Effectively nobody uses it, it cost more than it was worth, the code
doesn't carry its weight. Remove it and let any similar mechanism in the
future be an internal implementation detail.
Closes#10812
Signed-off-by: Jakob Borg <jakob@kastelo.net>
This adds a new folder-level configuration `FullBlockIndex`. It controls
whether we maintain the block index for a given folder -- currently
that's always true, now it becomes possible to turn off. The block index
is used for lookup of blocks across files and folders. Effectively, when
syncing a change, for each block, we check:
1. Is the block already present in the old version of the file? If so,
we can reuse (copy) it without network transfer. **This check is always
possible.**
2. Is the block already present in any other file in this folder or
other folders? If so we can copy it. **This check is only possible with
the full block index.**
3. We must transfer the block over the network.
Maintaining the full block index is costly in time, I/O and database
size. With this PR, maintaining the full block index becomes the default
for send-receive and receive-only folders only, with it disabled for
send-only and receive-encrypted folders. The block index is never useful
for encrypted folders, as blocks are encrypted separate for each file.
It is also not useful for send-only folders by themselves, though the
data in the send-only folder could be reused by other receive-type
folders if it were enabled.
For very large folders it may make sense to disable the full block index
regardless of folder type and just accept the resulting decrease in data
reuse.
Disabling or enabling the option in the GUI causes the index to be
destroyed or rebuilt accordingly.
https://github.com/syncthing/docs/pull/1005
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Signed-off-by: Jakob Borg <jakob@kastelo.net>
This makes a couple of backwards compatible changes to the
ClusterConfig:
- Remove the `ignore_permissions` and `ignore_delete` booleans which
we've never read or used for anything
- Remove the `disable_temp_indexes` boolean and option entirely. We did
use this one, and about 1% of users have set the option. The only thing
it does is inhibits sending of periodical DownloadProgress messages
while downloading data, which is a minuscule bandwidth optimisation
given that we're already sending data at the time.
- Change the `read_only` boolean (which indicated send-only folders) to
an enum `FolderType`, where the values zero and one match the existing
usage. Again, we don't actually use this value, but I can see that we
might want to and then it makes more sense for it to be more
comprehensive.
- Change the `paused` boolean to an enum `StopReason`, where zero
indicates not stopped and one indicates paused, exactly the same wire
representation as previously but leaves space for additional stop
reasons (errors etc).
I lately wanted some photos on my phone, and watched them sync
excrutiatingly slowly. I am used to android being slow, but not that
slow. This restriction caught my eye and I increased it beyond the
limit (didn't spot it at first), and I did see a clear improvement. Of
course as always with such a one-off test, I might also have
hallucinated it, but it seems plausible with the slow thing in android
being some layer between the actual filesystem and apps.
Also increase the max limit, mostly just because I don't see any reason
to restrict it that low - not that I have a particular reason to want
more.
I also changed the xml default to 0: The `prepare` code will change it
to the actual default - no need to change that anymore if we change the
default in the future.
* main:
build: use specific token for pushing release tags
fix(gui): update `uncamel()` to handle strings like 'IDs' (fixes#10128) (#10131)
refactor: use slices package for sort (#10132)
build: process for automatic release tags (#10133)
chore(gui, man, authors): update docs, translations, and contributors
The sort package is still used in places that were not trivial to
change. Since Go 1.21 slices package can be uswed for sort. See
https://go.dev/doc/go1.21#slices
### Purpose
Make some progress with the migration to a more up-to-date syntax.
This adds a simple delay to the process for starting the pull, by
default one second. In practice this means we're likely to wait for
initial index transfer, or multiple messages sent as part of a larger
change. This is better because we're more likely to have the whole
change for the purpose of handling renames etc, and also it's more
efficient to do one larger puller iteration instead of multiple while
also processing changes.
It does however introduce a certain amount of delay into the sync
process, so it can be tuned down or turned off entirely.
* main:
fix(config): properly apply defaults when reading folder configuration (#10034)
chore(model): add metric for total number of conflicts (#10037)
build: replace underscore in Debian version (#10032)
Switch the database from LevelDB to SQLite, for greater stability and
simpler code.
Co-authored-by: Tommy van der Vorst <tommy@pixelspark.nl>
Co-authored-by: bt90 <btom1990@googlemail.com>
We've had weak/rolling hashing in the code for quite a while. It was a
popular request for a while, based on the belief that rsync does this
and we should too. However, the benefit is quite small; we save on
average about 0.8% of transferred blocks over the population as a whole:
<img width="974" alt="Screenshot 2025-03-28 at 17 09 02"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/bbe10dea-f85e-4043-9823-7cef1220b4a2"
/>
This would be fine if the cost was comparably low, however the downside
of attempting rolling hash matching is that we (by default) do a
complete file read on the destination in order to look for matches
before we starting pulling blocks for the file. For any larger file this
means a sometimes long, I/O-intensive pause before the file starts
syncing, for usually no benefit.
I propose we simply rip off the bandaid and save the effort.
At a high level, this is what I've done and why:
- I'm moving the protobuf generation for the `protocol`, `discovery` and
`db` packages to the modern alternatives, and using `buf` to generate
because it's nice and simple.
- After trying various approaches on how to integrate the new types with
the existing code, I opted for splitting off our own data model types
from the on-the-wire generated types. This means we can have a
`FileInfo` type with nicer ergonomics and lots of methods, while the
protobuf generated type stays clean and close to the wire protocol. It
does mean copying between the two when required, which certainly adds a
small amount of inefficiency. If we want to walk this back in the future
and use the raw generated type throughout, that's possible, this however
makes the refactor smaller (!) as it doesn't change everything about the
type for everyone at the same time.
- I have simply removed in cold blood a significant number of old
database migrations. These depended on previous generations of generated
messages of various kinds and were annoying to support in the new
fashion. The oldest supported database version now is the one from
Syncthing 1.9.0 from Sep 7, 2020.
- I changed config structs to be regular manually defined structs.
For the sake of discussion, some things I tried that turned out not to
work...
### Embedding / wrapping
Embedding the protobuf generated structs in our existing types as a data
container and keeping our methods and stuff:
```
package protocol
type FileInfo struct {
*generated.FileInfo
}
```
This generates a lot of problems because the internal shape of the
generated struct is quite different (different names, different types,
more pointers), because initializing it doesn't work like you'd expect
(i.e., you end up with an embedded nil pointer and a panic), and because
the types of child types don't get wrapped. That is, even if we also
have a similar wrapper around a `Vector`, that's not the type you get
when accessing `someFileInfo.Version`, you get the `*generated.Vector`
that doesn't have methods, etc.
### Aliasing
```
package protocol
type FileInfo = generated.FileInfo
```
Doesn't help because you can't attach methods to it, plus all the above.
### Generating the types into the target package like we do now and
attaching methods
This fails because of the different shape of the generated type (as in
the embedding case above) plus the generated struct already has a bunch
of methods that we can't necessarily override properly (like `String()`
and a bunch of getters).
### Methods to functions
I considered just moving all the methods we attach to functions in a
specific package, so that for example
```
package protocol
func (f FileInfo) Equal(other FileInfo) bool
```
would become
```
package fileinfos
func Equal(a, b *generated.FileInfo) bool
```
and this would mostly work, but becomes quite verbose and cumbersome,
and somewhat limits discoverability (you can't see what methods are
available on the type in auto completions, etc). In the end I did this
in some cases, like in the database layer where a lot of things like
`func (fv *FileVersion) IsEmpty() bool` becomes `func fvIsEmpty(fv
*generated.FileVersion)` because they were anyway just internal methods.
Fixes#8247
There was a bug that the unique ID was not set when reporting was
enabled, and thus the reports where rejected by the server. The unique
ID got set only on startup, so next time Syncthing restarted.
This makes sure to set the unique ID when blank.
This prevents combining untrusted with introducer and auto-accept, and
also verifies that folders shared with untrusted devices have passwords
at config loading time.
Co-authored-by: Simon Frei <freisim93@gmail.com>
We usually want to ensure that our own device is present. However if the
given device ID is the empty ID, we shouldn't do that. This is a
legimate (though way too non-obvious) use-case when opening the config
without knowing/caring about the device ID.
This fixes various test issues with Go 1.20.
- Most tests rewritten to use fakefs where possible
- Some tests that were already skipped, or dubious (invasive,
unmaintainable, unclear what they even tested) have been removed
- Some actual code rewritten to better support testing in fakefs
Co-authored-by: Eric P <eric@kastelo.net>
This makes the various protocol priorities configurable among the other
options. With this, it's possible to prefer QUIC over TCP for WAN
connections, for example. Both sides need to be similarly configured for
this to work properly.
The default priority order remains the same as previously (TCP, QUIC,
Relay, with LAN better than WAN).
To make this happen I made each dialer & listener more priority aware,
and moved the check for whether a connection is LAN or not into the
dialer / listener -- this is the new "lanChecker" type that's passed
around.
This adds support for syncing extended attributes on supported
filesystem on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD and NetBSD. Windows is currently
excluded because the APIs seem onerous and annoying and frankly the uses
cases seem few and far between. On Unixes this also covers ACLs as those
are stored as extended attributes.
Similar to ownership syncing this will optional & opt-in, which two
settings controlling the main behavior: one to "sync" xattrs (read &
write) and another one to "scan" xattrs (only read them so other devices
can "sync" them, but not apply any locally).
Co-authored-by: Tomasz Wilczyński <twilczynski@naver.com>
all: Add package runtimeos for runtime.GOOS comparisons
I grew tired of hand written string comparisons. This adds generated
constants for the GOOS values, and predefined Is$OS constants that can
be iffed on. In a couple of places I rewrote trivial switch:es to if:s,
and added Illumos where we checked for Solaris (because they are
effectively the same, and if we're going to target one of them that
would be Illumos...).
This commit replaces `os.MkdirTemp` with `t.TempDir` in tests. The
directory created by `t.TempDir` is automatically removed when the test
and all its subtests complete.
Prior to this commit, temporary directory created using `os.MkdirTemp`
needs to be removed manually by calling `os.RemoveAll`, which is omitted
in some tests. The error handling boilerplate e.g.
defer func() {
if err := os.RemoveAll(dir); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
}
is also tedious, but `t.TempDir` handles this for us nicely.
Reference: https://pkg.go.dev/testing#T.TempDir
Signed-off-by: Eng Zer Jun <engzerjun@gmail.com>
What hash is used to store the password should ideally be an
implementation detail, so that every user of the GUIConfiguration
object automatically agrees on how to handle it. That is currently
distribututed over the confighandler.go and api_auth.go files, plus
tests.
Add the SetHasedPassword() / CompareHashedPassword() API to keep the
hashing method encapsulated. Add a separate test for it and adjust
other users and tests. Remove all deprecated imports of the bcrypt
package.
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Marcel Meyer
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Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos
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