Ticket #1431: drop-upload-docs-including-windows.darcs.patch

1 patch for repository http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/trunk:

Mon Aug  8 02:43:56 BST 2011  david-sarah@jacaranda.org
  * Documentation for drop-upload feature (if Windows implementation is included). refs #1429, #1431

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[Documentation for drop-upload feature (if Windows implementation is included). refs #1429, #1431
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     for instructions on configuring these services, and the ``[ftpd]`` and
     ``[sftpd]`` sections of ``tahoe.cfg``.
 
+Drop-Upload
+
+    As of Tahoe-LAFS v1.9.0, a node running on Linux or Windows can be
+    configured to automatically upload files that are created or changed in
+    a specified local directory. See `<frontends/drop_upload.rst>`_ for
+    details.
+
 
 
 Storage Server Configuration
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+===============================
+Tahoe-LAFS Drop-Upload Frontend
+===============================
+
+1.  `Introduction`_
+2.  `Configuration`_
+3.  `Known Issues and Limitations`_
+
+
+Introduction
+============
+
+The drop-upload frontend allows an upload to a Tahoe-LAFS grid to be triggered
+automatically whenever a file is created or changed in a specific local
+directory. It currently works on Linux and Windows.
+
+The implementation was written as a prototype at the First International
+Tahoe-LAFS Summit in June 2011, and is not currently in as mature a state as
+the other frontends (web, CLI, FTP and SFTP). This means that you probably
+should not keep important data in the upload directory, and should not rely
+on all changes to files in the local directory to result in successful uploads.
+There might be incompatible changes to how the feature is configured in
+future versions. There is even the possibility that it may be abandoned, for
+example if unsolveable reliability issues are found.
+
+We are very interested in feedback on how well this feature works for you, and
+suggestions to improve its usability, functionality, and reliability.
+
+
+Configuration
+=============
+
+The drop-upload frontend runs as part of a gateway node. To set it up, you
+need to choose the local directory to monitor for file changes, and a mutable
+directory on the grid to which files will be uploaded.
+
+These settings are configured in the ``[drop_upload]`` section of the
+gateway's ``tahoe.cfg`` file.
+
+``[drop_upload]``
+
+``enabled = (boolean, optional)``
+
+    If this is ``True``, drop-upload will be enabled (provided that the
+    ``upload.uri`` and ``local.directory`` fields are also set). The default
+    value is ``False``.
+
+``upload.uri = (URI)``
+
+    This is the Tahoe URI of an existing mutable directory to be used as
+    the target of uploads. It must be the full URI of the directory
+    (starting with ``URI:DIR2:``), and cannot include an alias or path.
+
+``local.directory = (UTF-8 path)``
+
+    This specifies the local directory to be monitored for new or changed
+    files. If the path contains non-ASCII characters, it should be encoded
+    in UTF-8 regardless of the system's filesystem encoding. Relative paths
+    will be interpreted starting from the node's base directory.
+
+After setting the above fields and starting or restarting the gateway,
+you can confirm that the feature is working by copying a file into the
+local directory. Then, use the WUI or CLI to check that it has appeared
+in the upload directory with the same filename. A large file may take some
+time to appear, since it is only linked into the directory after the upload
+has completed.
+
+The 'Operational Statistics' page linked from the Welcome page shows
+counts of the number of files uploaded, the number of change events currently
+queued, and the number of failed uploads. The 'Recent Uploads and Downloads'
+page and the node log_ may be helpful to determine the cause of any failures.
+
+.. _log: ../logging.rst
+
+
+Known Issues and Limitations
+============================
+
+This frontend only works on Linux and Windows. There is a ticket to add
+support for Mac OS X and BSD-based systems. (`#1432`_)
+
+Subdirectories of the local directory are not monitored. If a subdirectory
+is created, it will be ignored. (`#1433`_)
+
+If files are created or changed in the local directory just after the gateway
+has started, it might not have connected to a sufficient number of servers
+when the upload is attempted, causing the upload to fail. (`#1449`_)
+
+Files that were created or changed in the local directory while the gateway
+was not running, will not be uploaded. (`#1458`_)
+
+The only way to determine whether uploads have failed is to look at the
+'Operational Statistics' page linked from the Welcome page. This only shows
+a count of failures, not the names of files. Uploads are never retried.
+
+The drop-upload frontend performs its uploads sequentially (i.e. it waits
+until each upload is finished before starting the next), even when there
+would be enough memory and bandwidth to efficiently perform them in parallel.
+A drop-upload can occur in parallel with an upload by a different frontend,
+though. (`#1459`_)
+
+On Linux, if there are a large number of near-simultaneous file creation or
+change events (greater than the number specified in the file
+``/proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_queued_events``), it is possible that some events
+could be missed. This is fairly unlikely under normal circumstances, because
+the default value of ``max_queued_events`` in most Linux distributions is
+16384, and events are removed from this queue immediately without waiting for
+the corresponding upload to complete. (`#1430`_)
+
+The Windows implementation might also occasionally miss file creation or
+change events, due to limitations of the underlying Windows API
+(ReadDirectoryChangesW). We do not know how likely or unlikely this is.
+(`#1431`_)
+
+Some filesystems may not support the necessary change notifications.
+So, it is recommended for the local directory to be on a directly attached
+disk-based filesystem, not a network filesystem or one provided by a virtual
+machine.
+
+Attempts to read the mutable directory at about the same time as an uploaded
+file is being linked into it, might fail, even if they are done through the
+same gateway. (`#1105`_)
+
+Files are always uploaded as immutable. If there is an existing mutable file
+of the same name in the upload directory, it will be unlinked and replaced
+with an immutable file.
+
+If a file in the upload directory is changed (actually relinked to a new
+file), then the old file is still present on the grid, and any other caps
+to it will remain valid. See `docs/garbage-collection.rst
+<../garbage-collection.rst>`_ for how to reclaim the space used by files
+that are no longer needed.
+
+Unicode names are supported on both Linux and Windows, but on Linux, the
+local name of a file must be encoded correctly in order for it to be uploaded.
+The expected encoding is that printed by
+``python -c "import sys; print sys.getfilesystemencoding()"``.
+
+.. _`#1105`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1105
+.. _`#1430`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1430
+.. _`#1431`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1431
+.. _`#1432`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1432
+.. _`#1449`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1449
+.. _`#1458`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1458
+.. _`#1459`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1459
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[docs: fix error in crypto specification that was noticed by Taylor R Campbell <campbell+tahoe@mumble.net>
zooko@zooko.com**20110629185711
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[setup.py: don't make bin/tahoe.pyscript executable. fixes #1347
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[Makefile: remove targets relating to 'setup.py check_auto_deps' which no longer exists. fixes #1345
david-sarah@jacaranda.org**20110626054124
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[Makefile: add 'make check' as an alias for 'make test'. Also remove an unnecessary dependency of 'test' on 'build' and 'src/allmydata/_version.py'. fixes #1344
david-sarah@jacaranda.org**20110623205528
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[Rename test_package_initialization.py to (much shorter) test_import.py .
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20110611190234
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 The former name was making my 'ls' listings hard to read, by forcing them
 down to just two columns.
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[tests: fix tests to accomodate [20110611153758-92b7f-0ba5e4726fb6318dac28fb762a6512a003f4c430]
zooko@zooko.com**20110611163741
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 Apparently none of the two authors (stercor, terrell), three reviewers (warner, davidsarah, terrell), or one committer (me) actually ran the tests. This is presumably due to #20.
 fixes #1412
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[wui: right-align the size column in the WUI
zooko@zooko.com**20110611153758
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 Thanks to Ted "stercor" Rolle Jr. and Terrell Russell.
 fixes #1412
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[docs: three minor fixes
zooko@zooko.com**20110610121656
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 CREDITS for arc for stats tweak
 fix link to .zip file in quickstart.rst (thanks to ChosenOne for noticing)
 English usage tweak
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[docs/running.rst: fix stray HTML (not .rst) link noticed by ChosenOne.
david-sarah@jacaranda.org**20110609223719
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[server.py:  get_latencies now reports percentiles _only_ if there are sufficient observations for the interpretation of the percentile to be unambiguous.
wilcoxjg@gmail.com**20110527120135
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 interfaces.py:  modified the return type of RIStatsProvider.get_stats to allow for None as a return value
 NEWS.rst, stats.py: documentation of change to get_latencies
 stats.rst: now documents percentile modification in get_latencies
 test_storage.py:  test_latencies now expects None in output categories that contain too few samples for the associated percentile to be unambiguously reported.
 fixes #1392
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[docs: revert link in relnotes.txt from NEWS.rst to NEWS, since the former did not exist at revision 5000.
david-sarah@jacaranda.org**20110517011214
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[docs: convert NEWS to NEWS.rst and change all references to it.
david-sarah@jacaranda.org**20110517010255
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[docs: remove out-of-date docs/testgrid/introducer.furl and containing directory. fixes #1404
david-sarah@jacaranda.org**20110512140559
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[scripts/common.py: don't assume that the default alias is always 'tahoe' (it is, but the API of get_alias doesn't say so). refs #1342
david-sarah@jacaranda.org**20110130164923
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[setup: don't catch all Exception from check_requirement(), but only PackagingError and ImportError
zooko@zooko.com**20110128142006
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 I noticed this because I had accidentally inserted a bug which caused AssertionError to be raised from check_requirement().
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[M-x whitespace-cleanup
zooko@zooko.com**20110510193653
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[docs: fix typo in running.rst, thanks to arch_o_median
zooko@zooko.com**20110510193633
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[relnotes.txt: don't claim to work on Cygwin (which has been untested for some time). refs #1342
david-sarah@jacaranda.org**20110204204902
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[relnotes.txt: forseeable -> foreseeable. refs #1342
david-sarah@jacaranda.org**20110204204116
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[replace remaining .html docs with .rst docs
zooko@zooko.com**20110510191650
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 Remove install.html (long since deprecated).
 Also replace some obsolete references to install.html with references to quickstart.rst.
 Fix some broken internal references within docs/historical/historical_known_issues.txt.
 Thanks to Ravi Pinjala and Patrick McDonald.
 refs #1227
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[docs: FTP-and-SFTP.rst: fix a minor error and update the information about which version of Twisted fixes #1297
zooko@zooko.com**20110428055232
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[munin tahoe_files plugin: fix incorrect file count
francois@ctrlaltdel.ch**20110428055312
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 fixes #1391
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[corrected "k must never be smaller than N" to "k must never be greater than N"
secorp@allmydata.org**20110425010308
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[Fix a test failure in test_package_initialization on Python 2.4.x due to exceptions being stringified differently than in later versions of Python. refs #1389
david-sarah@jacaranda.org**20110411190738
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[tests: add test for including the ImportError message and traceback entry in the summary of errors from importing dependencies. refs #1389
david-sarah@jacaranda.org**20110410155844
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[allmydata/__init__.py: preserve the message and last traceback entry (file, line number, function, and source line) of ImportErrors in the package versions string. fixes #1389
david-sarah@jacaranda.org**20110410155705
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[remove unused variable detected by pyflakes
zooko@zooko.com**20110407172231
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[allmydata/__init__.py: Nicer reporting of unparseable version numbers in dependencies. fixes #1388
david-sarah@jacaranda.org**20110401202750
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[update FTP-and-SFTP.rst: the necessary patch is included in Twisted-10.1
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20110325232511
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[control.py: remove all uses of s.get_serverid()
warner@lothar.com**20110227011203
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[web: remove some uses of s.get_serverid(), not all
warner@lothar.com**20110227011159
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[immutable/downloader/fetcher.py: remove all get_serverid() calls
warner@lothar.com**20110227011156
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[immutable/downloader/fetcher.py: fix diversity bug in server-response handling
warner@lothar.com**20110227011153
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 When blocks terminate (either COMPLETE or CORRUPT/DEAD/BADSEGNUM), the
 _shares_from_server dict was being popped incorrectly (using shnum as the
 index instead of serverid). I'm still thinking through the consequences of
 this bug. It was probably benign and really hard to detect. I think it would
 cause us to incorrectly believe that we're pulling too many shares from a
 server, and thus prefer a different server rather than asking for a second
 share from the first server. The diversity code is intended to spread out the
 number of shares simultaneously being requested from each server, but with
 this bug, it might be spreading out the total number of shares requested at
 all, not just simultaneously. (note that SegmentFetcher is scoped to a single
 segment, so the effect doesn't last very long).
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[immutable/downloader/share.py: reduce get_serverid(), one left, update ext deps
warner@lothar.com**20110227011150
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 test_download.py: create+check MyShare instances better, make sure they share
 Server objects, now that finder.py cares
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[immutable/downloader/finder.py: reduce use of get_serverid(), one left
warner@lothar.com**20110227011146
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[immutable/offloaded.py: reduce use of get_serverid() a bit more
warner@lothar.com**20110227011142
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[immutable/upload.py: reduce use of get_serverid()
warner@lothar.com**20110227011138
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[immutable/checker.py: remove some uses of s.get_serverid(), not all
warner@lothar.com**20110227011134
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[add remaining get_* methods to storage_client.Server, NoNetworkServer, and
warner@lothar.com**20110227011132
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 MockIServer stubs
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[upload.py: rearrange _make_trackers a bit, no behavior changes
warner@lothar.com**20110227011128
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[happinessutil.py: finally rename merge_peers to merge_servers
warner@lothar.com**20110227011124
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[test_upload.py: factor out FakeServerTracker
warner@lothar.com**20110227011120
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[test_upload.py: server-vs-tracker cleanup
warner@lothar.com**20110227011115
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[happinessutil.py: server-vs-tracker cleanup
warner@lothar.com**20110227011111
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[upload.py: more tracker-vs-server cleanup
warner@lothar.com**20110227011107
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[upload.py: fix var names to avoid confusion between 'trackers' and 'servers'
warner@lothar.com**20110227011103
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[refactor: s/peer/server/ in immutable/upload, happinessutil.py, test_upload
warner@lothar.com**20110227011100
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 No behavioral changes, just updating variable/method names and log messages.
 The effects outside these three files should be minimal: some exception
 messages changed (to say "server" instead of "peer"), and some internal class
 names were changed. A few things still use "peer" to minimize external
 changes, like UploadResults.timings["peer_selection"] and
 happinessutil.merge_peers, which can be changed later.
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[storage_client.py: clean up test_add_server/test_add_descriptor, remove .test_servers
warner@lothar.com**20110227011056
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[test_client.py, upload.py:: remove KiB/MiB/etc constants, and other dead code
warner@lothar.com**20110227011051
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[test: increase timeout on a network test because Francois's ARM machine hit that timeout
zooko@zooko.com**20110317165909
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 I'm skeptical that the test was proceeding correctly but ran out of time. It seems more likely that it had gotten hung. But if we raise the timeout to an even more extravagant number then we can be even more certain that the test was never going to finish.
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[docs/configuration.rst: add a "Frontend Configuration" section
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20110222014323
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 this points to docs/frontends/*.rst, which were previously underlinked
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[web/filenode.py: avoid calling req.finish() on closed HTTP connections. Closes #1366
"Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>"**20110221061544
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[Add unit tests for cross_check_pkg_resources_versus_import, and a regression test for ref #1355. This requires a little refactoring to make it testable.
david-sarah@jacaranda.org**20110221015817
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[allmydata/__init__.py: .name was used in place of the correct .__name__ when printing an exception. Also, robustify string formatting by using %r instead of %s in some places. fixes #1355.
david-sarah@jacaranda.org**20110221020125
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[Refactor StorageFarmBroker handling of servers
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>**20110221015804
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 Pass around IServer instance instead of (peerid, rref) tuple. Replace
 "descriptor" with "server". Other replacements:
 
  get_all_servers -> get_connected_servers/get_known_servers
  get_servers_for_index -> get_servers_for_psi (now returns IServers)
 
 This change still needs to be pushed further down: lots of code is now
 getting the IServer and then distributing (peerid, rref) internally.
 Instead, it ought to distribute the IServer internally and delay
 extracting a serverid or rref until the last moment.
 
 no_network.py was updated to retain parallelism.
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[TAG allmydata-tahoe-1.8.2
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