Previously, the initial Azimuth snapshot was stored in Clay and shipped
in the pill. This causes several problems:
- It bloats the pill
- Updating the snapshot added large blobs to Clay's state. Even now
that tombstoning is possible, you don't want to have to do that
regularly.
- As a result, the snapshot was never updated.
- Even if you did tombstone those files, it could only be updated as
often as the pill
- And those updates would be sent over the network to people who didn't
need them
This moves the snapshot out of the pill and refactors Azimuth's
initialization process. On boot, when app/azimuth starts up, it first
downloads a snapshot from bootstrap.urbit.org and uses that to
initialize its state. As before, updates after this initial snapshot
come from an Ethereum node directly and are verified locally.
Relevant commands are:
- `-azimuth-snap-state %filename` creates a snapshot file
- `-azimuth-load "url"` downloads and inits from a snapshot, with url
defaulting to https://bootstrap.urbit.org/mainnet.azimuth-snapshot
- `:azimuth &azimuth-poke-data %load snap-state` takes a snap-state any
way you have it
Note the snapshot is downloaded from the same place as the pill, so this
doesn't introduce additional trust beyond what was already required.
When remote scry is released, we should consider allowing downloading
the snapshot in that way.
This converts the blob store from having deltas, directs, and
tombstones, to just having direct pages. This simplifies a lot of code,
since we don't have to constantly ensure that deltas always have their
parent available.
This removes the hardcoded text diff logic from clay, which was
previously required for bootstrapping.
Over the wire, we handle both old and new requests and responses
transparently, so communication is normal in both directions across
ships which do or do not have this change.
addresses #5442 by adding %thread-done and %thread-fail marks. also
fixes await-thread:strandio and removes some blank lines from
app/spider.hoon
%thread-done loses the type of the result, so you'll need to use ;; to
get it back. the real way to fix this is to have threads produce cages
instead of vases
Small touch-ups to simulation behavior and ph tests. Most of them pass
now, even if they're still really slow at times.
The breach ones don't pass, but also complain of dangling bone, so might
work once the fix for that is in.
Also I took the liberty of making `build-signing-participants` use a `%lyfe` scry and remove unknowns from the set rather than crashing. This is a choice - happy to change it back the other way.
