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.
Resolves a good number of conflicts. Most notably, re-propagates removal
of gall's %onto, confirms new /app/herm behavior, coerces hood/drum
state adapters back into place, and updates webterm to use the latest
api.
This adds support for tombstoned files to clay. It does not include any
way to actually tombstone them; that is left for later.
This allows tombstoning at the level of a file. Precisely, this expands
+blob:clay by adding a %dead case:
+$ blob :: fs blob
$% [%delta p=lobe q=[p=mark q=lobe] r=page] :: delta on q
[%direct p=lobe q=page] :: immediate
[%dead p=lobe ~] :: tombstone
== ::
Thus, we maintain the invariant that every lobe corresponds to a blob,
but now a blob may be an explicit tombstone.
Details:
- This has not been tested at all, except that it compiles and boots.
- This does not have a state adapter from master. The only state change
is the definition of +cach.
- Additionally, out-of-date ships may unexpectedly receive a %dead blob
from a foreign clay which would interfere with their ability to download
that desk. No code changes necessary, but sponsors should avoid
tombstoning files in %base for a while so their children can get the
update.
- A merge will only fail if the tombstoned file conflicts with another
change. Note that as written, merging from a past desk *can* bring a
tombstoned file to the head of a desk. Possibly this shouldn't be
allowed.
This also includes a couple refactors that were made possible by ford
fusion (since everything is synchronous now) but never got done. In
both cases we get to remove a monad, which simplifies the code
considerably.
- refactor +merge's error handling to use !!/mule instead of threading
through errors
- refactor all +read-* functions and related parts of +try-fill-sub to
eagerly convert lobes to cages.
We also add support reading %a/b/c/e/f/r/x from past and foreign desks,
when possible. Apologies that all of these are in one commit, it was
all a single chunk of work.
This is a draft until we have a way to tombstone. I suspect we'll want
to have a mechanism of keeping track of gc roots and trace to remove,
but this PR doesn't suggest any particular strategy.
