This updates our logging framework from legacy freetext strings using
the `log` package to structured log entries using `log/slog`. I have
updated all INFO or higher level entries, but not yet DEBUG (😓)... So,
at a high level:
There is a slight change in log levels, effectively adding a new warning
level:
- DEBUG is still debug (ideally not for users but developers, though
this is something we need to work on)
- INFO is still info, though I've added more data here, effectively
making Syncthing more verbose by default (more on this below)
- WARNING is a new log level that is different from the _old_ WARNING
(more below)
- ERROR is what was WARNING before -- problems that must be dealt with,
and also bubbled as a popup in the GUI.
A new feature is that the logging level can be set per package to
something other than just debug or info, and hence I feel that we can
add a bit more things into INFO while moving some (in fact, most)
current INFO level warnings into WARNING. For example, I think it's
justified to get a log of synced files in INFO and sync failures in
WARNING. These are things that have historically been tricky to debug
properly, and having more information by default will be useful to many,
while still making it possible get close to told level of inscrutability
by setting the log level to WARNING. I'd like to get to a stage where
DEBUG is never necessary to just figure out what's going on, as opposed
to trying to narrow down a likely bug.
Code wise:
- Our logging object, generally known as `l` in each package, is now a
new adapter object that provides the old API on top of the newer one.
(This should go away once all old log entries are migrated.) This is
only for `l.Debugln` and `l.Debugf`.
- There is a new level tracker that keeps the log level for each
package.
- There is a nested setup of handlers, since the structure mandated by
`log/slog` is slightly convoluted (imho). We do this because we need to
do formatting at a "medium" level internally so we can buffer log lines
in text format but with separate timestamp and log level for the API/GUI
to consume.
- The `debug` API call becomes a `loglevels` API call, which can set the
log level to `DEBUG`, `INFO`, `WARNING` or `ERROR` per package. The GUI
is updated to handle this.
- Our custom `sync` package provided some debugging of mutexes quite
strongly integrated into the old logging framework, only turned on when
`STTRACE` was set to certain values at startup, etc. It's been a long
time since this has been useful; I removed it.
- The `STTRACE` env var remains and can be used the same way as before,
while additionally permitting specific log levels to be specified,
`STTRACE=model:WARN,scanner:DEBUG`.
- There is a new command line option `--log-level=INFO` to set the
default log level.
- The command line options `--log-flags` and `--verbose` go away, but
are currently retained as hidden & ignored options since we set them by
default in some of our startup examples and Syncthing would otherwise
fail to start.
Sample format messages:
```
2009-02-13 23:31:30 INF A basic info line (attr1="val with spaces" attr2=2 attr3="val\"quote" a=a log.pkg=slogutil)
2009-02-13 23:31:30 INF An info line with grouped values (attr1=val1 foo.attr2=2 foo.bar.attr3=3 a=a log.pkg=slogutil)
2009-02-13 23:31:30 INF An info line with grouped values via logger (foo.attr1=val1 foo.attr2=2 a=a log.pkg=slogutil)
2009-02-13 23:31:30 INF An info line with nested grouped values via logger (bar.foo.attr1=val1 bar.foo.attr2=2 a=a log.pkg=slogutil)
2009-02-13 23:31:30 WRN A warning entry (a=a log.pkg=slogutil)
2009-02-13 23:31:30 ERR An error (a=a log.pkg=slogutil)
```
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Co-authored-by: Ross Smith II <ross@smithii.com>
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:
refactor: use slices package for sorting (#10136)
build: handle multiple general release notes
build: no need to build on the branches that just trigger tags
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
This adds a header with the operating system version, verbatim in
whatever format the operating system reports it, to the upgrade check.
The intention is that the upgrade server can use this information to
filter out (or maybe just mark) potentially unsupported upgrades.
### Purpose
Avoid the issue where the folder marker is deleted by overzealous
cleanup tools because it's just a useless, empty directory.
We create a small file containing a an admonishment to not delete the
directory, and some metadata that is just for human consumption at the
moment. (But it would parse as a valid yaml file if we wanted to read
this, at some point.)
This will only apply when _creating_ a folder marker, that is, existing
setups will not gain the file automatically. Obviously, when using a
custom folder marker none of this applies.
Also, slightly adjust the permission bits for the folder marker directory and file on Unixes, making sure the group & write bits are unset.
### Testing
I've created and deleted a few folders and it appears to behave as I
expect.
### Screenshots
```
jb@ok:~/somefolder % ls -la
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 jb staff 96 May 1 08:52 ./
drwx------ 12 jb staff 384 May 1 08:52 ../
drwxr-xr-x 3 jb staff 96 May 1 08:52 .stfolder/
jb@ok:~/somefolder % ls -l .stfolder
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 jb staff 122 May 1 08:52 syncthing-folder-39a4b0.txt
jb@ok:~/somefolder % cat .stfolder/syncthing-folder-39a4b0.txt
# This directory is a Syncthing folder marker.
# Do not delete.
folderID: xtdca-cudyf
created: 2024-05-01T08:52:49+02:00
```
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>
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>
Allow the watcher delay to take fractional values, effectively allowing
for much shorter delays. The minimum value is limited at 0.01, which
effectively translates to 10ms. This is required in order to guarantee
that there is still enough time to aggregate multiple single change
events.
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Wilczyński <twilczynski@naver.com>
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...).
The current detection is flawed, because it looks for a few specific
file systems like "msdos" or "fat" to set the mtime window, while in
reality Android seems to report names like "fuseblk", which can stand
for fat, ext4, or even f2fs.
At the moment, we set the mtime window only for a few known names used
for the fat filesystem. With this change, we take a safer approach of
always setting the time window unless we explicitly detect file systems
like ext2/ext3/ex4, which are known not to experience issues with moving
timestamps on Android.
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Wilczyński <twilczynski@naver.com>
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>
* lib/versioner: Reduce surface area
This is a refactor while I was anyway rooting around in the versioner.
Instead of exporting every possible implementation and the factory and
letting the caller do whatever, this now encapsulates all that and
exposes a New() that takes a config.VersioningConfiguration.
Given that and that we don't know (from the outside) how a versioner
works or what state it keeps, we now just construct it once per folder
and keep it around. Previously it was recreated for each restore
request.
* unparam
* wip
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