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:
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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.
With this change we emulate a case sensitive filesystem on top of
insensitive filesystems. This means we correctly pick up case-only renames
and throw a case conflict error when there would be multiple files differing
only in case.
This safety check has a small performance hit (about 20% more filesystem
operations when scanning for changes). The new advanced folder option
`caseSensitiveFS` can be used to disable the safety checks, retaining the
previous behavior on systems known to be fully case sensitive.
Co-authored-by: Jakob Borg <jakob@kastelo.net>
* Fix ui, hide report date
* Undo Goland madness
* UR now web scale
* Fix migration
* Fix marshaling, force tick on start
* Fix tests
* Darwin build
* Split "all" build target, add package name as a tag
* Remove pq and sql dep from syncthing, split build targets
* Empty line
* Revert "Empty line"
This reverts commit f74af2b067.
* Revert "Remove pq and sql dep from syncthing, split build targets"
This reverts commit 8fc295ad00.
* Revert "Split "all" build target, add package name as a tag"
This reverts commit f4dc889951.
* Normalise contract types
* Fix build add more logging
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