From: Daira Hopwood Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 13:19:13 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Describe use of size=None for deleted files. refs ticket:1710. X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/%5B/frontends/%22news.html/-?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0e1cbd0e3d22f8ec137a612c32d56885ffb796b1;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git Describe use of size=None for deleted files. refs ticket:1710. Signed-off-by: Daira Hopwood --- diff --git a/docs/proposed/magic-folder/remote-to-local-sync.rst b/docs/proposed/magic-folder/remote-to-local-sync.rst index be897259..26f1825d 100644 --- a/docs/proposed/magic-folder/remote-to-local-sync.rst +++ b/docs/proposed/magic-folder/remote-to-local-sync.rst @@ -896,10 +896,20 @@ take this as a signal to rename their copies to the backup filename. Note that the entry for this zero-length file has a version number as usual, and later versions may restore the file. +When the downloader deletes a file (or renames it to a filename +ending in ``.backup``) in response to a remote change, a local +filesystem notification will occur, and we must make sure that this +is not treated as a local change. To do this we have the downloader +set the ``size`` field in the magic folder db to ``None`` (SQL NULL) +just before deleting the file, and suppress notifications for which +the local file does not exist, and the recorded ``size`` field is +``None``. + When a Magic Folder client restarts, we can detect files that had been downloaded but were deleted while it was not running, because their paths will have last-downloaded records in the magic folder db -without any corresponding local file. +with a ``size`` other than ``None``, and without any corresponding +local file. Deletion of a directory ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~