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Chris LuandGitHub 88c873ecd4 ec: uniform shard block layout (#10932)
* ec: uniform shard block layout

An EC volume is striped as 1GiB blocks until less than one row remains, then
1MiB blocks, and consecutive blocks land on different shards. With ec.encode's
-fullPercent 95 against the 30GiB default limit, ~30% of every volume sits in
that 1MiB tail, so a 4MB filer chunk there is five stripes on five servers.

New encodes now use one block per shard, sized ceil(datSize/dataShards) rounded
up to 1MiB and recorded in the .vif (EcShardConfig.block_size, also carried by
the .ecsum manifest). A needle now maps to one shard unless it is larger than
the block or straddles a boundary. The chosen size equals the legacy layout's
padded shard length for every input, so shard sizes, capacity math, and the
shard-size credibility checks are unchanged; only the byte placement moved.

Reads, decode, and scrub resolve the block sizes from the volume's .vif;
absence keeps the legacy interpretation, so existing EC volumes read exactly as
before. Rebuild is layout-agnostic. weed fix -ecx recovers the layout from the
.vif, else the .ecsum sidecar, and with neither de-stripes under both candidate
layouts and keeps the one that indexes more valid needles.

Same change in the Rust volume server, which now also streams the encode in
256KB sub-batches like Go instead of allocating whole blocks, and computes the
large-row count as shardSize/largeBlock to match Go on exact multiples. On a
26MB fixture both encoders produce byte-identical shards, and a Go-written .vif
parses in Rust with the block size intact.

* ec: resolve the rust ecx rebuild through the recorded layout

The Rust rebuild path regenerated a lost .ecx by scanning the logical .dat
through a hand-rolled pure-1MiB striping, which was already wrong for legacy
volumes with large-block rows and is wrong for any uniform volume with a block
past 1MiB. Route the scan through locate_data with the .vif-recorded block
size, the same mapping the read path uses. Also seed the new tests' random
data instead of the deprecated global math/rand.Read.

* ec: fail the Rust ecx rebuild on any shard read error

A read error mid-scan published the entries collected so far as a
successful .ecx, and read_at's byte count was ignored so a legal short
read passed as complete — a truncated or failing shard could produce a
silently incomplete recovery index. Exact-read semantics in
read_from_data_shards, error propagation in the needle walk, and a
truncated-shard regression test.

* ec: fail the mount on an unreadable or malformed vif

Both servers silently fell back to the legacy layout when an existing
.vif could not be read or parsed. Every new encode records a positive
uniform block size there, so the fallback mounted the same shards with
legacy offset math and could return wrong data. Absent stays legal
(legacy volumes predate the sidecar), and a zero-byte stub still reads
as absent (Go's MaybeLoadVolumeInfo convention, now mirrored in Rust);
a present-but-unreadable or malformed .vif fails the mount instead.

* ec: bound the reconstruct fan-out of one needle's intervals

A degraded interval fans out a read to every reachable shard location, each
with a buffer the size of the interval. Reading a needle's intervals in
parallel multiplied that by the interval concurrency: a needle spanning 8
blocks could hold 8 x MaxShardCount remote reads and buffers at once, where
the sequential version peaked at MaxShardCount. Give each needle a single
reconstruct budget its intervals share, held for the buffer's lifetime, so
separate reads stay independent but one read cannot multiply its own
fan-out.

* ec: drop the duplicated shard-size formula

calculateExpectedShardSize reimplemented the padding rule that
UniformBlockSize already owns — TestUniformBlockSizeMatchesLegacyShardSize
asserts the two agree for every input — so a change to the rule would have
had to be made in both. Defer to the helper, keeping the historic answer for
an empty .dat.

* ec: resolve the shard block layout from whatever records it

Four places still answered the layout question by inference when a record of
it was available, or accepted an answer that was not one:

- A mount with no .vif defaulted to the legacy layout; the bitrot sidecar
  records the same config at encode time, so take it when present, as
  weed fix -ecx already does. The vif itself is now parsed once per mount
  rather than twice.
- The Rust ecx rebuild derived its row count from the padded shard extent,
  which under the legacy layout reads a shard that is an exact large-block
  multiple as one row too many. Pass the encode-time .dat size from the .vif
  and keep the extent as the fallback.
- weed fix -ecx read the block size outside the EC-config guard (collapsing
  the unknown sentinel into a definitive legacy), only wrote the recovered
  layout back when the .vif was absent rather than unusable, and broke a
  scan tie by candidate order instead of the documented reach.
- The uniform layout tripped writeDatFile's large-block ambiguity guard,
  which cannot apply when the large and small blocks are the same size.

* ec: give the index-recovery tests a parseable vif

The fixtures wrote the literal bytes "volinfo" as the source .vif and the
recovery copies it verbatim, so the receiving server then mounted the volume
from a .vif it could not parse. That used to pass by silently defaulting to
the legacy layout; a mount now refuses a vif it cannot read, which is what
the tests were exercising all along without meaning to.

* ec: validate the layout a vif records, not just its syntax

Review follow-ups on the mount-strictness change:

- A .vif can parse and still record a block size no encoder could have
  produced (negative, or not a whole number of small blocks). Both servers
  took it and mapped every read through it. ValidateBlockSize / the Rust
  mirror now refuse the mount, the same way an unparseable vif does; 0 stays
  valid as the legacy two-tier layout.
- The bitrot-sidecar fallback accepted parity_shards == 0 and summed the
  counts in their own width, so values near the ceiling wrapped past the
  MaxShardCount bound. Require both counts and sum in a wider type.
- weed fix -ecx treated a config with only DataShards > 0 as usable, so a
  half-written .vif suppressed the recovery paths AND survived the rewrite.
  Require a complete, in-range config before trusting it.
- Returning the vif-load error left the .ecx and .ecj descriptors open;
  repeated mount attempts on malformed metadata could exhaust them.

* ec: refuse to act on a layout the metadata does not establish

- The worker encode only logged a failed .vif write and skipped it in the
  distribution set, and treated the .ecsum write as best-effort. A worker
  whose disk filled after the much larger shards landed could still
  distribute, mount, verify shard inventory, and delete the source replicas —
  leaving holders with shards whose geometry nothing records. Both writes and
  both inclusions are encode success conditions now.
- A generation-matching .ecsum that disagreed with the .vif geometry only
  disabled checksums in Go, and in Rust was not compared at all, so
  protection stayed On while reads used the other layout. Both files record
  the layout their generation was encoded with, so a disagreement now fails
  the mount.

* ec: reject an invalid recorded block size in weed fix -ecx

A .vif with valid shard counts but a negative or unaligned block size was
marked usable: a positive invalid value pinned the scan to a geometry that
de-stripes to garbage, and a negative one ran the dual scan but left the
invalid .vif in place afterwards. Validate it with the same rule the mount
applies, and when it fails leave the layout unknown so the scan recovers it
and the file is rewritten.

* ec: validate the sidecar layout weed fix -ecx recovers from

The .ecsum fallback was taken on DataShards > 0 alone, so a CRC-valid
sidecar carrying the wrong generation, an incomplete ratio, or an unaligned
block size would pin the reconstruction to one incorrect uniform-layout
candidate instead of letting the dual scan decide. Require generation 0, a
complete in-range ratio, and a valid block size; anything less leaves the
layout unknown, which is the answer that still recovers by scanning.

* ec: let only a genuinely absent sidecar choose the legacy layout

With no .vif the bitrot sidecar is the only record of a volume's layout, and
the mount fallback read a failed load, an unusable config, or a sidecar
stamped for another generation as "assume legacy". A uniform generation-0
volume could therefore mount with legacy or another generation's geometry and
answer reads with the wrong bytes. Present-but-unusable now fails the mount;
only actual absence keeps the legacy defaults. Shared as
EcShardConfigFromSidecar so every caller reads the sidecar the same way.

* ec: treat a recorded-but-impossible layout as corruption, not as legacy

- A .vif whose ecShardConfig is PRESENT but records an impossible ratio was
  answered with the default 10+4 and the legacy block layout, in both
  languages. That reads a uniform volume's shards at the wrong offsets and
  returns the wrong bytes. Only an entirely absent config still means "this
  predates the record"; a present one that cannot be true fails the mount.
- The shard-count bound summed two uint32 counts as int, which wraps on a
  32-bit build: 0x7fffffff + 0x7fffffff lands at -2 and slips under
  MaxShardCount. ValidEcShardCounts sums in uint64, and every EC call site
  that checked a recorded ratio now goes through it.

* ec: rebuild on the geometry the sidecar records, and flag it when it disagrees

The rebuild RPC passes BackgroundECContext, so RebuildEcFiles resolves the
layout itself — and it resolved a missing or invalid .vif to the default 10+4
with the legacy block size. Two consequences: a 12+4 volume was reconstructed
through a 10+4 matrix, which produces wrong bytes and never regenerates
shards 14-15; and the chosen geometry then contradicted a valid uniform
sidecar, which loadRebuildSidecar reported as BitrotOff — silently skipping
the input and regenerated-shard checksum checks precisely when the volume had
already lost its metadata.

The layout now resolves from the bitrot sidecar (found across the server's
disks, not just beside the base name) before falling back to the defaults,
and a present-but-impossible ratio fails instead of being replaced. A sidecar
that contradicts the chosen geometry is BitrotInvalid, which the existing
unsafeIgnoreSidecar override still lets an operator push past.

* ec: let the Rust rebuild read metadata off a sibling disk

read_ec_shard_config searches only the location the rebuild writes into, so a
volume whose .vif or generation-0 .ecsum sits on another of the server's
disks resolved to the default 10+4 with the legacy block layout — the Rust
half of the geometry-guessing the Go rebuild just stopped doing. It then
reconstructs a custom-ratio or uniform volume through the wrong
Reed-Solomon matrix and de-striping geometry.

The rebuild now looks for the .vif in its own location and then each sibling,
falls back to the generation-0 sidecar wherever that lives, and only defaults
when neither exists anywhere. The encode-time .dat size the ecx rebuild needs
is resolved the same way.

* ec: resolve a rebuild's vif from every directory that may hold it

RebuildEcFiles probed only <data-base>.vif. The caller knows the selected
location's index directory and the sibling locations, but passed neither for
metadata: additionalDirs carried shard directories only, and were searched
for shards and the checksum sidecar. A split -dir/-dir.idx layout, or a disk
holding only shards, therefore resolved a pre-sidecar custom-ratio volume to
10+4 and reconstructed through the wrong matrix — never regenerating shards
14-15.

The caller now hands over the index and sibling directories, and the resolver
probes the vif across all of them, matching what the Rust resolver already
does for both the vif and the sidecar.

* ec: make every rebuild consumer agree on the layout it resolved

- The post-rebuild bitrot backfill re-derived the geometry from this
  directory's .vif alone and dropped the block size entirely, so a rebuild
  that resolved its layout from a sibling, the sidecar, or a uniform vif wrote
  a manifest describing a DIFFERENT layout — one later mounts reject, or that
  covers only the default shard count. The layout is resolved once now,
  through an exported ResolveRebuildECContext, and the rebuild and the
  backfill share that answer.
- The Rust rebuild collected only each location's data directory, so a
  sibling's INDEX directory — where a split -dir/-dir.idx layout keeps
  .ecx/.ecj/.vif — was never probed, and a custom-ratio volume still resolved
  to 10+4 with the legacy layout. Both directories of every location are
  carried now, deduped against the rebuild's own.
- A shard delivery can bring the checksum manifest with it, but the receive
  path only writes the file: a server that already had the volume mounted kept
  its resolved protection state (off) until a remount. The mount RPC
  re-resolves it once the shards it describes have been added.

* ec: cover the rebuild's directory search with tests

Reviewers flagged the sibling index directory twice, and the fix that
closed it had no test of its own: the assembly sat inline in the rebuild
handler, reachable only through a gRPC call against a populated store.
Lifting it into rebuildSearchDirs / select_rebuild_location makes the
rule assertable — a sibling contributes BOTH its data and its index
directory, a shared index directory is listed once, and the rebuild's own
data directory never repeats.

Writing the Rust cases surfaced that the two implementations do not agree
on where the rebuild's own index directory belongs, and both are right:
Go's resolver takes a single directory list, so that directory has to be
inside it, while Rust's takes the rebuild's data and index directories as
their own arguments and would search them twice. The tests now state
which contract each side is holding to, so neither drifts into the
other's shape.

Pure refactor otherwise; no behaviour change.

* ec: search the index directory for the layout sidecar

The Rust resolver looked for the generation-0 .ecsum in the rebuild's
data directory and the sibling list, but not in the rebuild's own index
directory — while the .vif lookup directly above it did, and Go's
findBitrotSidecar has always checked both bases. On a split -dir/-dir.idx
location that directory is where the metadata lives, and callers leave it
out of the sibling list precisely because it is passed here separately,
so nothing searched it.

With no .vif anywhere the sidecar is the only surviving record of the
layout. Missing it resolved a 12+4 uniform volume to 10+4 with the legacy
striping — the test added here fails with (10, 4, 0) against the old
code — and the rebuild then reconstructs through the wrong matrix and
writes .ecx offsets that no reader can follow.

* ec: let the rebuild see its own index directory

The Rust rebuild takes a single flat directory list — the shape Go's
RebuildEcFiles uses — so it cannot be handed the rebuild location's index
directory separately the way the layout resolvers are, and the handler
was passing the sibling list, which deliberately omits exactly that
directory. On a split -dir/-dir.idx location that is where .ecx and .vif
live, so the shard and index lookups could not see them.

Go has always carried that directory in additionalDirs; this lines the
two call sites up.

* ec: let a config-free vif fall through to the layout sidecar

A .vif that carries no ecShardConfig answers nothing about the layout, so
it is no more informative than an absent one — but both trees treated its
mere existence as the end of the search. Go went straight to the 10+4
legacy defaults without consulting the sidecar at all; Rust returned
whatever ec_shard_config_from could make of a single directory. A 12+4
uniform volume with a legacy config-free vif therefore resolved as 10+4
legacy, and every read landed at the wrong shard offset.

The sidecar lookup was also single-directory on both sides, while a split
-dir/-dir.idx layout keeps .vif and .ecsum with the INDEX. Go's
findBitrotSidecar has always taken both bases; the callers here passed
only the data base, and the Rust bitrot resolver derived its path from
the data base alone. Rust's layout resolver now takes a candidate
directory list — data, index, then any siblings — and searches all of it,
which also removes the early return that made the vif's presence
decisive.

load_vif_info_across_dirs reported `dir` even when load_vif_info had
found the vif in `dir_idx`. Nothing reads that field today, so this
changes no behaviour; it stops the next caller that resolves the rest of
the volume's metadata against the answer from being sent to a disk
holding none of it.

Absence stays legal throughout: a volume with neither record is genuinely
legacy. Present-but-unusable still fails the mount, now in the
config-free-vif branch too.

* ec: activate a delivered sidecar on every per-disk runtime

A vid mounts as one EcVolume per disk, each with its own resolved
protection state, but the post-delivery reload used the first-match
lookup and so touched exactly one of them. The siblings kept reporting no
protection until a remount — and since shard distribution deduplicates
the metadata files onto the first target disk for a node, the runtime
that got the .ecsum is not necessarily the one the lookup returns.

Iterate every runtime instead, via a new FindAllEcVolumes and its Rust
mut equivalent. Combined with each runtime now resolving its sidecar
against its index directory as well as its data directory, a server
sharing one -dir.idx across its disks activates all of them from the
single delivered copy.

The Rust volume server had no post-mount reload at all; it gets one here,
matching Go.

* ec: resolve the delivered sidecar across every EC metadata directory

Reloading every per-disk runtime, added last round, did not by itself
make the delivered manifest reachable. Startup mirroring copies
.ecx/.ecj/.vif to every shard-bearing disk so each mounts
self-contained, but deliberately not .ecsum, and a repair delivers
exactly one copy. Each runtime was resolving against its own two
directories, so every sibling of the disk that received the file kept
reporting no protection however often it reloaded.

Resolve one authoritative copy across every EC metadata directory
instead of duplicating the file. Mirroring .ecsum would have to keep
pace with a file that is rewritten as shards are repaired, and would not
help the reported case at all: the delivery happens at runtime, and
mirroring only runs at startup.

The regression test pins both halves — a reload restricted to the
volume's own directories still finds nothing, and the same reload
given the server's metadata directories turns protection on.

* ec: ask every directory before writing a TOFU baseline

After a rebuild the opportunistic backfill asks whether this volume
already has a checksum manifest, and answered from the data base alone.
A split -dir/-dir.idx layout keeps the sidecar with the index, and a
multi-disk server may keep it on a sibling, so an existing manifest read
as absent.

The consequence is worse than a missed read. On a false "no" the backfill
writes a fresh sidecar at the data base from whatever the shards say right
now — and the data base is the first candidate every resolver checks, so
that TOFU baseline shadows the real manifest rather than sitting beside
it. A shard that was silently corrupt gets blessed, and the record that
would have caught it stops being consulted.

FindBitrotSidecar exports the search the package already used internally,
so the question is asked of the data base, the index base and the sibling
disks — the same candidates the rebuild resolves its layout from.

* ec: refuse a shard block size no encoder could have produced

weed fix -ecx derived one from the raw shard extent, so a truncated or
partially copied shard wrote a .vif that NewEcVolume then permanently
refuses — the volume the tool was run to rescue could never mount again.
An extent that is not a whole number of small blocks cannot have come
from a uniform encode, so it is no longer offered as a candidate, and
nothing unvalidated reaches the .vif.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011FRRoNKBiGbH58rs2AQyA7

* ec: derive the .vif's dat size and block size from one measurement

VolumeEcShardsGenerate stat'ed the .dat before the encode while
WriteEcFiles stat'ed it again to size the blocks. A write landing
between the two produced a .vif whose own two fields describe different
files. WriteEcFiles now leaves both on the context, and fills a
placeholder context in place so the caller can read them back.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011FRRoNKBiGbH58rs2AQyA7

* ec: keep the source volume until every holder serves its shard layout

The uniform layout rides in a .vif field older volume servers never
knew: they discard it, mount the shards as legacy and return wrong bytes
with nothing erroring, and the shard files are the same length either
way so no other check notices. The upgrade order lived only in the
release note. VolumeEcShardsInfo now reports the block size the holder
actually serves, in both the Go and Rust servers, and the pre-delete
verification refuses to drop the source unless every reachable holder
echoes the one the shards were encoded with — while a rollback still
exists. A server that predates the field answers 0, which is the
negative answer.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011FRRoNKBiGbH58rs2AQyA7

* ec: drop the rebuild's dead block-size parameters

generateMissingEcFiles never reads largeBlockSize/smallBlockSize —
Reed-Solomon reconstruction is layout-agnostic — so passing the legacy
constants only advertised a layout the rebuild does not use. Also move
UniformBlockSize's doc off ValidateBlockSize.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011FRRoNKBiGbH58rs2AQyA7

* ec: warn about EC defaults only when the mount used them

The "vif file not found, using defaults" warning fired even after the
bitrot sidecar supplied a non-default layout, sending anyone triaging
wrong bytes after the legacy layout the volume never mounted on.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011FRRoNKBiGbH58rs2AQyA7

* ec: stat the distributed bitrot sidecar once

The strict check re-stat'ed the file immediately before the stat that
already gates inclusion, and a failed sidecar write now fails the encode
outright, so the first could only fire on a deletion between the two
lines.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011FRRoNKBiGbH58rs2AQyA7

* ec: say what the reconstruct budget actually bounds

A shard's buffer stays in bufs until its interval reconstructs, which is
after the read that filled it released its permit, so the semaphore
bounds round trips in flight and not retained bytes. Peak memory is the
intervals reconstructing at once times the shards each reaches times the
interval size.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011FRRoNKBiGbH58rs2AQyA7

* test: let the fake volume server report its delivered EC layout

The pre-delete verification now asks each holder which shard block
layout it serves, and a fake that always answered "unset" looked exactly
like a volume server too old to know the field. Distribution ships the
.vif to every holder alongside its shards, so read the layout back out
of it as a real holder does.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011FRRoNKBiGbH58rs2AQyA7
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