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feat(driver): bound the file reads of one observation - #140
The observer read and chunked the content of every created or modified file of a poll before it returned a batch. On the first scan of a large tree, or after a long time offline, nothing reached the engine until every file had been read, and the batch held the chunk lists of all of them.
The change
One observation reads at most READ_FILES (1,000) files and READ_BYTES (256 MiB) of content, both constants. The first file always fits, so a file larger than the budget is read on its own.
A created or modified file past the budget goes out without content, as a file that could not be read already does (design §5.8), and joins the unread queue, due at once. Each observation reads due files first, longest due first, then its own changes, all under the same budget, and reports each due file as Modified with its content. A read stops at the size the scan saw.
A file created under a folder that the same poll removed or renamed into place is read whatever the budget left. The batch may take that folder out of L with the file's node, and the engine keeps the node only for a created file with content.
Batches, stamps and the drop rules of effect sections do not change. The engine already skips a created file without content and keeps a node's content through a modified one without it.
While a modified file's read is deferred, L still holds its synced content, size and modification time. An effect that would replace or remove the file compares it with those and fails with Changed, so a remote edit never overwrites it. Once the edit is read, the next commit forks it off the node into a file of its own.
Tests
core/driver/src/observe.rs: a_scan_of_more_files_than_one_observation_reads_reports_the_rest_later scans 1,001 files and checks that the first batch reads 1,000 and the next one reads the last. an_observation_reads_no_more_bytes_than_the_budget_past_its_first_file checks the byte bound. the_unread_file_due_longest_is_read_first checks that a file the budget skipped is read before one that failed after it. a_file_larger_than_the_budget_is_read_before_the_changes_of_a_later_observation checks that a deferred file of READ_BYTES + 1 is read by the next observation although it also reads a new change.
core/driver/src/disk/tests.rs: a_remote_edit_never_replaces_a_file_whose_read_was_deferred edits a synced file that a remote edit also changed, in a scan of 1,001 files. The download fails with Changed and the file keeps the user's bytes. After the read, nothing is planned onto the path and the commit build forks the edit into a node of its own with the user's content.
core/driver/src/disk/tests.rs: a_file_created_under_a_replaced_folder_is_read_at_once_and_keeps_its_node replaces a synced file's folder around it in a scan of 1,001 files and checks that the file is read in the first batch and keeps its node.
With the budget disabled, both scan tests fail. Without the ordering by due time, the retry test fails. With due files read after the new changes, the oversized-file test fails, and without the replaced-folder rule the replaced-folder test fails.
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Bug Fixes
Remote file replacements no longer overwrite user edits that are deferred while a file is waiting to be read. Once read, the edit is preserved as a separate local change.
Files moved back into a synced folder during an over-budget scan retain their identity and path.
Improvements
File updates are read within per-observation limits, with deferred files retried in later observations. Deferred updates are reported without file contents until they can be read. The first file is always read, even if it exceeds the byte limit.
The observer now limits content reads to 1,000 files and 256 MiB per observation, while always allowing the first file. It defers reads that exceed the budget and schedules them for later observations. Tests cover budget limits, retry behavior, and changes involving deferred edits and replaced directories.
Changes: Observer Read Budget
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Summary
Track and enforce read budgets core/driver/src/observe.rs
A shared tracker accounts for file and byte reads. Content reads use the tracker, and chunking is bounded by the scanned entry size. Tests cover file and byte limits, including an oversized first file.
Schedule deferred reads and preserve replaced-file behavior core/driver/src/observe.rs, core/driver/src/disk/tests.rs
Deferred paths are queued for later observations, and due retries are ordered by due time. Files under replaced directories can bypass the budget. Tests cover deferred reads, remote writes during a deferred edit, and restoration of a synced child file.
Deferred file changes may remain unread during sustained activity. Confirm that due retries receive read capacity before merging.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 55f22
The change introduces deferred-read state, but the inspected path restrictions, content checks and recovery flow continue to protect local edits. No introduced security vulnerability was established. The read budget has deliberate exceptions and is not a strict resource-isolation limit.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — A party able to change files in an observed sync folder can influence read cost and deferred work. Scheduling state is owned by that folder's observer; the inspected change does not add a filesystem root or authority-bearing entrypoint. This is not a guarantee of process-wide resource isolation.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Remote replacement or removal does not rely solely on the deferred observation. The existing displacement protocol compares expected metadata, quarantines the entry, verifies its content manifest, and attempts restoration with Changed on mismatch. The new regression test asserts that a deferred local edit survives remote replacement and later receives a distinct conflict-copy node.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — The budget is a scheduling control, not a hard denial-of-service boundary: an oversized first file and required reads beneath replaced directories may exceed it. These exceptions preserve behavior that was already unbounded at the base; they do not establish an introduced security regression.
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Review comments at @core/driver/src/observe.rs:
- Around line 380-382: Update the retry selection around
`reads.take(entry.size)` to process due retries in ascending `due` time, so
files skipped by the read budget get a turn on subsequent passes. Preserve the
existing budget accounting for failed attempts.
- Around line 407-422: Limit the data passed to flarebox_chunk::chunks in
read_content to entry.size bytes so a file that grows after its metadata check
cannot exceed the charged read budget; preserve the existing post-read
validation and other safeguards.
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Major · Give due retries a share of the read budget. · observe.rs:464
core/driver/src/observe.rs:464 Major · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift
Give due retries a share of the read budget.
If each poll contains enough changed files to exhaust reads, observe processes those files before this call. retry then cannot read any deferred file. A continuously changing large file can consume the byte budget on every observation, so previously deferred files never deliver their content. Reserve capacity for due retries or schedule them before new content reads. Due-time sorting alone does not address this ordering. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Update the ordering or read-budget allocation in observe and retry so due retries can read deferred file content even when changed files consume the normal poll budget. Preserve the existing byte-budget safeguards while ensuring continuously changing files cannot indefinitely starve due retries.
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- Line 464: Update the ordering or read-budget allocation in observe and retry
so due retries can read deferred file content even when changed files consume
the normal poll budget. Preserve the existing byte-budget safeguards while
ensuring continuously changing files cannot indefinitely starve due retries.
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Reviewed head cfa39472542e499886dacfde8b9ddf98094efc3e. Verdict: request changes for two findings.
P1: preserve a child's node when Created is deferred
FsObserver::observed at core/driver/src/observe.rs:279-287 can defer a Created that the mapper needs in the same batch as a removal. Engine::observe at core/driver/src/engine.rs:461-473 skips a file without content before consulting its batch-local gone identities. A later Modified cannot recover that removed node.
The real-folder probe uses the existing supported stale-reset/folder-replacement sequence: the snapshot lacks a child that L has since synced; its folder is replaced while the child is moved out and back with the same inode. With 1,000 earlier files consuming the read budget, the child's Created carries no content. After the retry delivers its content, the original synced node still has no path instead of d/x. The same probe passes when only the read budget is disabled. A normal rename plus deferred modification passed, so this finding concerns the Created recovery path, not every rename.
Keep the identity-bearing removal and creation correlated across deferral, and add a regression through the observer and mapper rather than supplying content directly to the mapper.
P2: give due retries a turn before fresh reads exhaust their budget
At core/driver/src/observe.rs:457-464, fresh poll changes consume the budget before retry runs. Sorting due retries cannot provide fairness against those reads. In particular, a deferred file larger than READ_BYTES can only be admitted as the first file. Even one fresh small read prevents its admission on every such poll.
A real-folder probe creates a sparse file of READ_BYTES + 1, defers it behind a small file, then forces real rescans after two edits of the small file. The overdue file remains pending both times. The same admission order repeats for as long as each poll has a fresh read. Reserve bounded progress for due work, including a turn with an empty budget for an oversized file.
Verification and existing cancellation gap
The real-disk deferred-Modified test passed: the remote download fails with Changed, local bytes survive, and commit building forks the edit into its own node. All four shipped regressions passed again after restoration, and macOS CI job 130203766060 names all four as passed. CI is 15/15; the checkout is clean.
The retry cancellation gap predates this PR, so it is not an additional introduced-regression blocker. It still affects the requested deferred-read behavior: Interrupted is handled as a failed file, and retry continues. A 20-file real-read probe attempted all 20 chunk reads after cancellation. Stop the retry loop as well as the current file if prompt cancellation is part of this change's acceptance criteria.
The review-only probes and logs are outside the repository. They were sent to the implementer, and all temporary edits were removed.
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Reviewed head 55f22ff95390e96494137b545eeb51a5a63774dc, only the delta since cfa39472542e499886dacfde8b9ddf98094efc3e. Verdict: approve. Both blockers in the previous verdict are resolved.
Created files under replaced folders are read in the structural batch even when the ordinary budget is exhausted, preserving the mapper's batch-local identity recovery. Due retries now receive the budget before fresh reads. Queued paths are superseded or moved first, and retried observations follow the structural changes in the returned batch.
The original child-identity, oversized-file fairness and ordinary-move probes all pass. Both new regressions fail with exit 101 when their controls are removed: the child loses its immediate content when the mandatory-read rule is ignored, and the oversized file stays unread when retries run after fresh reads. After exact restoration, both new regressions and the real-disk deferred-Modified safety test pass individually. Local bytes remain protected from remote replacement.
CI is 15/15 at this head. macOS job 130215946355 names both added regressions as passed. CodeRabbit covered the head, no review threads remain open, and the checkout is clean. All temporary probes and mutations were removed.
Not covered by this delta: the pre-existing retry-loop cancellation gap remains separate as GUN-374. The read budget deliberately permits an oversized first file and mandatory reads under replaced folders; it is not a strict per-observation resource ceiling.
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Fixes GUN-356.
The observer read and chunked the content of every created or modified file of a poll before it returned a batch. On the first scan of a large tree, or after a long time offline, nothing reached the engine until every file had been read, and the batch held the chunk lists of all of them.
The change
READ_FILES(1,000) files andREAD_BYTES(256 MiB) of content, both constants. The first file always fits, so a file larger than the budget is read on its own.Modifiedwith its content. A read stops at the size the scan saw.Changed, so a remote edit never overwrites it. Once the edit is read, the next commit forks it off the node into a file of its own.Tests
a_scan_of_more_files_than_one_observation_reads_reports_the_rest_laterscans 1,001 files and checks that the first batch reads 1,000 and the next one reads the last.an_observation_reads_no_more_bytes_than_the_budget_past_its_first_filechecks the byte bound.the_unread_file_due_longest_is_read_firstchecks that a file the budget skipped is read before one that failed after it.a_file_larger_than_the_budget_is_read_before_the_changes_of_a_later_observationchecks that a deferred file ofREAD_BYTES + 1is read by the next observation although it also reads a new change.a_remote_edit_never_replaces_a_file_whose_read_was_deferrededits a synced file that a remote edit also changed, in a scan of 1,001 files. The download fails withChangedand the file keeps the user's bytes. After the read, nothing is planned onto the path and the commit build forks the edit into a node of its own with the user's content.a_file_created_under_a_replaced_folder_is_read_at_once_and_keeps_its_nodereplaces a synced file's folder around it in a scan of 1,001 files and checks that the file is read in the first batch and keeps its node.Summary by CodeRabbit