considers them == but no eq. To prevent this, we must probably do
	some extra homework. DONE

2008-09-16  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* the concept of tracking DONE needs an object per recentfile that has
	something like these methods:

	do_we_have(xxx), we_have(xxx), do_we_have_all(xxx,yyy), reset()

	covered()        register()    covered()

	The unclear thing is how we translate points in time into intervals. We
	could pass a reference to the current recent_events array when running
	we_have(xxx) and let the DONE object iterate over it such that it only
	has to store a list of intervals that can melt into each other. Ah, even
	passing the list together with a list of indexes seems feasiable.

	Or maybe ask for the inverted list?

	Whenever the complete array is covered by the interval we say we are
	fully covered and if the recentfile is not expired, we are uptodate.

2008-09-07  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

2008-09-05  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* need a way to "return" the next entry after the end of a list. When
	the caller says "before" or "after" we would like to know if he could
	cover that interval/threshold or not because this influences the effect
	of a newer timestamp of that recentfile. DONE with $opt{info}.

2008-09-04  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* one of the next things to tackle: the equivalent of csync2 -TIXU.

	loop implies tixu (?). Nope, something like --statefile decides. Per
	default we do ...?

	T test, I init, X including removals, U nodirtymark

	So we have no concept of dirtymarks, we only trust that since we are
	running we have observed everything steadily. But people will not let
	this program run forever so we must consider both startup penalty and
	book keeping for later runs. We keep this for later. For now we write a
	long running mirror that merges several intervals.

2008-09-02  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* need to speed up the 02 test, it's not clever to sleep so much. Reduce
	the intervals!

	* rersyncrecent, the script: default to one week. The name of the switch
	is --after. Other switches? --loop!

2008-08-30  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* need a switch --skip-deletes (?)

	* need a switch --enduser that tells us that the whole tempfile
	discipline is not needed when there is no downstream user. (?)

	Without this switch we cannot have a reasonable recent.pl that just
	displays the recent additions. Either we accept to download everything.
	Or we download temporary files without the typical rsync protocol
	advantages.

	Or maybe the switch is --tmpdir? If --tmpdir would mean: do not use
	File::Temp::tempdir, this might be a win.

2008-08-29  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* apropos missing: we have no push, we never know the downstream
	servers. People who know their downstream hosts and want to ascertain
	something will want additional methods we have never thought about, like
	update or delete a certain file.

2008-08-26  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* tempted to refactor rmirror into resolve_symlink, localize, etc.
	Curious if rsync_options=links equal 0 vs. 1 will make the expected
	difference.

	* rsync options: it's a bit of a pain that we usually need several rsync
	options, like compress, links, times, checksum and that there is no
	reasonable default except the original rsync default. I think wee can
	safely assume that the rsync options are shared between all recentfile
	instances within one recent tree.

2008-08-20  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* deletes: if a delete follows an add quickly enough it may happen that
	a downstream mirror did not see the add at all! It seems this needs to
	be mentioned somewhere. The point here is that even if the downstream is
	never missing the principal timeframe it may encounter a "delete" that
	has no complimentary "add" anywhere.

2008-08-19  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* I suspect the treat of metadata is incorrect during read or something.
	The bug that I am watching is that between 06:08 and 06:09 the 6h file
	contained more than 6 hours worth of data. At 06:08 we merged into the
	1d file. We need to take snapshots of the 6h file over the course of an
	hour or maybe only between XX:08 and XX:09? Nope, the latter is not
	enough.

	Much worse: watching the 1h file: right at the moment (at 06:35) it
	covers 1218867584-1219120397 which is 70 hours.

	Something terribly broken. BTW, 1218867584 corresponds to Sat Aug 16
	08:19:44 2008, that is when I checked out last time, so it seems to be
	aggregating and never truncating?

	No, correct is: it is never truncating; but wrong is: it is aggregating.
	It does receive a lot of events from time to time from a larger file.
	Somehow a large file gets merged into the small one and because the
	"meta/merged" attribute is missing, nobody is paying attention. I
	believe that I can fix this by making sure that metadata are honoured
	during read. DONE and test adjusted.

2008-08-17  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* grand renaming plan

	remotebase          => remoteroot   to fit well with localroot        DONE
	local_path()        => localroot    seems to me should already work   DONE
	recentfile_basename => rfilename    no need to stress it has no slash DONE

	filenameroot??? Doesn't seem too bad to me today. Maybe something like
	kern? It would anyway need a deprecation cycle because it is an
	important constructor.

	* I like the portability that Data::Serializer brings us but the price
	is that some day we might find out that it is slowing us a bit. We'll
	see.

2008-08-16  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* should we not enter the interval of the principal (or the interval of
	the merging file?) in every aggregated/merged file?

	* we should aim at a first release and give up on thinking about
	sanitizing stuff and zloop. Let's just admit that a full traditional
	rsync is the only available sanitizer ATM. Otherwise it's complicated
	stuff: sanitizing on the origin server, sanitizing on the slaves,
	sanitizing forgotten files, broken timestamps, etc. Let's delay it and
	get the basics out before this becomes a major cause for mess.

2008-08-13  Andreas Koenig  <k@andreas-koenigs-computer.local>

	* On OSes not supporting symlinks we expect that RECENT.recent contains
	the contents of the principal recentfile. Actually this is identical on
	systems supporting symlinks. Simple, what follows from that is that we
	need to keep the serializer in the metadata because we cannot read it
	from the filename, doesn't it? Of course not. It's a chicken and egg
	problem. This leaves us with the problem to actually parse the
	serialized data to find out in which format it is. So who can do the 4
	or 5 magics we wanted to support? File::LibMagic?

2008-08-09  Andreas Koenig  <k@andreas-koenigs-computer.local>

	* remotebase and recentfile_basename are ugly names. Now that we need a
	word for the shortest/principal/driving recentfile too we should do
	something about it.

	localroot is good. rfile is good. local_path() is bad, local_path($path)
	is medium, filenameroot() is bad, remotebase is bad, recentfile is
	already deprecated.

	Up to now remotebase was the string that described the remote root
	directory in rsync notation, like pause.perl.org::authors. And
	recentfile_basename was "RECENT-1h.yaml".

2008-08-08  Andreas Koenig  <k@andreas-koenigs-computer.local>

	* The test that was added in today's checkin is a good start for a test
	of rmirror. We should have more methods in Recent.pm: verify,
	addmissingfiles. We should verify the current tree, then rmirror it and
	then verifytree the copy. We could then add some arbitrary file and let
	it be discovered by addmissingfiles, then rmirror again and then
	verifytree the copy again.

	Then we could start stealing from csync2 sqlite database [no port to
	OSX!] and fill a local DB. And methods to compare the database with the
	recentfiles. Our strength is that in principle we could maintain state
	with a single float. We have synced up to 1234567890.123456. If the Z
	file does not add new files all we have to do is mirror the new ones and
	delete the goners.

	This makes it clear that we should extend current protocol and declare
	that we cheat when we add files too late, just to help the other end
	keeping track. Ah yes, that's what was meant when zloop was mentioned
	earlier.

	Maybe need to revisit File::Mirror to help me with this task.

2008-08-07  Andreas Koenig  <k@andreas-koenigs-computer.local>

	* There must be an allow-me-to-truncate flag in every recentfile.
	Without it one could construct a sequence of updates winning the locking
	battle against the aggregator. Only if an aggregator has managed to
	merge data over to the next level, truncating can be allowed. DONE with
	accessor merged.

2008-08-06  Andreas Koenig  <k@andreas-koenigs-computer.local>

	* We should probably guarantee that no duplicates enter the aggregator
	array.

2008-08-02  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* To get merge operation faster would need a good benchmark test. What
	02 spits out isn't reliable enough and is dominated by many other
	things. Between

	commit 10176bf6b79865d4fe9f46e3857a3b8669fa7961
	Author: Andreas J. Koenig <k@k75.(none)>
	Date:   Sat Aug 2 07:58:04 2008 +0200

	and

	commit 3243120a0c120aaddcd9b1f4db6689ff12ed2523
	Author: Andreas J. Koenig <k@k75.(none)>
	Date:   Sat Aug 2 11:40:29 2008 +0200

	there was a lot of trying but the effect is hardly measurable with
	current tests.	

	* overhead of connecting seems high. When setting
	max_files_per_connection to 1 we see that.

2008-08-01  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* 1217622571.0889 - 1217597432.86734 = 25138.2215600014

	25138.2215600014/3600 = 6.98283932222261

	It jumps into the eye that this is ~ 7 hours, not ~6, so there seems to
	be a bug in the aggregator. FIXED

2008-07-27  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* e.g. id/Y/YE/YEWENBIN/Emacs-PDE-0.2.16.tar.gz: Do we have it, should
	we have it, can we mirror it, mirror it!

	I fear this needs a new class which might be called
	File::Rsync::Mirror::Recent. It would collect all recentfiles of a kind
	and treat them as an entity. I realize that a single recentfile may be
	sufficient for certain tasks and that it is handy for the low level
	programmer but it is not nice to use. If there is a delete in the 1h
	file then the 6h file still contains it. Seekers of the best information
	need to combine at least some of the recentfiles most of the time.

	There is the place for the Z loop!

	But the combination is something to collect in a database, isn't it. Did
	csync2 just harrumph?

2008-07-26  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* it just occurred to me that hosts in the same mirroring pool could
	help out each other even without rewriting the recentfile. Just fetch
	the stuff to mirror from several places, bingo. But that's something
	that should rather live in a separate package or in rsync directly.

	* cronjobs are unsuited because with ntp they would all come at the full
	minute and disturb each other. Besides that I'd hate to have a backbone
	with more than a few seconds latency.

2008-07-25  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* a second rsync server with access control for PAUSE. Port? 873 is the
	standard port, let's take 8873.

	* if there were a filesystem based on this, it would have a slow access
	to inexistent files. It would probably provide wrong readdir (only based
	on current content) or also a slow one (based on a recentfile written
	after the call). But it would provide fast access to existing files. Or
	one would deliberately allow slightly blurred answers based on some
	sqlite reflection of the recentfiles.

	* todo: write a variant of mirror() that combines two or more
	recentfiles and treats them like one

	* todo: signal handler to remove the tempfile

2008-07-24  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* now that we have the symlink I forgot how it should be used in
	practice.

	* the z loop: add missing files to Z file. Just append them (instead of
	prepending). So one guy prepends something from the Y file from time to
	time and another guy appends something rather frequently. Collecting
	pond. When Y merges into Z, things get epoch and the collecting pond
	gets smaller. What exactly are "missing files"?

	take note of current epoch of the alpha file, let's call it the
	recent-ts

	find all files on disk

	remove all files registered in the recentworld up to recent-ts

	remove all files that have been deleted after recent-ts according to
	recentworld

2008-07-23  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* rersyncrecent might be a cronjob with a (locked) state file which
	contains things like after and maybe last z sync or such?

	rrr-mirror might be an alternative name but how would we justify the
	three Rs when there is no Re-Rsync-Recent?

	With the --loop parameter it is an endless loop, without it is no loop.
	At least this is simple.

	* todo: new accssor z-interval specifies how often the Z file is updated
	against the filesystem. We probably want no epoch stamp on these
	entries. And we want to be able to filter the entries (e.g. no
	by-modules and by-category tree)

2008-07-20  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* Fill the Z file. gc or fsck or both. Somehow we must get the old files
	into Z. We do not need the other files filled up with filesystem
	contents though.

	* need interface to query for a file in order to NOT call update on
	PAUSE a second time within a short time.

2008-07-19  Andreas J. Koenig  <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>

	* recommended update interval? Makes no sense, is different for
	different users.

	* Moosify

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