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Give a shard's remote name the client that wrote it
Shard ids are per store: every client fills its own numbering from 0, so
"shard 3" names different thumbnails on every device. The derived sync
published them into a flat shard-NNNN.sqlite namespace anyway, which left
two clients writing one name.

Both failures that follow were live. On upload, a client's open shard
overwrote a peer's file of the same id — content the peer still believed
was published and would never restore, because its own copy was sealed and
the name existed. On download, the loop skipped any remote id it already
held locally, which is the only safe reading of a name that says nothing
about who wrote it, so a client holding shards 0..5 never fetched the
peer's 0..5 at all. Between them, two populated clients exchanged almost
nothing: only shards numbered above the other's highest. A fresh device
worked, having no local shards to collide with, which is why this went
unnoticed — it is exactly the case the feature was written for.

The name is now shard-<client>-NNNN.sqlite. The client id is minted per
store in index.sqlite, beside the numbering it qualifies rather than in
settings: a store deleted and rebuilt restarts at shard 0 and must not
claim the remote names its predecessor wrote. Since our own ids now say
nothing about what we have taken from others, index.sqlite also keeps a
ledger of adopted remote names and the size each had when merged. A size
rather than a flag, because a peer's sealed shard never returns but its
open one grows, and re-merging the grown copy is how the thumbnails it
gained since arrive.

Flat names already on servers still parse, reporting no owner, so each
client adopts them once, and nothing is written under that form again. One
whose id and byte size match a local shard is that client's own earlier
upload by the same identity argument the upload path already makes for
sealed shards, so the rename does not cost every client a re-download of
its whole store. Older builds ignore the new names and stop receiving
shards until updated; their own uploads are still adopted, so nothing is
lost.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 21:15:12 +02:00
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