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fix(sandbox): name both layers when two ship a path with different contents - #3272
The first ask of gominimal/inbox#1226: a rootfs collision between two layers that ship different contents now names both layers.
Before. The link pass wrote one WARN per differing path, "Not linking A => B, already exists (different size; the first-linked file stays)", which names the copy it refused and the destination path, and nothing about the layer whose file stayed. Finding the pair meant re-assembling the box. A week of lab telemetry held about three hundred thousand of those lines, all from task boxes assembling a node layer.
Change.
common: LinkCollisions records each differing path (relative to the layer roots) with the layer that lost and why, up to a bound of 64, past which they are counted only. The recursion carries the layer root, so the path is relative to it. A caller that constructs the record with recording() promises to name both layers itself, and the per-file line stays at debug for it; every other caller keeps the WARN per file it had.
sandbox: the assembly keeps its layers in link order, and after linking writes one WARN per differing path on record: path, winner (the layer whose rel is the same inode as the assembled path, since the pass hardlinks), loser and why. The INFO summary now names the layers and how many differing paths were named.
Tests. The common test asserts the record (four differing paths, each with the losing layer and its reason); a new sandbox test assembles two layers that ship one package.json with different sizes and checks the winner is the first-linked layer by inode. Lab runs against a release build of main on Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora: a session with a node layer and the baseline pass on both sides, and the candidate's exported logs carry the new lines where the release's carry the loser-only ones.
Not in this PR. The second ask, what to do about a different-content collision (refuse at compose time with both packages named, or a declared precedence), is a policy decision; with both layers named per line, it can be made from the pairs the lab attaches to the issue.
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A week of lab telemetry held three hundred thousand "Not linking ...
already exists (different size; the first-linked file stays)" lines, all
from task boxes assembling a node layer, and not one named the layer
whose file stayed: the line knows the copy it refused and the destination
path, and finding the pair meant re-assembling the box
(gominimal/inbox#1226).
The link pass now records each differing path with the layer that lost,
relative to the layer roots, up to a bound, and a caller that will name
both layers keeps the per-file line at debug. The sandbox, which links the
layers in order, finds the winner by the inode the assembled path carries
and writes one WARN per differing path naming the path, the winner, the
loser and why they differ, and the assembly's summary names the layers
once. Which layer re-ships npm's tree is then a line away, and the policy
for such a collision (refuse, or a declared precedence) can be decided
from what the lines say.
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Hardlink collision records now retain differing paths and losing layers. Sandbox construction tracks rootfs layers in link order. Collision logs report differing paths and identify matching winner layers for regular files and symlinks.
Changes: Rootfs collision reporting
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Summary
Record hardlink differences crates/common/src/lib.rs
Collision records now include relative paths and losing layers. Recording mode retains up to 64 differing paths, and hardlink traversal preserves the original layer root. Tests check recorded paths, losers, and reasons.
Track rootfs layers crates/sandbox/src/lib.rs
Sandbox::new tracks rootfs layers in link order, including the synthetic layer and the CS mirror when enabled and present. It passes the layer list and rootfs to collision logging.
Collision logs report each differing path with its winner and loser. Winner lookup matches regular files by device and inode and symlinks by target. Tests cover winner identification for both types.
sequenceDiagram
participant New as Sandbox::new
participant Hardlink as hardlink_layer_contents
participant Log as log_rootfs_collisions
participant Winner as collision_winner
New->>Hardlink: Record collision paths and losing layers
New->>Log: Pass collision details, rootfs, and layer order
Log->>Winner: Find the first matching layer for each path
Winner-->>Log: Return the matching layer or None
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gominimal/minimal#2848: Introduces the LinkCollision and LinkCollisions types and hardlink traversal used by this change.
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This change improves the rootfs collision logs by naming both the winning and losing layers. The only previously raised concern, a misleading symlink reason, has been addressed. No merge-blocking risk is evident.
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A rabbit checks each layered trail It notes the paths where links diverge The first layer claims the winning file A symlink’s target makes things clear Sixty-four notes go in the list Then quiet paws review the gist
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The link pass makes a symlink anew in the rootfs rather than linking it,
so the placed link shares no inode with any layer's and the WARN for a
differing symlink named no winner. The winner of a symlink is now the
first layer, in link order, whose link points where the placed one does,
with a test over two layers that ship one path as links to different
targets.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Line 461: Update the failed-read_link branch in the link-collision handling
around LinkCollision::Differs so it records a distinct reason for a destination
that is not a symlink. Keep "another target" for the branch where read_link
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…unnamed paths
A symlink that lost to something already at its path was recorded as
"another target" whether a symlink elsewhere stood there or a file or
directory an earlier layer placed, which has no target to name; the
record now says "not a symlink" for the second. The INFO summary of a
rootfs assembly carries `unnamed`, the differing paths past the 64 the
record keeps, so a reading of the log knows how many pairs got no line.
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Scope matches the title. The two files change the link pass so that it records each differing path with its losing layer, and change the sandbox so that it names the winner. Clobber none. git log on both files shows the two PR commits on top of unrelated fixes (#3145, #3147, #3107), and the diff reverts none of them. Correctness The link pass has one caller that records: Sandbox assembly. hardlink_dir_contents and other callers that do not record keep the per-file WARN. Layers go into layers in link order, after each call. collision_winner runs after the last layer links, so the inode match and the symlink-target match both read the final rootfs. The cases where a regular file meets a symlink resolve to the correct layer in both directions. A copy across devices (EXDEV) gives unknown, and the doc comment says so. No test, script or doc matches the old WARN text. Both new tests drive the defect: they assemble two layers and read the winner back. The existing threads already cover the 64-path bound and the "another target" reason for a destination that is not a symlink, so this review does not raise them again. One doc comment did not change when dd18d2b added symlink matching. Not checked compile and test run, because this review does not build.
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low · This doc comment says the winner is "found by the inode the assembled path carries". dd18d2b changed collision_winner so that it matches a placed symlink by its target, because a symlink shares no inode with its layer. The DifferingPath doc in crates/common/src/lib.rs:218-219 has the same stale text: "by the inode the destination carries". Update both to say "by inode, or by target for a symlink", or point to collision_winner. Only these two places carry the stale text.
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nit · The parenthetical "the per-file line used to name the loser alone, and finding the pair meant re-assembling the box" describes the state before this PR, not the code. That history belongs in the commit message. Keep the issue reference and remove the history. This is the only "used to" narration in the diff.
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The first ask of gominimal/inbox#1226: a rootfs collision between two layers that ship different contents now names both layers.
Before. The link pass wrote one WARN per differing path, "Not linking A => B, already exists (different size; the first-linked file stays)", which names the copy it refused and the destination path, and nothing about the layer whose file stayed. Finding the pair meant re-assembling the box. A week of lab telemetry held about three hundred thousand of those lines, all from task boxes assembling a node layer.
Change.
common:LinkCollisionsrecords each differing path (relative to the layer roots) with the layer that lost and why, up to a bound of 64, past which they are counted only. The recursion carries the layer root, so the path is relative to it. A caller that constructs the record withrecording()promises to name both layers itself, and the per-file line stays at debug for it; every other caller keeps the WARN per file it had.sandbox: the assembly keeps its layers in link order, and after linking writes one WARN per differing path on record:path,winner(the layer whoserelis the same inode as the assembled path, since the pass hardlinks),loserandwhy. The INFO summary now names the layers and how many differing paths were named.Tests. The common test asserts the record (four differing paths, each with the losing layer and its reason); a new sandbox test assembles two layers that ship one
package.jsonwith different sizes and checks the winner is the first-linked layer by inode. Lab runs against a release build of main on Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora: a session with a node layer and the baseline pass on both sides, and the candidate's exported logs carry the new lines where the release's carry the loser-only ones.Not in this PR. The second ask, what to do about a different-content collision (refuse at compose time with both packages named, or a declared precedence), is a policy decision; with both layers named per line, it can be made from the pairs the lab attaches to the issue.
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