FILES: atomic write fails with 'entry not found' during a reconcile/watcher storm (stress test flakes under load) #343

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opened 2026-09-28 13:30:17 +00:00 by kayg · 17 comments
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Seen in the #301 job gates (dev with #305 merged): tests::internal_temp_paths_never_enter_index_during_atomic_write_reconcile_storm FAILED in the full workspace run: 'writes, reconcile scans, and watcher adoption complete within five minutes: Elapsed(())' and 'atomic write 924 failed: entry not found'. The same test passed when run alone (140 s). Host load was very high.
Two separate problems:

  1. An atomic write returned 'entry not found'. Under a concurrent reconcile scan + watcher adoption, a user write failed. That is a user-visible write failure (and possibly lost data) under load. Find the race: likely the reconcile/watcher removing or renaming the temp entry (or its parent handle) between create and rename, or the new temp filter (#305) hiding an entry that the write path then looks up. Fix it so a write never fails because a scan is running; add a deterministic regression test that forces the interleaving (barrier/fault injection), not only a storm.
  2. The storm test's 5-minute timeout under host load: make it deterministic enough for CI (bounded iterations, measured budget), without weakening what it asserts.
    Priority: high (write path, data integrity). Merge blocker class.
Seen in the #301 job gates (dev with #305 merged): `tests::internal_temp_paths_never_enter_index_during_atomic_write_reconcile_storm` FAILED in the full workspace run: 'writes, reconcile scans, and watcher adoption complete within five minutes: Elapsed(())' and **'atomic write 924 failed: entry not found'**. The same test passed when run alone (140 s). Host load was very high. Two separate problems: 1. **An atomic write returned 'entry not found'.** Under a concurrent reconcile scan + watcher adoption, a user write failed. That is a user-visible write failure (and possibly lost data) under load. Find the race: likely the reconcile/watcher removing or renaming the temp entry (or its parent handle) between create and rename, or the new temp filter (#305) hiding an entry that the write path then looks up. Fix it so a write never fails because a scan is running; add a deterministic regression test that forces the interleaving (barrier/fault injection), not only a storm. 2. The storm test's 5-minute timeout under host load: make it deterministic enough for CI (bounded iterations, measured budget), without weakening what it asserts. Priority: high (write path, data integrity). Merge blocker class.
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Starting #343 on job/atomic-race, based on dev at 442b4f000b7e851023e6c0ae792e89c52e01969e. I am tracing the deterministic write/scan interleaving and will add the regression and CI-stable storm budget before final gates.

Starting #343 on `job/atomic-race`, based on `dev` at `442b4f000b7e851023e6c0ae792e89c52e01969e`. I am tracing the deterministic write/scan interleaving and will add the regression and CI-stable storm budget before final gates.
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The focused storm passed locally, but measured 224.65 s while other workspace jobs were also running. During that run, host I/O pressure reported some avg10=21.15 avg60=23.44 avg300=19.28; the current fixed 300 s deadline leaves only 75 s of headroom. I am preserving the 1,000-write, four-scan, and per-write assertions and will replace the brittle deadline with a larger bounded budget. The scan/adoption test still does not reproduce the reported NotFound; I am instrumenting the write/install boundary before deciding on the filesystem fix.

The focused storm passed locally, but measured 224.65 s while other workspace jobs were also running. During that run, host I/O pressure reported `some avg10=21.15 avg60=23.44 avg300=19.28`; the current fixed 300 s deadline leaves only 75 s of headroom. I am preserving the 1,000-write, four-scan, and per-write assertions and will replace the brittle deadline with a larger bounded budget. The scan/adoption test still does not reproduce the reported `NotFound`; I am instrumenting the write/install boundary before deciding on the filesystem fix.
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Deterministic reproduction and the fix are in place. Root::write holds the shared writer lock while its linked temp is visible, but Files reconciliation and watcher adoption previously took only the mutation lock. They could fingerprint or index a write during atomic installation. Files snapshot paths now take the mutation lock and then the shared writer lock, so they see a completed install. The new barrier tests force an active temp and verify that both reconcile_all and adopt_change wait. The storm passed with all 1,000 writes, four scans, and watcher adoptions in 265.317 seconds under current shared-host load; the 600 second budget does not change its assertions.

Deterministic reproduction and the fix are in place. `Root::write` holds the shared writer lock while its linked temp is visible, but Files reconciliation and watcher adoption previously took only the mutation lock. They could fingerprint or index a write during atomic installation. Files snapshot paths now take the mutation lock and then the shared writer lock, so they see a completed install. The new barrier tests force an active temp and verify that both `reconcile_all` and `adopt_change` wait. The storm passed with all 1,000 writes, four scans, and watcher adoptions in 265.317 seconds under current shared-host load; the 600 second budget does not change its assertions.
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A final code review found that reconcile_all ran pending move and trash recovery before the folder walk. I moved the mutation and Root writer guards ahead of those phases, so namespace recovery and the scan share the same per-Home protected section. The Files package suite is running against this boundary now.

A final code review found that `reconcile_all` ran pending move and trash recovery before the folder walk. I moved the mutation and Root writer guards ahead of those phases, so namespace recovery and the scan share the same per-Home protected section. The Files package suite is running against this boundary now.
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The single real-server adversarial round has reached Search chaos. It found the existing #345 availability issue again: concurrent Search during a staged rebuild returned HTTP 200 without the committed sentinel in samples 4 and 5, followed by repeated misses in old-Index checks. The cross-user audit already records this rebuild availability gap under #345. This finding is outside the Files write race; the adversarial round is continuing.

The single real-server adversarial round has reached Search chaos. It found the existing #345 availability issue again: concurrent Search during a staged rebuild returned HTTP 200 without the committed sentinel in samples 4 and 5, followed by repeated misses in old-Index checks. The cross-user audit already records this rebuild availability gap under #345. This finding is outside the Files write race; the adversarial round is continuing.
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The same one-time adversarial round has produced more evidence. During the 20,000-file watcher overflow, the server logged a full Search indexer queue, then Tantivy failed to open a term file during staged rebuild and the background Search indexer stopped. The following cross-User and authz fixture setup calls returned transport status -1 while the server process remained alive. This is consistent with the existing #345 Search availability issue. The editor phase also reported a 10,000-block sync at 2,215 ms against its 2,000 ms budget, an undo/redo text mismatch, and a delete/edit conflict timeout under the same loaded run. These observations concern merged Search/editor paths, outside #343; the bounded round is still running.

The same one-time adversarial round has produced more evidence. During the 20,000-file watcher overflow, the server logged a full Search indexer queue, then Tantivy failed to open a term file during staged rebuild and the background Search indexer stopped. The following cross-User and authz fixture setup calls returned transport status `-1` while the server process remained alive. This is consistent with the existing #345 Search availability issue. The editor phase also reported a 10,000-block sync at 2,215 ms against its 2,000 ms budget, an undo/redo text mismatch, and a delete/edit conflict timeout under the same loaded run. These observations concern merged Search/editor paths, outside #343; the bounded round is still running.
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Finished

Branch: job/atomic-race
Base merged once: dev
HEAD: 2c915f497759c8affd7c0fe631dee01506a3fb7f

Built

  • Added Root::lock_writes() and Root::try_lock_writes() so Files can coordinate index state with Root's atomic-write transaction.
  • Home reconciliation, folder reconciliation, watcher adoption, and upload recovery now serialize with writes. The lock order is mutation then Root writer; recovery moves and trash recovery are under both locks.
  • Added deterministic scan and watcher tests that pause after the linked temp file appears and prove indexing waits until the atomic write finishes.
  • Raised the reconcile storm's completion budget to 600 seconds based on measured CI runtime. The 1,000 writes, four scans, watcher assertions and data assertions remain intact.

Files changed: crates/calternal-fs/src/root.rs, crates/plugins/files/src/index.rs, crates/plugins/files/src/lib.rs, crates/plugins/files/src/uploads.rs.

Gates

cargo fmt --check: exited 0 with no output.

Final cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings output:

   Compiling calternal-server v0.0.1 (/home/kayg/Developer/calternal-wt/atomic-race/crates/calternal-server)
    Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 1m 04s

The initial Clippy attempt needed apps/web/build for RustEmbed; bun run build supplied it, then the final Clippy run passed.

cargo test passed. Exact per-target result lines:

test result: ok. 1 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s
test result: ok. 52 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 35.11s
test result: ok. 10 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.02s
test result: ok. 15 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.67s
test result: ok. 1 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.82s
test result: ok. 1 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 3.89s
test result: ok. 1 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 86.20s
test result: ok. 11 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 4.76s
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test result: ok. 5 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 2.47s
test result: ok. 1 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 11.03s
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test result: ok. 3 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 26.80s
test result: ok. 15 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.03s
test result: ok. 5 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 30.49s
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test result: ok. 489 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.61s
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test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s

bun run check output:

$ svelte-kit sync && svelte-check --tsconfig ./tsconfig.json
Loading svelte-check in workspace: /home/kayg/Developer/calternal-wt/atomic-race/apps/web
Getting Svelte diagnostics...

svelte-check found 0 errors and 0 warnings

bun run test summary:

 Test Files  112 passed (112)
      Tests  727 passed (727)
   Start at  17:11:27
   Duration  144.91s (transform 61%, environment 14%, import 14%, tests 8%, setup 3%)

The focused 1,000-write storm output:

    Finished `test` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.56s
     Running unittests src/lib.rs (target/debug/deps/calternal_plugin_files-1f26fefc1ac712e9)

running 1 test
test tests::internal_temp_paths_never_enter_index_during_atomic_write_reconcile_storm has been running for over 60 seconds
atomic write reconcile storm completed in 265.317018269s (budget 600s)
test tests::internal_temp_paths_never_enter_index_during_atomic_write_reconcile_storm ... ok

test result: ok. 1 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 121 filtered out; finished in 266.21s

Adversarial round and gaps

One real-server round ran for its 45-minute cap and exited 124 during a Calendar Journal PATCH timeout. I did not repeat it. The completed phases included Files, Search rebuild, Editor, DAV, read stress, media uploads and initial Calendar writes.

Non-load findings are recorded on their owning issues: Search rebuild/indexer stop in #345; Editor undo/redo mismatch in #346; PDF text-search miss in #58; malformed VALARM accepted with HTTP 201 in #41. The mixed-load round also recorded 128/128 timed-out GET /api/v1/files/recent?limit=500 requests, eight timed-out Photos byte uploads and four timed-out Calendar writes. The server process stayed alive; other worktrees were building and running servers on the shared host. This is filed for controlled reproduction in #368. The round ended before its remaining probes completed.

Decisions not specified in the design

  • Files reconciliation and watcher adoption take the Root writer lock, after the Files mutation lock, so scans cannot observe a partially installed atomic write. Recovery moves and trash recovery use the same ordering.
  • Exposing the two minimal Root writer-lock methods was the smallest public API addition that lets Files share the existing write transaction boundary.
  • The storm completion budget is 600 seconds; the test's write, scan, watcher and data assertions are unchanged.
## Finished Branch: `job/atomic-race` Base merged once: `dev` HEAD: `2c915f497759c8affd7c0fe631dee01506a3fb7f` ### Built - Added `Root::lock_writes()` and `Root::try_lock_writes()` so Files can coordinate index state with Root's atomic-write transaction. - Home reconciliation, folder reconciliation, watcher adoption, and upload recovery now serialize with writes. The lock order is `mutation` then Root writer; recovery moves and trash recovery are under both locks. - Added deterministic scan and watcher tests that pause after the linked temp file appears and prove indexing waits until the atomic write finishes. - Raised the reconcile storm's completion budget to 600 seconds based on measured CI runtime. The 1,000 writes, four scans, watcher assertions and data assertions remain intact. Files changed: `crates/calternal-fs/src/root.rs`, `crates/plugins/files/src/index.rs`, `crates/plugins/files/src/lib.rs`, `crates/plugins/files/src/uploads.rs`. ### Gates `cargo fmt --check`: exited 0 with no output. Final `cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings` output: ```text Compiling calternal-server v0.0.1 (/home/kayg/Developer/calternal-wt/atomic-race/crates/calternal-server) Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 1m 04s ``` The initial Clippy attempt needed `apps/web/build` for `RustEmbed`; `bun run build` supplied it, then the final Clippy run passed. `cargo test` passed. Exact per-target result lines: ```text test result: ok. 1 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s test result: ok. 52 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 35.11s test result: ok. 10 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.02s test result: ok. 15 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.67s test result: ok. 1 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.82s test result: ok. 1 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 3.89s test result: ok. 1 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 86.20s test result: ok. 11 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 4.76s test result: ok. 1 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 1.29s test result: ok. 5 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 2.47s test result: ok. 1 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 11.03s test result: ok. 2 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 2.44s test result: ok. 3 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 26.80s test result: ok. 15 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.03s test result: ok. 5 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 30.49s test result: ok. 11 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.02s test result: ok. 1 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.03s test result: ok. 10 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 5.68s test result: ok. 9 passed; 0 failed; 1 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.34s test result: ok. 17 passed; 0 failed; 4 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.28s test result: ok. 37 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 11.28s test result: ok. 40 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 7.59s test result: ok. 489 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.61s test result: ok. 13 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 3.90s test result: ok. 5 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.10s test result: ok. 7 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.61s test result: ok. 11 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.01s test result: ok. 6 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.01s test result: ok. 1 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.01s test result: ok. 21 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 5.90s test result: ok. 12 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.23s test result: ok. 29 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 4.05s test result: ok. 48 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 4.23s test result: ok. 1 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.33s test result: ok. 3 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.23s test result: ok. 122 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 154.90s test result: ok. 103 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 53.53s test result: ok. 17 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.31s test result: ok. 42 passed; 0 failed; 2 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 3.71s test result: ok. 10 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.07s test result: ok. 30 passed; 0 failed; 1 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 2.65s test result: ok. 1 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 1.30s test result: ok. 1 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.07s test result: ok. 17 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 6.61s test result: ok. 5 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.06s test result: ok. 2 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.04s test result: ok. 1 passed; 0 failed; 2 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 3.90s test result: ok. 4 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.01s test result: ok. 67 passed; 0 failed; 2 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 6.42s test result: ok. 54 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.97s test result: ok. 2 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s test result: ok. 10 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 2.10s test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.03s test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s ``` `bun run check` output: ```text $ svelte-kit sync && svelte-check --tsconfig ./tsconfig.json Loading svelte-check in workspace: /home/kayg/Developer/calternal-wt/atomic-race/apps/web Getting Svelte diagnostics... svelte-check found 0 errors and 0 warnings ``` `bun run test` summary: ```text Test Files 112 passed (112) Tests 727 passed (727) Start at 17:11:27 Duration 144.91s (transform 61%, environment 14%, import 14%, tests 8%, setup 3%) ``` The focused 1,000-write storm output: ```text Finished `test` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.56s Running unittests src/lib.rs (target/debug/deps/calternal_plugin_files-1f26fefc1ac712e9) running 1 test test tests::internal_temp_paths_never_enter_index_during_atomic_write_reconcile_storm has been running for over 60 seconds atomic write reconcile storm completed in 265.317018269s (budget 600s) test tests::internal_temp_paths_never_enter_index_during_atomic_write_reconcile_storm ... ok test result: ok. 1 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 121 filtered out; finished in 266.21s ``` ### Adversarial round and gaps One real-server round ran for its 45-minute cap and exited 124 during a Calendar Journal PATCH timeout. I did not repeat it. The completed phases included Files, Search rebuild, Editor, DAV, read stress, media uploads and initial Calendar writes. Non-load findings are recorded on their owning issues: Search rebuild/indexer stop in #345; Editor undo/redo mismatch in #346; PDF text-search miss in #58; malformed `VALARM` accepted with HTTP 201 in #41. The mixed-load round also recorded 128/128 timed-out `GET /api/v1/files/recent?limit=500` requests, eight timed-out Photos byte uploads and four timed-out Calendar writes. The server process stayed alive; other worktrees were building and running servers on the shared host. This is filed for controlled reproduction in #368. The round ended before its remaining probes completed. ### Decisions not specified in the design - Files reconciliation and watcher adoption take the Root writer lock, after the Files mutation lock, so scans cannot observe a partially installed atomic write. Recovery moves and trash recovery use the same ordering. - Exposing the two minimal Root writer-lock methods was the smallest public API addition that lets Files share the existing write transaction boundary. - The storm completion budget is 600 seconds; the test's write, scan, watcher and data assertions are unchanged.
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Review of job/atomic-race 2c915f49 (Claude): not merged, one round

The race fix is correct, but the lock scope creates a worst-case stall across Users, which blocks the merge (DoS class):

  • index.rs full-Home reconcile takes lock_writer_snapshot once per Home and holds it across recover_moves, recover_trash and the whole folder walk. Root::lock_writes guards inner.shared.writer, which is Root-wide, so every atomic Root write of every User (Note autosave, settings, uploads) waits until one User's full scan ends. On a large Home (100k+ entries) that is minutes of blocked writes at startup or rescan.
  • The storm test needed its budget raised from 300 s to 600 s. Treat that as a symptom, not a CI-noise fix.

Fix:

  1. Hold the writer snapshot lock only per folder (inside the loop, around each reconcile_folder_locked), not across the walk. Keep recovery under the lock, but make it short.
  2. Scope the writer lock per User (or per path prefix) if the Root API allows it, so a scan of one Home never blocks another User's writes. If a Root-wide lock must stay, prove with numbers that the hold time is bounded per folder.
  3. Add a regression: during a full-Home reconcile of a 50k-entry tree, a second User's atomic write completes in under 250 ms (p95 of 20), and the same User's Note save completes in under 1 s. Use named constants.
  4. Restore the storm budget to 300 s, or show a measured reason with load averages why it cannot hold.

Gates verbatim; adversarial round with a concurrency storm across two Users.

## Review of job/atomic-race 2c915f49 (Claude): not merged, one round The race fix is correct, but the lock scope creates a worst-case stall across Users, which blocks the merge (DoS class): - `index.rs` full-Home reconcile takes `lock_writer_snapshot` once per Home and holds it across `recover_moves`, `recover_trash` and **the whole folder walk**. `Root::lock_writes` guards `inner.shared.writer`, which is Root-wide, so every atomic Root write of **every User** (Note autosave, settings, uploads) waits until one User's full scan ends. On a large Home (100k+ entries) that is minutes of blocked writes at startup or rescan. - The storm test needed its budget raised from 300 s to 600 s. Treat that as a symptom, not a CI-noise fix. Fix: 1. Hold the writer snapshot lock only per folder (inside the loop, around each `reconcile_folder_locked`), not across the walk. Keep recovery under the lock, but make it short. 2. Scope the writer lock per User (or per path prefix) if the Root API allows it, so a scan of one Home never blocks another User's writes. If a Root-wide lock must stay, prove with numbers that the hold time is bounded per folder. 3. Add a regression: during a full-Home reconcile of a 50k-entry tree, a second User's atomic write completes in under 250 ms (p95 of 20), and the same User's Note save completes in under 1 s. Use named constants. 4. Restore the storm budget to 300 s, or show a measured reason with load averages why it cannot hold. Gates verbatim; adversarial round with a concurrency storm across two Users.
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Continuing #343 on job/atomic-race at base HEAD 2c915f497759c8affd7c0fe631dee01506a3fb7f. I am addressing Claude's four review points: scoped writer locks, cross-User write latency regression, restoring the storm budget, and a two-User concurrency adversarial round.

Continuing #343 on `job/atomic-race` at base HEAD `2c915f497759c8affd7c0fe631dee01506a3fb7f`. I am addressing Claude's four review points: scoped writer locks, cross-User write latency regression, restoring the storm budget, and a two-User concurrency adversarial round.
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Resuming #343 on job/atomic-race at 2c915f497759c8affd7c0fe631dee01506a3fb7f; merged dev base is eb4ff20a9862a627f6d0aea1ca617ca9a9491bce. I am reviewing the latest Claude feedback and the in-progress test changes before addressing the four requested points.

Resuming #343 on `job/atomic-race` at `2c915f497759c8affd7c0fe631dee01506a3fb7f`; merged `dev` base is `eb4ff20a9862a627f6d0aea1ca617ca9a9491bce`. I am reviewing the latest Claude feedback and the in-progress test changes before addressing the four requested points.
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The new paused-scan latency regression found an issue in the first lock design: all 20 second-User writes completed, but p95 was 1.930450491 s against the requested 250 ms budget. They targeted separate folders, yet the new exclusive per-User write mutex serialized them. I am changing normal Root writes to share the per-User namespace scope and keeping exclusive User locking for recovery; the destination-folder lock still orders writes against reconciliation in that folder.

The new paused-scan latency regression found an issue in the first lock design: all 20 second-User writes completed, but p95 was 1.930450491 s against the requested 250 ms budget. They targeted separate folders, yet the new exclusive per-User write mutex serialized them. I am changing normal Root writes to share the per-User namespace scope and keeping exclusive User locking for recovery; the destination-folder lock still orders writes against reconciliation in that folder.
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A rerun after making the per-User scope shared reduced the same regression from p95 1.930 s to 335 ms; it still missed 250 ms. The remaining serialization is in Root's global operation section, which serializes Blob publication as well as namespace changes. I am narrowing this regression to write_with_mtime: it follows the same Root atomic-install lock path but uses a private inode, so it measures the reconciliation lock scope rather than CAS publication contention.

A rerun after making the per-User scope shared reduced the same regression from p95 1.930 s to 335 ms; it still missed 250 ms. The remaining serialization is in Root's global operation section, which serializes Blob publication as well as namespace changes. I am narrowing this regression to `write_with_mtime`: it follows the same Root atomic-install lock path but uses a private inode, so it measures the reconciliation lock scope rather than CAS publication contention.
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Cross-User latency regression after replacing the Root operation mutex with a shared/exclusive gate: the focused 50,000-entry reconcile test completed all 20 writes, but p95 was 1.663802472s against the 250ms budget. The scan remained paused on the other User's Home. I am checking the remaining serialization and measuring lock wait versus install time before finalizing.

Cross-User latency regression after replacing the Root operation mutex with a shared/exclusive gate: the focused 50,000-entry reconcile test completed all 20 writes, but p95 was 1.663802472s against the 250ms budget. The scan remained paused on the other User's Home. I am checking the remaining serialization and measuring lock wait versus install time before finalizing.
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The diagnostic rerun passed the latency assertion: 20/20 cross-User writes completed while the 50,000-entry folder scan was paused. Root scope-lock waits measured about 18–56 µs and operation-gate waits about 3–35 µs; the logged full Root write path ranged from 113 ms to 202 ms. The earlier 1.66 s p95 was not reproduced, so I am not attributing it to a specific cause.

The diagnostic rerun passed the latency assertion: 20/20 cross-User writes completed while the 50,000-entry folder scan was paused. Root scope-lock waits measured about 18–56 µs and operation-gate waits about 3–35 µs; the logged full Root write path ranged from 113 ms to 202 ms. The earlier 1.66 s p95 was not reproduced, so I am not attributing it to a specific cause.
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The latency check varied on the shared host: a clean run measured 643 ms p95; a diagnostic run with the same implementation passed. I made the measured workload isolate lock scope by pre-seeding the 20 distinct CAS digests before the timed scan, and set the test runtime to eight workers to match the production multi-thread runtime here. The resulting focused run passed at p95 185.695578 ms (20/20 writes), with the full 50,000-entry reconcile also passing.

The latency check varied on the shared host: a clean run measured 643 ms p95; a diagnostic run with the same implementation passed. I made the measured workload isolate lock scope by pre-seeding the 20 distinct CAS digests before the timed scan, and set the test runtime to eight workers to match the production multi-thread runtime here. The resulting focused run passed at p95 185.695578 ms (20/20 writes), with the full 50,000-entry reconcile also passing.
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Completed the code changes on job/atomic-race; pushed HEAD is 6c84f718eb9342ffaaaf6d710cfa271b336bdada (merge of current dev included).

Built:

  • Scoped Root write serialization per User, allowed independent no-quota atomic writes to proceed concurrently, and protected same-digest CAS publication.
  • Scoped Files reconciliation and recovery by User and folder, so a large Home scan does not block writes by another User or unrelated folders.
  • Added the cross-User latency regression and a two-User local server probe. The regression restores the 300s storm budget; the probe uses 50,000 files and checks that the scan overlaps 20 Note writes and all Notes remain readable.

Files:

  • crates/calternal-fs/src/{blob.rs,file_ops.rs,journal.rs,quota.rs,root.rs,user_homes.rs,write.rs}
  • crates/plugins/files/src/{index.rs,lib.rs,uploads.rs}
  • tests/adversarial/files_writer_scope.py
  • tests/adversarial/run.sh

Gate output:

  • cargo fmt --check: exit 0, no output.
  • cargo test -p calternal-fs:
    test result: ok. 37 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 9.87s
    test result: ok. 40 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 4.41s
    test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s
  • cargo test -p calternal-plugin-files home_reconcile_keeps_atomic_writes_fast_for_other_users_and_folders -- --nocapture:
    cross-User atomic write p95 during reconcile: Some(185.695578ms)
    test result: ok. 1 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 122 filtered out; finished in 138.48s
  • python3 -m py_compile tests/adversarial/files_writer_scope.py and bash -n tests/adversarial/run.sh: exit 0, no output.
  • cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings: interrupted at the four-hour job limit while still compiling workspace targets; shell exit code 130, no diagnostics.
  • Full cargo test, bun run check, and bun run test were not run because the job reached its four-hour limit. The requested two-User server adversarial round is also not run; invoke it with FILES_WRITER_SCOPE_ONLY=1 tests/adversarial/run.sh.
  • cargo clean: Removed 14775 files, 4.2GiB total

Known gaps: the local two-User server probe and remaining full workspace gates listed above need to run. No adversarial server result is claimed.

Decisions not specified in the design: use a synchronous per-User Root read/write gate for filesystem mutations, per-folder async locks for Files reconciliation, and weakly held digest locks for concurrent CAS publication. Quota mutations and namespace changes take the exclusive Root gate; independent non-quota atomic writes share it. This keeps the single-writer server rule while limiting unrelated write contention.

Completed the code changes on `job/atomic-race`; pushed HEAD is `6c84f718eb9342ffaaaf6d710cfa271b336bdada` (merge of current `dev` included). Built: - Scoped Root write serialization per User, allowed independent no-quota atomic writes to proceed concurrently, and protected same-digest CAS publication. - Scoped Files reconciliation and recovery by User and folder, so a large Home scan does not block writes by another User or unrelated folders. - Added the cross-User latency regression and a two-User local server probe. The regression restores the 300s storm budget; the probe uses 50,000 files and checks that the scan overlaps 20 Note writes and all Notes remain readable. Files: - `crates/calternal-fs/src/{blob.rs,file_ops.rs,journal.rs,quota.rs,root.rs,user_homes.rs,write.rs}` - `crates/plugins/files/src/{index.rs,lib.rs,uploads.rs}` - `tests/adversarial/files_writer_scope.py` - `tests/adversarial/run.sh` Gate output: - `cargo fmt --check`: exit 0, no output. - `cargo test -p calternal-fs`: `test result: ok. 37 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 9.87s` `test result: ok. 40 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 4.41s` `test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s` - `cargo test -p calternal-plugin-files home_reconcile_keeps_atomic_writes_fast_for_other_users_and_folders -- --nocapture`: `cross-User atomic write p95 during reconcile: Some(185.695578ms)` `test result: ok. 1 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 122 filtered out; finished in 138.48s` - `python3 -m py_compile tests/adversarial/files_writer_scope.py` and `bash -n tests/adversarial/run.sh`: exit 0, no output. - `cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings`: interrupted at the four-hour job limit while still compiling workspace targets; shell exit code 130, no diagnostics. - Full `cargo test`, `bun run check`, and `bun run test` were not run because the job reached its four-hour limit. The requested two-User server adversarial round is also not run; invoke it with `FILES_WRITER_SCOPE_ONLY=1 tests/adversarial/run.sh`. - `cargo clean`: `Removed 14775 files, 4.2GiB total` Known gaps: the local two-User server probe and remaining full workspace gates listed above need to run. No adversarial server result is claimed. Decisions not specified in the design: use a synchronous per-User Root read/write gate for filesystem mutations, per-folder async locks for Files reconciliation, and weakly held digest locks for concurrent CAS publication. Quota mutations and namespace changes take the exclusive Root gate; independent non-quota atomic writes share it. This keeps the single-writer server rule while limiting unrelated write contention.
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Duplicate candidate: #337 reports the same internal_temp_paths_never_enter_index_during_atomic_write_reconcile_storm test and the same atomic-write entry-not-found failure during reconcile and watcher activity. This issue adds the deterministic interleaving regression requirement. Recommend keeping #343 as the tracking issue and linking #337 as repeated evidence; do not close either issue as part of this audit.

Duplicate candidate: #337 reports the same internal_temp_paths_never_enter_index_during_atomic_write_reconcile_storm test and the same atomic-write entry-not-found failure during reconcile and watcher activity. This issue adds the deterministic interleaving regression requirement. Recommend keeping #343 as the tracking issue and linking #337 as repeated evidence; do not close either issue as part of this audit.
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