# Hyperfile Cleaner
Segments cleaner for [Hyperfile](https://crates.io/crates/hyperfile).
## What it does
Hyperfile is a copy-on-write log-structured file format on S3. Each
flush produces a new segment object. Over time, older segments lose
references as the metadata tree gets rewritten. This crate
enumerates and (optionally) deletes segment objects that are no
longer referenced by the latest published checkpoint.
Two operations on the [`Cleaner`] trait:
- **`collect(low, high)`** — dry-run inspection. Walks the metadata
tree, returns `(referenced, unreferenced)` lists of segment
objects.
- **`prune(low, high)`** — `collect` + delete the unreferenced list
via S3 `DeleteObjects`.
`low` and `high` are checkpoint numbers (`Cno`), inclusive at both
ends; `high == 0` is a sentinel for "use the latest checkpoint".
What is reported and deleted is a `SegmentId`, which names a stored
object. Under `BlockPtrFormat::PartedSegment` — the default since
`hyperfile 0.7.0` — one checkpoint may be several objects, `7.0`,
`7.1`, … — and they are reclaimed separately, because a checkpoint
abandoned partway leaves its partials behind under the same number
the retry then reuses. Under every other format an object is a
checkpoint and prints as the plain number.
## Compaction
`prune` reclaims an object nothing points into. An object that is 5%
live is not that object: rewriting those few blocks elsewhere is what
turns it into one `prune` can take. The same rewrite is what makes a
read cheaper, since a request breaks where the object changes.
Two more operations, on `S3Cleaner` itself:
- **`report(low, high)`** — read-only. Per-object liveness and what
could be given back: `dead()` is `prune`'s work, `compactable(ratio)`
estimates what a rewrite would cost and free.
- **`compact(low, high, &opts)`** — rewrites the live blocks of objects
at or below `max_live_ratio`, as one checkpoint. Deletes nothing;
`prune` does that afterwards.
```rust,no_run
use hyperfile_cleaner::{Cleaner, compact::CompactOptions, s3::S3Cleaner};
# async fn run() -> std::io::Result<()> {
let cleaner = S3Cleaner::new("s3://my-bucket/path/to/file").await?;
let report = cleaner.report(1, 0).await?;
let (objects, rewrite, freed) = report.compactable(0.5);
println!("{objects} objects: rewrite {rewrite} bytes to free {freed}");
let out = cleaner.compact(1, 0, &CompactOptions::default()).await?;
assert!(!out.content_moved());
cleaner.prune(1, 0).await?;
# Ok(())
# }
```
The rewrite is `hyperfile`'s, not this crate's: `fs_relocate` marks the
blocks to be rewritten with their current bytes, reading them with the
read path's own coalescing, and one flush writes them sorted by block
index and packed. Holes and explicit zero blocks are left alone, so a
sparse file stays sparse, and neither `mtime` nor `ctime` moves.
**A compaction is not a change of content.** It has to publish a new
checkpoint, so `last_cno` advances by one. `hyperfile` marks that
checkpoint `FLAG_COMPACTED`, and `fs_content_cno()` stays where it was:
that is the number to compare when asking whether a file changed, not
`last_cno`. The mark holds for one checkpoint, so two passes in a row
would move `content_cno` on the second; `compact` refuses to start on a
checkpoint that is already marked unless `allow_consecutive` is set.
`CompactOutcome::content_moved()` says whether consumers will see the
pass as a change — they will when an earlier flush failed and gave its
number up, which the mark does not span.
**Compaction requires exclusive write access.** It is a writer, and it
writes bytes it read earlier, so it runs with
`FlushConflictPolicy::FailFast` and a concurrent publish makes the pass
fail rather than overwrite the other writer's newer data. It also
refuses to run when the container's prefix holds keys that are neither
the inode nor segment objects, because a WAL is the usual reason and a
compactor that does not read the log would publish over entries
recovery has not replayed.
## Usage
```rust,no_run
use hyperfile_cleaner::{Cleaner, s3::S3Cleaner};
# async fn run() -> std::io::Result<()> {
let cleaner = S3Cleaner::new("s3://my-bucket/path/to/file").await?;
// Dry-run: see what would be deleted.
let (refed, unrefed) = cleaner.collect(1, 0).await?;
println!("referenced segments : {:?}", refed);
println!("unreferenced segments: {:?}", unrefed);
// Actually delete.
cleaner.prune(1, 0).await?;
# Ok(())
# }
```
For tools that already have a configured `aws_sdk_s3::Client`, use
`S3Cleaner::with_client(&client, root_uri)` instead of `new`.
## Limitations
- The cleaner does not coordinate with in-flight writers. It
snapshots the inode at the start of the call. New segments
published after that point are outside the configured range and
remain untouched, as are the partials of a checkpoint a writer has
open — those carry the number above the published one.
- Compaction is offline: it needs exclusive write access for the pass,
and a container holding a WAL is refused unless the caller overrides
it. Compacting a container a writer is actively publishing to needs a
background task inside `hyperfile`, not a separate process.
- A pass holds everything it relocates dirty in memory until its one
flush, bounded by `max_pass_bytes` (512 MiB by default). A container
with more to rewrite takes several passes, and each pass after the
first in a row moves `content_cno` once.
- An inline file or a device node has no segments; `collect`, `prune`,
`report` and `compact` refuse them.
- An object holding a live metadata node is not a compaction candidate.
A node is relocated when the flush rewrites it, which needs something
under it dirtied, and which keys a node covers is not visible from
here.
## Status
> :warning: Under development. Not recommended for production.
## License
Apache-2.0.
## Contributing
PRs welcome.